
Neighboring Scenes 2017
Now in its second year, Neighboring Scenes is the Film Society’s showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema. Highlighting impressive recent productions from across the region, this selective slate of premieres exhibits the breadth of styles, techniques, and approaches employed by Latin American filmmakers today. Neighboring Scenes spans a wide geographic range, and features established auteurs as well as fresh talent from the international festival scene.
Now in its second year, Neighboring Scenes is the Film Society’s showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema. Highlighting impressive recent productions from across the region, this selective slate of premieres exhibits the breadth of styles, techniques, and approaches employed by Latin American filmmakers today. Neighboring Scenes spans a wide geographic range, and features established auteurs as well as fresh talent from the international festival scene.
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Joaquín del Paso
2016|
Mexico|
86 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
After discovering that their boss has died and their pensions are nil, the workers at a manufacturing plant decide to lock themselves inside until they reach a decision about how to proceed.
Lukas Rinner
2016|
Austria / South Korea / Argentina|
100 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
A deadpan comedy that pits a free-spirited nudist colony against an ultra-modernist gated community.
Laura Huertas Millán
2016|
France / Colombia|
43 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
Director Laura Huertas Millán offers an austere look into her family’s history of mental illness, centered on her opera diva aunt. Screening with: Vacio(a) (Carmen Amelia Rojas Gamarra, 6m) and The Grey House and the Green Mountains (Deborah Viegas, 15m).
Felipe Guerrero
2016|
Colombia|
107 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
A powerful allegory about the violence of Colombia’s 50-plus-year civil war that follows three women after traumatic events.
Gustavo Fontán
2016|
Argentina|
72 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
Based on the novel by Juan José Saer, this beautifully shot film follows a rural family still crippled by a son’s death six years prior.
Andrea Testa
2016|
Argentina|
78 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
During Argentina’s Dirty War, an office worker wrestles with a request from an old girlfriend to protect two dissidents he doesn’t know.
Natalia Cabra
2016|
Dominican Republic|
61 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
This documentary about the creation of an artificial beach on a Caribbean resort subtly teases out the intersection of race, class, and environment.
Glauber Rocha
1967|
Brazil|
111 minutes|
Portuguese with English subtitles
A pivotal film from one of the key figures of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement, Terra em Transe is an urgent and poetic account of political corruption, the systems that shape it, and the challenges of active citizenship in times of political upheaval.
Lina Rodriguez
2016|
Colombia / Canada|
85 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
A girl at the cusp of womanhood enjoys challenging her parents’ authority until tragedy strikes her family.
Pablo Lamar
2016|
Paraguay / Chile / Netherlands / Qatar|
77 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
In this deeply symbolic film, an elderly man undergoes preparations for his partner’s cremation and burial.
Marilia Rocha
2016|
Brazil|
100 minutes|
Portuguese with English subtitles
Two Portuguese friends on the cusp of thirty struggle with questions of identity and nationhood while living in Brazil.
Now in its second year, Neighboring Scenes is the Film Society’s showcase of contemporary Latin American cinema. Highlighting impressive recent productions from across the region, this selective slate of premieres exhibits the breadth of styles, techniques, and approaches employed by Latin American filmmakers today. Neighboring Scenes spans a wide geographic range, and features established auteurs as well as fresh talent from the international festival scene.
Organized by Rachael Rakes.





















