The Second annual COVEN Film Festival will be taking place January 10th -12th, 2020 at the historic Roxie Theater. We’re very excited to support and co-present the films listed below.
COVEN Film Festival showcases films by female filmmakers from the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Events include three days of films, panels, Q&As with filmmakers and excellent networking opportunities.
If you missed our Working Women’s shorts at SFLFF 11, you’re in luck! CFF re-screens Me También, a story about two women from different races, backgrounds, and worlds who are fighting to make a living while fulfilling their dreams. Their lives are torn apart when a sexual predator decides to direct his attention their way. Monica is a rising executive in a marketing firm whose earned everything she has in life. Christina is an undocumented Mexican immigrant running from her past trying to live out her version of the “American Dream” as a nanny to a wealthy family. When the true story of her employer unfolds, she realizes how this new dream world isn’t so different than the one from which she’s running away. Neither of them would imagine how their fates would intertwine to provide the key to unlocking their chains of injustice.
Directed by Valeria Vallejos
Marisol is a young mother striving to make a life for herself and her young daughter, María. She poses as her friend, Luisa, and borrows her car to take fares on a ride-sharing app. But her last passenger of the day, a young white man named Frederick, acts increasingly suspicious. When he accuses Marisol of being undocumented, her worst nightmare comes to life.
Directed by Zoé Salicrup Junco
La Llorona is a surrealistic film about a group of children living in a house without adult supervision who feel haunted by the ghost of the Llorona – the legendary Mexican ghost of a woman who murdered her children, and whom they hear sighing at night. Their powerful fantasy guided by their fear, unleashes a chai n of events that lead them to become a part of this legend themselves. Shot in Puebla, Mexico, this s3D film plays, in its oneiric style, an atmospheric haze befitting childhood.
Directed by Rosana Cuellar
We Waited Until Nightfall revisits repurposed cinemas through hunting images and sounds that trace the practices of belonging still embodied in the theaters’ remains
Directed by Wendy V. Muñiz, Guillermo Zouain
Get tickets! https://www.covenfilmfest.com
