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Silence of the Mole • Official Selection of the 39th Chicago Latino Film Festival 2023
Event Series Silence of the Mole

Silence of the Mole

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

Guatemala’s official selection for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, Anaïs Taracena’s documentary tells the daring story of journalist Elías Barahona, "El topo", who in the 1970s infiltrated General Romeo García’s dictatorship posing as a press officer for the Ministry of the Interior. As such, he was able to retrieve and release information about human rights abuses even as his closest friends were convinced that he was a traitor. Includes Short Film - Fifth of June.

Frente Al Silencio • Chicago Latino Film Festival entre 2023
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Special Event: Facing the Silence

Instituto Cervantes of Chicago 31 W. Ohio Street, Chiago, Illinois

Acclaimed flamenco choreographer and dancer Fuensanta "La Monet"a is working on a new show when one of her students gives her a copy of Félix Grande’s poetry collection "La cabellera de la Shoá." Written by Grande after his visit to Auschwitz, Fuensanta can’t stop thinking about those women —Jewish and Gypsy alike— who lost their lives in the concentration camp. The poems inspire her to create a piece that remembers these women through music, dance and poetry.

Silence of the Mole • Official Selection of the 39th Chicago Latino Film Festival 2023
Event Series Silence of the Mole

Silence of the Mole

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

Guatemala’s official selection for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, Anaïs Taracena’s documentary tells the daring story of journalist Elías Barahona, "El topo", who in the 1970s infiltrated General Romeo García’s dictatorship posing as a press officer for the Ministry of the Interior. As such, he was able to retrieve and release information about human rights abuses even as his closest friends were convinced that he was a traitor. Includes Short Film - Fifth of June.

Ironland (Brazil) 2021 - Still from film POSTER
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.

Berts Soy Yo • Chicago Latino Film Festival entre 2023
Event Series I Am Berta

I Am Berta

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

On March 2, 2016, environmental activist Berta Cáceres was gunned down by hired hitmen. She had led the Lenca people in their efforts to stop the construction of a hydroelectric plant on the Gualcarque River. Two nights before her assassination, Cáceres wrote down the names of the people and companies who wanted her dead. Katia Lara’s documentary traces the efforts of a local journalist and an international lawyer to solve Berta’s murder which led to the 2021 guilty verdict of those responsible.

Eami Chicago Latino Film Festival entre 2023
Event Series Eami

Eami

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

Winner of the Tiger Award at the 2022 Rotterdam International Film Festival and Paraguay’s official selection for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Paz Encina’s sensorial documentary hybrid reveals the impact of deforestation over Paraguay’s Ayoreo Totobiegosode native people through their own mythology. The Asojá, the bird-god-woman, takes the form of 5-year-old Eami, who is in a trance after her village is destroyed. Her memories are the only way to keep her people alive.

Santos - Skin to Skin. Official 39th CLFF Selection 2023
Event Series Santos – Skin to Skin

Santos – Skin to Skin

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

One of the world’s foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music, Santos, through his mixed Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean heritage, strives to unite and expand his kaleidoscopic audience. Kathryn Golden follows Santos from rehearsals in his garage studio in Oakland, California, to performances at local community centers, gigs with congueros in Peñuelas, San Germán and Guánica, Puerto Rico, and concert stages around the United States.

Ironland (Brazil) 2021 - Still from film POSTER
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.

Stewards of the Land • Official Selection at the 39th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Event Series Stewards of the Land

Stewards of the Land

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

Stephanie, Ian and Alfredo are three young farmers who want to grow healthy produce for an island that imports most of its food, including fruits and vegetables. The farms they rent have been abandoned for decades. Their plans to rebuild these lands from the ground up are made that much more difficult by the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and María. Pagán Tetelbaum shows the protagonist’s grit as they attempt to carve out a living without land ownership or capital.

Berts Soy Yo • Chicago Latino Film Festival entre 2023
Event Series I Am Berta

I Am Berta

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

On March 2, 2016, environmental activist Berta Cáceres was gunned down by hired hitmen. She had led the Lenca people in their efforts to stop the construction of a hydroelectric plant on the Gualcarque River. Two nights before her assassination, Cáceres wrote down the names of the people and companies who wanted her dead. Katia Lara’s documentary traces the efforts of a local journalist and an international lawyer to solve Berta’s murder which led to the 2021 guilty verdict of those responsible.

Eami Chicago Latino Film Festival entre 2023
Event Series Eami

Eami

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

Winner of the Tiger Award at the 2022 Rotterdam International Film Festival and Paraguay’s official selection for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Paz Encina’s sensorial documentary hybrid reveals the impact of deforestation over Paraguay’s Ayoreo Totobiegosode native people through their own mythology. The Asojá, the bird-god-woman, takes the form of 5-year-old Eami, who is in a trance after her village is destroyed. Her memories are the only way to keep her people alive.

Stewards of the Land • Official Selection at the 39th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Event Series Stewards of the Land

Stewards of the Land

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

Stephanie, Ian and Alfredo are three young farmers who want to grow healthy produce for an island that imports most of its food, including fruits and vegetables. The farms they rent have been abandoned for decades. Their plans to rebuild these lands from the ground up are made that much more difficult by the devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and María. Pagán Tetelbaum shows the protagonist’s grit as they attempt to carve out a living without land ownership or capital.

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