Comedic Shorts: Doing the Most
Synopsis
Unbound obsessions and delusional desires fuel these hilarious shorts that embody the essence of “fake it ‘til you make it!” From the delightfully heartwarming to the absolutely bonkers, these films remind us to dream big, live large, and leave it all on the field. Featuring works by Natalia García Agraz, Isabel Perry, Adam Yates, Stéphanie Bélanger, Luisa Arraes, Chris Cole, and Wissam Charaf.
In Passarinho (Mexico), two teenage best friends devise a plan to meet their dreamy idol, a superstar Brazilian soccer player. But things change when one of them gets their first period at the game. Fishbowl (United States) captures the joy and futility of trying to relive one’s youth when an unlikely pair of twentysomethings spend a summer weekend doing whatever it takes to forget their exes — and also keep a goldfish alive. Lumen (Canada) takes “the customer is always right” to new heights when an isolated woman discovers that her Facebook Marketplace order has been canceled. A wealthy matriarch’s important work dinner is thrown into disarray when her housekeeper doesn’t show up in Dadá (Dependências) (Brazil). Out of options, a grandson tries to save his hospitalized grandmother’s life with a freestyle rap, and finds himself joined by a handful of unlikely participants in Terminally Ill (United States). And a dedicated security guard finds his assignment guarding a waterfront construction site to be much more difficult than he thought in If the Sun Drowned into an Ocean of Clouds (Et si le soleil plongeait dans l’océan des nues) (France, Lebanon).
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sat, Oct 26 @ 11:30am CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 04
Dadá director Fernanda Etzberger,
Fishbowl co-directors Isabel Perry & Adam Yates, and
Terminally Ill director Chris Cole
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Experimental Shorts: The Act of Seeing
Experimental Shorts: The Act of SeeingCanada, Chile, Cuba, France, Japan, Portugal, United States
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Thesis on a Domestication Tesis sobre una domesticación
Synopsis
A successful trans actress proudly occupies the space in the world that she has earned. She relishes in the prestige from her glittering career and the attention that it grabs from those around her, including from a handsome Mexican lawyer. As their love blossoms into marriage, making a home and building a family, she traces the course of her life and weaves it into a new trans narrative: one that demands the right to enjoyment, ambition, desire, glamor, and security as well as flaws and contradictions.
Adapted from the homonymous novel by contemporary trans actress and writer Camila Sosa Villada, Thesis on a Domestication shines a spotlight on Villada herself, who masterfully embodies a protagonist who refuses to succumb neither to norms of success and family nor the expectations of life as a trans woman. A bold portrait of a woman who defies definition, and must navigate the cost of her iconoclastic life.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sat, Oct 19 @ 4:45pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 04
Director Javier Van de Couter, producers Ramiro Pavón & Mónica Pérez Vargas, and writer/producer Laura Huberman
Screening
Sun, Oct 20 @ 7:45pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 01
Director Javier Van de Couter
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Film Credits
- Laura Huberman, Ramiro Pavón, Javier Van de Couter, Gael García Bernal, Mónica Pérez, Lorena Cándano de la Peza
- Javier Van de Couter, Camila Sosa Villada, Laura Huberman
- Mariana Rodríguez
- Luciano Badaracco
- Camila Sosa Villada, Alfonso Herrera
- Catriel Nievas
- Laura Huberman, Ramiro Pavón, Diego Luna, Kyzza Terrazas
- Aurora Cine, Oh My Gómez!, La Corriente del Golfo
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Separated
Synopsis
Veteran filmmaker Errol Morris makes his most powerful political documentary in years, combining the effective investigative stories of Standard Operating Procedure and The Thin Blue Line with the cautionary tales of American Dharma and The Fog of War. His target: the Trump administration’s controversial 2018 policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the Mexico-US border.
