Freda (2021)
LIMITED SERIES HASTA LA RAÍZ K’A PA RUXE’EL ATÉ A RAIZ NAN RASIN LAN: TO THE ROOT SEP 16–OCT 13, 2024
In her Latin Grammy-winning record Hasta la Raíz, Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade pays tribute to her home country and sings of all the circumstances that build up one’s life, from family, friends, lived experiences, and home, to the importance of keeping your roots. These, along with themes of self-identity, sexuality, betrayal, and class structure are all subjects that take center stage within the growing pains of maturing. The films highlighted in this series offer a small glimpse into the varied experiences Latine/x adolescents and young adults face, in many instances, made all the more challenging due to the marginalization many of these characters experience—markedly shown in stories like Mi Amigo Ángel (1964), Bad Hair (2013), and Freda (2021). Nonetheless, there is beauty to be found in healing, unearthed through the universal experience of self-discovery and honoring one’s truth and emotions. Programmed and notes by Sari Navarro.
Mi vida loca in 35mm, presented by Allison Anders Mon, Sep 16 | 7:30pm | TMT
Told as a multi-part story following the lives of childhood best friends Mona and Marivel (Angel Aviles, Seidy López), who inherit the nicknames “Sad Girl” and “Mousie” after joining an Echo Park gang, the film follows the lives of the young women and those who formed part of the crew—exhibiting generational differences from the pachucas of the 1940s to the cholas of the 1990s. The young women are depicted with great care, which can be attributed to the bond writer-director Allison Anders formed with members of the Echo Park Locas, who were consultants and involved in all aspects of production. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Allison Anders. WITH: Angel Aviles, Seidy López, Jacob Vargas, Nélida López. 1993. 92 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Allison Anders Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
IXCANUL
Ixcanul preceded by Mi Amigo Ángel Fri, Sep 20 | 7:30pm | TMT Ixcanul
María (María Mercedes Coroy) has never strayed outside the confines of her village, formed around the base of Ixcanul, a volcano or, in the Kaqchikel language, “the internal force of the mountain which boils looking for eruption.” While betrothed in an arranged marriage to Ignacio (Justo Lorenzo), the local plantation foreman, María forges a secret
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