Women filmmakers will take center stage at the 7th UCLA Latin American, Latinx, and Iberian Film Festival. Subtitled “Women’s Voices” this year, the fest’s 2019 edition will feature 12 films — including features, shorts, and docs — set in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world, and directed by women hailing from Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. The fest kicks off April 15 with Patricia Cardoso’s Sundance award-winning “Real Women Have Curves.”
Marking star America Ferrera’s first screen role, 2002’s “Real Women Have Curves” is a coming-of-age story about a young college-bound Mexican-American woman torn between her family obligations and her own dreams. Cardoso is set to attend the film’s Women’s Voices screening and will participate in a Q&A afterward.
Among the fest’s other titles is Aurora Guerrero’s “Mosquita y Mari,” which sees two Chicana study partners falling for each other. Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s motherhood horror-fable “Good Manners” and Yolanda Cruz’s immigration documentary “2501 Migrants: A Journey” will screen as well.
Many of the Women’s Voices titles will be making their Los Angeles debuts at the fest. Including Cardoso, 10 filmmakers are expected to attend and engage in Q&As.
Latin American, Latinx, and Iberian Film Fest: Women’s Voices will take place April 15-18 on the UCLA campus. The screenings are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the fest’s website.
Check out all the films screening below, courtesy of the festival.
Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso, USA, 2002)
Tryouts (Susana Casares, USA, 2013)
Sleepover (La invitación) (Susana Casares, Spain, 2016)
My Mother’s Hands (Amaren eskuak) (Mireia Gabilondo, Spain, 2013)
Miriam Lies (Miriam miente) (Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, Dominican Republic and Spain, 2018)
Heaven (Cielo de agua) (Margarita Poseck Menz and Eugenia Poseck, Chile, 2018)
The Eternally Undocumented (Los eternos indocumentados) (Jennifer A. Cárcamo, USA, 2018)
2501 Migrants: A Journey (Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes, Yolanda Cruz, Mexico, 2009)
Welcome Mr. Kaita (Bienvenido Mister Kaita) (Albert Albacete and Helena Medina, Spain, 2006)
Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero, USA, 2012)
Carmen y Lola (Carmen y Lola) (Arantxa Echevarría, Spain, 2018)
Good Manners (As boas maneiras) (Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, Brazil, 2017)
