¡Sumate al Uruguayan Cultural Film Series! Join the Uruguayan Cultural Film Series!

Disfrutá de lo mejor del cine uruguayo en un ambiente súper copado y presencial. Vas a poder ver historias que te conectan con la cultura y tradiciones de Uruguay, todo acompañado de charlas y buen onda. Ideal para los amantes del cine y los que quieran conocer más sobre esta tierra. No te lo pierdas, ¡te esperamos!

The Spanish Program of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (DLLL) at YORK UNIVERSITY and the CONSULATE GENERAL OF URUGUAY IN TORONTO, in collaboration with CERLAC, present a film series of 3 movies, free and open to the public!

Together with the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies on the Keele Campus, and the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), and Calumet and Stong Colleges, we are inviting you to watch the films:

1) IDA VITALE: the first –on April 15 at 1pm — is a documentary abour one of the best known Uruguayan poets, in collaboration with the League of Canadian Poets for National Poetry Month in Canada!

2) JULIO, FELICES POR SIEMPRE –-on June 25 at 1pm– is about love and relationships in the digital age.

3) ANINA –on October 22 at 4:30pm– is an animated film great for all ages, in the context of Hispanic Heritage month and Latin American Heritage celebrations in Ontario and across the GTA in the month of October!

Free and fun! Relax and learn! Share ideas and travel vicariously to Uruguay! 🇺🇾

Join the Uruguayan Cultural Film Series! Enjoy the best of Uruguayan cinema in a super cool and face-to-face atmosphere. You will be able to see stories that connect you with the culture and traditions of Uruguay, all accompanied by talks and good vibes. Ideal for movie lovers and those who want to know more about this land. Don’t miss it, we are waiting for you! See you there!

All films are in Spanish with English subtitles. 🎊🇺🇾🎥🎬🎞️📽️

More about each film:

IDA VITALE

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT No two words define her better than her first and last name: Ida Vitale. Ida is a 99-year-old poet who travels, thinking and seeing things from new perspectives. I share a deep friendship with her that began long before I was born. Ida is part of the Generation of ’45, a movement of Uruguayan writers and artists to which my grandparents also belonged. Today, Ida is the last representative of that generation and embodies all of my family’s affection. Since childhood, I have been captivated by her gaze and her apparent distractions. To see her appreciate something is to discover poetry as it is lived. It is to see something appear that wasn’t there before she named it. Ida looks, and I film her looking. For Ida, the world is chaotic and difficult to classify, but chaos offers the temptation of order. Until the best system for organizing everything arrives, the most innocent is the alphabetical one. Starting from this premise, the film constructs a portrait of Ida Vitale through 26 chapters in alphabetical order. From A to Z, Ida travels through words that form her moving portrait. We enter her universe; we pass through her poems and gradually come to know her life, but from another time, far removed from the everyday. The film enters the suspended time of a poem. Poetry can be the center of a life, and it is undoubtedly the center of this documentary. In “Ida Vitale,” I am interested in inviting an absolute fusion between poetry and reality. A poetic monologue, an almost dreamlike portrait that flows, soaring, slow.

DIRECTOR’S BIO: María Arrillaga. Uruguay, 1986. Director, photographer, and editor. Holds a degree in Social Communication. Her work displays a sensibility oriented toward the artistic and literary fields and has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Brazil, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Uruguay. Among her audiovisual works, “Global Myopia” (2015), co-created with Marco Maggi and exhibited in galleries in Madrid, New York, San Francisco, and Rio de Janeiro, stands out; as does “Heterotopia I,” inspired by Peter Halley’s exhibition at the 58th Venice Biennale. “Ida Vitale” is her debut feature film.

More will be posted closer to the date of the other two films in June and October.

Refreshments will be served.

Free and open to the public.

Bring a friend!