BOSTON, MA AUG. 4th - SEPT. 8th, 2009

August 4th Colombia: El Carro

Director: Luis Orjuela

The Velez's, a typical middle-class family from Bogotá, Colombia, buy their first car in an attempt to move up the local social ladder. After the father accidentally gives away a winning lottery ticket for a new car to the neighbors, the Velez's decide to save face and buy their neighbor's old car--a 1950´s cherry red Chevy convertible--spending their entire nest egg.

Life is peaceful in this small village in the Andean Mountains of Ecuador. The villagers look forward to the wrestling matches held at the village tent coliseum every Saturday. A young priest, Father David, arrives in town and is greeted with skepticism by the adults but the children are drawn to him, including Martin who dreams of becoming a masked wrestling champion. But a wrestler named Argonaut dominates the ring. The village´s favorite, La Bestia Loca, challenges him and the night of the fight brings the village to its edge; the shocking conclusion will change everyone forever.

August 8th

Ecuador: Un Titán en el RingDirector: Viviana Cordero

From his cell, Miranda tells the story of his life to a young journalist. At first the general is reluctant to tell him about his secrets, but as the time passes, the journalist earn his trust, and we learn about his story.

August 11th

Venezuela: Miranda Regresa

Director: Luis Alberto Lamata

Guatemala: Las Estrellas de la Linea

Director: Chema Rodríguez

August 12th. Guatemala:Las

Estrellas de la LíneaDirector: Chema Rodríguez

Las Estrellas de la Línea is the name of a women’s Guatemalan football team that was founded by a group of women working in the sex industry in order to confront societal attitudes towards them and highlight the dangers they faced.

Through football they hoped to put a human face to the stereotype of the ‘sex worker’. Their dream was to be treated with dignity and to live without police harrassment and the daily violence that threatened their lives. Although their reasons for working in the sex industry may vary some have their message is unequivocal: "Before we are prostitutes we are women and mothers!"

August 15th.Argentina: Un novio

para mi mujerDirector: Juan Taratuto

El Tenso wants to divorce his wife, La Tana. The problem: their relationship has become impossible due to her invariably ill-tempered nature; anything from the weather to the neighbors causes her temper to rise. Carlos, a friend of Tenso, suggests that instead of divorcing her, deceive her into leaving him. How? In comes “The Raven Flores,” an old, irresistible seducer who will lure Tana to him and away from Tenso. Will Tenso finally find the solution to his problems or just aid in creating more?

August 18th Peru: Black Butterfly

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi Gabriela (Melania Urbina), a young

and conventional schoolteacher, has high expectations for her upcoming wedding. But her life is thrown into chaos when her fiance Guido (Dario Abad), a prominent and honest judge, is suddenly killed. A newspaper article regarding the circumstances of his death as the result of a gay romance spurs Gabriela to investigate.

Colima is a documentary about the life of a Salvadoran mother who found the place where the mortal rest of their missing daughter lies after a search of 28 years. This find will allow to close some wounds, but it will open new questions. This story takes place in the Colima Ranch, in Suchitoto, El Salvador. This film is not only a result of a media investigation, but is a result of production of real life. Is a story dramatically related, but the characters are real, also the argumentation. It was film exactly in the moments the event takes place.

August 19th

El Salvador: ColimaDirector: Oscar Orellana

August 25th. Portugal: Bubbles- 40 years in

the pursuit of everything.Directors: Helena Lopes and Paulo Nuno

Lopes

Helena Lopes and Paulo Nuno Lopes spent ten years asking people if they were happy. They interviewed American students at an elite university and Nepalese shepherds who said the earth was flat. There they met four undergraduate students who made a point of reinventing life everyday, which made them think about what they had been doing all these years. So Paulo and Helena took a journey back in time and tried to rid themselves of all the wrong ideas life had taught them in the pursuit of enlightment, creativity and fun.

August 16th

República Dominicana: Yuniol

Director: Alfonso Rodríguez

"Yuniol" Perez (Shalim Ortiz) and Alberto "Junior" Rios (Frank Perozo) come from opposite sides of the tracks in the Dominican Republic. Aloof and detached, Alberto comes from a wealthy family. Driven and focused, Juan is reared by a devoted mother whose affection makes up for the absence of his father. Juan and his mother survive in a tough and impoverished Barrio on the outskirts of the capital city.

Behind every happy moment lies an ominous sense of despair. Yet the joyful Dominican way of life for those surviving on the margins serves as a testament to people anywhere confronted with

poverty and injustice.

September 1st. España: Seven Billiard Tables

Director: Gracia Querejeta

After the death of the lover of Angela who has a business in question is a billiard hall with seven tables that has lost style, clients and money over the years. Charo thinks the best solution is to sell the place.

A few days later, as if destiny wished to confirm that misfortune never travels alone, Angela learns that her husband has disappeared under strange circumstances. So Angela decides to go for it and start over. Investing her savings in the billiards hall and bring it back to life.

This is a hypnotic Brazilian film. Directed by Vicente Amorim, it's set in the wide open expanses of the North of the country as a poor family is seen traveling toward Rio on bicycles. The movie gives us a sense of the enormity of some of the arid landscape the family traverses in order to get to a place where the father, Romao, could get a decent job that would pay him, at least, a sum, that in his mind will be enough to take care of his wife and

five children.

September 3rd

Brasil: The Road to RioDirector: Vicente Amorim