Chicago Latino Film Festival

Event Series The Fishbowl

The Fishbowl

Landmark's Century Centre Cinema 2828 N Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois

The first Puerto Rican-produced film to premiere at Sundance, Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist Marrero Sánchez’s feature debut follows ailing artist Noelia who, after learning that her cancer has metastasized, leaves her partner behind in San Juan and moves in with her mother on the island municipality of Vieques. She keeps secret her condition so she can live life on her own terms, including joining in the efforts to document the toxic legacy of the U.S. military exercises in the island.

Event Series The Fishbowl

The Fishbowl

Landmark's Century Centre Cinema 2828 N Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois

The first Puerto Rican-produced film to premiere at Sundance, Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist Marrero Sánchez’s feature debut follows ailing artist Noelia who, after learning that her cancer has metastasized, leaves her partner behind in San Juan and moves in with her mother on the island municipality of Vieques. She keeps secret her condition so she can live life on her own terms, including joining in the efforts to document the toxic legacy of the U.S. military exercises in the island.

Event Series Ironland

Ironland

Landmark's Century Centre Cinema 2828 N Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois

Lucas Bambozzi’s hybrid film follows Brazilian geographer Camila who, after decades in the United States, returns to her native state of Minas Gerais just as a dam bursts and floods several villages with highly toxic water. She embarks on a journey across the state to document how mining has shaped its history. She speaks to miners, activists and victims of the disaster. "Ironland" combines fact and fiction to present the devastation corporate greed has caused on the country’s environment and its people.

Event Series Ironland

Ironland

Landmark's Century Centre Cinema 2828 N Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois

Lucas Bambozzi’s hybrid film follows Brazilian geographer Camila who, after decades in the United States, returns to her native state of Minas Gerais just as a dam bursts and floods several villages with highly toxic water. She embarks on a journey across the state to document how mining has shaped its history. She speaks to miners, activists and victims of the disaster. "Ironland" combines fact and fiction to present the devastation corporate greed has caused on the country’s environment and its people.

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