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NCLAFF: El Facilitador | The Facilitator

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Thursday, October 30, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:23 pm
NC Latin American Film Festival

Location: Nelson Mandela Auditorium. UNC-Chapel Hill. (2014, dir. Victor Arrigui, Ecuador, 83 min.)Spanish with English subtitles. Free and open to the public.In this political thriller about human rights, Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father, Miguel, overcome his illness. They keep a cold and distant relationship. Elena spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol so Miguel asks her to go to her grandpa¿s estate on the Andes. Elena gets involved in the political organization of the community. She finds out Miguel is involved in a project that will deny water access to the indigenous people she¿s working with. Elena gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.Co-sponsored by the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UNC-CH Romance Languages and Literatures, Duke UNC Middle East Studies Center, PRAGDA.