The film lays out in detail how Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, and Kirstjen Nielsen pursued the program with little regard for human rights, morality, or constitutional law. It also introduces characters like Captain Jonathan White at the Office for Refugee Resettlement, who becomes the film’s central compelling figure thanks to his determination to intervene and protect the well-being of those in his care. Filled with sobering indignation and disturbing revelations, Separated offers a riveting exposé of the Trump administration’s unjust programs and the brave people on both sides of the political divide trying to hold them at bay.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sat, Oct 26 @ 7:00pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 04
Executive Producer Jacob Soboroff
Screening
Sun, Oct 27 @ 5:00pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 13
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Film Credits
- Errol Morris, Robert Fernandez, Molly O'Brien, Steven Hathaway
- Steven Hathaway
- Igor Martinović
- Subject: Jonathan White, Cast: Gabriela Cartol, Diego Armando Lara Lagunes
- Paul Leonard-Morgan
- Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Elizabeth Fischer, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Jacob Soboroff
- NBC News Studios, Participant
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Párvulos
Synopsis
Salvador and his younger brothers Oliver and Benjamin live in an isolated house in the woods. Together in a post-apocalyptic landscape, they’ve established grim routines of survival, including hunting in the forest to feed something sinister and ravenously hungry that’s hiding in their basement. As the many dangers of their dystopian world begin to close in around them, the young brothers must fight to protect the only thing they have left: their family.
Párvulos is not your typical post-apocalyptic epic, but an absolute roller coaster of genre — a dark, gruesome, yet surprisingly sincere coming-of-age tale set in a world devoid of childhood innocence where family is the only hope for the future.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sat, Oct 26 @ 10:00pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 04
Director Isaac Ezban
Screening
Sun, Oct 27 @ 5:30pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 04
Director Isaac Ezban
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Film Credits
- Natalia Contreras, Javier Sepulveda, Eduardo Lecuona, Isaac Ezban
- Isaac Ezban, Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes
- Oscar Figueroa
- Rodrigo Sandoval
- Felix Farid Escalante, Leonardo Cervantes, Mateo Ortega, Norma Flores, Horacio Lazo, Carla Adell, Noe Hernandez
- Camilla Uboldi, Edy Lan
- Franz Alvarez Novotny, Francisco Sanchez Solis, Ximena Garcia Lecuona, Eckardt Von Dam, Javier Colinas, Carla Farel
- Red Elephant Films, Maligno Gorehouse, Corazon Films
- https://www.redelephant.mx
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After Dark Shorts: Disturbing Diversions
VariousFrance, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, United States, Untied Kingdom
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La Cocina
Synopsis
Tensions are already running high as the day begins in a bustling Times Square kitchen — money is missing from the till, and suspicions have fallen on line cook Pedro (Raúl Briones). A zealous dreamer with a knack for making trouble, Pedro is on thin ice. His tumultuous affair with Julia (Rooney Mara), a waitress battling her own demons, is no secret. But today, their interpersonal chaos begins to seep into the relentless pace of the kitchen as its workers grind to feed the hungry maws of the dining room’s tourists. As Pedro spirals out of control, he threatens to take the whole kitchen down with him.
Alonso Ruizpalacios (A Cop Movie, 2021) returns to the Festival with a stylistically dazzling, darkly poignant tribute to the often invisible immigrants whose unrelenting work in kitchens feeds this country’s voracious appetite. La Cocina is a daring, tragic ode to the folly of the American Dream.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sat, Oct 19 @ 8:00pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 06
Actor Raúl Briones
Screening
Sun, Oct 20 @ 7:15pm CDT
at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 06
Actor Raúl Briones
Screening
Mon, Oct 21 @ 6:30pm CDT
at National Museum of Mexican Art
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Film Credits
- Ramiro Ruiz, Gerardo Gatica, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Lauren Mann, Ivan Orlic
- Yibrán Asuad
- Juan Pablo Ramírez
- Raúl Briones, Rooney Mara, Anna Díaz, Motell Foster, Oded Fehr, Eduardo Olmos
- Marco Polo Constandse, Alexis García, Cristina Garza, José Nacif, William Olsson, Patrick Pfujena, Elizabeth Woodward
- Filmadora MX, Panorama, Astrakan Film AB, Seine Pictures, Fifth Season
- https://lacocinamovie.com
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