Note: The Colombian Film Festival schedule was revised on October 14, 2024, due to Hurricane Helene.
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University's Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will host the Colombian Film Festival on five evenings throughout the Fall 2024 semester.
All screenings will be held at 5:00 p.m. in the Greenbriar Theater on the second floor of the Plemmons Student Union. The films will be presented in Spanish with English subtitles. The screenings are free and open to the public. For a disability accommodation, visit odr.appstate.edu.
Below are the details for the five screenings:
Wednesday, September 4, 2024:
“Los viajes del viento” (The Wind Journeys)
Directed by Ciro Guerra (Colombia, 2009)
Duration: 117 mins (1 hr and 57 mins)
Description: A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/6M5bQ3CmWGI?feature=shared
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024:
“La cara oculta” (The Hidden Face)
Directed by Andrés Baiz (Colombia, 2011)
Duration: 103 mins (1 hr and 43 mins)
Description: Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance. But can he look beyond the facts?
Trailer: https://youtu.be/aXx8TBjFa-w?feature=shared
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Monday, October 21, 2024:
“El olvido que seremos” (Memories of My Father)
Directed by Fernando Trueba (Colombia, 2020)
Duration: 136 mins (2 hrs and 16 mins)
Description: In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia’s ‘City of Eternal Spring’) of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city’s authorities.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ppezPGQJ8Yw?feature=shared
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024:
“Un asunto de tierras” (A Matter of Land)
Directed by Ana Patricia Ayala Ruiz (Colombia, 2015)
Duration: 78 mins (1 hr and 18 mins)
Description: A Matter of Land recounts the first year of application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage with the process. The film explores the tensions that arise when such communities come face to face with the complex institutions responsible for enforcing the law. The result of these tensions is a narrative worthy of Kafka, in which a doorway to justice is opened for the sole purpose of demonstrating that no one can pass through it.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/hYmCqQEy9Oo?feature=shared
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Thursday, November 21, 2024:
“El abrazo de la serpiente” (The Embrace of the Serpent)
Directed by Ciro Guerra (Colombia, 2015)
Duration: 125 mins (2 hrs and 5 mins)
Description: Shot almost entirely in black and white, the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/4ff7TcnqHUc?feature=shared
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The Colombian Film Festival is organized by Anneliese Thomae Elias, second language Spanish instructor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. It is the third film festival hosted by the department, following the Guatemalan Film Festival in Fall 2023 and the Pedro Almodóvar Film Festival in Spring 2024.
"The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures has been interested in featuring films and documentaries from different Spanish-speaking countries for students, the campus and off-campus communities to showcase the cinematic artistic production from other countries. We want students to be engaged with the Spanish language inside and outside of the classrooms, and we will continue offering each semester these opportunities for our community. We can learn so much from another culture from what we see represented in their film production," shared Thomae Elias.
Questions about the event can be directed to Thomae Elias via email at thomaeeliasam@appstate.edu.
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About the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures offers courses that enhance students’ understanding of other cultures and languages as well as their own, making them prepared for lifelong learning in a multicultural world. Learn more at dllc.appstate.edu.
Appalachian State University's Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will host the Colombian Film Festival on six evenings throughout the Fall 2024 semester.
Appalachian State University's Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will host the Colombian Film Festival on six evenings throughout the Fall 2024 semester.