Cine de Muertos 2024
Cine de Muertos
Houston Latino Film Festival celebrates Día de los Muertos at AURORA CHAPEL
The Houston Latino Film Festival presents the 3rd Annual Cine de Muertos, a festival composed of films, music, live literature readings and more! Join us for a weekend to enjoy films from around the world representative of the themes celebrated during Día de los Muertos (film schedule can be found below). The Houston Latino Film Festival is happy to be hosted by Aurora Chapel (800 Aurora St). Everyone is welcome to stay after for a post-screening social and complimentary drinks courtesy of our friends at Equal Parts Brewery! (*while supplies last)
WHEN:
Saturday, October 29, 2022
1:00pm-9:00pm
through
Sunday, October 30, 2022
1:00pm-9:00pm
WHERE:
14 Pews
800 Aurora St
Houston, TX 77009
ADMISSION: Day Pass is $10.00 for each day.
Saturday Program (10/29)
Short Films 3:00 pm
LIVING ALTARS
Directed by Peggy Peralta
2020 / Experimental / 7 min (USA)
Synopsis:
Living Altars is a remarkably intimate short film by directing duo Peggy Peralta and Lourdes Figueroa portraying wearable Day of the Dead altars of two artists, Marie-Astrid Do-Rodriguez and Eli Reyes in their Covid-19 era living installations. The visually stunning film depicts the artists wearing their altars, created with mixed folk arts media while narrating stories of family, grief and consolation.
THE BUTTON (El Boton)
Directed by Adolfo Peña
2021/ Drama-Fantasy / 20 min (Spain)
Synopsis:
Lucia, a doctor who is emotionally destroyed after being suspended from the hospital where she worked, receives an unexpected emotional twist that makes her see life differently.
THE EYES OF EREBUS
Directed by Javier Barbero Montes
2021 / Drama-Comedy / 16 min (Spain)
Synopsis:
An 81-year-old lady, Aurora, has had her power shut off due to non-payment. Every night, darkness wakes her up trying to attack her only companion: her parakeet.
FIRE EXTINGUISHER
Directed by Rodrigo Sopeña
2020/ Drama / 5 min (Spain)
Synopsis:
Milagros is obliged to install a fire extinguisher in her chapel, but first she'll have to ask for someone's permission.
VILOMAH
Directed by Art Ornelas
2020 / Drama / 5 min (USA)
Synopsis:
A mother’s love is endless.
LIVING ALL OF LIFE
Directed by Marlén Ríos-Farjat
2021 / Drama-Comedy / 27 mins (Mexico)
Synopsis:
After a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband. She is in denial and holds on to the past. One day, she needs the help of her neighbor, Gloria, a free-spirited woman who Susana can’t stand. But the friendship that emerges between them arises in Susana the desire to live in the present.
Feature Film 7:00 pm
MY DEAD DAD
Directed by Fabio Frey
2021 / Drama / 90 mins (USA)
Synopsis:
When ex-skateboarder Lucas’ (Pedro Correa) estranged father dies and leaves him a Los Angeles apartment complex, the young slacker travels there from Reno with a plan to sell the building and forget the man he believes abandoned him. But the apartment’s tenants—including Frank (Raymond Cruz), the longtime superintendent who isn’t buying Lucas’ tough exterior, and Sophie (Courtney Dietz), a young woman who, like Lucas, isn’t sure what she wants from life—remember his dad as a different man from the one Lucas imagined.
Sunday Program (10/30)
Short Films 2:00 pm
ACUITZERAMO
Directed by Miguel Angel Caballero
2020 / Drama/ 16 min (Mexico)
Synopsis:
An aging gay Mexican man reaches out to the estranged son of his recently passed partner. The two meet at the emotionally charged funeral, where tensions run high and family secrets are exposed in this short film. Starring Sal Lopez, Matias Ponce, and Luis Antonio Aldana. Written and directed by Miguel Angel Caballero.
LODO
Directed by Alessandro Gentile
2021/ Drama-Fantasy / 20 min (USA)
Synopsis:
An incident at a local cemetery drives a series of supernatural events that leads to an unforeseen encounter for a boy.
EL PRIMER BESO
Directed by JC Tovar
2021 / Drama/ 10 min (USA)
Synopsis:
A man reliving moments while cleaning out his house after tragedy.
FAREWELL, FAREWELL, FAREWELL (Adiós Adiós Adiós)
Directed by Ricardo Castro
2020/ Documentary/ 30 min (USA)
Synopsis:
After the death of his mother, a young man will have to cope with leaving the utopia in which he lived with his 17 family members in a forest outside of Mexico City.
Feature Film 6:00 pm
THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE
Directed by Francisca Alegría
2022 / Drama / 98 mins (Chile)
Synopsis:
When thousands of fish die in a polluted river in southern Chile, Magdalena, a woman long-deceased, emerges amongst their lifeless bodies. Magdalena encounters her widowed husband, sending him into a state of shock and prompting the return of their daughter, Cecilia. Magdalena’s presence and her effect on the environment stirs curiosity and fear among her family. As the past comes into focus, mother and daughter are met with the opportunity to change the future.