Unlike typical depictions of the white American hardships during the Great Depression, French photojournalist Pierre Fatumbi Verger introduces a new lens through which to understand the multiculturalism woven into the fabric of the United States in...
In this interview with CLAIS, Mexican-Puerto Rican film director Sonia Fritz spoke about her career path and goals, the challenges she has faced as a woman in the film industry, as well as about some of her works, especially about her most recent...
LIFFY and the Spanish & Portuguese Department will co-host the LIFFY´’s inaugural screening this year. Javier Espada’s documentary, Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker will be screened on Monday, November 7, at 5.00 pm (53 Wall Street Auditorium.)
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The Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY) began as a local film series in the late 1990s before expanding into a regional festival. In 2015, the festival took on its current shape and changed its name to the Latino & Iberian Film...
In February, 1922, the Brazilian Week of Modern Art placed the country firmly in the international spotlight. The most important Brazilian impact was felt through the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do...
In Wërapara: chicas trans, director Claudia Fischer follows the lives of a group of six trans women from the Embera Chami community, located in the Karmata Rua Indigenous Reservation in Colombia. In an interview with CLAIS, Fischer spoke about the...
Entiendo que por su trabajo previo en las artes, usted ya tenía conexiones con algunas de las mujeres de la película. ¿Cómo llegaron usted y ellas a querer colaborar en este proyecto, especialmente dado su carácter muy personal?
Sí, por previas...
