The San Luis Film Festival is back for its 14th year in 2024.
This year's festival will be held Nov. 12-15 with films showing nightly at 6 p.m. at the PPEP Tec Cesar Chavez Learning Center in San Luis. Admission is free.
Festival organizers say this year's four films share indigenous themes.
The films are:
-Nov. 12: Sunu (2015, director Teresa Camou Guerrero)- a documentary film about Mexican maize producers. The film explores the lives of small, midsize and large producers and the challenges they face in a threatened rural world.
-Nov. 13: Corazón De Mezquite (Mesquite Heart) (2019, director Ana Laura Calderón)- the story of Lucia, a Yoreme girl who fights for her dream against her tradition and how she will manage to get close to her father and find her place in her community.
-Nov. 14: La Mujer de Estrellas y Montañas (The Woman of Stars and Mountains) (2023, director Santiago Esteinou)- Rita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital where she had been involuntarily confined for 12 years despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who she was, where she came from or what language she spoke.
-Nov. 15: Sugarcane (2024, director Julian Brave NoiseCat) An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reservation.
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