Latin American Research Centre Film Series: La guerra de Manuela Jankovic (Mexico)

Presented by: University of Calgary
Category: Other Event
Price: $0
Date: February 23, 2017 – February 23, 2017
Address: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/

Join LARC for the second screening in our Mexican cinema series with the highly acclaimed film La guerra de Manuela Jankovic (2014) by director Diana Cardozo. It is the year 1991. Manuela works as a cook and lives with her grandmother, a Serbian immigrant who went to Mexico fleeing from the World War II. Surrounded by her grandmother’s memories and wounds, Manuela inherited the war trauma while growing up. Then, the Balkans conflict breaks out 11 thousand miles away and madness settles around these women, seizing them as the war continues at other side of the world. In Spanish with English subtitles. 1hr30mins. Free and open event. February 23, 2017 @ 7pm, SS 203.

Location:

Social Sciences 203

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/latin-american-research-centre-film-series-la-guerra-de-manuela-jankovic-mexico


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