Latin American Film Festival
This program is designed to highlight groundbreaking films from Latin America and to build awareness among the KSU campus and greater-Atlanta community. The artistry of these films brings to light the important social and cultural topics they address.
Screenings are free and open to the public. Each film will be accompanied by a brief introduction from the Consul General of the film's host country, as well as a Q&A session following the screening.
If you have any questions please contact event organizer:
Ernesto Silva, PhD
Associate Professor of Latin American/Latin@ Studies & Spanish
Interdisciplinary Studies Department (ISD)/Department of Foreign Languages (DFL)
Office Personal: 470-578-3208 | ISD Office: 470-578-2431
Email: esilva@kennesaw.edu
Announcing the 2022 LAFF film line up:
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2022 Film Festival
As part of the VIII KSU Latin American Film Festival and the Latin American/Latinx Studies Film Series, in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the award-winning Venezuelan film Tamara (2016) will be screened and discussed this Wednesday, 7-9:30 PM in SO 2034. We will be joined by José Novoa, writer-producer of the film. He is giving this special presentation in recognition of the last film made by his wife Elia Schneider, who passed away in 2020. We will be joined by former KSU student Ria Drane, LMSW, and Kaelyn Ireland, who is currently a graduate student in MAST.
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Tamara (2016)Country: Venezuela
Director: Elia Schneider
Date: Wednesday, 5 October
Location: SO 2034
Time: 7-9:30 PM
Film overview:
Based in the real life of Teo, a distinguished, prominent and outstanding lawyer, with a four year marriage and two small children, who decides to accomplish his long time secret: to change his body and become a woman. This film is inspired on the life of Tamara Adrian. -
September / Septiembre, Un Llanto en Silencio (2017)Country: Guatemala
Director: Kenneth Muller
Date: Tuesday, 25 October
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: The dying Guatemalan war veteran agrees to accompany a girl searching for information about her grand father, his comrade in arms. Flash backs show the campaign the men fought in when young.
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Series of Short Films
Consulado General de Mexico 
IMCINE Country: Mexico
Date: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Time: 7 PM
Film Info:
El pescador (2011) 11 minutos, Samantha Pineda & Davy Giorgi
Funerales Paz (2018) 13 minutos, Arantxa Durán
Jacinta (2008) 9 minutos, Karla Castañeda
Ramona (2014) 15 minutos, Giovanna Zacarías
El modelo de Pickman (2010) 11 minutos, Pablo Ángeles Zuman
Hasta los huesos (2000) 12 minutos, René Castillo
Film Streaming:
Zoom
Passcode: KSU8LaFF
Zoom Meeting ID: 823 2932 1983 -
The Light on the Hill/La luz en el cerro (2016)Country: Peru
Acting Consul General: Yella Zanelli
Director: Ricardo Velarde
Date: Tuesday, 8 November
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: The mysterious death of a mountain shepherd awakens greed and superstition in a remote Peruvian village.
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Cortázar & Antín: Cartas iluminadas / Enlightened Letters (2020)
Consulado General de Argentina Country: Argentina
Consul General: Juan Manuel Navarro
Director: Cinthia Rajschmir
Date: Wednesday, 9 November
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: Cortázar's letters reveal a tension between the writer who advances on the space of the director and the director who tries to elude the winding bond between literature and films, while hidden forces in the stories embodied in characters that reached the screen, gravitate dangerously and mysteriously together.
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El piedra/The Missed Round (2019)
Consulado de Colombia en Atlanta Country: Colombia
Consul General: Adriana Arias Castiblanco
Director: Rafael Martínez Moreno
Date: Tuesday, 15 November
Location: Zoom
Time: 7 PM
Film overview: A washed-up boxer who gets paid to throw fights tries to turn his life around after meeting a young boy who claims to be his son.
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2021 Film Festival
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2020 Film Festival
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2019 Film Festival
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2018 Film Festival
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2017 Film Festival
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2016 Film Festival
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2015 Film Festival
Kennesaw State University in collaboration with the Consulates of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico & Peru was proud to host our 2015 Latin American Film Festival.
