Film Festival

Buenos Aires Program

Monday, March 19

16:00	Introduction to the Post-Deportation and Human Rights Project from CHRIJ, Boston College (Ruby Slippers). Reading of the main document prepared by Daniel Kanstroom, David Hollenbach, Brinton Lykes and Qingwen Xu. Showing of a scene from the film “The Wizard of Oz” (Victor Fleming, 1939).
16:30	Migration / deportation / exile/ refuge through cinema. Introductory comment by Juan Jorge Michel Fariña Showing of “The Immigrant” (Charles Chaplin, 1917)
17:00	Sigmund Freud and emigration, by Daniel Zimmerman
17:30	Break
18:00	“The Terminal” (Steven Spielberg, 2004) Showing of two scenes and comments by Romina Galiussi & Carlos Gutiérrez
18:45	“Before the rain” (Milcho Manchevski, 1994) Showing of two scenes and comments by Eduardo Laso

Tuesday, March 20

16:30

Maria full of Grace

(Joshua Marston, 2004)

Showing and discussion via videoconference

In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned.

Wednesday, March 21

17:00

Dirty Pretty Things

(Stephen Frears, 2002)

Showing and discussion via videoconference

Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.

Thursday, March 22

17:00

Cinema and Exile.

Activity organized in collaboration with Children of Exile (Hijos & Hijas del Exilio)
“Argenmex” (Violeta Burkart Noe/Analía Miller. Argentina, 2006).
Showing and debate.

Friday, March 23

18:00	Writings on cinema and migrations Tribute to Ignacio Lewkowicz and Cristina Corea (in memoriam) ¿A New Yorker in Budapest? Comments of the film “Stranger Than Paradise” (Jim Jarmusch, 1984) The Law of the Herd Comments of the film “Ice Age” (Chris Wedge, 2000) Discussion by Andrea Hellemeyer and Juan Jorge Michel Fariña
20:00	Closure and toast