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SUMMARY:FILM - Latina Spring: Salón de Cortos
DESCRIPTION:The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute and MonteVideo celebrate Women’s History Month with Latina Spring\, a curated selection of inspiring films by Latina and Indigenous women directors! Latina Spring is presented in partnership with UNAM San Antonio and Austin Film Society Cinema. \nThe Latina Spring Film Series concludes in Austin\, Texas with Salón de Cortos\, a collection of award-winning shorts featuring selections from France\, Mexico\, Peru\, and the United States. The films will be followed by a Q&A with Chelsea Hernandez and Karina Lomelin Ripper\, moderated by filmmaker Sharon Arteaga.  \n  \n🗓️ Thursday\, April 2\, 2026  |  7 PM \n📍 Austin Film Society Cinema\, 6406 N I-35 Suite 3100\, Austin\, TX \n🎟️ Purchase your ticket at https://www.austinfilm.org/screening/latina-spring-salon-de-cortos/ \n  \n Films contain mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages. \n  \n⭐ MACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Spurs Give\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! ⭐ \n  \n*** \nAbout the films \nAn Uncertain Future \nChelsea Hernandez & Iliana Sosa\, 2017\, USA\, 11 min \nIn Austin\, Texas\, two expectant mothers-one undocumented and one US citizen-must contend with increased ICE raids and mounting hostility towards immigrants under President Trump. \nMorenita \nDiana Valencia\, Gabriela Ortega\, 2024\, Mexico\, 8 min \nA poetic exploration of womanhood\, friendship and migration through the intersecting stories of two Latin American women. \nComo si la tierra se las hubiera tragado \nNatalia Leon\, 2025\, France\, 13 min \nOlivia\, a young woman living abroad\, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. \nKusi Smiles \nSisa Quispe\, 2024\, Peru\, USA\, 15 min \nUnable to sing\, a Quechua teenager returns to her Andean community\, where sisterhood\, music\, and the land that raised her guide her through grief toward healing. \nThere’s a Devil Inside Me \nKarina Lomelin Ripper\, 2024\, USA\, 15 min \nAfter a Catholic confirmation class\, Teresa\, a devilish teen\, pretends to be a nun but things go sideways when she’s mistaken for a real nun and given the church’s collection basket full of cash. \nTigueronas \nImani Celeste\, 2025\, USA\, 14 min \nAfter ending an abusive relationship with her narcissistic boyfriend\, Aaliyah and her friends hatch a bold plan for revenge on a girls’ night out\, igniting a journey of self-empowerment and sisterhood.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-latina-spring-salon-de-cortos/
LOCATION:Austin Film Society Cinema\, 6406 N I-35 Suite 3100\, Austin\, TX\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:FILM - Latina Spring: Li Cham
DESCRIPTION:The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute and MonteVideo celebrate Women’s History Month with Latina Spring\, a curated selection of inspiring films by Latina and Indigenous women directors! Latina Spring is presented in partnership with UNAM San Antonio and Austin Film Society Cinema. \n  \nThe Latina Spring Film Series continues with a screening of Li cham (I died). Set in the highlands of Chiapas\, Li cham (I died) follows three Tsotsil women — Juana\, Margarita\, and Faustina — who return to the land to rebuild their lives in the wake of profound personal loss.  \nThis screening of Li Cham is presented in partnership with the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AIT-SCM). \n  \n🗓️ Tuesday\, March 24\, 2026  |  Doors open: 6:30 PM; Film begins: 7 PM \n📍 UNAM San Antonio\, 600 Hemisfair Plaza Way\, San Antonio\, TX 78205 \n🎟️ FREE \n🅿️ Free parking is available after 5 PM at Alamo Lot (418 S Alamo\, San Antonio\, TX 78205) and Martinez Lot (S Alamo & Martinez Street). Paid parking is available at the Hemisfair Garage (623 Hemisfair Blvd).  \n  \n⚠️ Watch out for area construction! To get to the Alamo Lot\, enter Hemisfair Blvd. via Cesar Chavez Bldv.  \n  \nRSVP requested. \n  \n⭐ MACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Spurs Give\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! ⭐ \n  \n*** \nAbout the film \nLi cham (I died) \nDirected by Ana Ts’uyeb 2024\, Mexico\, 74 min \nSet in the highlands of Chiapas\, Li cham (I died) follows three Tsotsil women — Juana\, Margarita\, and Faustina — who return to the land to rebuild their lives in the wake of profound personal loss. Marked by experiences of grief and gender-based violence\, they cultivate coffee\, raise their children\, and reclaim a life defined on their own terms. What emerges is a portrait of strength shaped by ancestral labour and communal care. \nDirected by Ana Ts’uyeb and told entirely in the Tsotsil language\, this lyrical debut traces the subtle influence of Zapatismo\, not as a historical moment but as an ongoing framework for Indigenous self-determination and autonomy. With intimate camerawork\, quiet resilience\, and deep-rooted spirituality\, Li cham honors a way of life that refuses erasure. Rather than dwell in mourning\, the film becomes an act of renewal where memory\, land\, and womanhood intersect in a cycle of survival\, sovereignty\, and radical tenderness.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-latina-spring-li-cham/
