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Screening: 'Días de Santiago'

• New York
• 08/25/2010
• 06:00 PM

This screening is part of the Verano Tropical film series. Días de Santiago, directed by Josué Méndez (Peru, 2004, 83 minutes), was selected by over 80 Film Festivals worldwide and won no less than a dozen prestigious awards. Josué Méndez' extraordinary debut explores the tragic impossibility of a war veteran to reintegrate into civilian life.

23-year old Santiago (Pietro Sibille, in a “volcanic performance,” according to Variety) returns home, weary from years of jungle fighting, searching for hope. But his native Lima has become a less than welcoming place. Unable to get a job or credit, or afford an education, misunderstood by his family, wife and friends whom he finds decadent and distant, Santiago’s estrangement from an increasingly hostile and chaotic world deepens, as his anger and frustration rise. Through a powerful and original style of narration, Méndez vividly examines the effects of war upon those who carry it out.

Venue: Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East, 49th Street New York, NY 10017. Subway: E,V to Lexington Ave-53rd St; 6 to 51st St. In Spanish, with English subtitles.

Phone: 212-308-7720

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