Las Premieres Presents:

WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
A film by Iliana Sosa
(USA, 2021, 71 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Q&A with director
Co-presented by Mexico Now Festival

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. 

Sunday, November 27, 6pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY / (718) 777-6800
For tickets and more information visit: https://movingimage.us/event/what-we-leave-behind-2/

Watch the trailer: