Mater, a film by Pablo D’Alo Abba
Saturday, September 8th, 2018, 7:00 pm
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Synopsis: Lena and Celeste love each other and desperately want to become mothers. One night, they go out looking for a sperm donor and choose a stranger to conceive their child with. Based on the play "Wind in a Violin" by Claudio Tolcachir.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities International Film Festival.
Me llamaban King Tiger (They Called Me King Tiger), a film by Ángel Estrada Soto
Saturday, September 8th, 2018, 7:00pm
Texas Spirit Theater, Bullock Museum
1800 Congress Ave., Austin, TX, 78701
Tel: (512) 936 - 8746
Synopsis: Follow the story of the emblematic Chicano leader, Reies López Tijerina (King Tiger), after the assault on the Tierra Amarilla court in June 1967.
Viva Cinema celebrates the modern cinema of Mexico and beyond. The Bullock Museum is proud to highlight acclaimed films in partnership with Cine Las Americas that feature the rich tradition of Spanish-language movie-making.
Tierra firme (Anchor and Hope), a film by Carlos Marques-Marcet
Saturday, September 8th, 2018, 10:00 am
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Synopsis: In their mid-30s, Eva (Oona Chaplin) and Kat’s (Natalia Tena) humble, yet carefree, lifestyle in their London canal boat gets turned upside down when Eva presents Kat with an ultimatum: she wants a child. Kat resists, knowing that it will end the bohemian lifestyle she’s always envisaged with Eva. When Kat’s best friend, Roger (David Verdaguer), drops in from Barcelona to party with the ladies, however, the three of them toy around with the idea of creating a baby together.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities International Film Festival.
Retablo, a film by Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio
Friday, September 7th, 2018, 11:15 am
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Synopsis: Stumbling across a heartbreaking secret his father is harboring, 14-year-old Segundo will come to face the raw reality of his deeply conservative surroundings, as well as a more profound connection with his father than he’d ever imagined.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities International Film Festival.
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco, a film by James Crump
Thursday, September 6th, 2018, 9:30 pm
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Synopsis: A feature documentary-based time capsule concerning Paris and New York between 1969 and 1973 and viewed through the eyes of Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the dominant fashion illustrator of the time, and told through the lives of his colorful and sometimes outrageous milieu.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities International Film Festival.
A Strike and an Uprising (In Texas), a film by Anne Lewis
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018, 7:00pm
Sunday, August 12th, 2018, 11:00am
Violet Crown Cinema
434 W 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 495-9600
Synopsis: This experimental documentary recovers stories of working people in Texas and demonstrates the power of labor and liberation.
The film will be preceded by the short film HAKLA (STAMMER) directed by Tania Romero.
CineNoche is a film series presented in partnership with Violet Crown Cinema.
