LILIFF offers 7 Screening Programs throughout the festival. Each program features a group of films for one price.
(On-line ticketing ends midnight, September 25, 2008) Methods of Payment online: Paypal and Credit Cards.
All seats that are not claimed 20 minutes before show time will be sold on a first come - first served basis.
Get there early as most of our screenings sell out!
If you have a question, please call Oscar at 516-557-7182.
See below for film description and running schedule
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Sunday, Sept. 28 – 3:30 p.m. |
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USA 2007
Sara Seligman
: Ester and Teresa run a secluded Bed and Breakfast on the countryside of Pennsylvania. As beautiful as it may seem, they have become prisoners of their own home. As Ester struggles to get her mother’s attention, Teresa seems too busy praying for a miracle. Immersed in their own problems, mother and daughter realize the horrible secret of their last guest when it’s too late to change faith.
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Friday, Sept. 26 – 6:30 p.m. Reception / 8:00 p.m. |
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Patrick Mullins
Bracero Stories explores the personal experience of five former "guest workers" in the controversial U. S.-Mexican government Bracero Program, which granted temporary work contracts to millions of Mexican laborers between 1942 and 1964.
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USA English 2007
Directed by: Brian Petersen
J. and Steve, best friends forever, stumble into an opportunity when a Mexican pal, recently deported, needs their help to get back across the border. Surprised at how easy it is to fool the Border Patrol agents in Nogales, the guys see it as a chance to corner the market as the 'Kinder, Gentler People Smugglers,' while beating the Minutemen at their own game in the process. Soon enough, J. and Steve learn the real danger in crossing boundaries.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 1:00 p.m. |
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USA 2007
Abel Gonzalez
What if the US Border Patrol and the Mexican Police find the corpse of an illegal alien lying right on the border line? Who would take the case? “Crossing Numbers” is a dark comedy about the indifference of the institutions towards the humanitarian crisis in the US/Mexican Border.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 7:00 p.m. |
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USA 2007
Yan Giroux
Cubanos, a completely independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban community. Sincere interviews and sequence shots reveal an identity fragmented by 48 years of dictatorship, a people struggling to leave the 20th century behind.
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Sunday, Sept. 28 – 6:15 p.m. |
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USA 2008
Francisco Franco
Responsibility and desire strain the boundaries of a familial relationship in this drama from first-time director Francisco Franco. Helena (Irene Azuela) and Sebastian (Angel Onesimo Nevarez) are a teenaged brother and sister who have been reunited at their home while looking after their ailing mother, Eugenia (Claudette Maille).
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 4:00 p.m. |
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USA 2008
Hector Palma
Gabriel Guerra
A pending story. Rene receives an anonymous phone call from a stranger who knows in depth his implication on illegal diamond traffic. The tension on the conversation grows by the time Rene realizes what his actions provide him.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 1:00 p.m.
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Sunday, Sept. 28 – 3:30 p.m. |
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LOOK AT MEUSA 2008
James Avelar, Rudy Carbajal
We live in a world that relies heavily on looks and figures. Society has said that we all must look like a thin super model to survive in the dating pool. Those who are a pound overweight are looked upon as “different”. Meet Rebecca “Becky” Estrada. Becky is a very pretty woman with long dark hair and believes that she is overweight. Becky feels that she has to put an end to her figure and get liposuction.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 4:00 p.m. |
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USA 2006
Daniel Eduvijes Carrera
A young outsider is confronted with the harsh rituals of a rustic Mexican pueblo where cruelty underlies street life and Catholicism alike.
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Friday, Sept. 26 – 6:30 p.m.
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Sunday, Sept. 28 – 3:30 p.m. |
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MAYOR O MENORVenezuela 2007
Hector Palma
Seven friends discover how decisions, no matter how small they are, can make a big difference in the trajectory of our lives.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 7:00 p.m. |
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PaUSA 2008
Miguel Duran
Synopsis: Pa tells a story of Jamie, a young successful businessman. He receives early morning news about an impending promotion at work, but also receives a call that his grandfather is on his deathbed. Jaime has to make a decision family or work.
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Sunday, Sept. 28 – 3:30 p.m. |
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REPENTANCEUSA 2007, 13 minutes
by Julio Antonio Toro
Synopsis: Repentance is a mystery story of a mysterious wanderer who seeks the confession of an old priest, whose ultimate secret turns out to be his greatest sin.
Julio Antonio Toro wrote, directed and edited Repentance. He is the recipient 2007 Brio award for screenwriting. He attended the school of Visual Arts as a student in the Illustration/ Cartooning program.
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Sunday, Sept. 28 - 1:00 p.m. |
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Ecuador 2007
Gabriela Böhm
Synopsis: A small group of South Americans long to affirm their faith. Their ancestors - European Jews - were forced to convert during the Spanish Inquisition. Isolated in Catholic countries, rejected by local Jewish communities, they battle to become Jews regardless of the consequences.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 1:00 p.m. |
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SHOPPING TO BELONGUSA 2007
Irene Sosa
Synopsis:
Why do we shop? Why do Latinos shop? Shopping to belong, answers these questions in an engaging documentary that touches on issues of identity, citizenship, and the loss of homeland faced by the Latino immigrant.
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Saturday, Sept. 27 - 1:00 p.m. |
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USA 2008
Director: Emilio Rosa
Synopsis: The Sun Shines on the Other Side of the Street, the touching tale of three generations of men-grandfather, father, and son-struggling to hold together in the face of poverty and generational differences starring Latin jazz master Tito Puente Jr. who will be in attendance.
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