Screening Schedule - Dates, times and titles

• All Cine Mexicano screenings will be at:
  Cinema Star Theaters
  320 3rd. Ave.
  in the heart of downtown Chula Vista.
• All films in Spanish with English subtitles (Family Day features Spanish-only).

August

August 20, Friday
6:30 p.m. Opening Reception
8 p.m. Santitos(1998) - Feature Film Screening. Santitos is a magical, humorous and passion-filled odyssey about a young widow's search for her missing child. Directed by Alejandro Springall - Spanish with English subtitles.

August 21, Saturday
7 p.m. Santitos - Feature Film Screening

August 22, Sunday ('Family Day')
1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., & 5:30 p.m.
Classic Mexican Feature Film Screening:

Ora Ponciano (1936) Directed by Gabriel Soria
In Spanish - no subtitles.

A 1936 classic film with the theme of Rancho Grande folk songs, comedy, melodrama (Black and White).

August 23 - 26, Monday - Thursday
7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
Ora Ponciano (1936)
Classic Mexican Feature Film Screening:

Directed by Gabriel Soria
In Spanish no subtitles.

September

September 17, Friday
6:30 p.m. Reception
8 p.m. Cilantro y Perejil - Recipes to Stay Together (1996) - Feature Film Screening - A light and entertaining comedy portraying conflicts of a contemporary couple. Directed by Rafael Montero. Spanish with English subtitles.

September 18, Saturday
7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Cilantro y Perejil - Recipes to Stay Together - Feature Film Screening

September 19, Sunday ('Family Day')
1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., & 5:30 p.m. Classic Mexican Feature Film Screening
Un Gallo en Corral Ajeno (1951)
Directed by Julian Soler. In Spanish - no subtitles.
With the prototype of the Mexican singing charro: Jorge Negrete (Black and White).

September 20 - 23, Monday - Thursday
7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Cilantro y Perejil - Recipes to Stay Together - Feature Film Screening

October

October 15, Friday
6:30 p. m. Reception
8 p.m. El Callejon de los Milagros - Midaq Alley. This film braids together the stories of three characters. Although the stories all occur on the same day, each is self-contained, independent of the others. Each tale adds to those before it by depitcing different viewpoints, often of the same events. Set in the old downtown section of today's Mexico City. Spanish with English subtitles.

October 16, Saturday
7 p.m. & 9 p.m. El Callejon de los Milagros - Midaq Alley

October 17, Sunday ('Family Day')
1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., & 5:30 p.m.
Classic Mexican Feature Film Screening
Enamorada (1946).
Directed by Emilio Fernandez. In Spanish - no subtitles.
During the first decade of the twenteith century, an aristocratic woman awakens the love of a rustic but sincere general in the revolution. the brave woman is initially scornful of the worker but ends up giving in to the strage cleanliness of her feelings leaving behind her family and her strange and encumbered fiancé to become a humble soldadera who marches alongside her man. Starring Maria Felix and Pedro Armendares (Black and White).

October 18 - 21, Monday - Thursday
7 p.m. & 9 p.m. El Callejon de los Milagros - Midaq Alley

Cost: $5 - General
$3 - Students
FREE - Kids under 13 years-old