Nosotros Las Piedras (We the Stones), a film by Álvaro Torres Crespo
Craig Campbell and PJ Raval, UT Austin, present the Austin premiere screening of the award winning documentary film NOSOTROS LAS PIEDRAS (WE THE STONES), followed by a Q&A with the director, Alvaro Torres-Crespo.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019, 7:00 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Mueller
1911 Aldrich Street, Suite 120 , Austin, TX 78723
Tickets will be $5 each; on sale soon.
Synopsis: Even though the Government expelled them from their lands in the name of ecologic preservation 40 years ago, a group of panners keep searching the rivers for gold, in Costa Rica's jungle. Their living as modern pariahs shows their fight for survivance, and questions the country's conservationist fame.
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Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Note change in date and location for this Special Presentation of CineClub México and the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019, 6:30 PM
Texas Union Theatre
UT's Texas Union Building
2247 Guadalupe St, Austin TX 78712
FREE and open to the public!
About the Film: ROMA, the 2018 film by renowned award-winning Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, portrays a vivid and emotional description of domestic life throughout Mexico's turbulent 70s decade.
Copresented by Cine Las Americas
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El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent), a film by Ciro Guerra
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019, 7:00pm
Sunday, April 21st, 2019, 11:00am
Violet Crown Cinema
434 W 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 495-9600
Synopsis: At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black and white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year by the 88th Academy Awards.
CineNoche is a film series presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema.
This screening is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Volunteer with Cine Las Americas, and do your part to support diversity and artistic excellence!
Are you interested in volunteering with Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (May 1 - 5, 2019)? Attending one of these two available orientation dates is required:
Sunday, April 7th, 2019 at 4pm
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019 at 6pm
Questions? Contact volunteers@cinelasamericas.org or give us a call at 512.710.9544.
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Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba), a film by Mikhail Kalatozov
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019, 7:00 PM
Sunday, March 31st, 2019, 4:30 PM
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752
Synopsis: With I AM CUBA, legendary Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov gives himself the lofty objective to illustrate each aspect of the Cuban Communist Revolution through cinematic language and somehow, with the help of Sergei Urusevky’s visionary cinematography, he achieves this goal.
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Vidas errantes (Wandering Lives), directed by Juan Antonio de la Riva
Thursday, March 21st, 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: WANDERING LIVES is a 1985 film directed by Juan Antonio de la Riva. It won three Ariel awards, including best film, best lead actor, and best original screenplay. It also received awards at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the Bogotá film biennial and at La Habana, Cuba, International Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema.
Copresented by Cine Las Americas
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