Attend this film fest: Boston Latino International Film Festival
Illegal
The tenth Boston Latino International
Film Festival opens with the evocatively
titled America (2011; 7:10 pm), Sonia Fritz's wrenching,
poignant melodrama about the eponymous young mother (Lymari Nadal) who flees an
abusive boyfriend in Puerto Rico for New York City, starring Edward James
Olmos. There she struggles to survive working as a nanny, finds solidarity with
her fellow domestics, and dreams of reuniting with her daughter. Olmos will
attend the screening and opening ceremony. It's followed at 9:10 pm by an
"International Immigration Program" of shorts, including Sean Temple and
Jalissa Cruz's all too timely Illegal, about the effect of a harsh new immigration
law on a divided family. It all takes place Thursday, November 17-Tuesday, November 22 in Cambridge at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in the Tsai
Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street + MIT Sloan Latin American Club, MIT Building
54, Auditorium Room 54-100, 21 Ames St + Harvard Kennedy School of Government,
Weiner Room, 79 John F. Kennedy St | $10; $8 students, seniors; $50 festival
pass | bliff.org/index.html.
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