New York International Latino Film Festival

2008 ON THE EDGE : SHORT FILMS

A Day at the Theatre, Cosita Linda (Pretty Little Thing), Donnybrook, El Cazador De Venganza (The Hunter of Revenge), La Paciente (The Patient), Repentance, Un Cuento (A Fairy Tale)

Shorts

3 Americas (Subtitled)

It's the end of spring in Boston, Massachusetts and 16 year-old America Campos is looking forward to the end of school. With summer approaching, America has two issues: she hates both school and her Aunt Carolina's alcoholic husband, Joey.

International - Film Subtitled

60 Miles East Presented by Heineken

The Dominican Republic is a small island in the Caribbean with a population of just over nine million, a stable economy and a democratic system of government.

Dominican Night

7 Soles (7 Suns - Subtitled)

"Negro" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States.

International - Film Subtitled

A Beautiful Life

Maggie (Angela Sarafyan) is a runaway teenager fleeing her family; David (Jesse Garcia) is a teenage illegal immigrant in search of his.

Domestic

A Via Lactea (The Milky Way - Subtitled)

Heitor and Julia have been dating for a long time. As dusk falls over the city of Sao Paulo, the couple have a violent quarrel over the phone. Heitor decides to go meet Julia to resolve the matter face to face.

International - Film Subtitled

All of Us

In the troubled South Bronx, a young doctor embarks on a research project to find out why black women are being infected with the HIV virus at an alarming rate.

Documentary

American Son Presented by Suzuki Auto

On his way home from Camp Pendleton for a four-day liberty over Thanksgiving weekend, Marine Corps Private Mike Holland (Nick Cannon) meets Christina (Melonie Diaz), a smart, beautiful young Latina.

Showcase Premiere

Big Pun: The Legacy

In 1998, Big Pun (aka Christopher Rios) made history and instantly became a hip hop superstar when his "Capital Punishment" album went platinum and made him the first Latin Rap solo artist to sell over a million records.

Showcase Premieres

BOHICA

Four American Army Reservists are sent on a meaningless mission guarding a radio tower on a barren patch of desert in American-occupied Afghanistan.

Domestic

Bound By Honor (Blood In, Blood Out) | 15th Anniversary Screening | FREE

Taylor Hackford ("An Officer and a Gentleman") directed this 1993 epic about Chicano gang wars in the California prison system, and, specifically, the differing and tragic paths of three boyhood friends.

2008 NYILFF Rediscovered

Calavera Highway

When brothers, Armando and Carlos Pena, set off to carry their mother's ashes to south Texas, their road trip turns into a quest for answers about a strangely veiled past.

Documentary

Camilo

Camilo Mejia emigrated from Nicaragua and joined the National Guard in 1995, hoping to find support for his academic studies and, ultimately, obtain U.S. citizenship. After seven years of service, Camilo's unit was mobilized for the Iraq war in his final year.

Documentary

Celia the Queen Presented by Kodak Gallery

As a teenager in 1940's Havana, Celia Cruz found her audience in the local canteens. But her real start came when she entered and won a local radio contest.

Showcase Premieres

Chasing the Law

A rockumentary that follows the ultimate fan on an "anything it takes" adventure of filming his favorite Spanish rock band, La Ley, on their farewell tour.

Documentary

Children of a Rape (Subtitled)

"Children of a Rape" tells the story of El Salvador's two biggest gangs, largely made up of teenagers.

Documentary - Film Subtitled

Chop Shop

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop

Domestic

Days Of Wrath

The Carjacking of a Rap Star and the killing of a mother ignites a war across Los Angeles between Latino and African American gangs in this compelling explosive intertwining story of a Teacher, a TV Reporter and a Gang member who struggle to survive in the cross fire.

Showcase Premieres

Desierto Sur (South Desert - Subtitled)

Sofia is a young Spanish girl who loses her mother to an illness. An enigmatic letter falls into her hands, one that her mother sent to Chile when she was still alive. The letter is returned by the post office when the recipient could not be found.

International - Film Subtitled

Dreamer / Sandman's Box

A couple of weeks after nine year-old Sara Garcia was kidnapped from her mother's apartment in the small town of King City, CA, her best friend, Allan, and the rest of the town are stuck between a state of hope and fear: hope that Sara will be found, and fear the kidnapper will strike again.

On the Edge: Feature Films

El Nino De Barro (The Mud Boy - Subtitled)

In 1912 Buenos Aires, a series of brutal murders have shocked the city. Mateo, a 10 year-old boy, hides a secret: sometimes his mind guides him to a dark place where he is eyewitness to the murders.

On the Edge: Feature Films - Film Subtitled

El Norte (The North) (1983) | FREE

Nominated for an Academy Award and widely declared as an American independent epic, El Nortea is the story of a brother and sister (Rosa and Enrique) who fled persecution at home and journeyed north the length of Mexico with a dream of finding a new home in the United States.

2008 NYILFF Rediscovered

Estilo Hip Hop (Hip Hop Style) presented by Tribeca All Access

Chronicling the emergence of hip hop in Brazil, Chile and Cuba, "Estilo Hip Hop" examines the regional politics that underscore the growth of hip hop's global appeal.

Documentary

Estrellas (Stars - Subtitled)

Led by the undaunted Julio, who is part Che Guevara, part Don Quixote, the residents of an impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood build an arts community.

Documentary - Film Subtitled