Director David Siev and Subject Rachel Siev Attending

Bad Axe portrays an average family trying to keep their restaurant business and mental well-being from collapsing in 2020 as a pandemic, controversial restrictions, and even Black Lives Matter come to their small Michigan town. This quintessentially American story is bound to leave you cheering and crying in equal measure. Winner, Audience Award, 2022 SXSW Film Festival.

Director Celina Escher Attending

After serving ten years behind bars for her miscarriage, considered by her government to be an act of aggravated murder, Teodora Vásquez becomes a spokesperson for the other 16 Salvadoran women behind bars for the same “crime” in this story of sorority, resilience, and solidarity.

Actress Arcelia Ramírez Attending 10/16 Screening

When a young woman goes missing and a paid ransom fails to bring her back, single mother Cielo sets out to retrieve her daughter by any means necessary, taking her into a nightmarish world in this powerful indictment directed by Teodora Ana Mihai.

Writer and Actress Raphaëlle Pérez Attending 10/17 Screening

French millennial Raphi struggles to find love, acceptance, and her place in a world not ready for the reality of being trans in this searingly honest, emotionally raw feature from writer/director Adrián Silvestre winner of the Maguey Award at FICG 2022 and the Outfest Grand Jury Special Mention Award for Performance in an International Feature.

Cine Latino Encore Screenings Friday, October 21 through Thursday, October 27 at The Main Cinema

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Screens with the short film Socorro.

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that 80-year-old master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for and working toward all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago. Guzmán connects Chile's complex, bloody history to contemporary revolutionary social movements and the election of a popular new president.

A quiet night in a village bordering the Dominican Republic and Haiti becomes a violent test of survival for mother-to-be Marie in this powerful new film from writer/director José María Cabral, inspired by the little-known Parsley Massacre of 1937.

Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes revisits his relationship with a young immigrant convicted of murder, creating a docudrama of the young man’s troubled life in this provocative meditation on poverty, migration, borders, incarceration, and the power and ethics of storytelling.

International Premiere

Screens before My Imaginary Country

Socorro do Burajuba is a community leader and president of the Association of Caboclos, Indigenous and Quilombolas of the Amazon. Since 2016, she has been denouncing the contamination of rivers in the quilombola community Burajuba, a region considered an environmental and social "sacrifice zone" due to the intensity and violence of mineral exploration.