Sin Fronteras 2019
Friday, March 1, at 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 2, at 4:30 pm
Saturday, March 2, at 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 3, at 4:30 pm
Sunday, March 3, at 7:00 pm
The Sin Fronteras Film Festival is a student organized event devoted to films about Latin America and by Latin American filmmakers. Each year the festival is organized by a group of students from various departments who are members of UNM's Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS). The intent of the event is to contribute to a larger dialogue among UNM and community members regarding unique and important social and academic issues in Latin America.
This year's festival will be held March 1-3, 2019.
As in past years, the festival is generously supported by a variety of UNM groups and academic departments. Thanks to the time and money donated by various students, staff, faculty, and community members 2019's festival is a COMPLETELY FREE event open to the UNM and greater Albuquerque community. All screenings will be held at the Guild Cinema, and space is limited so plan to arrive early to get a seat.
If you have any questions please contact us at
SOLAS@unm.edu. We hope you can join usSin Fronteras 2019 Full ProgramThis event is sponsored by:
The University of New Mexico Departments of:
Instituto CervantesUNM Latin American & Iberian Institute
UNM El Centro de la RazaUNM Feminist Research InstituteUNM Graduate and Professional Student Association- GPSAUNM International Studies InstituteUNM Global Education OfficeThe University of New Mexico Departments of:
Spanish & Portuguese,Geography,Communication & Journalism,History,Political Science,Cinematic Arts,Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy## Friday, March 1, at 7:00 pm
Pájaros de Verano (Birds of Passage)
Director: Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
Colombia, 2018 / Drama / 125 minutes / Wayuu, Spanish, English, Wiwa
Set in northern Colombia and focusing on an indigenous Wayuu community’s experience,
Pájaros de Veranotells the story of protagonist Rapayet and his family’s involvement in the quickly expanding South American cannabis trade. While seeking both control and benefits from the growing marijuana business, individual lives along with aspects of Wayuu are jeopardized in this sensorially rich film. The film is Guerra and Gallegos’ second collaboration to be submitted as the Colombian candidate for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards (the first of which was award-winning 2015 film
Embrace of the Serpent).
Virus Tropical (Tropical Virus)
Born in a not-so-conventional family, Paola grows up between Ecuador and Colombia and finds herself unable to fit in. With a unique feminine vision of the world, she will have to fight against prejudice and struggle for her independence as a rebellious teen while her family and the geopolitical landscapes that surround her are struck with crises.
Virus Tropicalis a black-and-white animated interpretation of Paola Gaviria’s (aka Powerpaola) visually intricate and beautiful auto-biographical graphic novel of the same name. With a strong (and expanding) readership across Europe and Latin America, this graphic-novel to feature film is the first-ever of its kind from Colombia.
Viaje al cuarto de una madre (
Director: Celia Rico Clavellino
Spain, 2018 / 94 minutes / Spanish
Description:Clavellino’s intimate story of mother and daughter is a film with a “quiet, well-observed truthfulness” (as described by the Hollywood reporter), exploring the wavering world between daughter Leonor (Ana Castillo) who wants to leave home but struggles to tell her mother Estrella. Estrella (played by globally recognized Lola Duena for roles in
Volver(2006) and the acclaimed 2004
Mar Adentro(English title:
Sea Inside)does not want her daughter to go, but finds herself unable to keep her by her side. Driven by the 2008 financial crisis, the film addresses a generation of younger Spaniards forced to contemplate life abroad and marked by both women’s outstanding performances.
Uruguay, 2018 / 74 minutes / Spanish
Uruguayan painter Javier Belmonte (Gonzalo Delgado) creates works brimming with loneliness, melancholia, beauty while exploring his attraction to and fascination with the human body. A deeply emotional man dedicated to his school-aged daughter, Celeste, Belmonte is nearly lost in her absence. Defying the coming of age narrative norms, Belmonte will have to cross a middle age crisis-passage where new acquaintances and fantasies emerge, forcing him to go beyond his artistic process and uncover deeply personal fears and desires in this comedic drama.
(The Dead and the Others)
Director: João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora
Brazil, 2018 / 114 minutes / Krahô, Portuguese
A mix of fiction, improvisation and ethnography,
The Dead and the Others,shot beautifully on 16mm, explores the life of fifteen-year-old Ihjãc, an indigenous Krahô from the north of Brazil. Ihjãc suffers from nightmares since the loss of his father, and when Ihjãc walks into darkness, his sweaty body moves with fright. He has been denying his destiny to become a shaman and must organize an essential funerary feast to release the spirits of the dead from the village.