9/29 – 10/17
Full Schedule Here

https://nclatinamericanfilmfestival.org/2023-films/

As always, all festival events are free and open to the public.

Ser Plantas | Being Plants

Plants are at the first level of every food chain. Autotrophs are usually plants or one-celled organisms. Scientists call them “producers” because they make their own food. Nearly all autotrophs use a process called photosynthesis to create “food” (a nutrient called glucose) from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. In Indigenous America, Inti (the sun) is the god of life, the creator of photosynthesis. Cinema is another form of photosynthesis, a light that creates food for inspiration. NCLAFF 2023 will be honoring plants, as present in the everyday, in the landscape, and the economies that have had an important impact in the region (timber, rubber, sugar, banana, coca, etc.). Not all festival films will have plants as a theme, but every person lives within a landscape shaped, contained, and supported by them.

Curated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo and Manuel Sánchez Cabrera

Maps to locations of the festival

 

Fri, 9/29 @ 7pm We Are Guardians Rubenstein Film Theater, Duke University

Tue, 10/3 @ 7pm Gods of Mexico with short films by Elvira Palafox Carolina Theatre, Durham

 

Thu, 10/5 @ 7pm Utama Richard White Lecture Hall, Duke University

Fri, 10/6 @ 7pm Forest Mind & Polinizadorxs  Mandela Auditorium, UNC-CH

Sun, 10/8 @ 7pm Home is Somewhere Else + Eami: La Memoría del monte (The Memory of the Forest) Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill

Wed, 10/11 @ 7pm Fidel, Niño Valiente (Fidel, Brave Child) Virtual via Zoom

Thu, 10/12 @ 7pm Indigenous Short Films Richard White Lecture Hall, Duke

Tue, 10/17 @ 7pm Este país que me robaron Mandela Auditorium, UNC-CH