Festival’s Cine Sin Fronteras offers range of Latin films
Works from filmmakers in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil and elsewhere make up the Cine Sin Fronteras program at the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival.
The program showcasing works of the Latin disaspora, in its second year at the film festival, include seven feature films and a new shorts program, “Menos es Más.”
The feature-length films include:
“Carpinteros” (”Woodpeckers”), filmed in the Dominican Republic, about a couple who fall in love across the concrete-and-barbed-wire divide of the prison where both are incarcerated, communicating via hand signals.
“Chavela,” a documentary about the career and hard-lived life of Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas.
“El Sueño de Mara’kame,” in which a young man is torn between performing in his rock band in Mexico City and following the path laid out by his father — as a Huichol shaman.
“Dolores,” a portrait of activist Dolores Huerta who, more than a half-century after working with Cesar Chavez to form the first farmworkers union, is still fighting the fight.
“Esteban,” a Cuban film about a 9-year-old boy who reaches out to an old piano teacher to help him achieve his dream.
“Divinas Divas,” a Brazilian documentary recounting a gathering of 1960s drag queens reuniting for a final performance.
“Extra Terrestres,” a drama in which a woman’s reluctant return home to Puerto Rico gets her pulled back into her family’s dramas.
The 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival runs from Sept. 28 to Oct. 12. For ticket packages and additional info, go to mkefilm.org.