Sunday | October 5, 2008 7:45 pm

Eréndira the Indomitable
(Eréndira ikikunari)

Screening on Film

Directed by Juan Mora Catlett.
With Xochiquetzal Rodríguez, Justo Alberto Rodríguez, Luís Esteban Huacúz Dímas.
Mexico, 2006, 35mm, color, 107 min.
Purhepecha, Spanish and Latin with English subtitles.

This strikingly shot film tells the story of Eréndira, a young Purépecha woman living in what is now Mexico during the 16th century, who became an icon of bravery during the Conquest. Eréndira displays a mythic style blending indigenous aesthetics with the modern avant-garde.