Annual Seattle Latino Film Festival
Sunday, October 06, 2024 at 11:00am
Seattle Latino Film Festival
Various Venues In Seattle
Join us for the 16th Annual Seattle Latino Film Festival
Bringing audiences and filmmakers together for an educational experience and to support the magic of film-making as part of Hispanic and Romance Language Cinema globally.
Schedule of Events:
11:00 am: Between the Stone and the Flower
Between the Stone and the Flower (USA, 69 mins. 2023)
Director: Roberto Otero Morfa.
Cast: Genie Milgrom.
Language: English, Portuguese, and Spanish with English subtitles.
Genres: Historical, Inquisition.
Synopsis: This documentary covers the journey of Genie Milgrom and her decades long quest for her Jewish lineage. Genie was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami with a full Roman Catholic schooling from grade school through university level. She was always burdened with a deep-rooted feeling of not belonging in her Spanish Catholic environment.
Her story follows many twists and turns as she makes the difficult decision to convert to Judaism from the midst of a traditional Catholic family from Spain and chooses a traditional route for her future.
Her family and friends are shaken to the core while Genie becomes more and more convinced that her family was Jewish in the Iberian Peninsula, centuries before. Her chase for the “breadcrumbs” that were dropped by her ancestors led her to Medieval Archives and several countries in Europe to untangle the web of secrecy that her ancestors had created to protect themselves during very dark times in Europe.
Together with her husband Michael, an Ashkenaz of Romanian origins, she finally reaches the truth of her family in an engaging film, spanning the globe that is not to be missed.
Sinopsis: Este documental cubre el viaje de Genie Milgrom y su busqueda de decadas de su linaje judio. Genie nacio en La Habana, Cuba, y se crio en Miami con una educacion catolica romana completa desde la escuela primaria hasta la universidad. Siempre estuvo cargada con un profundo sentimiento de no pertenecer a su entorno espanol catolico.
Su historia sigue muchos giros y vueltas a medida que toma la dificil decision de convertirse al judaismo en medio de una familia tradicional catolica de Espana y elige un camino tradicional para su futuro.
Su familia y amigos se ven sacudidos hasta la medula, mientras Genie se convence cada vez mas de que su familia era judia en la Peninsula Iberica, siglos antes. Su busqueda de las "migas de pan" que dejaron sus antepasados la llevo a los Archivos Medievales y a varios paises de Europa para desenredar la telarana de secreto que sus antepasados habian creado para protegerse durante tiempos muy oscuros en Europa.
Junto con su esposo Michael, un Ashkenazi de origen rumano, finalmente llega a la verdad de su familia en una pelicula cautivadora, que abarca el mundo y no se puede perder.
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1:00 pm: Back to the Light / Volver a la Luz
Parole (Cuba, 25 mins. 2024)
Director: Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Genres: Inspirational, Drama.
Synopsis: Amidst the bustling streets of San Francisco, WhatsApp audio messages become my sole connection to my mother after several years of exile. Now, her yearning for reunion hinges on the fragile hope of the Biden Administration's Humanitarian Parole for Cubans. Despite everybody around her leaving, she urges me to listen to what I left behind. As I wrestle with the dissonance of academic challenges and the relentless hum of rent worries, my response takes the form of a love letter that echoes my present.
Sinopsis: En medio del bullicio de las calles de San Francisco, los mensajes de voz de WhatsApp se convierten en mi unico vinculo con mi madre despues de varios anos de exilio. Ahora, su anhelo de reunificacion depende de la fragil esperanza de la Parole Humanitaria para cubanos del gobierno de Biden. A pesar de que todos a su alrededor se van, ella me insta a escuchar lo que deje atras. Mientras lucho con la disonancia de los desafios academicos y el incesante zumbido de las preocupaciones por el alquiler, mi respuesta toma la forma de una carta de amor que hace eco de mi presente.
