New video selections (including some movies screened at the XV Latin American Film and Video Festival ) at the Outreach Office Video Library, The Consortium in Latin American Studies at UNC-CH and Duke located at at 223 E. Franklin St, UNC-CH.

AMORES PERROS (LOVE'S A BITCH)
Director: Alejandro González Iñarritu. This film is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, Amores Perros explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations. Mexico, 2000. 153 min. Spanish with no subtitles.

CAFÉ CON LECHE: VOICES OF EXILE'S CHILDREN
Director: Joe Cardona. An introspective look at young Cuban-Americans, the now-adult children of the first wave of Cuban exiles that came to the U.S. This documentary focuses on the fusion of traditional, old world values of yesteryear and modern, American culture, as the young Cuban-Americans comment on their experiences growing up bi-culturally. USA, 1997. 85 min. English and Spanish with subtitles.

CHAC, THE RAIN GOD
Director: Rolando Klein. This film, based on ritual and legends from the Popul Vuh, as well as Tzeltal and Mayan stories, and shot in the Chiapas region of Mexico, focuses on a small Tzeltal village during a terrible draught. Desperate for relief, thirteen men set out on a quest to save their people from starvation. Mexico/USA, 1974. 95 min. Tzeltal and Mayan dialects with English subtitles.

CHACOTERO SENTIMENTAL, EL (THE SENTIMENTAL TEASER)
Director: Cristian Galaz. This film centers around a young and eccentric radio show host who has a successful program on the air. His anonymous callers tell their stories of love, entanglements, misunderstandings and passionate affairs. Chile, 1999. 90 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

FLIGHT OF PEDRO PAN, THE
Directors: Joe Cardona and Mario de Varona. Experience the heartache and uncertainty of the 1960s flight of more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States. The children of Operation Pedro Pan share their personal stories of the sacrifice, survival, broken hearts and new beginnings through interviews and archival footage. USA, 1999. 90 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles.

FLORES DE OTRO MUNDO
Director: Iciar Bollain. The story of relationship struggles between men and women in the small town of Santa Eulalia, in Spain. Among them are Patrica, the Dominican woman, and Milady, the Cuban woman. Spain, 1999. 106 min. Spanish with no subtitles.

FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER
Director: Bruno Barreto. This thriller is based on the true-life events in which political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance, caught between a government unwilling to cooperate and his fear for the captors themselves. Brazil, 1997. 107 min. Portuguese with English subtitles.

LISTA DE ESPERA (WAIT LIST)
Director: Juan Carlos Tabio. A diverse group of Cubans finds itself stuck at a remote bus station. Their shared situation brings them together such that they transform the bus station into a kind of socialist utopia, and when they can finally leave, they don't want to. Cuba, 2000. 106 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

MAQUILA: A TALE OF TWO MEXICOS
Directors: Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo. This film examines the impact of corporate globalization on Mexico, focusing on the maquiladoras, U.S.-owned factories employing cheap Mexican labor. Archival footage and interviews provide historical background to the present crisis. USA/Mexico, 2000. 55 min. English and Spanish with subtitles.

MAYA, THE
Director: Michael Vetter. This great exhibit shows the expressive aesthetic language and historical testimony of an admirable
civilization. This is the first presentation of the maya civilization that has covered all the regions of their geographical extension, all the periods of its history and all the diversity of the people who forged it. Mexico, 1999. 52 min. English.

MOJADO INVASION, THE
Directors: Gustavo Vásquez and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The director narrates this pseudo-documentary, fantasizing an invasion of mojados (wetbacks) who reconquer lost Mexican territory to create the “U.S. of Aztlán.” This new regime propagandizes by portraying Anglos with the same stereotypes employed against Latinos. USA, 2000. 30 min. English
and Spanish with subtitles.

NORTE, EL (THE NORTH)

Director: Gregory Nava. Mayan Indian peasants organize in an effort to improve their lot in life. After the army destroys their village and kills their family, a teenage brother and sister decide they must flee to “El Norte”. After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling through Mexico, they arrive in Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants. USA, 1983. 139 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

NUESTRA COMUNIDAD:LATINOS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Directors: Joanne Hershfield and Penny Simpson. This film is an hour-long video documentary that looks at the impact on communities in North Carolina brought about by the rapidly increasing Spanish-speaking population in the emerging "New
South". The documentary focuses on personal life experiences, the dimensions of cultural encounters and prospects for the future of these new "Southerners. 60 min. 2001

OTRO LADO, EL (THE OTHER SIDE)
Director: Alex Webb. Americans simply pass through the turnstiles for cheap thrills in Tijuana. Mexicans on the other side, however, face endless barriers of barbed wire, attack dogs, and armed border patrols. Alex Webb captures the odd panorama of the border. USA,1993. 10 min.

LOS CIVILIZADORES: ALEMANES EN GUATEMALA (THE CIVILIZERS:GERMANS IN
GUATEMALA)
Director:Uli Stelzner. This look into the coffee plantations of Guatemala raises questions of power, identity and civilization. A
small but very influential German community dominates the plantations and uses the Mayan Indians like slaves for cheap labor. War and violence reign in this country of permanent dictatorship, as the Indians must continuously battle against land confiscation, abuse and massacres. Guatemala/Germany, 1999. 130 min. Spanish and German with English subtitles.

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