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Join us for the Cinema Tucsón film screening of Valentina o la Serenidad (Valntina or the Serenity) and a Q&A with the director on Wednesday, May 28, at 7 pm.
(Angeles Cruz, Mexico, 2023, 96 min. In Spanish and Mixtec with English subtitles.)
Mexican filmmaker Ángeles Cruz returns to her Indigenous community in Oaxaca for her second feature, a tender tale of loss inspired by her own childhood. Valentina’s world shatters when her beloved father drowns in a nearby river. Refusing to accept the body at the funeral, she becomes convinced he’s still alive and will return. Her conviction deepens after she falls into the same river and hears his voice speaking Mixtec—a language she’s never learned. As she waits for another message, Valentina enlists her friend Pedro to teach her Mixtec, even as her belief begins to affect her family and school life. Valentina or the Serenity is an exploration of love and mortality through a child’s eyes, and ultimately an uplifting ode to life.
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