Latest Past Events

DCEFF at LAFF: Through Rocks and Clouds

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, MD 20910, Silver Spring

Co-presented by AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF In the heart of the Andean Altiplano, eight-year-old Feliciano tends to a herd of alpacas alongside his trusty dog Rambo and his favorite alpaca Ronaldo, named after the superstar soccer player. When not roaming the countryside, Feliciano stays glued to his radio, listening to Peru fight […]

$15

DCEFF at LAFF: Patrol

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, MD 20910, Silver Spring

A Co-presentation of AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Nicaragua is one of the top five exporters of beef to the United States, whose profits in the industry have grown by over 400 percent in the last decade — but at great cost to the Rama Indigenous people and the Kriol Afro-descendent population, whose […]

$15

DCEFF at LAFF: The Falling Sky

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, MD 20910, Silver Spring

Co-presented by AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Deep within the Amazon, the Yanomami people are facing an existential threat. Since a highway tore through their territory in the early 1970s, miners have encroached on their land, bringing violence and disease. Filmmakers Eryk Rocha (CINEMA NOVO) and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha go beyond ethnography, […]

$15