LOCATION:UNAM San Antonio\, 600 Hemisfair Plaza Way\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:FILM - Latina Spring: Femme Frontera Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute and MonteVideo celebrate Women’s History Month with Latina Spring\, a curated selection of inspiring films by Latina and Indigenous women directors! Latina Spring is presented in partnership with UNAM San Antonio and Austin Film Society Cinema.  \nThe Latina Spring Film Series begins with the Femme Frontera Showcase. Femme Frontera centers the experiences of women and gender-expansive people within the U.S./Mexico border diaspora\, as well as border regions around the world. The 9th Annual Femme Frontera Showcase includes films from Mexico and the United States. Films will be followed by a Q&A featuring filmmakers Celina Galicia and Bianca Lambert\, and Femme Frontera Co-Director Jackie Barragan! \nThe Femme Frontera Showcase is presented in partnership with the Latino Collection and Resource Center at the San Antonio Public Library.  \n  \n🗓️ Tuesday\, March 3\, 2026  |  Doors open at 6:30 PM; Film begins at 7:00 PM \n📍 UNAM San Antonio\, 600 Hemisfair Plaza Way\, San Antonio\, TX 78205 \n🎟️ This program is FREE \n🅿️ Free parking is available after 5 PM at Alamo Lot (418 S Alamo\, San Antonio\, TX 78205) and Martinez Lot (S Alamo & Martinez Street). Paid parking is available at the Hemisfair Garage (623 Hemisfair Blvd).  \n⚠️ Films contain mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages. \n  \nRSVP requested. \n  \n⭐ MACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Spurs Give\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! ⭐ \n  \n*** \nAbout the films \nTernura Radical (Radical Tenderness) \nCelina Galicia\, 2025\, Mexico\, 16 min \nIn Ciudad Juárez\, women transform art into a fierce act of resistance\, channeling poetry\, music\, and graphic art to preserve the memory of femicide and disappearance while demanding justice. \nYo mate a Lucca (I killed Lucca) \nAna Moreno Hernandez\, 2023\, Mexico\, 16 min \nCarmen has finally found her soulmate\, Lucía. At the possibility of sharing the most painful moment of her childhood\, Carmen’s conscience\, illustrated by two soccer commentators\, leads her to a panic attack for which she could lose Lucía. \nColor Cielo (The Color of Sky) \nCristal Gonzalez Avila\, 2024\, USA\, 9 min \nThe hope that lingers in the farewell. A meditation on the final moments of a son\, as he says goodbye to his mother in Mexico\, while he prepares to journey to the US. The conflict between desperation\, sacrifice and the potential for survival and success. \nSuper High: A Period Piece \nBianca D. Lambert\, 2024\, USA\, 9 min \nAmanda battles excruciating period pain caused by fibroids. Desperate for relief\, she experiments with a celebrity cannabis brand’s edibles. A dosage mishap catapults her into a surreal\, anxiety-filled journey until she awakens. \nSer bruja (To be a Bruja) \nCarolina Erives\, 2023\, Mexico\, 14 min \nAmanda Montejo is a trans woman\, make-up artist\, Guadalupana and a witch. This documentary portrait explores different facets of her spirituality and fragments of her past\, revealing the duality of her being. \nAt Dusk I Kiss Your Body Burnt \nVictor “Yayo” Meza\, 2024\, Mexico/USA \nA poetic short film that follows a young man as he remembers the touch of his lover against the hyper-militarized and hyper-surveilled U.S.-Mexico borderlands where he grew up. Addressed as a letter to his lost lover\, the film grapples with how queer bodies experience and express desire amidst bordercraft and state violence. \nWherever That May Be \nE.N. Cole\, 2025\, USA\, 12 min \nIn this story\, we follow the journey of Rose\, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her health takes a turn. She moves back in with her outgoing\, fun loving grandmother named Jo. Their dynamic challenges a stereotype of what it means to be healthy and what society typically expects of women their respective ages.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-latina-spring-femme-frontera-showcase/
