Film Screening:

Y también la lluvia/Even the Rain
(Iciar Bollain, 2010, 110 min, Mexico/Spain/France, in Spanish & Aymara w/ English Subtitles, Color, DVD)

The story intertwines Columbus's arrival in the Americas with the making of a film; it mixes the Spanish crown's exploitation of gold in the 16th century with the fight for water in Cochabamba in the year 2000. The film takes us from the fiction of a period film to the reality of a film set in a small Bolivian city. And from that reality to another which is deeper and more dramatic, that faced by people with practically no rights, prohibited by law from collecting even the rain. But Even the Rain does much more than compare historic events. It transcends the detail and delves into something much deeper and more universal, the never ending processes of colonialism and neo-colonialism in the Americas.

[Some violence and partial nudity]

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)