AIFF Partners with
Boston Latino International Film Festival ONLINE
September 24 – October 3
Directed by Tali Yankelevich | Doc | 78 min | Brazil
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3eSsKAeOP0
Grocery store employees, today’s essential workers, get star treatment in My Darling Supermarket (made prior to the pandemic). Set within a bright, colorful supermercado in São Paulo, Brazil, this charming, funny documentary glides through a seemingly endless array of vibrantly designed shelves and displays, but it’s the store’s employees who take center stage. Rodrigo (in bread) discusses quantum physics and parallel universes; Santo (a forklift operator) builds video game cities; a security officer tracks possible shoplifters on closed-circuit TVs (“Two suspects near the condensed milk!”); Ivan (a baker) is into Manga cosplay, and then there’s the artist who lovingly paints the prices. A panoply of individuals with fears, hopes, and questions about their place in the universe are celebrated in a quirky portrait that juxtaposes their idiosyncrasies with the assumed mundanity of bringing food to our table…”
—Film Forum
Dates Available: Thursday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. to Sunday, Oct. 3 at 10 p.m
Directed by Macha Colón | Nar | 97 Min | Puerto Rico
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzX-bJ_AwCg
Perfume de Gardenias is the debut film of the renowned queer Afro-Puerto Rican singer, multi-disciplinary artist, and filmmaker Macha Colón. The dark comedy that captures the idiosyncrasies and spirit of a nation adept at creating novel strategies for laughter in the face of adversity, tells the story of Isabel – played by veteran theater and television actress Luz María Rondón in her first movie-starring role — an elderly woman living in a middle-class neighborhood in Puerto Rico, who has just become a widow after having cared for her husband until his last breaths. However, her recent loss becomes a blessing when she crafts a beautiful custom-made funeral for him that catches the attention of Toña (Sharon Riley), a pious but domineering woman who involves herself in local funerals.
Dates Available: Friday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. to Sunday, Oct. 3 at 10 p.m.