MSU Latinx Film Festival Event Program
The mission of the MSU Latinx Film Festival is to create a space for the celebration and promotion of independent latinx cinema, which we conceive of inclusively as Spanish, English and Portuguese language films from Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. We promote films that are not readily available in the U.S. that challenge audiences to see the world differently. We seek to serve as a venue for public debates about the social, cultural and political questions raised by latinx cinema through post-screening discussions, director Q&As and special events, in addition to the informal interactions organically generated by the festival. We love latinx cinema and want to share it with the Michigan State, greater Lansing and mid-Michigan communities. A committee of MSU faculty and graduate students from the Department of Romance & Classical Studies (www.rcs.msu.edu) has been organizing the inaugural edition of LxFF for over a year with initial support coming from RCS, the Film Studies Program and the Global Studies in the Arts & the Humanities Program, all housed within the College of Arts & Letters (www.cal.msu.edu). In addition to securing co-sponsorship from across the university, the festival also received a significant Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant from the MSU Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives (www.inclusion.msu.edu) that allowed the committee to realize the ambitious vision it has for LxFF. Working as a team, the LxFF organizing committee selected the festival films, designed the LxFF logo, website and promotional materials, established relationships with community collaborators, assembled panelists of faculty, graduate students, local filmmakers and community leaders and raised funds to make the festival a success. We hope you enjoy it!
The mission of the MSU Latinx Film Festival is to create a space for the celebration and promotion of independent latinx cinema, which we conceive of inclusively as Spanish, English and Portuguese language films from Latin America, the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. We promote films that are not readily available in the U.S. that challenge audiences to see the world differently. We seek to serve as a venue for public debates about the social, cultural and political questions raised by latinx cinema through post-screening discussions, director Q&As and special events, in addition to the informal interactions organically generated by the festival. We love latinx cinema and want to share it with the Michigan State, greater Lansing and mid-Michigan communities.
A committee of MSU faculty and graduate students from the Department of Romance & Classical Studies (www.rcs.msu.edu) has been organizing the inaugural edition of LxFF for over a year with initial support coming from RCS, the Film Studies Program and the Global Studies in the Arts & the Humanities Program, all housed within the College of Arts & Letters (www.cal.msu.edu). In addition to securing co-sponsorship from across the university, the festival also received a significant Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant from the MSU Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives (www.inclusion.msu.edu) that allowed the committee to realize the ambitious vision it has for LxFF. Working as a team, the LxFF organizing committee selected the festival films, designed the LxFF logo, website and promotional materials, established relationships with community collaborators, assembled panelists of faculty, graduate students, local filmmakers and community leaders and raised funds to make the festival a success. We hope you enjoy it!
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THE SECOND MOTHER<br />
QUE HORAS ELA VOLTA?<br />
Anna Muylaert /112 min/Brazil/2015<br />
In Portuguese with English subtitles<br />
Em português com legendas em inglês<br />
The film centers around Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern day Sao<br />
Paulo. Val seems to be perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy<br />
employers’ needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their<br />
teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val’s estranged<br />
daughter Jessica suddenly shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that<br />
exist within the home are thrown into disarray. Jessica is smart, confident, and<br />
ambitious, and refuses to accept the upstairs/downstairs dynamic, testing relationships<br />
and loyalties and forcing everyone to reconsider what family really means.<br />
A pernambucana Val se muda para São Paulo a fim de dar melhores condições de<br />
vida para sua filha Jéssica. Com muito receio, ela deixa a menina no interior de<br />
Pernambuco para ser babá de Fabinho, morando integralmente na casa de seus<br />
empregadores num bairro rico de São Paulo. Treze anos depois, quando o menino<br />
vai prestar vestibular, Jéssica lhe telefona, pedindo ajuda para ir à São Paulo, no<br />
intuito de prestar a mesma prova. Os empregadores de Val recebem a menina de<br />
braços abertos, só que quando ela deixa de seguir a hierarquia social estabelecida a<br />
situação se complica.<br />
About the director/Sobre a diretora<br />
Born in São Paulo in 1964, Anna Muylaert studied cinema at ECA/USP where she<br />
directed many shorts, among them the awarded The Origin of Babies (winner best<br />
film São Paulo <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>). The Second Mother was sold to over 30 countries and<br />
received prizes at Sundance and the Berlin <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. Don’t Call Me Son is her<br />
newest film.<br />
Nascida em São Paulo em 1964, Anna Muylaert estudou cinema na ECA / USP, onde<br />
dirigiu muitos curtas, entre eles o premiado A origem dos bebês segundo Kiki<br />
Cavalcanti (vencedor do melhor filme de São Paulo <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>). Que Horas Ela<br />
Volta? foi vendido para mais de 30 países e premiado em Sundance e no <strong>Festival</strong> de<br />
Cinema de Berlim . Mãe Só Há Uma é o seu mais novo filme.<br />
A 30 minute discussion of the film will follow the screening hosted by Scott Boehm with Leonora Souza<br />
Paula (Residential College in the Arts and Humanities), Saulo Gouveia (Romance and Classical Studies),<br />
and Peter Beattie (History).<br />
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