LAS PREMIERES
Presented by Museum of the Moving Image and CInema Tropical
Co-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and the Mexican Studies Institute at The City University of New York
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
( Iliana Sosa, Mexico/USA, 2022, 71 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Sosa creates an intimate, lovingly patient portrait of her 89-year-old grandfather Julián, from his final, long, solo bus ride to visit his daughters in El Paso, Texas, to his efforts to build a second house on his property in Mexico. Intending one house for his blind son and the other for those he can no longer travel to visit, he prepares fastidiously for a future he may not share with them, and reflects poetically on the past that led to this present. Sosa’s film is a marvel of presence, filled with gorgeously attentive images and casually revelatory moments born of patience and loving complicity. New York premiere
Sunday, March 20, 3pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY
(718) 777-6800 / www.movingimage.us
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