2023 Mother Tongue Film Festival: Closing Night - Dreams

7th Street Southwest,Washington DC 20560

26 February, 2023

Description

The Mother Tongue Film Festival is pleased to present "Dreams" in partnership with the Embassy of Mexico in the United States and the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. Dreams can serve as aspirations or inner visions, such as longing for love and belonging or knowledge downloaded from the dream state. Encoded into a dream is a responsibility: to see it through. We are pleased to host the director of Vaychiletik, Juan Javier Perez, for a Q&A session following the screening. — Dreams / Vaychiletik (dir. Juan Javier Pérez, 2021) Through his dreams, José received a gift from the gods—a gift that brings consequences. Now that he is at a mature age in life, José would like to rest, but he is not allowed. Vaychiletik explores this fierce yet beautiful reality, forged from the dreams of the Maya people of Mexico. — The Mother Tongue Film Festival is a public program of Recovering Voices, a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Asian Pacific American Center. This program received support from Arenet, the Embassy of Mexico, the Embassy of New Zealand, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Georgetown University Department of Anthropology, Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, Planet Word, The Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan Endowment, and Wick and Bonnie Moorman.