THURSDAY March 31 Screening "Los Herederos-The Inheritors" (Mexico 2009)

Spring 2011 Film Series: Globalization and Power  through Latin America Cinema

Los Herederos - The inheritors (Mexico, 2009)

A Film by Eugenio Polgovsky

Thursday, March 31

 Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 6:30pm

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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The most highly praised and awarded Mexican documentary in many years, THE INHERITORS by Eugenio Polgovsky immerses us in the daily lives of children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor.

The film takes us into the agricultural fields, where children barely bigger than the buckets they carry, work long hours, in often hazardous conditions, picking tomatoes, peppers, or beans, for which they are paid by weight. Infants in baskets are left alone in the hot sun, or are breast-fed by mothers while they pick crops.

THE INHERITORS also observes other labor routines, including the production of earthen bricks, cutting cane, gathering firewood, ox-plowing fields and planting by hand, and even more artistic endeavors such as carving wooden figures and weaving baskets to sell.

The indelible impression conveyed by THE INHERITORS, in which everyone-from the frailest elders to the smallest of toddlers-must work reveals how the cycle of poverty is passed on, from one generation to another.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gocb471tnE

Awards:

2010 Award of Merit in Film, Latin American Studies Association

Grand Prize, 2008 Festival of New Latin American Cinema

Best Documentary, 2009 Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences

Feisal Prize, 2009 Guadalajara Film Festival

Best Documentary, 2009 Festival de la Memoria

Best Documentary, Santiago International Documentary Festival

 

Spring 2011 Film Series : Globalization and Power  through Latin America Cinema

As usual, we will give a short introduction of the film and after the presentation you are welcome to stay for a discussion.

Some films are adult in nature and may not be appropriate for young audiences.

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