Program

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Wednesday, November 13

4:00 pm 

Peret: King of Gypsy Rumba, Paloma Zapata. Spain, 2019. 90 min. (documentary)

Whitney Humanities Center | Room 208 | 53 Wall Street

7:00 pm

InocenciaAlejandro Gil. Cuba, 2018. 80 min.

Q&A with Héctor Noas

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

9:00 pm

OPENING RECEPTION

Luce Hall Common Room | Second Floor | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Thursday, November 14

12:00 pm

LUNCH DISCUSSION WITH THE 2019 LIFFY FILMMAKERS (BILINGUAL)

Whitney Humanities Center | Room 208 | 53 Wall Street

4:30 pm  

CUBAN SHORTS

Pa’lanteWesley Rodríguez. Cuba/USA, 2017. 7min.

Frágil. Sheyla Pool, Cuba, 2018. 15min.

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

5:00 pm

Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World, Cynthia Biestek and Rubén Gómez. Cuba/Mexico/France/USA, 2018. 100min. (documentary)

Q&A with director, Cynthia Biestek and animator, Ian Padrón

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

5:00 pm

Un filósofo en la arena, Aaron Fernández. Mexico/Spain, 2018. 100min. (documentary)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

7:00 pm

Los sueños del castillo, René Ballesteros. Chile, 2018. 72min. (documentary)

El amor. Nicolás Guzmán. Chile, 2018. 15min.

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

7:15 pm

Isla rota/Broken Island, Félix Germán. Dominican Republic, 2018. 104min.

Q& A with producer Luis Arambilet.

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

9:00 pm

Moriviví, David Aguilera. Cuba, 2018. 37min. (documentary)

El cementerio se alumbra, Alejandro Yero. Cuba, 2018. 14 min. (documentary)

Viejos heraldos,  Luis Alejandro Yero. Cuba, 2019. 23 min. (documentary)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

9:30 pm

Pisahueco, Sergio Fernández Muñoz. Peru. 2018. 17 min.

Contigo Perú, Eduardo Mendoza de Echave. Peru, 2019. 102min. (documentary)

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

Friday, November 15

12:00 pm

LUNCH CONVERSATION WITH THE 2019 LIFFY FILMMAKERS (IN SPANISH)

Topic: Los retos y los beneficios de hacer cine independiente (Challenges and Benefits of Making Independent Films)

Whitney Humanities Center | Room 208 | 53 Wall Street

2:00 pm

SPANISH SHORTS

#Superinlove, Curren Bernabeu. Spain, 2019. 10min.

Fin, Álvaro G. Company. Spain, 2019. 13min.

Dudillas, Pedro Rudolphi. Spain, 2019, 6min.

Gladiadores, Helher Escribano. Spain, 2019. 5min.

Picadero, Alejandro Barvel. Spain, 2019. 7min.

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

3:00 pm

Cambio de turno, Fede Untermann. Argentina/Spain 2018. 10 min

La causa contra Franco, Lucía Palacios & Dietmar Post. Spain, 2018. documentary. 97min.

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

5:00 pm

Generación Buñuel, Lorca, Dalí. Javier Espada. Spain/México, 2018. 74min. (documentary)

Q&A With Javier Espada

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

5:00 pm

PORTUGUESE SHORTS

A Costureririnha, Telmo Martins. Portugal, 2018. 13min.

Banho de Paragem, Andre Carvalho. Portugal, 2017. 13min.

Horizonte Artificial, Lucas Fidalgo. Portugal, 2018. 3 min.

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

7:00 pm

Por ti, Dayra Ferrera. Puerto Rico, 2018. 11 min.

El chata, Gustavo Ramos Perales. Puerto Rico, 2019. 75min. 
Q&A with director, Gustavo Ramos Perales.

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

7:00 pm

SELECTED SHORTS

Aire, Iván Varela. Argentina, 2019. 5min.

Cerdo, Yunior García Aguilera. Cuba, 2018. 20min.

Fin, Yimit Ramírez. Cuba, 2019. 20 min

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

9:00 pm

El túnel, Joelle González Laguer. Puerto Rico, 2019. 14 min.

