Belén
Synopsis
Based on the true story that sparked an international movement, Belén chronicles the harrowing case of Julieta, a young woman falsely accused of infanticide, and Soledad Deza (Dolores Fonzi), the fearless lawyer who takes on the highly controversial, explosive case. In Tucumán, a conservative region of Argentina, Julieta’s trial becomes a flashpoint for the ongoing fight for women’s reproductive rights. As Soledad faces off against a corrupt, classist, and patriarchal legal system, Julieta’s story ignites a groundswell of outrage and solidarity, galvanizing an unstoppable movement for justice and bodily autonomy.
Belén is equal parts gripping courtroom drama, searing critique of systemic injustice, and celebration of resilience and sisterhood.
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Film Credits
- Dolores Fonzi, Camila Plaate, Laura Paredes, Julieta Cardinali, Luis Machín, César Troncoso, Sergio Prina, Ruth Plaate, Lili Juárez
- K&S Films
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The Currents Las Corrientes
Synopsis
Lina, an accomplished Argentinian designer and artist, walks alone around the wintery Swiss town where she has just received an award. In a sudden and dangerous impulse, she plunges from a bridge into the icy river, emerging unhurt but shaken. Back in Buenos Aires, she is confronted with a crippling phobia of water, yet she feels unable to admit to her loving husband and young daughter what she is going through. Estranged from the world she has built for herself, she begins to reach out to reconnect with a painful and distant past life that she had hoped to forever leave behind.
Milagros Mumenthaler crafts an intimate, emotional portrait of a woman coming undone—one that approaches trauma with profound empathy and paints Lina’s surreal interiority with the full breadth of its complexity. A haunting, lyrical meditation on identity, belonging, and motherhood, The Currents journeys through memory with delicate grace.
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Screening
Mon, Oct 20 @ 5:30pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 1
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Director Milagros Mumenthaler
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Screening
Tue, Oct 21 @ 5:30pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Milagros Mumenthaler
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Film Credits
- Alina Film, Ruda Cine
- Milagros Mumenthaler
- Gion-Reto Killias
- Gabriel Sandru
- Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi
- Alina Film, Ruda Cine
Sponsors
Program Patron
John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Emi
Synopsis
Emi, 18, is starting to spread his wings, asserting his independence by spending more time away from home. He finds freedom in his first job at a motorcycle repair shop where he works under the tutelage of the gruff but patient Rodolfo. To his parents, he might seem increasingly aimless as he spends more and more time hanging around the garage, drifting around Buenos Aires on his motorcycle, and stealing away with his boyfriend, but Emi is led by a secret curiosity. Guided by a faint memory, he becomes increasingly focused on puzzling out the story of the biological parents who gave him up for adoption at birth.
The many definitions of family are at the heart of this unique and deeply nuanced adoption story, centered around an empathic young man with a penchant for fostering connection and honesty among those he meets. Within a complex web of characters and relationships formed by bonds beyond blood, Emi carves a space for himself in the world.
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Screening
Wed, Oct 22 @ 5:15pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Ezequiel Erriquez Mena & Co-producer Federico Cetta
Screening
Thu, Oct 23 @ 5:00pm
at Gene Siskel Film Center, Screen 2
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Director Ezequiel Erriquez Mena & Co-producer Federico Cetta
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Film Credits
- Laura Mara Tablón, Coproducer: Federico Cetta
- Ezequiel Erriquez Mena
- Ezequiel Erriquez Mena, Pablo Riera
- Gustavo Schiaffino
- Benicio Mutti Spinetta, Mara Bestelli, Luis Ziembrowski, Sofía Palomino, Alejandro Scaravelli, Miriam Odorico
- Luciano Supervielle
- Laura Mara Tablón
- Rita Cine in coproduction with El Cielo Cine
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Nuestra Tierra Landmarks
Synopsis
From acclaimed Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel, known for her poetic and dreamy class-conscious dramas (La Cienaga, The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman) comes a very different, but no less compelling, portrait of inequality. Martel chronicles the trial of three men who entered the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina to take ownership of the land and then killed the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. Drawing on vivid archival video of the incident, caught on cellphone cameras, Martel closely follows the story of the crime, its punishment, and its far-reaching consequences.
Part courtroom drama and part lyrical look at the past, present, and future of the Chuschagasta people, Nuestra Tierra provides a broader context for the murderous act and offers a space for members of the community to reclaim their lives from a government that has long tried to deny not only their rights to the land but even their very existence. With a keen eye for symbolic details and for the tensions between tradition and modernity, nature and technology, Martel also tells a larger tale about the perennial struggles and injustices embedded in contemporary society.
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Film Credits
- Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Galelli, Matías Roveda, Joslyn Barnes, Julio Chavezmontes, Javier Leoz
- Lucrecia Martel, María Alché
- Jeronimo Pérez Rioja, Miguel Schverdfinger
- Ernesto de Carvalho
- Comunidad Chuschagasta
- Alfonso Olguín
- Danny Glover, Lynda Weinman, Susan Rockefeller, Tony Tabatznik, Maxyne Franklin, Brenda Coughlin, Marco Perego, Michael Cerenzie, Natalia Meta
- Rei Pictures, Piano, Pio & Co, Louverture Films, Lemming Film, Snowglobe
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Program Patron
Cynthia Stone Raskin
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Synopsis
In a remote, crumbling convent, young nun Rafaela has recurring, seemingly prophetic dreams. When rumor of a new archbishop in a nearby town reaches the small congregation, Rafaela is sent to find him with the mission of securing funds to save the convent and to ask for guidance regarding one particular mysterious dream that haunts her. Her journey finds her lost in a beautiful and perplexing landscape, guided only by her wavering faith. It is on this road, seemingly to nowhere, that her path intersects with other pilgrims and wayward souls who all seek the archbishop—and whose often questionable motivations unwittingly shape the course of Rafaela’s journey.
Director Karla Badillo’s home region—the sweeping, sparse landscape of San Luis Potosí—is a labyrinth for the spiritually adrift in their surreal, fraught pilgrimages. Oca, named for an ancient board game inspired by the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, is a contemplation on one’s journey through faith and its many detours on the shifting winds of destiny.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 8:15pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Karla Badillo & producer Maria José Córdova
Screening
Mon, Oct 20 @ 5:45pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 04
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Director Karla Badillo & producer Maria José Córdova
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Film Credits
- María José Córdova, Karla Badillo, Federico Eibuszyc, Federico Sande Novo
- Karla Badillo
- Loli Moriconi (EDA)
- Diana Garay (AMC)
- Natalia Solián, Cecilia Suárez, Cristel Guadalupe, Leonardo Ortizgris, Raúl Briones, Gerardo Trejo-Luna, Enrique Arreola, Gabriela Núñez, Natalia Plascencia
- Josh Madoff
- Pina Films, Las Jaras, Pucará Cine, Año Cero
Sponsors
Program Patron
Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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