Austin Asian American Film Festival presents: LA SALADA, a film by Juan Martín Hsu
Starring: Ignacio Huang, Yunseon Kim, Chang Sun Kim, Nicolás Mateo, Mimí Ardú, Paloma Contreras, Limbert Ticona, Lizeth Villaroel, Percy Jiménez
Argentina, 2014, Drama, 92 min
Spanish, Korean, Mandarin with English subtitles
Friday, November 13th, 2015, 6:00pm
The Marchesa Hall & Theatre
6226 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin TX 78752
Tel. 1.512.454.2000
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Synopsis
Three interleaving stories shed light on an unfamiliar face of the Asian diaspora — an enormous informal marketplace in Buenos Aires that draws migrants from throughout the world. As a Korean businessman frets over his daughter’s pending nuptials, a Bolivian teenager and his uncle cross the border illegally searching for work, and a Taiwanese clerk woos a security guard at the market in between late night calls home to his worried mother. Lyrical but measured, Juan Martín Hsu’s debut feature is a uniquely polyglot film, with significant amounts of dialogue in Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish. It’s fitting — like its characters, LA SALADA finds itself connected to many cultures but not bound to any one of them.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival presents this film as a community partner of the 8th annual Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF). The AAAFF showcases the best in Asian and Asian American Cinema in order to celebrate our communities, entertain and enlighten the public, and support the creative talents of Asian and Asian American artists. This year’s AAAFF runs from Nov. 12-15, 2015.