NC Latin American Film Festival: El REGRESO DE LENCHO @ UNC

TUE. 10|09. UNC. Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill. 7pm WITH PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR | El REGRESO DE LENCHO. Mario Rosales (Guatemala. 2011).Lencho, a 30-year-old artist and graffiti writer who returns to Guatemala after living for a decade in New York. Eager to bring artistic expression to his home country silenced by over 30 years of civil war, Lencho assembles a collective of artists to produce public art projects with social impact. As their first activity, the group organizes a mural, hip hop, poetry and graffiti art festival in Rabinal, a small indigenous town in the Guatemalan highlands. The group's work draws the interest of the chief of a secret ¿social cleansing¿ squad of the national police designed to quash dissension and organizing among the youth. As Lencho labors to coordinate the components of the festival, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of the death of his father, a journalist killed during the army dictatorship.