COMING SOON
THE FIRST YEAR
- Wed, Sep 11
Director: Patricio Guzmán Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1972 Language: Spanish
Starring: Marcelo Romo
THE FIRST YEAR is a jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist...
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
- Wed, Sep 11
Director: Patricio Guzmán Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2010 Language: Spanish
Starring: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Victor Gonzalez
For his new film master director Patricio Guzman, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET...
SIMON OF THE DESERT
- Thu, Sep 12
Director: Luis Buñuel Run Time: 45 min. Release Year: 1965 Language: Spanish
Starring: Claudio Brook, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Francisco Reiguera, Hortensia Santoveña, Silvia Pinal
Sacrifice and Temptation
MOVING
- Thu, Sep 12
- Tue, Sep 17
Director: Shinji Sōmai Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1993 Language: Japanese
Starring: Junko Sakurada, Kiichi Nakai, Mariko Sudo, Tomoko Tabata, Tsurube Shofukutei
When her parents split and her father Kenichi moves out of their family home, Renko (Tomoko Tabata), a...
AT MIDNIGHT I’LL TAKE YOUR SOUL
- Fri, Sep 13
Director: José Mojica Marins Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1964 Language: Portuguese
Starring: Ilídio Martins Simões, José Mojica Marins, Magda Mei, Nivaldo Lima, Valéria Vasquez
Driven by an overwhelming desire to have a son, the wicked undertaker Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) embarks...
THIS NIGHT I’LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE
- Fri, Sep 13
Director: José Mojica Marins Run Time: 110 min. Release Year: 1967 Language: Portuguese
Starring: José Mojica Marins, Nadia Freitas, Roque Rodrigues, Tina Wohlers, William Morgan
Hell in Eastmancolor
AZOR
- Sat, Sep 14
Director: Andreas Fontana Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2021 Language: French
Starring: Carmen Iriondo, Fabrizio Rongione, Ignacio Vila, Juan Trench, Stéphanie Cléau
Argentina, 1980. Private banker Yvan (Fabrizio Rongione) arrives from Geneva with his wife Ines (Stéphanie Cléau) to replace...
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
- Sat, Sep 14
Director: Ciro Guerra Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 2015 Language: Spanish
Starring: Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis, Jan Bijvoet, Luigi Sciamanna, Nilbio Torres
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
ENOUGH PRAYING
- Sun, Sep 15
Director: Aldo Francia Run Time: 80 min. Release Year: 1972 Language: Spanish
Starring: Claudia Paz, Leonardo Perucci, Marcelo Romo, Roberto Navarrete, Tennyson Ferrada
Aldo Francia’s classic liberation theology film is one of the few pieces of left-wing cinema produced during Chile’s...
EROS + MASSACRE
- Sun, Sep 15
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida Run Time: 216 min. Release Year: 1969 Language: Japanese
Starring: Etsushi Takahashi, Mariko Okada, Masako Yagi, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yūko Kusunoki
Presented by CCP The first film in Japanese director Yoshishiga Yoshida’s trilogy on Japanese radicalism, Eros + Massacre is an experimental...
LA VITA ÚTIL
- Tue, Sep 17
Director: Federico Veiroj Run Time: 63 min. Release Year: 2010 Language: Spanish
Starring: Felipe Arocena, Gonzalo Delgado, Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril, Paola Venditto
A Tale of Cinema
DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT
- Wed, Sep 18
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1966 Language: Spanish
Starring: Gaspar De Santelices, Manuel Estanillo, Omar Alfonso, Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas
It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy.
SOCIALIST REALISM
- Wed, Sep 18
Director: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento Run Time: 78 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: Spanish
Starring: Jaime Vadell, Javier Maldonado, Marcial Edwards, Nemesio Antúnez, Percy Matas
Raúl Ruiz had just completed shooting for Socialist Realism in 1973 when Pinochet led a successful military coup...
THE LAST SUPPER
- Thu, Sep 19
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1976 Language: Spanish
Starring: José Antonio Rodríguez, Luis Alberto García, Nelson Villagra, Samuel Claxton, Silvano Rey
A sanctimonious plantation owner in 1790s Havana stages a pre-Easter recreation of The Last Supper using twelve of...
ANTONIO DAS MORTES
- Thu, Sep 19
Director: Glauber Rocha Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1969 Language: Portuguese
Starring: Jofre Soares, Lorival Pariz, Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos
(1969, Glauber Rocha) In the Sertão of Northeast Brazil, Das Mortes, the jagunço (mercenary) first seen in Rocha’s Black God, White...
ZAMA
- Fri, Sep 20
Director: Lucrecia Martel Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 2017 Language: Spanish
Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Minujín, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Nahuel Cano
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King...
WILD TALES
- Fri, Sep 20
Director: Damián Szifron Run Time: 122 min. Release Year: 2014 Language: Spanish
Starring: Érica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Oscar Martínez, Ricardo Darín, Rita Cortese
We can all lose control
A THOUSAND CLOUDS OF PEACE FENCE THE SKY, LOVE; YOUR BEING WILL NEVER END
- Tue, Sep 24
Director: Julián Hernández Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 2003 Language: Spanish
Starring: Gloria Andrade, Juan Carlos Ortuño, Llane Fragoso, Manuel Grapain Zaquelarez, Salvador Alvarez
Writer/ director Julián Hernández’s starkly poetic neorealist 2003 Mexican romantic drama film A Thousand Clouds of Peace showcases...
ROTTING IN THE SUN
- Tue, Sep 24
Director: Sebastián Silva Run Time: 112 min. Release Year: 2023 Language: Spanish
Starring: Catalina Saavedra, Jordan Firstman, Martine Gutierrez, Mateo Riestra, Sebastián Silva
A (almost) true mystery.
METAL AND MELANCHOLY
- Wed, Sep 25
Director: Heddy Honigmann Run Time: 80 min. Release Year: 1994 Language: Dutch
Starring: Jorge Rodríguez Paz
Peru is made of metal and melancholy
TOKYO UBER BLUES
- Wed, Sep 25
Director: Taku Aoyagi Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2021 Language: Japanese
Director Taku Aoyagi, who has lost his job in his hometown of Yamanashi, goes to Tokyo without knowing...
VICTIMS OF SIN
- Thu, Sep 26
Director: Emilio Fernández Run Time: 84 min. Release Year: 1951 Language: Spanish
Starring: Ismael Pérez 'Poncianito', Ninón Sevilla, Rita Montaner, Rodolfo Acosta, Tito Junco
Rarely screened in the United States and long due for rediscovery, Victims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s...
EL VAMPIRO NEGRO
- Thu, Sep 26
Director: Román Viñoly Barreto Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 1953 Language: Spanish
Starring: Gloria Castilla, Mariano Vidal Molina, Nelly Panizza, Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada
A virtually unknown remake of M, Fritz Lang’s seminal 1931 thriller, El vampiro negro (The Black Vampire) is a revisionist take on...
JAPÓN
- Sat, Sep 28
Director: Carlos Reygadas Run Time: 134 min. Release Year: 2003 Language: Spanish
Starring: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Martín Serrano, Rolando Hernández, Yolanda Villa
In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to...
POST TENEBRAS LUX
- Sat, Sep 28
Director: Carlos Reygadas Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 2012 Language: Spanish
Starring: Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Eleazar Reygadas, Nathalia Acevedo, Rut Reygadas, Willebaldo Torres
Light after darkness