The UNC Department of Romance Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC, and the UNC Graduate School Diversity and Student Success want to invite you to the UNC-Pragda Film Festival for the Spring 2021 semester.
The UNC-Pragda Film Festival follows the legacy of the NC Latin American Film Festival that celebrates the power and artistry of Latin America’s films and audiovisual production.
Please join us for the best of Latin American films streamed for free!
If you have questions about the festival, please contact Manuel Sánchez Cabrera at manujovi@live.unc.edu.
Calendar of screenings:

PERRO BOMBA
JUAN CAìCERES / CHILE, FRANCE / 2019 / 80 MIN
Spanish and Creole with English subtitles
With Steevens Benjamin, Alfredo Castro, Blanca Lewin, Gastón Salgado, Junior Valcin, Erto Pantoja, Daniel Antivilo
Steevens is a young Haitian immigrant living a challenging, but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile: he has a construction job, a home, friends, and fun. This precariously balanced life is disrupted when Junior, a childhood friend from Haiti, arrives in Chile seeking assistance from Steevens to establish himself.
When: Jan 29, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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CIRO AND ME
(CIRO Y YO)
MIGUEL SALAZAR / COLOMBIA / 2018 / 110 MIN
Spanish with English subtitles
With Ciro Galindo, Esneider Galindo
Ciro Galindo was born on August 29, 1952, in Colombia. Wherever he went, war always found him. His children were recruited by the armies of war; his family was repeatedly displaced; and his wife Anita, an indigenous woman, died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.
When: Feb 3, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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YVY MARAEY, LAND WITHOUT EVIL (YVY MARAEY, TIERRA SIN MAL)
JUAN CARLOS VALDIVIA / BOLIVIA / 2014 / 105 MIN
Spanish and Guaraní with English Subtitles
With Juan Carlos Valdivia, Elio Ortíz, Felipe Romá
A Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the Guaraní people. The starting point is a 1911 film by Swedish explorer Erland Nordenskiöld. But today’s reality turns out to be much more intense than the nostalgia for a lost world.
When: Feb 5, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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THE GUARDIANS
BEN CROSBIE, TESSA MORAN / MEXICO, UNITED STATES / 2018 / 70 MIN
Spanish and English with English subtitles
An indigenous Mexican community and millions of monarch butterflies are under threat of extinction in the ancient forest they call home.
When: Feb 9, 2021 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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UN TRADUCTOR (UN TRADUCTOR)
RODRIGO BARRIUSO, SEBASTIÁN BARRIUSO / CUBA, CANADA / 2018 / 107 MIN
Spanish and Russian with English subtitles
With Sebastián Barriuso Gonzalez-Mora, Rodrigo Barriuso Gonzalez-Mora
ACADEMY AWARD® CUBA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Based on the little-known true story of how twenty thousand Chernobyl victims were eventually treated in Cuba, Un Traductor unfolds as a tale at once historical and personal, brought to life in crisply shot, beautifully realized period detail of a Havana on the brink of economic crisis.
When: Feb 12, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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