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Latin American Film Festival 2019
October 20, 2019 - November 2, 2019
The 2019 NCLAFF – dedicated to the concept of Time Machines – examines the Latin American experience through 33 films from Latin America and the United States. The films will explore past and present stories from the region through memory, re-enactment, historical revisions, fiction, science fiction, animation, among others. This year the NCLAFF presents a selection of short films from or about indigenous nations exploring the transformative nature of their stories of origins, experiences of displacement, and violence. In addition, a number of contemporary films review the past and the formation of modern nations from individual and collective experiences. Issues such as autocracy, the drug trade, corruption, race, gender, and mobility are present as expressions of the multiplicity of ways of being in Latin America. NCLAFF 2019 offers a glimpse of the vast selection of Latin American film production. Come to enjoy, reflect, and share.
Festival director: Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
Invited Curator: María López
PRAGDA Series curated by Cristina Carrasco, Manuel Sánchez-Cabrera and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
Presented by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsors include: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke, Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-CH, Department of Romance Studies at UNC-CH, PRAGDA, Duke Arts of the Moving Image and Screen/Society, Duke MFA EDA program, Duke AAHVS Speaker Series, FHI Social Practice Lab at Duke, Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke, The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke, the Carolina Theatre in Durham, Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill, and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Special thanks to the Chicago Latino Film Festival.