Cine Las Americas is back for its 27th year, lighting up Austin with five days of incredible films, red carpet moments, and cultural celebration! Come experience powerful stories from Latine/x, Indigenous, Latin American, and Ibero-American communities—plus new this year: a 2-day filmmaker conference and a special youth film fest on May 24!
Queer Cinema: Lost & Found: Mods and Japanese bikers face off in this ultra-Nineties rager with a killer soundtrack, newly restored in 2K by the American Genre Film Archive and screening with Curt McDowell's short "Beaver Fever" (1974, 20 min.). Queer Cinema: Lost & Found programmer Elizabeth Purchell leads a discussion with Mod's Alyssa Taylor Wendt after the Saturday screening.
There really should be an apostrophe after "Jesus," but that's far from the most controversial part of this. The film is about wackadoodle preacher Greg Locke and will be followed by "a live simulcast event where Pastor Locke and his fellow demon slayers will lead a supernatural mass deliverance ... in Jesus name." OK.
Hyperreal Hotel: Hyperreal Film Club presents the captivating Chinese film about two snake spirits who become human. Screens with a local short film. Read a full review of Green Snake.