LOCATION:UNAM San Antonio\, 600 Hemisfair Plaza Way\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:FILM - Raza Cósmica Screening of Blue Beetle
DESCRIPTION:Cinema Under the Stars: Blue Beetle\nSaturday\, October 12 | Cassiano Park | 1728 Potosi St. | Blue Beetle (Directed by Angel Manuel Soto\, 2023\, USA\, 127 min.) An alien scarab chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host\, bestowing the recent college graduate with a suit of armor that’s capable of extraordinary powers\, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle. Preceded by: Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake (Directed by Javier Badillo\, 2023\, Canada\, 5 min.) When Lupe and her band find themselves battling a monstrous creature in outer space\, the lessons of her abuela finally remind Lupe that connecting to her Latina roots is important\, and punk rock is more than just loud music. Attendees can enjoy free paletas provided by MACRI and comic books courtesy of Alien Worlds! \n  \n\nGet Tickets at Eventbrite
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-raza-cosmica-screening-of-blue-beetle/
LOCATION:Cassiano Park\, 1728 Potosi St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241011T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241011T213000
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SUMMARY:FILM - Raza Cósmica Screening of Itu Ninu
DESCRIPTION:Itu Ninu\nItu Ninu (Where the Corn Fields Are) Directed by Itandehui Jansen\, 2023\, Mexico & UK\, 72 min\, Mixtec and English with English subtitles. In a highly controlled smart city in the year 2084 two climate migrants try to connect through old fashioned letters. Actress Alejandra Herrera will be in attendance! Film preceded by: En Memoria Roberto Fatal\, 2024\, USA\, 11 min. In a dystopian future\, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. \n  \n\nGet Tickets at Eventbrite
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-raza-cosmica-screening-of-itu-ninu/
LOCATION:Arthouse at Blue Star\, 134 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78204\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:FILM - Raza Cósmica: Excursions in Afrofuturism Short Films
DESCRIPTION:Excursions in Afrofuturism\nFriday\, Oct 11 | Arthouse at Blue Star | 134 Blue Star | Afrofuturism expresses notions of Black identity\, agency\, and freedom through art\, creative works\, and activism that envision liberated futures for Black life. This vibrant selection of shorts by Afro-Latina and Black directors showcases films from Canada\, the United Kingdom\, and the United States including The Golden Chain by Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels\, Daylight Rules by Alex Browning\, The Fore-men by Adrian Bobb\, Chimera by Kryzz Gautier\, and We Are Not Alone by Adebukola Bodunrin. Watch trailers at https://www.montevideo210.org. \n  \n\nGet Tickets at Eventbrite
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-raza-cosmica-excursions-in-afrofuturism-short-films/
LOCATION:Arthouse at Blue Star\, 134 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78204\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:FILM - Raza Cósmica Screening of Xicanx Versus Aliens
DESCRIPTION:Xicanx Versus Aliens\nThursday\, October 10 | Jaime’s Place | 1914 W. Commerce St. | Activist/Musician Joaquín Muerte hosts a live episode of his original podcast\, Xicanx Versus Aliens. Filmmakers Edwin Raul Oliva and Dylan Hensley and special guest Alejandra Herrera (Itu Ninu\, Roma) join Muerte to discuss Latinx sci-fi cinema. Followed by a curated selection of cosmic-infused short films including Angels by Samantha Aldana\, A Haunting Across the Galaxy by Edwin Raul Oliva\, Border Hopper by Nico Casavecchia\, The Ballad of Tita and The Machines by Miguel Angel Caballero\, and Somos Borderlands by Dylan Hensley. Watch trailers at https://www.montevideo210.org. \nThursday\, October 10\, 2024\nJaime’s Place | 1514 W. Commerce\n7:00 PM | Xicanx Versus Aliens \nJoaquin Muerte hosts podcast with filmmakers Edwin Raul Oliva and Dylan Hensley and special guest Alejandra Herrera (Itu Ninu\, Romaˆ) followed by a curated selection of cosmic-infused short films. \n\nGet Tickets at Eventbrite
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-raza-cosmica-screening-of-xicanx-versus-aliens/
LOCATION:Jaime’s Place\, 1514 W Commerce St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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