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Film Festival
This program is designed to highlight groundbreaking films from Latin America and to build awareness among the KSU campus and greater-Atlanta community. The artistry of these films brings to light the important social and cultural topics they address.
Screenings are free and open to the public. Each film will be accompanied by a brief introduction from the Consul General of the film's host country, as well as a Q&A session following the screening.
If you have any questions please contact event organizer below.
Ernesto Silva, PhD
Associate Professor of Latin American/Latin@ Studies & Spanish
Interdisciplinary Studies Department (ISD)/Department of Foreign Languages (DFL)
Office Personal: 470-578-3208 | ISD Office: 470-578-2431
Email: esilva@kennesaw.edu
Announcing the 2023 LAFF Film Line Up
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2023 Film Festival
Amarillo, Azul y Rojo/Yellow, Blue, and Red (2021)
Country: Ecuador
Screening sponsored by: Juan Antonio Veintimilla Aulestia, Consul General of Ecuador in Atlanta
Director: Rubén Jurado Noriega, who will be discussing film during Q&A
Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Location: SO 2038
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Trailer
Manco Cápac (2021), 92m, with subtitules
Country: Peru
Screening sponsored by: Giancarlo León Collazos, Consul General of Peru in Atlanta
Director: Henry Vallejo
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2023
Location: SO 2038
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Trailer
Short Films: Lift (Asher Emmanuel, 8 minutes), We Are Here (Doménica & Constanza Castro, 9 minutes), Mi casa (Kristina Arjona, 14 minutes)
Country: Mexico
Virtual screening sponsored by: The Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta
Date: Monday, 30 October 2023
Location: Zoom
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Os 12 trabalhos / The 12 Labours (2006)
Country: Brazil
Screening sponsored by: The Consulate General of Brazil in Atlanta
Director: Ricardo Elias
Duration: 90 minutes, subtitles, mature audiences
Date: Thursday, 2 November 2023
Location: SO 2038
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Trailer
El robo del siglo/The Heist of the Century (2020)
Country: Argentina
Screening sponsored by: The Consulate General of Argentina in Atlanta
Director: Ariel Winograd
Date: Monday, 6 November 2023
Location: Zoom (credentials below)
Link: https://kennesaw-edu.zoom.us/j/89969881192
ID: 899 6988 1192 Passcode: 9KSULaFFTime: 7-9:30 PM
Note: This film is intended for mature audiences
Gol de plata (2022)
Country: Guatemala
Screening sponsored by: The Consulate General of Guatemala in Atlanta
Director: Kenneth Muller
Date: Monday, 13 November 2023
Location: Zoom (credentials below)
Link: https://kennesaw-edu.zoom.us/j/89969881192
ID: 899 6988 1192 Passcode: 9KSULaFFTime: 7-9:30 PM
Trailer
El viaje de la marimba/The Journey of the Marimba (2023)
Country: Colombia
Screening sponsored by: The Consulate General of Colombia in Atlanta
Director:
Date: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Location: Zoom (credentials below)
Link: https://kennesaw-edu.zoom.us/j/89969881192
ID: 899 6988 1192
Passcode: 9KSULaFFTime: 7-9:30 PM
Note: Documentary about the African roots of the marimba with the participation of the director.
Trailer
Violeta al fin (2017)
Country: Costa Rica
Screening sponsored by: The Consulate General of Costa Rica in Atlanta
Director: Hilda Hidalgo
Date: Thursday, 16 November 2023
Location: SO 2038
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Trailer
Historias pequeñas/Little Histories (2019)
Country: Venezuela
Screening in collobration with: Saint Thomas Aquinas College, NY
Director: Rafael Marziano Tinoco
Date: Thursday, 30 November 2023
Location: Zoom (credentials below)
Link: https://kennesaw-edu.zoom.us/j/89969881192
ID: 899 6988 1192 Passcode: 9KSULaFFTime: 7-9:30 PM
Note: Viewer discretion is advised; the director as well as the film producer Belén Orsini will host film discussion and Q&A.
Trailer with director's commentary
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2022 Film Festival
As part of the VIII KSU Latin American Film Festival and the Latin American/Latinx Studies Film Series, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the award-winning Venezuelan film Tamara (2016) will be screened and discussed this Wednesday, 7-9:30 PM in SO 2034. We will be joined by José Novoa, writer-producer of the film. He is giving this special presentation in recognition of the last film made by his wife Elia Schneider, who passed away in 2020. We will be joined by former KSU student Ria Drane, LMSW, and Kaelyn Ireland, who is currently a graduate student in MAST.
