El Inmigrante 
Monday, April 17, 3pm
Wednesday, April 19, 5pm 
English, 90 minutes
Directors: John Sheedy, David Eckenrode and John Eckenrode.
El Inmigrante examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant (from San Felipe Torres Mochas, Guanajuato) who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. The film presents a distinct humanitarian focus and examines the perspectives of a diverse cast in this border narrative. The cast includes the de Haro family, the community of Bracketville, Texas, where Eusebio was shot, members of vigilante border militias in Arizona, the horseback Border Patrol in El Paso, and migrants en route to an uncertain future in the United States.

Yesterday (2004)
Monday, April 17, 7:30pm
Thursday, April 20, 5pm
Afrikaans with English subtitles, 96 minutes 
Director: Darrell Roodt
Darrell James Roodt (Cry, the Beloved Country) directs this heartfelt drama, the first Zulu-language film to be released internationally. Struggling to raise her daughter in a poor African village, Yesterday (Leleti Khumalo) finds the odds stacked against her when she learns that she is HIV-positive. With her husband in denial, Yesterday must somehow find the strength to go on, determined to live just long enough to see her daughter go to school.

The Barbarian Invasions 
(Les Invasions Barbares 2003)
Tuesday, April 18, 5pm
Wednesday, April 19, 7:30pm
French with English subtitles, 99 minutes
Director: Denys Arcand
In this Oscar-winning drama, fiftyish Remy (Remy Girard) is divorced and hospitalized in Montreal. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastien, to come home from London (where he now lives) as a show of support for his father. As soon as he arrives, Sebastien makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the health care system in every way possible.

Cineclub Para Jóvenes Mexicanos presents:
Bienvenido-Welcome 
Wednesday April 19, 5pm
Español, 115 minutes
Director: Gabriel Retes
This interesting bilingual comedy chronicles the effects of AIDS on a marriage. Maria and José are married. Trouble ensues when José strays with a tall, seductive blonde while he is at a conference. Throughout the opening scenes it is apparent that this is a low-budget film. The English is appalling, and the boom mike keeps appearing during the scenes. Just as José begins making love to the blond, a man is seen watching a monitor. Another man appears and tries to pull away the sheet covering the lovers. He succeeds and the irate blond wraps the sheet around her and stalks out. Fortunately, the makeup girl is not as modest and assumes the blonde's role. The director is greatly relieved. The filming continues as José makes love to the adulteress. Afterward, he wakes up to find "Welcome to the world of AIDS" luridly scrawled across the mirror. Thus begin the two plot lines. On one hand, the film parodies the budding Mexican film industry. On the other, it presents a semi-serious story about AIDS, a disease that is infecting more married women in Mexico than anyone else.

Stroszek (1977)
Thursday, April 20, 7:30pm
German with English subtitles, 107 minutes
Director: Werner Herzog
In Werner Herzog's idiosyncratic, lyrical take, the road in question stretches between the gritty urban slums of Berlin and the equally desolate railroad flats of Wisconsin. Bruno S. (Mystery of Kaspar Hauser) plays Stroszek, just out of jail, who is trying to stop drinking. He finds a soulmate in Eva (Eva Mattes), an equally hard-up Berlin prostitute. However, the two quickly find their fate closing in on them.

Crash (2005)
Friday, April 21, 3pm
Director: Paul Haggis
A 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-September 11 Los Angeles is the theme of this unflinching drama that challenges audiences to confront their prejudices. Lives combust when a Brentwood housewife and her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple all converge.