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Showtimes
Friday, June 14
7:00pm
Ticketing
$13 /General Admission
$10 /FACETS Members
Single Tickets
Festival Pass
A powerful program exploring the complex dynamics of skin color and identity within Latino communities through two poignant films:
White Like the Moon
A Mexican-American girl struggles to keep her identity when her mother forces her to bleach her skin. White Like the Moon is a revealing film about a dilemma not very well known outside Latino communities; that of the myth of the light skin superiority in Indigenous and Indigenous descendant communities.
Directed by Marina Gonzalez Palmier, 2001, 23 minutes, Short film/Drama, USA, English
Negrita – Chicago Premiere!
Exploring the ideology of Blackness, diverse Afro-Latinas explore and confront culture and racism while defining their own identity in the U.S. – Racially Black Ethnically Latina.
Directed by Magdalena Albizu, 2023, 51 minutes, Documentary, USA, English, Spanish (with English subtitles)
ADIFF CHICAGO 2024
This screening is a part of ADIFF Chicago 2024. Since its inception, ADIFF Chicago have presented culturally significant films that explore the Black and Indigenous experience, giving a multidimensional voice to often misrepresented realities and peoples.
