Saturday: Documentary about a Mexican lifestyle on “the verge of extinction”
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The Environmental Film Festival presents, “Drought.” The Mexican documentary “is a poignant portrait of a way of life on the verge of extinction.”
“In order to have a piece of land, you must suffer,” laments an old man in this poetic cinema verité film of a cattle-ranching community in northeastern Mexico on the verge of extinction. Working and living on the arid desert plains, the families of cowboys and farmers find pleasure in the simple things of life — family dinners, weddings and baptisms, the occasional village fiesta — but throughout it all, they look to the skies for signs of much needed rain.
The film, in Spanish with English subtitles, was released in 2011 but will have its Washington premiere Saturday. Directed by Everardo González. Produced by Martha Orozco. The film will be introduced by Laura Ramírez-Rasgado, the new director of the Mexican Cultural Institute.
Sat., Mar. 23 at 2 p.m.
Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th St., NW
Free but seating is limited and registration required: RSVP@instituteofmexicodc.org
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