San Diego Latino Film Festival 2012

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Feature Narrative/New Chilean Directors
Set immediately before, during, and after the devastating earthquake that struck Terremoto, Chile in 2010, Juan Pablo Ternicier’s sprawling film follows multiple different characters traversing a broken landscape plagued by crime, looting, and aftershocks.
Featured/Feature Narrative
In this hilarious comedy, an honest accountant named Angel (Carlos Alberto Orozco) is suddenly fired for no reason and forced into an unforgiving job market. Under pressure to support his loving wife and daughter, Angel suffers through a string of wacky and demeaning job interviews that drain his faith in humanity. When all hope seems lost, Angel gets involved with a band of low-level thieves that quickly become an unexpected surrogate family who may provide him the necessary perspective to find hope in this incredibly cruel world. Also featuring Rafael Amaya as a hunky telenovela star!
Feature Narrative
A young woman named Lupita (Mexican pop princess Dulce Maria) flees for America after her family decides she belongs in a mental institution, causing a national uproar in the process.
Feature Narrative
Marcela (Magaly Solier), a young immigrant facing increasing financial troubles, needs a job fast. After getting hired to care for a bed-ridden old man named Amador (Celso Bugallo), Marcela believes she’s finally found the economic security she needs to help her ambitious husband open a flower shop. However, nothing is what it seems in Fernando León de Aranoa’s subtle drama about shared secrets, mortality, and unexpected friendship, and the two form a bond that will impact both in surprising ways.
Feature Narrative/Narrative Competition/US Latino Film Showcase
Starring Edward James Olmos & Lymari Nadal. America, the protagonist whose name might seem to evoke opportunity and safe haven, instead lives a paltry existence in the shadow of abuse and poverty in Vieques--a tiny island east of Puerto Rico. She escapes to New York to work for a wealthy family as a nanny, and with the help of other Latinas, begins to build confidence in a new life. Her lover reappears, however, and again pushes her to her limit, as she barely hangs on to her life and what is left of her dream. America’s story is one of finding the guts to say “No more!” and the courage to mean it.
Feature Narrative/Narrative Competition
It’s Cuba circa 1993 and a severe economic crisis rages. Without warning, Eunice (Miriel Cejas) decides to run away from her small town and sexually aggressive father. On the road she joins up with a group of homeless teens hitchhiking to Havana.
Borders on Film Showcase/Feature Narrative
Three Brazilian actresses decide to go to Índia to break into the Bollywood film industry.
Feature Narrative
An adaptation of Alejandro Zambra"s award-winning novel of the same name, Bonsai is a light and engaging film about a young man"s relationships with women and books, told over two different stages in his life.
Featured/Feature Narrative
Tere, the owner of a famous restaurant in Mexico City, loses her passion for cooking after a tragic death in the family. Beatrix, the restaurant"s ambitious manager, is forced to to hire a Cordon Bleu chef educated in France in order to salvage the business. In this charming film about food, family, and friendship, director Jordi Mariscal instills a sense of vitality and hope in the lives of characters on the verge of emotional collapse.
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