26th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Program
Coming-of-Age, Disability, Documentary, Drama, Female-Directed, Immigration, LGBTQ+, Music, Trauma
The 8th annual Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase features short films by women and non-binary filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border regions of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México.
Afro-Latin@, Crime, Drama, Female-Directed, LGBTQ+
Suellen, a Brazilian toll booth attendant and mother, falls in with a gang of thieves in an attempt to keep her family afloat. In doing so, she realizes she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally for a so-called noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Female-Directed, LGBTQ+, Racism, Thriller, Trauma
The films are personal and each telling rich stories that will resonate with viewers. The works screened in this category are eligible for a Jury Award for Best Narrative Short.