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The Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival starts this week! It is Ithaca's premiere Latin American film festival, featuring screenings at Cornell Cinema, Cinemapolis, and Ithaca College on various dates during Latinx Heritage Month. A schedule of all screenings can be seen in the header of Cine con Cultura's Facebook page. Cornell Cinema's first screening for the festival is Tuesday and it's free: TOWARD NORTH: TWO CENTRAL AMERICAN SHORTS.
The Festival continues with Thursday's screening of THE PROPOSAL, about late Mexican architect Luis Barragán and his near-inaccessible archive of work, which features a Q&A with conceptual artist/filmmaker Jill Magid '95, joining us remotely for a conversation with Renate Ferro (Dept of Art). Rounding out this week's Festival screenings, we premiere Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor's coming-of-age film TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG on Saturday and Sunday.
Our Human Flow film series about global migration continues this week with Tuesday's screenings of TOWARD NORTH: TWO CENTRAL AMERICAN SHORTS & ELDORADO, a documentary about the refugee experience in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Southern Italy, and Friday's STYX, a drama about a German doctor whose solo sailing trip in the Atlantic Ocean is interrupted when she discovers a sinking boat full of refugees.
On Wednesday, we are thrilled to be hosting media historian Thomas Elsaesser, who will present a free show of his documentary THE SUN ISLAND. The documentary concerns Martin Elsaesser, architect and chief city planner in Frankfurt, Germany from 1925 to 1932. The European Central Bank's controversial acquisition of the Frankfurt Central Market is the ostensible occasion to weave the building's turbulent history into Martin Elsaesser's biography, his wife Liesel's liaison with notable landscape architect Leberecht Migge, and Thomas Elsaesser's own family history. Elsaesser's visit to campus is sponsored by the Departments of German Studies & PMA, Cornell Media Studies, Institute for German Cultural Studies and the Society for the Humanities.
Yasujiro Ozu's powerful family drama LATE SPRING screens Thursday and Sunday, with an introduction on Thursday by Andrew Campana (Asian Studies). In a long career filled with many, many masterpieces, Ozu's LATE SPRING is a highlight and a touchstone for a lot of filmmakers. This is essential viewing!
Oh, we almost forgot The Beatles! Or rather, everyone in the world did except for Himesh Patel, which is the plot for Danny Boyle's YESTERDAY, screening Friday and Saturday. You should see it. It's really cute.
