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: Que viva la lucha!
Location: City College of San Francisco
Description: dir. Gustavo Vazquez, 2007, USA, 54 min.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-11-19
End Time: 20:00

A peek inside Tijuana’s historic Lucha Libre arena reveals how the universal themes of good versus evil—the underdog beating the bully, the noble hero outwitting the corrupt nemesis—all play out daily to generations of [...]

Title: Mi vida dentro / My Life Inside
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Description: dir. Luca Gaj, 2007, Mexico, 120 min.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2008-11-14
End Time: 22:00

This is the story of Rosa Jimenez, a young Mexican woman who comes illegally to the U.S. and starts a day care center in her home. When a [...]

Title: Los Soneros del Tesechoacan / The Sound of the River
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Description: dir. Inti Cordera, 2007, Mexico, 73 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-11
End Time: 19:15

This visually and musically uplifting film explores the tradition of Son Jarocho in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, where a tradition called son music is [...]

Title: Kuyima
Location: M.A.C.L.A. Castellano Playhouse (MACLA)
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Description: dir. Josu Mendoza Alemn, 2007, Mexico, 44 min.
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2008-11-14
End Time: 17:45

In 1997, a giant-sized figure traced out of painted white rocks appeared overnight on the side of a mountain in Bahia Concepcion, a remote region of Baja California. The message and the origin were a [...]

Title: Chevolution
Location: Brava Theater for Women in the Arts
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Description: dir. Trisha Ziff, 2008, Mexico / UK, 90 min.
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2008-11-08
End Time: 12:30

Chevolution is an essential documentary because it serves to explain the enigma of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, providing a rich emersion into the history of the man, the icon, and the culture [...]

Title: 13 Pueblos en defensa del agua, el aire y la tierra / 13 Villages Defending Water, Air and Land
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Description: dir. Francesco Taboada Tabone, 2008, Mexico, 63 min.
Start Time: 18:15
Date: 2008-11-15
End Time: 19:30

This activist documentary chronicles the ongoing struggle of indigenous Nahuatl-speaking communities in Morelos, Mexico, who [...]

Title: 13 Pueblos en defensa del agua, el aire y la tierra / 13 Peoples Defending Water, Air, and Land
Location: Dominican Univesity of California
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Description: dir. Francesco Taboada Tabone, 2008, Mexico, 63 min.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-19
End Time: 19:00

This activist documentary chronicles the ongoing struggle of indigenous Nahuatl-speaking communities in Morelos, Mexico, who fight to [...]

Title: Quemar las naves / Burn the Bridges
Location: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Description: dir. Francisco Franco, 2007, Mexico, 100 min.
Start Time: 19:45
Date: 2008-11-11
End Time: 21:30

A story of two teens, brother and sister, who live with their dying mother in a rundown mansion in Zacatecas, sustain by a dangerously dependent relationship. The death [...]