Neighboring Scenes 2017
Co-presented with Cinema Tropical
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Surire
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Where I Grow Old
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Terra em Transe
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El limonero real
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.
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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Panamerican Machinery
Opening Night · Q&A with Joaquín del Paso · Post-film reception open to all ticketholders!
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.
A Decent Woman
Closing Night · U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Lukas Rinner
A deadpan comedy that pits a free-spirited nudist colony against an ultra-modernist gated community.
Black Sun
North American Premiere · Q&A with Laura Huertas Millán
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).
Dark Animal
A powerful allegory about the violence of Colombia’s 50-plus-year civil war that follows three women after traumatic events.
Jesús
U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Fernando Guzzoni
A cocky kid in a boy band parties too hard one night and ends up in a life or death situation his father hopes to protect him from.
El limonero real
North American Premiere
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.
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis
During Argentina’s Dirty War, an office worker wrestles with a request from an old girlfriend to protect two dissidents he doesn’t know.
Surire
A gorgeous and dryly comic survey of the unique geology, people, and animals that exist on a salt flat in the Chilean Andes.
Site of Sites
North American Premiere
This documentary about the creation of an artificial beach on a Caribbean resort subtly teases out the intersection of race, class, and environment.
Terra em Transe
Special 50th anniversary screening
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.
This Time Tomorrow
U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Lina Rodriguez
A girl at the cusp of womanhood enjoys challenging her parents’ authority until tragedy strikes her family.
La última tierra
North American Premiere
In this deeply symbolic film, an elderly man undergoes preparations for his partner’s cremation and burial.
Where I Grow Old
Two Portuguese friends on the cusp of thirty struggle with questions of identity and nationhood while living in Brazil.
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