Stone Center and CCSI to Sponsor Latin American and Caribbean Films During 35th New Orleans Film Festival
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute (CCSI) are sponsoring the film Ch’ul Be, Sacred Path, and the shorts block, Shorts: In Place, at the 35th New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF). The festival will take place in person on October 16-22, 2024, and the majority of the lineup will be virtually accessible from October 16-27, 2024 via the NOFF Virtual Cinema. To access the complete film guide, click the link: https://nofs.eventive.org/films
The New Orleans Film Festival annually brings together more than 150 films and hosts more than 100 filmmakers to celebrate works of emerging and established filmmakers from New Orleans, Louisiana, the South, and beyond. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies has been actively sponsoring NOFF since its 2017 edition when the festival decided to regularly include Latin American and Caribbean works and filmmakers.
Shorts: In Place
Thursday, October 17 at 8:30 p.m. | Sunday, October 20 at 1:30 p.m.
Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
What are the stories we choose to tell about the places we belong to and the families we came from? What will we remember, and what will be forgotten? This collection of documentary shorts explores permanence, and the importance of finding contentment wherever we are.
Carolina Caballero, Zemurray-Stone Senior Professor of Practice and Associate Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, will speak before the showing on Thursday, October 17.
Summon. A dancer living in Miami embarks on a spiritual journey to his homeland of Jamaica to reconnect with his Maroon ancestry.
Futuro. Daniel and Adrian are two friends who like to frequent a place in ruins located on the Havana seafront. As Daniel is about to leave the country, they decide to spend one last time together in this place.
Window Treatment. The long-standing American military occupation of Okinawa is poetically explored in this essay film about an elderly man receiving new windows.
Motor Motor Blue. Motor Motor Blue chases the sounds and rhythms of an Appalachian community after grief, following a rising spirit from an old mine shaft, through a frantic car race, to high above the mountains.
Between Delicate and Violent. Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? Between Delicate and Violent imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.
Sandcastles. As Singapore reclaims land to expand urban development, a town bearing its name on the other side of the world lies buried under sand.
Querido Pequeño Haiti (Dear Little Haiti). Dear Little Haiti (Querido Pequeño Haiti) is a farewell letter to a vanishing neighborhood: from the gaze of a Peruvian resident to the Haitian and Latinx communities who are homesick but try to find themselves in every other culture in hopes of belonging to a place and making it home.
Learn more about the shorts: https://nofs.eventive.org/schedule/66e9ec85ca2c6d0033253f6e
Ch’ul Be, Sacred Path
Saturday, October 19 at 11:45 a.m.
Prytania Theatres at Canal Place
Ch'ul be delves into the Tsotsil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in community. In San Andres Larrainzar, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. Ch'ul be is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the divine, from the individual to the collective, to ensure that knowledge is not lost and the cycle is not broken.
Hannah Palmer, Assistant Director for Academic Projects and Programs, will speak before the showing.
