SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE!
SKYPE Q&A w/ FILMMAKER AMAT ESCALANTE on FRIDAY, AUGUST 8
Join us on August 8th for our monthly film screening. It’s a late one! Screen time 9:45 7PM screening. Let’s meet up for a drink across the street at Picaro by the bar at the front of the restaurant 8:306PM.
For tickets. http://tktwb.tw/1zIFWUx
From the acclaimed Mexican director Amat Escalante, HELI is a powerful, gritty and evocative film that portrays the devastating effects of drug violence and corruption in Mexico society, and how a working class family struggles against them in a small town in Mexico. Heli and his family live an ordinary life until his sister, a thirteen-year-old Middle School student, falls madly in love with another teenager, a newly recruited police cadet. This love affair accidentally involves Heli’s family in a tragic series of events that with change them forever.
Escalante delivers in HELI a visually striking film about violence, hope and humankind. Winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival 2013.
Dir: Amat Escalante. Mexico / Germany / Netherlands / France. 2013. Digital. 105 mins.
For tickets. http://tktwb.tw/1zIFWUx
