LAFF 2022: On This Side of the Word - Mar 23

[Mario Boido]

Dear colleagues,

Please join us for the final screening of the 2022 Latin American Film Festival, On This Tide of the World  (David Trueba / Spain / 2020 / 96 min). The film will be screened in person at the Kitchener Public Library theatre (KPL Central Branch, 85 Queen Street North) on Wednesday, March 23, at 7pm.

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About the film. On This Side of the World is a deep and global look at migrations, borders, and the most insurmountable walls erected by mankind.


Alberto, a dull and indolent engineer, is fired from his company just as he plans to buy a house with his girlfriend and become parents. To cover it up, he decides to accept an assignment from his former boss to travel to the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa and gate to Europe.


Alberto must renovate, underhand, the system of fences that not only separates one piece of land from another, a city from a country, but two universes in eternal collision: those who want to enter and those who prevent them from doing so. There, he will meet Nagore, a police officer in charge of guiding him through the unknown space, and he will come face to face with the complexity of one of the great issues that shake the world: immigration. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?


Trueba proves once again that he is a man concerned with the great conflicts of contemporary humanity, and that his approach to these conflictive issues is far from being frivolous and distant. The filmmaker observes the world with curiosity, compassion, and a multifaceted gaze, which allows him to delve deeper into the subject without losing his narrative pulse.


You can also stream On This Side of the World until March 27 from the Festival Portal. For access to the portal and to learn more about the Festival visit:  https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/3rd-annual-latin-american-film-festival-jan-19-mar-23


Best wishes,

Mario



Mario Boido, PhD (he/him)
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519.888.4567 ext 35621

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