Cine Latino En The Lilac City

Pick One” follows a half-Latino/half-white 3rd grader named Matthew who is facing his biggest challenge yet…taking his first-ever standardized test. Everything goes smoothly until he reaches the race/ethnicity question on the front and freezes…

Latino…Caucasian…PICK ONE

The stakes are high, his teacher told the class that if they fill any part of the test out wrong it will automatically be marked as a fail, and now he has to decide which answer is the “right” answer. The film is as light-hearted as it is heartfelt, as authentic as it is exaggerated, and will remind people that at the end of the day, they are who they are, and no one (or nothing) can say otherwise.

Ana, a young woman with anorexia, is caught up in the struggle between sanity and restriction. Her reality, dreams, and nightmares become one as she’s deceptively seduced by whom she later finds out is death.

Lupe doesn’t care about her abuela’s cooking lessons, she just wants to rock with her badass punk band. But when Lupe finds herself battling an alien monster with her band, her abuela’s lessons will remind her that punk rock is more than just loud music, and connecting with her Latin roots may just save their lives.

A journalist documents the experiences of people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, exploring themes of childhood loss, violence against women and the indigenous population, and regaining a sense of hope for the future that spans over three generations.

¨Sin Alas¨ is an experimental animation project, which reflects from painting on the importance of education in rural areas, especially for the female population. This animated fiction is made in two-dimensional stopmotion, from animation with oil on glass and animation by replacement.

Mrs. Leda tells the visitor about the advice she gives to the women in her house, her daughters, her granddaughter, to study and to fly high. Taliana doesn’t understand the idea of ​​flying if she doesn’t have wings like birds or butterflies. But a natural phenomenon while doing chores will be a revelation for her and for the whole town.

A mother and daughter duo dramatically impacted by dementia. Carmen is a 75 year old woman in the early stages of the disease. Laura, her eldest out of four children, lives a hectic life. But, she always makes time to take care of her mother. Things get more hectic for Laura when Carmen can’t find her precious emerald ring, a gift from her beloved husband Sebastian.

Erma (50s, Cuban) arrives to Little Haiti with a painting. She needs to find the man in this painting. Who could he be? She doesn’t know. All she knows: her son painted him and that the man lives in Little Haiti. Unable to speak English, she enlists the help of Wilky (14, Haitian-American). The two venture into the colorful neighborhood on his electric scooter, showing the painting to locals, with hopes of finding the man. When they do find him, Erma reveals to him that her son passed away. The man (also a painter) surprises Erma with a portrait of her son.