In Theater: Tue, Oct 12 at 7:30pm. To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca. But when he and a few other boys become trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, Mateus will be forced to decide between working for the very man who imprisoned him or risk his and his family’s future.

An immersive documentary into the life and creative process of Leo Bruwer’s, the outstanding Cuban and world-renowned composer. A die-hard iconoclast, he defies us to question art, Cuba, and even the purpose of a documentary about him.

In Theater: Mon, Oct 11 at 5:00pm. As a member of his school’s Student Council, Saulo is on a mission to promote changes in his school and neighborhood. During a classroom quarrel, Saulo reacts to a racial insult from a classmate and is expelled. Outraged, he refuses to leave the school until justice is done.

In Theater: Sun, Oct 10 at 2:45pm. Showing with Songs That Flood the River. Because of their Haitian ancestry, Elena and her family have lost their Dominican citizenship. She must negotiate an opaque bureaucracy in a racist, hostile society, or else remain stateless in a country intent on deporting its darker-skinned citizens.

In Theater: Fri, Oct 8 at 2:45pm + Wed, Oct 13 at 5:00pm.In Brazil’s near future, two roommates become unwitting symbols of resistance when a voluntary ‘back-to-Africa’ program for ‘high melanin’ citizens quickly becomes a violent round-up of all Black citizens in this powerful debut feature from writer/director Lazaro Ramos.

In Theater: Mon, Oct 11 at 7:30pm. Liborio is a peasant turned prophet who says he’s been given a mission: to bring the good and take away the evil, curing the sick and teaching by example. Liborio explores the community and mythology of a true-life character forced to reckon with outside forces.

In Theater: Sun, Oct 10 at 2:45pm. Oneida sings alabados, traditional funeral chants sung by Afro-Colombians on the Pacific coast to bid farewell to the dead as they return to the realm of souls. Mesmerizing and hypnotic director Germán Arango, weaves a melodious tale marking the scars of Colombia’s misfortune, to realize a healed future.