Latin American Film Festival Begins Nov. 11
The Latin American Film Festival will open at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, with a free showing of Los que se quedan (Those Who Remain) by director Carlos Hagerman in the Leak Room of Duke Memorial Hall at Guilford College.
The film is about families that are left behind when their loved ones leave in search of a better life in the United States. Mexico is now the largest exporter of its people, with up to half a million people each year crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in search of work. The toll this explosion in emigration has taken is particularly evident in central Mexico and in southern states like Chiapas and Yucatán, where entire cities and town have been depleted.
On Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., a free showing of the movie Espira (Spiral) by Jorge Perez Solano will be held in the Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium in the Frank Family Science Center. The film looks at the aftermath when men migrate without realizing they are destroying what they most want to protect: their families. The men return to find nothing is the same since the women have taken over, fending for themselves without men.
Guilford is taking part in the Latin American Film Festival, which is organized by the Consortium in Latin American Studies and Caribbean Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University.
