March 25, 2025  |  UNAM - SA  |  600 Hemisfair Plaza Way

This collection of award-winning short films features selections from Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States.

Join filmmaker Jackie Barragan for a Q&A after the screening facilitated by Marian Navarro of Texas Public Radio.

Echoes of the Rio by Jackie Barragan

Los Mosquitos by Nicole Chi

sisters by water by Shenny De Los Angeles

Sentir el Son by Karla Duarte

El Regreso by Samantha Ramirez

March 4, 2025  |  UNAM - SA  |  600 Hemisfair Plaza Way

Directed by Robie Flores, 2024, USA, Mexico, 82 min

Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns to Eagle Pass, the border town where she grew up, to document the places that shaped their family. She finds a treasure trove of his own footage that brings him back to life, sparking a reflection on growing up Mexican American along the U.S.-Mexico border. She rediscovers the beautiful mysteries of their complex hometown. Click the poster to watch the trailer.  

Join filmmakers Robie and Alejandro Flores for a Q&A facilitated by Marian Navarro of Texas Public Radio after the screening!

February 11, 2025  |  District 5 Senior Center |  2701 S. Presa St. 

Directed by Richard Saiz, 2023, USA, 55 min

In partnership with MACRI, join us at the District 5 Senior Center for a free screening of Linda & Carlos: A Chicano Love Story, a documentary film that tells the story of the Chicano Movement through the lives of Linda and Carlos LeGerrette who played a pivotal role in helping advance the cause of the Mexican American community in cities and in the agricultural fields of California. 

January 11, 2025  |  Central Library  |  600 Soledad

Directed by Andrew Shapter, 2019, USA, 55 min

English and Spanish with English subtitles. 

On the morning of January 28, 1918, a group of Texas Rangers, U.S. Army soldiers, and ranchers arrived in the remote farming community of Porvenir in West Texas. They separated 15 men and boys of Mexican descent from the rest of the community and shot and killed them. This horrific episode of anti-Mexican violence is recounted in this documentary film that asks what led to the events of that fateful night and reveals the tensions that still remain along the border over a century later. Producer Christina Fernandez Shapter in attendance for a post-screening Q&A!

Preceded by They Call Us Sediciosos by Iz Gutierrez, a narrative short film set in 1915, when Jovita Idár, a reporter, writer, and activist for women and Mexican American civil rights, interviews a mother whose son has gone missing while at the hands of racist Rangers and vigilantes who have been targeting the Texas-Mexican community in the Lower Rio Grande Valley during a time known as "La Matanza" (The Massacre).

Presented as an official Dreamweek event in partnership with the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) and the Latino Collection and Resources Center (LCRC).

October 11, 2024  |  Arthouse at Blue Star

The Golden Chain by Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels

Daylight Rules by Alex Browning

The Fore-men by Adrian Bobb

Chimera by Kryzz Gautier

We Are Not Alone by Adebukola Bodunrin

Presented in partnership with MACRI and Slab Cinema.

September 12, 2024  |  Arthouse at Blue Star  |  134 Blue Sar

Directed by Sergio Arau, 2004, USA, 100 min

California awakens one day to discover that its entire Mexican population (at the time, 14 million) has disappeared and panic ensures. The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) and MonteVideo present a 20th Anniversary Screening of director Sergio Arau’s breakthrough film!

Check out Remezcla article here.

March 2, 2024  |  Central Library | 600 Soledad St.

Directed by Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez, 2023, USA, 99 min

Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aiming to combat misinformation. A story of an America in flux, and the voices often left out of the narrative, Breaking the News shows change doesn’t come easy.

Screening followed by a Q&A with director/producer and San Antonio native Chelsea Hernandez! Free popcorn and refreshments provided by the Latino Collection and Resource Center. Presented as part of the Latina Spring Film Series in partnership with MACRI. 

October 12-14, 2023 |  Arthouse at Blue Star, Central Library, Jump-Start Performance Co.

The third annual festival showcased films from Brazil, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Peru, United Kingdom, and the United States. 

Highlights included a special edition of Xicanx Versus Aliens with filmmaker Ivan Flores (La Curandera Cumbiambera) and actress Carlie Guevara (Spaceship), a stellar outdoor screening of Hummingbirds by Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras, and the world premiere of The Burden with director Tish Arana in attendance.

June 5, 2023  |  Location: Santikos Palladium | 17703 I-10 W.

Directed by Andrés Muschietti, 2023, 144 min

Red carpet screening of The Flash with special guest Sasha Calle who portrays Supergirl!

