Casa América will be screening next Tuesday at 6.30 pm in its Iberia cinema the film Mercedes Sosa: La voz de Latinoamérica (Rodrigo H. Vila, 2013). Free admission up to 70 seats.
This cycle is part of the parallel programming around the exhibition Latina: woman, music and glamour at Gladys Palmera, organized by Casa de América and Gladys Palmera, and takes place within the framework of the cycle Latina on stage, celebrating, through three iconic works the femininity and struggle for women’s autonomy at different times.
Mercedes Sosa, the voice of Latin America is an intimate journey into the world of Mercedes Sosa, the woman, the artist, the activist, while Victims of Sin (1951), with the rumbera Ninón Sevilla, immerses in the vibrant world of cabaret, where the protagonist fights for her dignity in an adverse environment. To close, the documentary by María José Cuevas Bellas de noche (2016), awarded Best Film at the Morelia Festival, revisits the lives of the stars who reigned in Mexico’s nightlife, revealing the complexity of their legacy beyond the show. Three looks and the same axis: women as owners of their history.
In the first film dedicated to the Argentine singer and activist, it is told how when folk singer Mercedes Sosa died in 2009, Latin America lost a great voice on stage, but above all lost a courageous voice in protests against injustices. Mercedes, a member of the Manifiesto del Nuevo Cancionero, received many death threats and was exiled by the military regime in the 1980s. In this portrait of Sosa, his son Fabián explores the legacy of his mother while talking to family, friends, colleagues, visiting the most emblematic places of his life, at the same time as the viewer sees the interviews, performances and more personal memories.