Tamara (2016)
Country: Venezuela
Director: Elia Schneider
Date: Wednesday, 5 October
Location: SO 2034
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Film overview:
Trailer
Based in the real life of Teo, a distinguished, prominent and outstanding lawyer, with a four year marriage and two small children, who decides to accomplish his long time secret: to change his body and become a woman. This film is inspired on the life of Tamara Adrian.
September / Septiembre, Un Llanto en Silencio (2017)
Country: Guatemala
Director: Kenneth Muller
Date: Tuesday, 25 October
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: The dying Guatemalan war veteran agrees to accompany a girl searching for information about her grand father, his comrade in arms. Flash backs show the campaign the men fought in when young.
trailer
Series of Short Films
Country: Mexico
Date: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Time: 7 PM
Film Info:
El pescador (2011) 11 minutos, Samantha Pineda & Davy Giorgi
Funerales Paz (2018) 13 minutos, Arantxa Durán
Jacinta (2008) 9 minutos, Karla Castañeda
Ramona (2014) 5 minutos, Giovanna Zacarías
El modelo de Pickman (2010) 1 2 minutos, Pablo Ángeles Zuman
Hasta los huesos (2000) 12 minutos, René Castillo
The Light on the Hill/La luz en el cerro (2016)
Country: Peru
Acting Consul General: Yella Zanelli
Director: Ricardo Velarde
Date: Tuesday, 8 November
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: The mysterious death of a mountain shepherd awakens greed and superstition in a remote Peruvian village.
trailer
Cortázar & Antín: Cartas iluminadas / Enlightened Letters (2020)
Country: Argentina
Consul General: Juan Manuel Navarro
Director: Cinthia Rajschmir
Date: Wednesday, 9 November
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: Cortázar's letters reveal a tension between the writer who advances on the space of the director and the director who tries to elude the winding bond between literature and films, while hidden forces in the stories embodied in characters that reached the screen, gravitate dangerously and mysteriously together.
trailer
El piedra/The Missed Round (2019)
Country: Colombia
Consul General: Adriana Arias Castiblanco
Director: Rafael Martínez Moreno
Date: Tuesday, 15 November
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: A washed-up boxer who gets paid to throw fights tries to turn his life around after meeting a young boy who claims to be his son.
trailer
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2021 Film Festival
Fatal Assistance (2013)
Country: Haiti
Director: Raoul Peck
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Time: 7 p.m.
Dr. Cécile Accilien, co-editor of the recently published Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives, will introduce film and lead discussion.
Film Info Trailer
Negra (2020)
Country: Mexico
Director: Medhin Tewolda Serrano
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Time: 7 p.m.
Director will join the screening.
Film Info Trailer
Medea (2017)
Country: Costa Rica
Director: Alexandra Latishev Salazar
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021
Time: 7 p.m.
Director will join the screening.
Film Info Trailer
The Flight of the Azacuán (2014)
Country: Guatemala
Director: Rafael González
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Time: 7 p.m.
Film Info Trailer
Final Minute
Country: Ecuador
Director: Luis Aviles
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Time: 7 p.m.
Director will join the screening.
Film Info Trailer
Pacíficum: Return to the Ocean (2017)
Country: Peru
Director: Mariana Tschudi
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Time: 7 p.m.
Film Info Trailer
Once upon a Time In Venezuela (2020)
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2020 Film Festival
Fandango at the Wall
Country: Mexico
Director: Varda Bar-Kar
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Time: 7 p.m.
Film Info Trailer
*Yo soy de allá
Country: Costa Rica
Director: Juan Ignacio Rodríguez Loria, Andrés Madrigal
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2020
Time: 7 p.m.
*One of two shorts for the evening.
Film Info
*Amor de temporada
Country: Costa Rica
Director: Sergio Pucci
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2020
Time: 7 p.m.
*One of two shorts for the evening
Film Info
La casa más grande del mundo
Country: Guatemala
Director: Ana V. Bojorquez & Lucía Carreras
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Time: 7 p.m.
Film Info Trailer
Tan distintos
Country: Ecuador
Date: Friday, 30 October 2020
Director: Pablo Arturo Suárez
Time: 7 p.m.
Film Info Trailer
Viejos amigos
Country: Peru
Film Info
Date: Thursday, 5 November 2020
Director: Fernando Villarán Luján
Time: 7 p.m.
Pájaros de verano
Country: Colombia
Trailer
Date: Friday, 13 November 2020
Directors: Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
Time: 7 p.m.