Back to the Light / Volver a la Luz (Uruguay, 75 mins. 2023)
Director: Alejandro Rocchi, Marco Bentancor.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Genres: Inspirational Drama, Testimony.
Synopsis: When Noelia goes blind, she must face the fear of being a mother without seeing, of forgetting the faces of her loved ones and of understanding the world without seeing it. Her vital impulse drives her to rehabilitate herself and there she meets love. Strengthened, she decides to repair the wounds of the past with her daughter, knowing that this is the only way she will be able to return to the light.
Synopsis: When Noelia goes blind, she must face the fear of being a mother without seeing, of forgetting the faces of her loved ones and of understanding the world without seeing it. Her vital impulse drives her to rehabilitate herself and there she meets love. Strengthened, she decides to repair the wounds of the past with her daughter, knowing that this is the only way she will be able to return to the light.
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2:30 pm: Hispanoamerica
Hispanoamerica, Song of Life and Hope (Spain, mins. 2024)
Director: Jose Luis Lopez-Linares.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Genres: Historical.
Synopsis: A renewed and truthful vision of how Spanish America was born and prospered, an epic story developed over more than three hundred years, that of those who bequeathed to humanity an immense architectural, sculptural, pictorial, literary and musical heritage.
Sinopsis: Una vision renovada y veraz de como nacio y prospero la America espanola, una historia epica desarrollada a lo largo de mas de trescientos anos, la de quienes legaron a la humanidad un inmenso patrimonio arquitectonico, escultorico, pictorico, literario y musical.
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3:00 pm: The Southeast / La Sudesta
Director: Daniel Casabe.
Cast: Katja Alemann, Juan Carrasco, Edgardo Castro.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles.
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Noir, Suspense.
Synopsis: In Buenos Aires, when the southern wind blows, nothing can stop it. The violent gusts agitate the citys shores, and the storm might last for days. For a time, nature is in control once again. Jorge "The Hound" Villafanez (65), a grumpy and cynical old private detective, is about to be hit by his own personal storm. Once Elvira Schulz appears as a secret force in Jorges life, there will be no wind that, when it blows, wont shake Jorges world.
Sinopsis: En Buenos Aires, cuando sopla el viento del sur, nada puede detenerlo. Las violentas rafagas agitan las costas de la ciudad, y la tormenta puede durar dias. Durante un tiempo, la naturaleza vuelve a tomar el control. Jorge "El Sabueso" Villafanez (65), un viejo detective privado grunon y cinico, esta a punto de ser golpeado por su propia tormenta personal. Una vez que Elvira Schulz aparece como una fuerza secreta en la vida de Jorge, no habra viento que, cuando sople, no sacuda el mundo de Jorge.
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3:00 pm: Hidden Flora / La Flora Oculta
Director: Ryan Rox.
Cast: Luca Silver, Nick Check, Jaxon Inge, Ryan Rox, Kalorie Karbdashian-Williams.
Language: English.
Genres: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Queer.
Synopsis: Roxii, a queer hopeless romantic, just wants to be loved and treated the way boys do girls. A string of boys and men inform Roxiis view of sex and identity in late aughts Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Sinopsis: Roxii, una persona queer romantica empedernida, solo quiere ser amada y tratada como los chicos tratan a las chicas. Una serie de chicos y hombres moldean la vision de Roxii sobre el sexo y la identidad a finales de la decada de los 2000 en Las Cruces, Nuevo Mexico.
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5:30 pm: Culinary Cinema: La Cocina/ The Kitchen
La Cocina (Mexico/USA, 139 mins. 2024)
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios.
Cast: Raul Briones, Anna Diaz, Laura Gomez.
Language: Spanish and English with English subtitles.
Genres: Drama, Culinary.
Synopsis: Follows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.
Sinopsis: Sigue la vida en la cocina de un restaurante de Nueva York, donde culturas de todo el mundo se mezclan durante la hora del almuerzo.
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