Saturday, March 17, 5:00 pm, UNC Charlotte main campus,
College of Education (COED) 010
Antonio Méndez Esparza, Mexico, Spain, United States, 2012 / 110 min.
Spanish with English subtitles
The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. This showing was also made possible with the support of the UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund.
Introduction by Hugo Pascual Bordon, Spanish Fellow, Languages and Culture Studies, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.
Winner of the top prize at the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s directorial debut radiantly captures the complex homecoming of a loving father. In an unexpected take on the traditional immigrant story, Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico, after years of working in New York. He finds his daughters older and more distant than he imagined; his wife still has the same smile. The villagers think this year’s crop will be bountiful and there is work in a growing city nearby. But the locals are wise to a life of insecurity, and their thoughts are often of family members or opportunities far away, north of the border.
