HELI / LOS BASTARDOS
$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Aero Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Amat Escalante
Co-presented by Hola Mexico Film Festival
‘Amat Escalante: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
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ABOUT THE FILMS:
HELI, 2013, Dir. Amat Escalante, 105 Min, Strand Releasing, Mexico
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes Film Festival, HELI is “hypnotic and starkly beautiful…a stunning piece of filmmaking” (Los Angeles Times). When Heli’s 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico’s brutal drug war, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
FORMAT: DCP
LOS BASTARDOS, 2009, Dir. Amat Escalante, 90 Min, Mexico
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Award-winning film about two undocumented Mexican day laborers in L.A. Each day they stand on the corner at the home improvement store seeking employment. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages. Today, one of them carries a shotgun inside his backpack.
FORMAT: 35mm
