“A Celebration of Latin American Cinema’
June 18 - 24, 2021
Sag Harbor Cinema

Sag Harbor Cinema continues its collaboration with Cinema Tropical, the leading presenter of Latin American films in the U.S., following the success of their recent joint program during the Cinema’s grand opening weekend, last month. Saluting Cinema Tropical’s 20th Anniversary, the series, running June 18th-24th, will include classics from masters of contemporary cinema, like Lucretia Martel, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Alejandro González Iñárritu, as well as two exciting preview runs, Pablo Larrain’s Ema and Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta. 

“Several of the best filmmakers working today come from Latin America. And Latin American cinema is many cinemas. Featuring works from Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, this program offers a glimpse of the variety of visions and themes springing from the area. It is an excitingly vibrant lineup,” says Sag Harbor Cinema’s artistic director, Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan.  

All screenings at
Sag Harbor Cinema
90 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY
www.sagharborcinema.org / (631) 725-0010

Special VIP Cocktail Tropical: Please join us for an opening night special preview screening of Ema by acclaimed director Pablo Larráin (Neruda, Jackie) starring Gael García Bernal on Saturday, June 19, 7pm, followed by a VIP reception at the Cinema’s Green Room. Buy Tickets.

AMORES PERROS
A film by Alejandro González Iñárritu
(Mexico, 2000, 155 min. in Spanish with English subtitles)
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González Iñárritu’s breakout debut film, Amores Perros, tells the intersecting stories of a Mexico City car crash. The violent and emotional lives of three strangers are forever altered by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog named Cofi. Featuring the distinct directorial style and ambitious multi-strand storytelling of Iñárritu, Amores Perros explores the brutality and interconnectedness of the human condition.

“Very few films create, as this one succeeds in doing, a fresh and individual sense of a complete world, and allow us to experience this sense as if it were our own.” –  The New York Review of Books

Saturday June 19, 12:45pm and Sunday June 20, 6:45pm

LA CIÉNAGA
A film by Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina, 2001, 103 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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The release of Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and off-screen sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility, and one of the great contemporary film debuts.

“Lucrecia Martel's La Ciénaga is a veritable Chekhov tragicomedy of provincial life. Making a brilliant debut, Martel constructs her narrative from quotidian incidents, myriad comings and goings, and a cacophony of voices competing for attention...[i]n a debut feature that's assured in every aspect, Martel's direction of the younger members of her cast is particularly notable.” –  The Village Voice

Friday, June 18 at 9:45pm and Saturday, June, 19 at 4pm

EMA
A film by Pablo Larraín
(Chile, 2019, 107 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) 
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A standout of recent Latin American cinema by the Chilean director of Jackie, this Valparaiso melodrama pulsates with Reggaeton and stars Gael Garcia Bernal, revelatory as a choreographer, and Mariana Di Girolamo, as his muse and estranged wife. Ema will be released in August by Music Box.

“Completely fresh and challenging, a coolly abstract vision of the modern family that pays subtle lip service to the film noir tradition.” - Little White Lies

Saturday, June 19 at 7pm and Sunday, June 20 at 4pm

EL PLANETA
A film by Amalia Ulman
(USA, 2021, 79 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
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Forced to return home after the death of her father, a daughter reconnects with her eccentric mother, hustling to maintain the semblance of their middle-class lifestyle in the face of an impending eviction. Over the course of the week, we watch as the daughter's hopes are tested as she attempts to use her sexuality as a means of escape. Meanwhile, the mother grifts her way into definite security – the care of a jail cell. Written and directed by Argentinian/Spanish visual artist Amalia Ulman, who also stars in this elegant, devastating dark comedy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. It will be released this upcoming fall by Utopia.

Fellow filmmaker/artist, Miranda July, says of El Planeta: “from the very first scene, my heart started to pound with that feeling of discovery . . . a brand new, totally modern, cinematic voice.”

Frday, June 18 - Tuesday, June 22
*Q&A with director Amalia Ulman at the 7:30pm screening on 6/18

AQUARIUS
A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho
(Brazil, 2016; 146 mins, in Portuguese with English subtitles) 
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Embracing the complexities of its 65-year-old protagonist, Aquarius tells the story of a woman who refuses to leave her apartment, even after all the apartments around her are sold to developers. The retired music critic and cancer survivor becomes a symbol of strength and vitality, never giving up her zestful nature. Paralleling the real life politics of Brazil, the film meditates on the connection between physical space and identity. 

“An extraordinarily fine film, Ms. Braga is superb as the strong-willed cancer survivor who won't back down under pressure from a construction company who wants her out of her apartment.” – The Guardian

Friday, June 18 at 4pm and Sunday, June 20 at 12:45pm