NCLAFF 2025. A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS
NCLAFF 2025. A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS
Oct. 3 to 16. Various locations. Chapel Hill - Durham, NC. USA.
The 2025 NCLAFF celebrates its 39th edition with the theme A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS.
Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. While often minorities in their countries, Indigenous peoples are the majority in Greenland and close to a majority in Bolivia and Guatemala. In recent decades, they have become more open to sharing their cosmovision and ways of life by adopting audiovisual means as a form of self-expression.
On the other hand, there were approximately 14 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., accounting for 3.3% of the population in 2014. This population included individuals, many of whom are Indigenous, who escaped from violence, disasters, and economic stagnation in their countries and entered at times without documentation.
Some 8.3 million undocumented immigrants work in the economy, or 5.2 percent of the workforce. They work in multiple sectors, including construction (1.5 million), restaurants (1 million), agriculture and farms (320,000), landscaping (300,000), and food processing and manufacturing (200,000). Almost half of the foreign-born workforce in the U.S. is Hispanic. As these realities are caught in controversy, they are also caught on camera.
The 2025 NCLAFF would examine multiple stories of these communities, who are at the center of much debate today. Minority stories that speak loudly to the majority that benefits from the environmental services and conservation of the diversity of nature, and from the labor that sustains the threads of life on this part of the planet. Here is their message.
Sixteen titles, from 10 countries, and with the attendance of six filmmakers. The NCLAFF continues its mission to celebrate the power and artistry of Latin America’s cinema (documentaries, short films, and animations).
For more information, dates, times, special events, and locations, visit: https://nclatinamericanfilmfestival.org/
All NCLAFF events are free and open to the public. The NCLAFF is presented by The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. With the support of Duke Engage, Romance Studies at Duke, Screen Society, The Latino/a Studies at the Global South, and The Carolina Theatre of Durham.
Contact. Miguel Rojas-Sotelo. Director. miguel.rojassotelo@duke.edu | 919 7480666
2025 NCLAFF FILMS