Queer Latin American Cinema CELEBRATE PRIDE MONTH

Thursday nights at 9:00 PM

I Carry You With Me – U.S. / Mexico, 2020, 111 min, Dir. Heidi Ewing, Rated R, In Spanish with English subtitles, Sony Pictures Classics

I Carry You With Me

June 6 at 9:00 PM
View TrailerAfter Iván (Armando Espitia), an aspiring chef and young father, meets Gerardo (Christian Vázquez) at a clandestine gay bar in provincial Mexico, they fall deeply in love. When their secret relationship is discovered by Iván’s family, he makes the risky choice to cross the border to try his luck in the United States, promising both his young son and his soulmate Gerardo that he will return. Alone in New York City and faced with the daunting challenges of a newly arrived immigrant, Iván’s decision costs him more than he ever imagined.

Academy Award® nominee, Heidi Ewing’s (Jesus Camp) narrative feature debut is an epic love story, as well as a soulful rumination on family, sacrifice, regret, and ultimately, hope. Based on a true story, the film won the 2020 Sundance NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award and was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards and a GLAAD Media Award.

“In Ewing’s hands and as anchored by two superb performances, Iván and Gerardo’s romance gets scaled up to an epic, a searing saga of the undocumented experience in which love is the binding force.” —David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly

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The Place Without Limits – Mexico, 1978, 110 min, Dir. Arturo Ripstein, Not Rated, In Spanish with English subtitles, IMCINE

The Place Without Limits

June 13 at 9:00 PMPancho’s return to town will spark discord between “La Manuela,” (Roberto Cobo) a gender-fluid brothel owner and his daughter. In this small town there are men who want power, women who want men, and men who want each other.

A protégé of Luis Buñuel and possibly “the greatest Mexican filmmaker you’ve never heard of,” director Arturo Ripstein says of his trailblazing 1978 film, “to this day the film continues to have an impact in the LGBT community, and I am very pleased” (Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times).

Restored by the Cineteca Nacional – IMCINE

“The most complex and complete expression of the anti-machismo that gives such a forceful critical edge to so many of Ripstein’s masterworks, The Place Without Limits marked an important milestone in Mexican cinema through its unprecedentedly frank depiction of homosexuality and violently reactionary homophobia.” —Harvard Film Archive

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Anhell69 – Colombia / Romania / France / Germany, 2024, 75 min, Dir. Theo Montoya, Not Rated, In Spanish with English subtitles, Sentient.Art.Film

Anhell69

June 20 at 9:00 PM
View TrailerA funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the production of his first film, a B-Movie with ghosts.

The young queer scene of Medellín is cast for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts, and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.

“Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya crafts a dark meditation on a nation, and a generation.” —Jonathan Holland, ScreenDaily

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Raw Session – Brazil, 2024, 84 min, Dir. Ela.Ltda & As Talavistas, Not Rated, In Portuguese with English subtitles, Sentient.Art.Film

Raw Session

June 27 at 9:00 PM
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A playful, personal, political, and uncompromising experimental self-portrait of cross-dressing, transgender, and non-binary Brazilian friends shot with a Mini DV camera, spontaneously and with little preparation.

The friends, all multiracial and thus doubly marginalized, talk frankly about themselves and the issues they struggle with in a society that poses a constant danger to trans people. —Film note adapted from IDFA

“Raw Session and Anhell69 offer profoundly affective meditations on grief, liminality, community, and willfulness through their rebellious cinematic interventions.” —Natalie Erazo

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