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.

October 3 – 5, 2008

7th Boston Latino International Film Festival

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy