FLAFF 2014 Schedule
Friday April 25, Saturday April 26, Sunday April 27
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2014 Festival Films
Pelo Malo / Bad Hair
The third film from the filmmaker and plastic artist Mariana Rondón, Pelo Malo stars Junior, a 9 year-old with "bad hair."
Matar a un Hombre / To Kill a Man
A thriller about a hardworking family man Jorge who is just barely making ends meet. When he gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront Kalule, only to get himself shot in the process.
Anina
Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old girl. All her names form palindromes, making her the butt of her classmates’ jokes, and especially of Yisel’s, who Anina sees as an “elephant.”
The Devil’s Music
Examines the evolution of jazz from a radically new and socially unacceptable music to its current status as a great American artform. The documentary gives a socio/historical context to the fear of black music that permeates contemporary criticism of rap music today.
Yo, Indocumentada / Undocumented
Yo Indocumentada (I, Undocumented), exposes the struggles of transgender people in Venezuela.
The House that Jack Built
Jack Maldonado is an ambitious Latino man who fueled by misguided nostalgia, buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his family into the apartments to live rent-free.
Aqui y Alla Crossing Borders
The “Aquí y Allá’ transnational public art project explored the impact of immigration in the lives of Mexican immigrant youth in Philadelphia in connection with youth in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Cesar's Last Fast
In 1988, Cesar Chavez embarked on what would be his last act of protest in his remarkable life. Driven in part to pay penance for feeling he had not done enough, Chavez began his “Fast for Life,” a 36-day water-only hunger strike, to draw attention to the horrific effects of unfettered pesticide use on farm workers, their families, and their communities.
La Camioneta
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day.
Forbidden Lovers Meant To Be
Working with talented high school students from North Philadelphia at Taller Puertorriqueño’s Youth Artist Program, filmmakers Joanna Siegel, Melissa Beatriz Skolnick, and Kate Zambon sought to capture the personal and artistic journeys of the youth through film.
