Current women filmmakers: Territories of the body, age, and identity.

The Fish Child (El Niño Pez)

On Tuesday, Oct. 2nd at 6 pm and Wednesday, Oct. 3rd at 3 pm

Lucía Puenzo / 96 min. / 2011 / Argentina, Spain, France. Lala (Inés Efron, in a performance called evocative of early Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny) is the privileged teenage daughter of a powerful judge, and she’s fallen hard for her family’s maid, La Guayi (singer Mariela Vitale, making her feature-film debut). The two women plot to escape Buenos Aires and live together on the remote shores of Paraguay’s Lake Ypoá. Before they can carry out their plan, Lala’s father is murdered and she runs away from home and heads toward Guayi’s village in Paraguay, hoping that her lover will follow. While in Paraguay, she begins to explore Guayi’s troubled past.

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Even the Rain (También la Lluvia)

On Tuesday Nov. 6th at 6 pm and Wednesday, Nov. 7th at 3 pm

Icíar Bollaín / 104 min. / 2011. Filmmaker Sebastian (Gael García Bernal) and his cynical producer Costa (Luis Tosar) arrive in Cochabamba, Bolivia to make a film about Columbus’s voyage to the New World and the subjugation of the indigenous population. Just as filming begins, the natives face a crisis when the government privatizes the water company and prices skyrocket. Daily protests erupt and the local man cast as a rebellious sixteenth century Taino chief, also becomes a leader in the water hike protests.

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The Cinema Hold Up (Asalto al Cine)

On Tuesday, Nov. 20th at 6 pm and Wednesday Nov. 21st at 3 pm

Irina Gómez Concheiro / 124 min. / 2011. Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata are teenagers who grew up in the same rundown district of Mexico City. They spend their days listening to hip-hop, smoking marihuana and fantasizing about the opposite sex. One day they have the bright idea of robbing a movie theater, jeopardizing the one sure thing they have in life —their friendship.

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From the Land to your Table (¿Qué Culpa Tiene el Tomate?)

On Tuesday, Jan. 29th, 2013 at 6 pm and Wednesday, Jan. 30th, 2013 at 3 pm

Alejo Hoijman, Marcos Loayza, Josué Méndez, Carolina Navas, Paola Vieira, Alejandra Szeplaki and Jorge Coira / 107 min. / 2009. What do you get when you take seven directors from seven different countries with seven different cultures and points of view? From the Land to Your Table is the first documentary of its kind in that it shows the perspectives of seven majorly talented filmmakers and directors from all over Latin America as they capture the conditions and cultural diversity of popular produce markets in their individual countries.

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La Yuma

On Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 at 6 pm and Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 at 3 pm

Florence Jaguey / 91 min. / 2011. Nicaragua’s first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer. Looking beyond the meager possibilities that seem available to her (and ignoring the advice of her gang-member friends), she finds solace and hope in her training and falls in love with a middle-class journalism student.

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Venue

2275 Bayview Ave, Toronto, ON M4N 1J8

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Venue

York University, Glendon College, Room YH204, 2275 Bayview Avenue, M4N 3M6 Toronto

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