Midnight Family, a film by Luke Lorentzen
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019, 7:00pm
Sunday, September 8th, 2019, 11:00am
Violet Crown Cinema
434 W 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 495-9600
Synopsis: In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As the Ochoas try to make a living in this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.
The film will be preceded by the short film O ÓRFÃO (THE ORPHAN) directed by Carolina Markowicz.
CineNoche is a film series presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema.
Esto no es Berlín (This Is not Berlin), a film by Hari Sama
Sunday, August 25th, 2019, 3:45 pm
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Synopsis: 1986. Mexico City. Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere: not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: post punk, sexual liberty, and drugs that challenges the relationship with his best friend Gera and lets him find his passion for art.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities International Film Festival.
Fin de siglo (End of the Century), a film by Lucio Castro
Saturday, August 24th, 2019, 6:45 pm
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Synopsis: In his assured feature debut, director Lucio Castro uses a brief encounter between two men, Javi and Ocho, as they begin to explore the nature of sex within a complicated relationship. Shifting forward and backward in time, this narrative slowly unfolds to reveal itself to be a portrait of a relationship that looks very different with each change and the ways relationships can evolve over time.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities International Film Festival.
Danzón, directed by María Novaro
Thursday, August 15th, 2019, 7:00 PM
Consulate General of Mexico in Austin
5202 E. Ben White Blvd., Suite 150
Austin TX 78741
FREE and open to the public!
About the Film: DANZÓN is a 1991 film directed by the renowned Mexican director María Novaro and starring María Rojo. It was nominated by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences to the Ariel Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Score. It was considered in the number 45 spot among the 100 best Mexican films of all time by "Somos" magazine. Currently, María Novaro serves as the general director of the Mexican Film Institute director (IMCINE).
Copresented by Cine Las Americas
Ocho de cada diez (Eight out of Ten), a film by Sergio Umansky Brener
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019, 7:00pm
Sunday, August 11th, 2019, 11:00am
Violet Crown Cinema
434 W 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 495-9600
Synopsis: In a country where the state has become a criminal enterprise, a socially reticent worker must take the law into his own hands to avenge the murder of his young son. Amid the horrors of his own actions, he finds unexpected refuge in jarring moments of unseemly intimacy.
The film will be preceded by the music video FANTASIA directed by Caitlin Díaz.
CineNoche is a film series presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema.
Paramount Summer Classic Film Series presents: Blancanieves, a film by Pablo Berger
Friday, July 26th, 2019, 7:30 PM
Paramount Stateside
719 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701
Synopsis: Set in Southern Spain in the 1920s, this breathtaking tribute to silent films follows a young woman who learns the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, and runs away from her evil stepmother to become a legend.