Chakal Mex., Joelle González Laguer. Puerto Rico/Mexico. 2018. 17 min. (LGBTQ) 
Q&A with director Joelle González Laguer

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

10:00 pm

Las reglas de la ruina, Víctor Osuna. Mexico, 2018. 94 min. (horror)

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

Saturday, November 16

10:00 am

Capitán Escudo, Diego Castillo. Ecuador, 2019. 19 min. (short animated film – only in Spanish)

NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY – IVES MAIN LIBRARY | PROGRAM ROOM | 133 ELM STREET

10:20 am

Short Films from Fair Haven Students

Come see a series of short films created by Fair Haven School 5th/6th grade Spanish-speaking newcomers, in partnership with Yale Undergraduates for Unicef. This screening will be hosted by bilingual educator David Weinreb and several of his former students, and will include an opportunity to engage in dialogue and discussion with the filmmakers after the screenings.

Film titles include:
Families Belong Together 
Remembering María
Dreams about DACA

Letters to our Government

NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY – IVES MAIN LIBRARY | PROGRAM ROOM | 133 ELM STREET

12:00 pm

Reinbou, David Maler and Andrés Curbelo.  Dominican Republic, 2017. 95 min.

NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY – IVES MAIN LIBRARY | PROGRAM ROOM | 133 ELM STREET

12:00 pm

Uno, Javier Marco Rico. Spain, 2018. 10 min

Entrialgo, Diego Llorente. Spain, 2018. 66min. (documentary)

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

1:30 pm

 ¿Por qué miente la gente?, Dídac Cerrera Casademont. Spain, 2019. 13min.

Lejos del sentido, Olivia Luengas and Odín Acosta. Mexico, 2018. 90min. (documentary)

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

4:00 pm

The Dog Healers, Mark Winik. Argentina/USA, 2018. 30 min. (documentary short)
Q&A with Mark Winik

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

5:00 pm

Johnny 100 pesos, Gustavo Graef Marino. Chile, 1993. 90 min.
Q&A with Gustavo Graef Marino

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

7:00 pm

Johnny 100 Pesos: 20 Years and a Day Later,  Gustavo Graef Marino. Chile, 2017. 113min.
Q&A with Gustavo Graef Marino

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

7:00 pm 

Humano, Korwin Quiñónez. Ecuador, 2019. 24 min. (LGBTQ)

Siguiente Round, Valeria Suárez Rovello. Ecuador, 2018. 83min (documentary)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

9:00 pm

Isabela y nosotros, Analía Fraser. Argentina-Brazil-Spain. 2018 13min.

Fuggiró tanto amore, Raúl Lorite. Spain, 2019. 9min. (LGBTQ)

I Love Lotus, Patricia Ramos. Cuba, 2018. 18min. (some nudity)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

10:00 pm

La jaula/The Cage, José Ignacio Salaverria. Venezuela, 2017. 83min. (LGBT)

Q&A with José Ignacio Salaverría.

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

Sunday, November 17, 2019

11:00 am

El último día/The Last Day, Laureano Olivares. Venezuela, 2019. 12min.
Q&A with Laureano Olivares

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

11:30 am

En el murmullo del viento, Nina Wara Carrasco Bolivia, 2018. 60min. (documentary)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

1:00 pm

I am Migration, Paola Baldion and Jamie Toll. USA, 2019. 40min. (documentary)
Q&A with Jamie Toll.

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

2:00 pm

Detroit’s Rivera, Julio Ramos. USA, 2017. 35min. (documentary)
Q&A with Julio Ramos and sound designer, Max Heath

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

3:00 pm

Positive YouTubers, Leandro Goddinho. Brazil, 2017.15min. (short documentary, LGBTQ)

Antes que seja tarde, Leandro Goddinho. Brazil, 2019. 15min.

Sem descanso, Bernard Attal. Brazil, 2018. 78min. (documentary)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

5:00 pm

El espacio vacío, Julián Cáneva. Argentina, 2016. 10min.

El camino de Santiago Maldonado, Tristán Bauer. Argentina, 2018. 80min. (documentary)

Luce Hall Auditorium | Room 101 | 34 Hillhouse Avenue

7:00 pm

Somos calenture/We are the Heat, Jorge Navas. Colombia, 2018. 104min.

Q&A with Jorge Navas

Whitney Humanities Center | AUDITORIUM | 53 Wall Street

9:15 pm

CLOSING RECEPTION

Whitney Humanities Center | Room 108 | 53 Wall Street