Austin Film Festival presents: NO MÁS BEBÉS (NO MORE BABIES), a film by Renee Tajima-Peña
USA, 2015, Documentary/History, 80 min
English, Spanish with English subtitles
Sunday, November 1st, 2015, 12:00pm
Alamo Drafthouse Village
2700 West Anderson Lane, Austin TX 78757
Tel. 1-512-861-7030
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015, 4:30pm
Rollins Studio Theatre
701 West Riverside Drive, Austin TX 78704
Tel. 1-512-457-5100
Synopsis
They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. No Más Bebés tells the story of immigrant mothers who sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were prodded into sterilizations while giving birth at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s. Led by an intrepid 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, the mothers faced public exposure and stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice.
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Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is a Community Partner of the 2015 Austin Film Festival (AFF). Austin Film Festival furthers the art and craft of filmmaking by inspiring and championing the work of screenwriters, filmmakers, and all artists who use the language of film and television to tell a story. The 22nd Austin Film Festival runs from October 29 – November 5, 2015.
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2015 UT Showcase
Sunday, November 1st, 2015, 1:00pm
This year’s selection features a number of shorts by and about Latin@s, including The Solitude of Memory (Dir. Juan Pablo González), winner of the CLAIFF18 Hecho en Tejas / Texas Archive of the Moving Image Jury Award.
El Jeremías (Dir. Anwar Safa, Mexico)
Friday, October 30th, 2015, 3:00pm
Monday, November 2nd, 2015, 9:15pm
El Jeremías tells the story of a precociously bright 8-year-old boy, ostracized by his peers and labeled a misfit for his intellectual and often pedantic tendencies. As he struggles with his newly bestowed status as local genius and the fight to be understood by his complacent and average family, Jeremy is suddenly faced with the most difficult decision a child savant could make: What does he want to be when he grows up?
The Exile (Dir. Arturo Ruiz Serrano, Spain)
Sunday, November 1st, 2015, 6:30pm
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015, 5:00pm
During the Spanish Civil War, Teo is destined to a minuscule fort of vigilance, located in a cold and inhospitable place in the mountains. There he meets Silverio, his new companion, with whom he will have to coexist for six long months. The different personalities of these two men provoke many tensions, accentuated by the limited space. The fragile coexistence breaks up with the arrival of Zolska, a young militiawoman whom they find wounded in the surroundings.
Feliz Cumpleaños (Dir. Carlos Mendoza, Mexico)
Screens in Shorts Program 5: Parental Advisory
Friday, October 30th, 2015, 10:00pm
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015, 9:00pm
At a party, Victor’s 18th birthday suddenly becomes a nightmare, and, out of panic, he has no choice but to face his mother with his careless actions.