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2019 Film Festival
El regreso (2012)
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Building Q, Room 202, Marietta Campus
Country: Costa Rica
Director: Hernán Jiménez
La carga (2016)
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences, Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Mexico
Director: Alan Jonsson
Film Info
Donde acaban los caminos (2004)
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences, Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Guatemala
Director: Carlos García Agaz
Film Info
El día de la cabra (2017)
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Building Q, Room 202, Marietta Campus
Country: Colombia
Director: Samil Oliveros
Film Info
Minha mãe e uma peça 2/My Mom Is a Character 2 (2016)
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences, Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Brazil
Director: César Rodrigues
Film Info
Un novio para mi mujer (2008)
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Building Q, Room 202, Marietta Campus
Country: Argentina
Director: Juan Taratuto
Film Info
Retablo (2017)
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences, Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Peru
Director: Álvaro Delgado Aparicio
Film Info
Rethinking Cuban Civil Society (2019)
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Building Q, Room 202, Marietta Campus
Country: Cuba
Director: María Isabel Alfonso
*Note: This is a special presentation celebrating the Year of Cuba at KSU
Film Info
Cuentos sin hadas (2012)
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences, Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Ecuador
Director: Sergio Briones
Film Info
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2018 Film Festival
Ilusiones, S.A. (2015)
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Mexico
Director: Roberto Girault
Film Info
Double Feature:Mi Tesoro / My Treasure (2017) &Barlovento a Sotavento / Up Wind Down Wind (2017)
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: El Salvador
Directors: Michael Flores / Pilar Colomé
The First Lady of the Revolution (2016)
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Costa Rica
Director: Andrea Kalin
Film Info
El Silencio de los Fusiles / When the Guns Go Silenced (2017)
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Director: Nathalia Orozco
Country: Colombia
Film Info
El Último Elvis / The Last Elvis (2012)
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Argentina
Director: Armando Bo
Film info
Double Feature:Justicia Divina / Divine Justice (2016) & Pulga / Flea (2017)
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Honduras
Director: Alejandro Irías
(Note: The director will introduce the two shorts)
Film info
Minha mãe é uma peça / My Mother is a Character (2013)
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Building Q Room 202, Marietta Campus
Country: Brazil
Director: André Pellenz
Film infoUna Sombra al Frente / Crossing a Shadow (2007)
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Social Sciences Room 1019. Kennesaw Campus
Country: Peru
Director: Augutso Tamayo
Film info
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2017 Film Festival
El ciudadano Ilustre/The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Burruss Building, Room 151, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Argentina
Directors: Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Film info
La tierra y la sombra/Land and Shade (2015)
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Burruss Building Room 151, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Colombia
Director: César Acevedo
Film info
Mexican Shorts (2014)
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Prillaman 1103, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Mexico
Director: Various
Description: This is a collection of award-winning shorts from Mexico.
Cuchillos en el Cielo/ (2013)
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Burruss Building, Room 151,
Kennesaw Campus
Country: Peru
Director: Alberto Durant
Film info
Linha de Passe (2008)
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2017
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Prillaman 1103, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Brazil
Directors: Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas
Film info
El facilitador/The Facilitator (2013)
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Burruss Building, Room 151, Kennesaw Campus
Country: Ecuador
Director: Víctor Arregui
Film info
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2016 Film Festival
Dos Aguas / Two Waters (2014)
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: SO 1019
Country: Costa Rica
Director: Patricia Velázquez
Film info TrailerCuatro Puntos Cardinales / Four Cardinal Points (2014)
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: SO 3030
Country: El Salvador
Director: Javier Kafie
Film info TrailerEl abrazo de la serpiente / Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: SO 1019
Country: Colombia
Director: Ciro Guerra
Film info TrailerCápsulas / Capsules (2012)
Thursday, October 13
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: SO 1019
Country: Guatemala
Director: Verónica Riedel
Film info TrailerGeneración Spielberg / Generation Spielberg (2014)
Tuesday, October 18
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: SO 3030
Country: Mexico
Director: Gibrán Bazán
Film info TrailerResurrección / Resurrection (2015)
Thursday, October 20
Time:5-7 PM
Location SO 1019
Country: Argentina
Director: Gonzalo Calzada
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2015 Film Festival
Kennesaw State University in collaboration with the Consulates of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico & Peru was proud to host our 2015 Latin American Film Festival.
O ano em que meus pais saíram de férias/The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
Tuesday, September 27
Time: 6:00 PM
Country: Brazil
Presented by: The Consulate General of Brazil
Film info Trailer
El aura/The Aura (2005)
Tuesday, October 4
Time: 6:00 PM
Country: Argentina
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Presented by the Consulate General of Argentina
Film info Trailer
La piedra ausente/The Absent Stone (2013)
Tuesday, October 11
Time: 6:00 PM
Country: Mexico
Directors: Jesse Lerner, Sandra Rozental
Presented by the Consulate General of Mexico
Film info Trailer
Las malas intenciones/The Bad Intentions (2011)
