COLONIALISM, REVOLUTION, AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA

Dates:

Wednesday, January 21

Soy Cuba/I am Cuba

This study of Cuba--partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko--captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. (Cuba/USSR, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, 141”)

Wednesday, February 4  

También la lluvia/Even the Rain

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply. (Spain/Mexico, Icíar Bollaín, 2010, 103”)

Wednesday, February 18

Testigos/Witnesses

This film was recovered and restored from footage taken during the Sandinista/Contra struggle in the 1980s in Nicaragua. It follows a young combatant from León during his military service. (Nicaragua, Jan Kees de Roy and Oscar Ortiz, 2009, 95”)

Wednesday, March 4

El violín/The Violin

Francisco Vargas Quevedo presents the story of Don Plutarco, an elderly farmer and violinist who has fashioned an ingenious way of smuggling ammunition beneath the noses of government troops.

(Mexico, Francisco Vargas Quevedo, 2005, 98”)

Wednesday, April 1 

O Que É Isso, Companheiro/Four Days in September

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight the Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. César, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life. (Brasil/USA, Bruno Barreto, 1997, 110”)

Wednesday, April 15

Quanto Vale Ou É Por Quilo?/What is it worth?

An adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe," having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film tries to trace a parallel between life in Brazil during the slavery period and life in modern Brazil. (Brazil, Sergio Bianchi, 2005, 110”)

Wednesdays at 7:30 PM

180 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, OSU Columbus Campus

Free and open to the public -- all films subtitled in English