Rice Cinema features weekend of contemporary Mexican films

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Rice Cinema will screen three films by contemporary Mexican directors, beginning Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. with a discussion of “Espiral (Spiral)” by Jorge Perez Solano. The 2009 film looks at what happens when migrant workers return home to find their wives have taken over in their absence. The film begins at 7 p.m.

			Rice Cinema will screen three films by contemporary Mexican directors.

The second film, “Siete Días (Seven Days),” will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept. 24. Directed by Fernando Kalife, the 2005 movie is the story of an event organizer who places a huge bet in hopes of bankrolling a rock concert.

Finally, “El Estudiante (The Student),” a 2009 film by Roberto Girault, will screen at 7 p.m. Sept. 25. It deals with a 70-year-old retiree who decides to follow his dreams and enroll at a university, where he stumbles upon a new generation and they are bound together by the novel “Don Quijote de la Mancha.”

All three films will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles. The screenings are free and open to the public.

The festival is sponsored by Rice University’s Multicultural Community Relations in the Office of Public Affairs, the Department of Hispanic Studies, Rice Cinema in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and the Mexican Consulate.

For more on the films, go to http://ricecinema.rice.edu/Events.aspx.