April 8, 2023  |  Presa House Gallery  |  725 S. Presa St.

Directed by Shireen Alihaji

Presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up: Free Chol Soo Lee by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi.​​

March 18, 2023  |  Presa House Gallery  |  725 S. Presa St.

Directed by Shenny De Los Angeles and Maria Marrone

Presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up: Storming Caesar's Palace directed by Hazel Gurland-Pooler.​​

November 10, 2022  |  Jaime's Place  |  1514 W. Commerce St.

Directed by Abel Sanchez and Andres Alegria, 2021, USA, 102 min

A Song for Cesar tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists who dedicated their time, creativity and even reputations to peacefully advance Cesar Chavez’s farmworker movement. Joan Baez, Carlos Santana, Taj Mahal, and Maya Angelou - among many others - reflect on their experiences with and the impact of the legendary Cesar Chavez.

Sponsored by the Cesar E. Chavez Legacy & Educational Foundation and MACRI.

October 6, 2022  |  Jaime’s Place  |  1514 W. Commerce St.

Directed by Chuco Garcia

Preceded by Mr. Zoot Suit by Chan’Cellore Makanjuola.

September 8, 2022  |  Jaime's Place  |  1514 W. Commerce St.

Directed by Isabel Castro, 2022, USA, 88 mins

Mija chronicles the emotional and complex stories of Doris Muñoz and Jacks Haupt, the daughters of undocumented immigrants from Mexico, navigating their careers in the music industry. For these two, “making it” isn’t just a dream, it’s a necessity.

March 28, 2022  |  Arthouse at Blue Star  |  134 Blue Star

Retain by Grace Goen

Time by Adam Gonzalez

RECuerdo by Alfonso M. Rodriguez

In Search of Aliens by Susan Aparicio

Luminous by Than Niles

Nuevo Rico by Kristian Mercado

La luna y el colibri (The Moon and the Hummingbird) by Luis Fernando Puente

Chicana Stardust by Benjamin Huerta and Itamar Lilienthal

February 12, 2022  |  Virtual Screening

Directed by Michéle Stephenson and Imani Dennison

Presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up: Apart by Jennifer Redfearn.

October 23, 2021  |  Cassiano Park  |  1728 Potosi St.

Directed by Alex Rivera

Preceded by The Satellite Space Center of Colombia (Centro espacial satelital de Colombia) by La Decanatura (Calderón & Piñeros).

Sleep Dealer is a science-fiction feature film set on the U.S. / Mexico border that tells the story of Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man from Mexico who dreams of coming to the United States. However, in this brave new borderland, crossing is impossible, and Memo ‘migrates’ in a new way — over the net. By connecting his body to the net Memo controls a machine that performs his labor in America, sending his pure work without the body of the worker.

The Satellite Space Center of Colombia (Centro espacial satelital de Colombia) was made in Chocontá, Colombia where the filmmakers found two satellites that were built in the 70s and 80s. They worked with a local Symphonic Youth Band over the period of 9 months to orchestrate a surreal concert that integrates the outdated history and abandoned landscape. ⁠

October 12, 2021  |  Virtual Screening

Directed by Gustavo Mosquera

Preceded by La luna y el colibri (The Moon and the Hummingbird) by Luis Fernando Puente.

Alex lives in a bunker surrounded by an uninhabitable world, but in order to reunite with Beto, the love of her life, she will have to come face to face with the dangers of the outside.

May 16, 2021  |  Virtual Screening

Directed by Lizette Barrera

Presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up: The Donut KIng by Alice Gu.

March 14, 2021  |  Virtual Screening

Directed by by World Channel 

Presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up: Coded Bias by Shalini Kantayya.

January 24, 2021  |  Virtual Screening

Directed by Jackie Barragan

Presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up: 9to5: The Story of a Movement by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar.

January 28, 2020  |  Presa House Gallery  |  725 S. Presa St.

Directed by Ray Santisteban

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party, notably led by the charismatic Fred Hampton, began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including the Latinx group the Young Lords Organization and the working-class young southern whites of the Young Patriots. Finding common ground, these disparate groups banded together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing, calling themselves the Rainbow Coalition. The First Rainbow Coalition tells the movement’s little-known story through rare archival footage and interviews with former coalition members in the present-day. 

While the coalition eventually collapsed under duress from constant harassment by local and federal law enforcement, including the murder of Fred Hampton, it had a long term impact, breaking down barriers between communities, and creating a model for future activists and diverse politicians across America.