The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is proud to introduce its Spring 2025 Film Series at the Latin American Cultural Center (LACC) in Oakland.

The LACC Film Series will occur on four Sundays between January and April 2025. All programming includes one short film and one fiction feature.

Join us in this must-see series, as we explore issues related to Latin American stories, art, culture, environmental concerns, social struggles, and points of view.

Film Series I

Short + Fiction

Showtime: 6:00 PM
Total screening time: 124 minutes 

Seven Fragments of Her Life

Directed by Bárbara Varassi Pega, Mauricio Martínez and Omar Martínez Gianoli.
Argentina, Netherlands, 2024, 9 minutes
No dialogue

Short, Animation

A woman experiences the intimacy of her world while exploring the deserted landscapes of the city of Rotterdam during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Dos Fridas – Director’s Cut

Directed by Ishtar Yasin Gutérrez
Costa Rica/Mexico, 2024, 115 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

Feature, Fiction

This story is inspired by real life events. Judith Ferreto spends the final days in her house in Costa Rica. Death’s approach evokes memories, living pictures of moments of complicity in Frida Kahlo’s company, when Judith was the Mexican painter’s personal nurse. The film brings together popular art, votive offerings, images of death, surrealism and the artists and intellectuals of Post-revolutionary Mexico through magical realism.