BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS
(ANTES QUE CANTE EL GALLO)
Arí Maniel Cruz / Puerto Rico / 2016 / 98 Min
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM – Film Viewing
1:40 – 2:15 PM – Post-film discussion with director Arí Maniel Cruz and panel.
Zoom Link
Location: UCF Downtown Campus, Communication and Media Building (CMB) 127
SYNOPSIS
Spanish with English Subtitles
With Miranda Purcell, Cordelia González, Kisha Tikina Burgos, José Eugenio Hernández, Yamil Collazo, Isadora Lee Cintrón, Iliana García, Israel Lugo.
Carmín is a teenager who lives in Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her tough and conservative grandmother. Carmín dreams of moving to the city, San Juan, with her mother but she just got remarried and is leaving for the US without her. Then, the arrival of her father after long years in prison eases Carmín’s profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities. Now the girl must learn to live between abandonment and carefulness; amidst desire and love to experience the deepest absence.