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MEXICO

Atletico San Pancho-Gustavo Loza
"The game of soccer is all but dead in the small Mexican town of San Francisco del Monte, once a wellspring of famous footballers. But change is afoot! Despite the puritanical principal's ban on soccer balls in school and the lack of a field, uniforms or equipment, 9-year-old To-o and his buddies "Hormiga" and "Torta" decide to assemble a team. With a cow for a mascot, the aging school custodian, Don Pepe, for a coach and a roster of misfits, they somehow manage to scissor-kick their way to the national championships against the dreaded Dinamo from Mexico City. Along the way, a few lessons are learned about life, love, family and the fact that girls really can play the field. With a squad of great young actors,
a high-energy soundtrack and a thunderous "GOAL!!!" pronounced with each San Pancho score, this fun family film will have you rooting for the home team."-Joanne Parsont. (90 mins.) Print courtesy of Venevision.
First Feature.
Showtimes: 2/15, 1:30pm BW, 2/27, 12pm GU and 3/1 4:30pm GU.

Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles- Ignacio Ortíz Cruz
Chainsmoking Arcángel Juárez lives in the city and suffers from chronic insomnia. His wife Teresa, who must also cope with their autistic son, is exasperated and leaves him. Arcángel receives a phone message from his long-estranged brother that their father is dying, and he sets off to a remote town in the country to see the old man for the last time. When he arrives at the village, he is surprised to find out that both his father and his brother are long dead. Searching for his roots, he discovers that his family has been afflicted by a curse for several generations: his great grandfather, desperate to get his hands on family property, killed his own brother. Arcángel also discovers why he suffers from insomnia. The story of his family and ancestors goes back to 1860, and was influenced by key events in Mexican history such as the reign of Benito Juárez, the French occupation, the Reform War of 1857-1860, the reign of Archduke Maximilian, the Mexican Revolution and mass emigration to the United States. Arcángel begins to remember his childhood-his mother had run off with another man, and he himself had been thrown out by his father after a serious argument with his brother. Now knowing the secrets of his past, Arcángel tries to remedy the present. (100 mins.)
Filmography: The Man Who Doesn't Listen to Boleros (94), The Shore of the Earth (95).
Showtimes: 2/27, 9pm and 3/1, 9:30pm BW.

Dark Cities- Fernando Sariñana
Inspired by the faces and places in downtown Mexico City, Fernando Sariñana's film latest takes us to shops, motels, bars, Chinese cafes, streets, squares and houses, exposing the gritty underbelly of an ever-pulsing metropolis. Based on the novel "Chronicles of Dark Madrid" by Juan Madrid, Sariñana's Short Cuts-esque film chronicles 12 stories that ultimately connect on real and violent city streets. From down-on-their-luck hookers with a Pretty Woman complex to ruthless dirty cops, a lonely widow to thrill-seeking drug addicts, omnipresent street dwellers to sexually curious troubled teens, a self-searching photographer to a pedophile drugstore owner, or a delusional loner to the sympathetic bartender who witnesses and keeps track of the magic and mayhem, Dark Cities intertwined stories portray life as it is on any given Mexico City night. (113 mins.) Print courtesy of IMCINE.
Selected Filmography: Till Death (94), Gimme the Power (99), El segundo aire (00).
Showtimes: 2/15, 4:15pm and 2/16, 4:00pm BW.

Japon- Carlos Reygadas
Reygadas was runner up for the Camera d'Or (Best First Film) at Cannes for this haunting meditation on salvation, most likely a work that will carve out its own special place on most people's list of unique films. In the high country of Mexico, a man arrives in a small town intending to find peace before committing suicide. Instead he befriends an elderly woman, in the process of being cheated out of her home by her family, and her plight lends him a reason to stay alive. Reygadas' mysterious, almost biblical tale of love and redemption is a striking film, intimate on one level and epic on another. "The surroundings inspired everything.
I was looking for beauty all the time. People don't understand that beauty itself is the most powerful discourse of all. Someone once asked Picasso, 'Yours is a beautiful painting, but what is it about?' He said, 'When you see a beautiful flower, do you want to ask God what it's all about?' I would like to try and make the most beautiful film ever.
I suppose I won't succeed, but I'll try."-Carlos Reygadas. (129 mins.) Print courtesy of Vitagraph Films.
First Feature.
Showtimes: 2/22, 9pm and 2/28, 9:30pm BW.