SHORTS PROGRAM #1: CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD

• Entre Mudos y Estatuas

  Directed by Rayell Abad Guangorena

  Narrative, 15:36, Mexico, 2021

  Located in Marseille, France. Cristina, a Jewish mother of Mexican origin, must face the Nazi occupation of 1940. After the deportation to a concentration camp of her husband, Cristina and her daughter, Ivana, are taken to a safe house where they wait to be evacuated from Europe to return to Mexico. It will be in the confinement where both experience a unique connection.
   

• Lili
  Directed by Brian Ríos
  Narrative, 15:00, Puerto Rico, 2022
  A father and daughter must cross the border in order to find a better life, but the daughter cannot speak.
   

• Transtierro

  Directed by Susanna Arrazola

  Animation, 8:43, Mexico, 2021

  Irene lives locked up in her memories. Exile and loneliness plunge her into a state of melancholic inactivity; only through a frontal look at the past she will be able to find peace.
   

• The Fourth

  Directed by Johnny Kirk

  Narrative, 11:45, USA, 2022

  Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of young black and Latino friends experience a police encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.
   

• Ñaños

  Directed by Emilio Subía

  Narrative, 15:00, Ecuador, 2021

  In the heart of Corona, Queens, two Ecuadorian siblings are placed at odds with each other when one reveals a sudden urge to leave their home.
   

• Tomb of the Sea

  Directed by Andrew Garcia

  Narrative, 12:08, USA/Cuba, 2023

  In the wake of Fidel Castro's death in 2016, Rosa struggles to cope with her trauma as a Cuban immigrant and single parent in Miami.

 

Q&A with filmmakers in attendance.