2022 ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL
In-Person: March 11—13
Online: March 11—20
Latinx and Latin American Films Co-Presented by Cinema Tropical
In 2022, the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College will be back in person on the Barnard campus in Morningside Heights for three days of shorts, features, and documentary films as well as panel conversations and filmmaker Q&As. After nearly two years of isolation, the Festival will be an opportunity to bring together women and nonbinary filmmakers, allies, audiences, community partners, and sponsors to mourn, celebrate, and advocate for a more inclusive understanding of what leadership looks like.
As the premier film festival dedicated to celebrating and elevating women’s leadership, the Athena Film Festival will showcase films and women whose leadership has been questioned, dismissed or erased, women who have risen up, spoken truth to power, women who empower their communities, inspire and educate, or women who simply survive – these are the stories we want to see. These are Athena stories. Panel conversations will focus on topics of advocacy and inclusion in the industry and in our culture.
A virtual program will also be available March 11 - 20, 2022 for ticket and passholders across the country. This includes selected films and panel discussions.
REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
(Patricia Cardoso, USA, 2002, 90 mins. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
20th Anniversary Screening
Real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life...and have curves. In her feature film debut, America Ferrera stars as 18-year-old Ana, a first-generation Mexican-American from East L.A., who struggles between her ambition of attending college and her cultural traditions--as personified by Ana's needy mother, who wants the girl to work at the family's sewing factory.
Screening in person on Saturday, March 12, 3pm at the Lehman Auditorium; streaming online from March 11 - 20
Panel: The Future of Latinx Stories in Hollywood
Twenty years on, Real Women Have Curves has become a seminal movie, both because of its beautiful portrayal of a young Latina coming of age and because it’s a reminder of an unfulfilled promise for films by and about the Latinx community. On this anniversary, we look back at this film and discuss the future of Latinx stories in Hollywood.
Saturday March 12, 4:35pm at the Event Oval
‘Shorts Program II’
SINCE YOU ARRIVED, MY HEART STOPPED BELONGING TO ME
(Erin Semine Kökdil, USA, 2021, 21 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Each year, hundreds of Central American migrants journeying north towards the United States go missing. Their mothers, left behind with nowhere to turn for support, organize together, and journey by bus through Mexico, retracing the last known steps of their missing children. Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me is a short documentary that follows these mothers, offering a perspective from the alternate side of the immigration crisis. The film intimately explores the familial grief and longing of these mothers for their children and the tremendous personal costs of the social forces that affect migration.
Screening in person on Saturday, March 12, 3pm at the Lehman Auditorium; streaming online from March 11 - 20
‘Shorts Program III’
SUSANA
(Laura Gamse, USA, 2020, 4 min. In English)
In 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest raids in modern history at slaughterhouses, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the danger to herself and her family, former slaughterhouse worker Susana returns to the scene at night to care for animals on their way to the kill floor.
TO THE FUTURE, WITH LOVE
(Shaleece Haas, USA, 2021, 7 min. In English)
Caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his desire to live happily ever after with his boyfriend, 19-year-old Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez takes us on an energetic and colorful journey through his life as a trans teen in LA and his dreams for the future.
Screening in person on Sunday, March 13, 3pm at the Lehman Auditorium; streaming online from March 11 - 20
