Film: The Awakening of the Ants (El despertar de las hormigas)

28th 'Reel' Latin American Film Festival

For thoughtful, demure young housewife Isa, life in a lush, postcard-perfect Costa Rican seaside village is far from anyone’s idea of a dream. She is being pressured by her intrusive and loudly opinionated in-laws to have another baby – a boy – even as her already cramped household struggles to stay afloat. She tends to the needs of her husband and two daughters while her own desires remain distant and ignored.

Isa finds herself suffocated by rigid gender roles and the cloistered, provincial thinking that comes with small-town life. Desperately imagining some other way of living—single, childless, desired—while growing increasingly tense towards those closest to her, Isa finds herself at a breaking point awakening to the possibilities of a life lived on her own terms, in this engrossing and intimate feature debut from writer/director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 5:00pm to 7:15pm

Student Activities Center (SAC), Floyd Auditorium
2100 S. Floyd Street , Louisville, Kentucky 40208

Event Type

Arts, Film

Audience

Students, Faculty/staff, Alumni, Public

Departments

Arts & Sciences, Classical/Modern Languages, Latin American & Latino Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, Spanish

Cost

Free

Group
Cultural Center, Latinx Student Union, Student Activities Board
Contact Name

Thomas Lawrence

Contact Phone Number

859-835-6595

Contact Email

tjlawr02@louisville.edu

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