Sunday, July 29 | 5:30 PM
Director’s Guild Theater
110 West 57th Street
Synopses
ANTES Y DESPUES DE BESAR A MARIA
(Before and After Kissing Maria)
8 MIN / COLOR / 35 MM
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Ramon Alos
Antes y Despues de Besar a Maria narrates from the point of view of Raul, a 9-year-old boy from a small village in the Spanish countryside, who tells of his adventures to kiss Maria, his 12-year-old cousin, who has come for her annual visit.
CAMION DE CARGA (Truck)
8 MIN / COLOR / 16 MM
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Juan Sebastian Jacome
An ill Central-American mother risks her life in order to give her son a better future in the United States.
EL BOLERO (The Shoeshine)
13 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Rob DelGaudio
Amid the bustle of Mexico City, a lonely widower encounters a kind bolero (shoe-shiner) with unique powers to restore more than worn leather. El Bolero is a short, romantic film with a universal theme that reminds us of how the power of true love is much stronger than reality.
EL SOL DEL MOVIMIENTO: EL PRINCIPIO (The Sun of Movement: The Beginning)
8 MIN / COLOR / 16 MM
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Andres Torres - Vives
An old woman remembers a long forgotten story of a boy, his drawings in the earth, and the creation of man and woman.
FATHER FIGURE
6 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Adam Schlachter
A hardened young man is forced to deal with his forgotten past when, on a desolate beach, he encounters a stranger– an older, gospel-preaching man, who is also his long-estranged father.
HERO THE GREAT
13 MIN / COLOR / DIGITAL
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Juan Caceres
Life can’t get any worse for Hero until he finds himself resurrecting a friendship, recovering love and saving his soul in the dawn of the summer blues.
PRIMERA COMUNION (First Communion)
13 MIN / BLACK AND WHITE / 35 MM
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Director: Daniel Eduvijes Carrera
Not even God will save young Eleuterio from the ultimate rite of passage.
TRACKS OF COLOR
13 MIN / COLOR / 16 MM
US PREMIERE
Director: Federico Castelluccio
Set against a backdrop of the South Bronx, Tracks of Color is a coming of age tale about a group of celebrated artists known as the ‘Tats Crew’. As art becomes the focus of Luis Martinez, Jr.’s life, he challenges his father and rejects the life his parents have laid out for him. When Luis, Sr. forbids him to continue with his graffiti, he fights for it and, in the end, wins over his father, memorializing his father’s talent and strength in art.
Additional Screening:
Wednesday, July 25
