Title: Utopia 79
Location: La Pena Cultural Center
Description: dir. Joan Lopez Lloret, 2007, Nicaragua / Spain, 97 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-21

For much of the generation of Nicaraguans from the 1960s and ’70s, the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 brought the last hopes of changing the world. Utopia 79 follows the personal stories of several individuals who, disappointed [...]

Title: Uprooted
Location: M.A.C.L.A. Castellano Playhouse (MACLA)
Description: dir. Juan Mejia, 2007, Colombia / USA, 43 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-12
End Time: 20:00

The film explores the plight of the more than 1 million Afro-Colombians violently displaced since 1990 in Colombia. At the center of Uprooted is Noris, a mother and community leader forced to relocate in 1996 by [...]

Title: Uprooted
Location: Brava Theater for Women in the Arts
Description: dir. Juan Mejia, 2007, Colombia / USA, 43 min.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-09
End Time: 14:00

The film explores the plight of the more than 1 million Afro-Colombians violently displaced since 1990 in Colombia. At the center of Uprooted is Noris, a mother and community leader forced to relocate [...]

Title: The Man of Two Havanas
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Description: dir. Vivien Lesnik Weisman, 2007, Cuba / USA, 96 min.
Start Time: 20:15
Date: 2008-11-15
End Time: 23:15

This award winning documentary recalls the Cuban Revolution through the voice of the daugher of journalist Max Lesnik, once a friend of Fidel Castro who fled to Miami. The [...]

Title: The Golden AgeLocation: Camera 12 Downtown San JoseDescription: dir. Phil Tuckett, Scott Duncan, 2007, USA, 92 min.
Start Time: 13:00Date: 2008-11-23End Time: 15:00

Title: The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian RainforestLocation: Mission Cultural Center for Latino ArtsDescription: dir. Lorry Salcedo Mitrani, 2008, Peru, 118 min.
Start Time: 18:00Date: 2008-11-20End Time: 20:00

Title: Su merce
Location: Canada College
Description: dir. Isabel Munoz, 2007, Mexico, 48 min
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2008-11-11
End Time: 11:48
 

Isabel Munoz brings us her first feature documentary, which takes us inside the chaos and passion of everyday life in Mexico City. A group of young men put together a post-punk band called Su merce. After years of dealing [...]

Title: Su merce
Location: City Colleg of San Francisco
Description: dir. Isabel Munoz, 2007, Mexico, 48 min
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-11-19
End Time: 20:00

Isabel Munoz brings us her first feature documentary, which takes us inside the chaos and passion of everyday life in Mexico City. A group of young men put together a post-punk band called Su merce. After [...]

Title: Septiembres / Septembers
Location: College of San Mateo
Description: dir. Carlos Bosch, 2007, Spain, 113 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-12
End Time: 20:00

Each September Madrid’s Soto del Real penitentiary holds the “Festival of the Song,” a competition among the best singers from selected prisons. This beautifully executed, intimate documentary follows the stories of eight contestants, four men and [...]

Title: Ragin Epu Mapu / Between Two Worlds: Voices of the Elders and the Youth
Location: Mission Cultural Center
Description: dir. Ariel Lopez, 2008, Chile / USA, 51 min.
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-15-07
End Time: 16:00

Between Two Worlds is an informative look into the lives of the Mapuche peoples of Southern Chile as they struggle to retain their Indigenous [...]