WHERE Wake Forest University, Byrum Welcome Center and Z Smith Reynolds Library

Films in Spanish with English subtitles. Free to the public, in collaboration with the Department of Romance Languages, Film Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies and International Studies.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, BYRUM WELCOME CENTER, 6:30PM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, ZSR LIBRARY AUDITORIUM, 6:30PM

CHICO & RITA
Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando / 94 min. / 2012 / Spain, UK
Oscar®-winning director Fernando Trueba (The Age of Beauty)and famous artist Javier Mariscal, have teamed up to makeChico & Rita, an animated love story starring the music, culture and people of Cuba. Chico is a dashing piano player and Rita is an enchanting and beautiful Havana nightclub singer. When they meet, the sparks fly and they fall madly in love. An epic romance unfolds as the pair travels the glamorous stages of 1940s/1950s Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT [Zona Sur]
Juan Carlos Valdivia / 108 min. / 2011 / Bolivia
La Paz’s Zona Sur is Bolivia’s most exclusive neighborhood and has housed the country’s affluent elite for generations. Here, in an adobe-tile-roofed castle, a statuesque matriarch reigns over her spoiled offspring and indigenous servants. Social change, however, is on its way. As the mother squabbles with her teenage son and clashes with her daughter, her 6-year-old boy wanders the rooftops unsupervised. Impending decline permeates the air, and the threat of changes in aristocratic privileges heralds a new era in a seemingly endless class war. Bolivia’s official entry for the Academy® Awards, this searing portrait of a patrician family in flux chronicles their final days during a time of intense social change.

MARIMBAS FROM HELL [Las Marimbas del Infierno]
Julio Hernández Cordón / 75 min. / 2010 / Guatemala, México, France
Don Alfonso plays the marimba (xylophone) for a living but as his traditional music is seen as increasingly old-fashioned, he finds himself without a job. When his glue-sniffing godson introduces him to Blacko, an old heavy-metal legend of the Guatemalan underground, they decide to do something radical and fuse the sounds of the marimba with heavy metal. This innovative—some might say bizarre—idea sparks the beginning of an unexpected collaboration.