New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema 2011

A panel of successful spanish and latin american women - filmmakers, producers, actresses and festival directors discuss their current role, difficulties and challenges in the film industry of their respective countries.

America, a 30 year old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life, as a nanny in New York City, with support from relatives and other hispanics, America finds comfort and hope. When she dares to dream a life without violence, reality hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her story? NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

A gay superhero squad fights off the summer heat. NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

In an unknown first world airport the arrival of an ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the youn magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, a way of being, Ecuador happens in this waiting room. Seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion.

Rosa, a domestic worker in Mexico City, is at a crossroads in her relationship, her job, and her life. NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

…As far back as anyone remembers, it’s the same words over and over again : civil war, internal armed conflict, terrorist threats, ideological struggle. Two extremes: left and right. Using identical methods it becomes a contest in cruelty. How many deaths and how many missing people as a consequence from the endless war opposing the paramilitary armies (AUC) and the guerrillas (FARC) ? No one can agree on the numbers. Winner Camera Justitia Award The Hague (Signis Documentaire), Geneve International Film Festival (Special Mention),Toulouse Latin American Film Festival (Signis Documentaire) 2011 . NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

Ivan (40) is living with the young Natalia (15) in an isolated house, a place he dominates and rules. As her powerful sexuality begins to emerge, sunlight leaks into her room through the closed curtains, breaking the atmosphere of repression and control in which she is submerged. The house then becomes an open battlefield, a space in which Ivan and Natalia reach unexpected degrees of intimacy, conditioned at the same time by the isolation from the outer world they are experiencing, the boundaries of captivity, her craving for freedom, and above everything the extinction of all possible morality.

An unemployed Haitian professor looking for work in Santo Domingo falls upon hard times as he loses his apartment and struggles with his faith. He leaves the city for the countryside in search of not only survival, but a reason to live. Superbly crafted visuals and impeccable direction.

A homophobic tranny takes hostages at a party to uncover which one is in the closet. NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE