The Latin@ Film Festival “Cine con Cultura” will end this week with the film Ixcanul from Guatemala at Cornell Cinema. We would like to encourage our colleagues and students to go.The Latin@ Film Festival “Cine con Cultura” will end this week with the film Ixcanul from Guatemala at Cornell Cinema. We would like to encourage our colleagues and students to go.
Here is the trailer and the summary of the plot:
1. Ixcanul (Guatemala 2015, fiction) Thu. Oct. 13 and Sat. Oct. 15 at 7:15pm @Cornell Cinema – María, a young 17 year old mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation on the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala. An arranged marriage awaits her. Although Maria dreams of going to the “big city”, her condition as an indigenous woman does not permit her to change her destiny. Later on, she will have to visit the modern world, but at what price? (filmfactoryentertainment.com)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJfvKnLPqFM (Rated R)
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20160906162149688