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Tlatelolco centers in the inner life of one of the biggest housing developments in Mexico City, located in the landmark area of the Federal District – setting for some historical events, such as the repression of college students in the 1960s and the earthquake in 1985. On the other hand, Errantes describes the development of a cooperative project to build new homes in a settlement in the neighborhood of La Paternal, Buenos Aires, and all the problems that may arise among neighbors of equal social status.

The new section Space Odysseys – Cinema and Architecture features, among other excellent theme-related works, the documentaries Errantes, by Argentine Lisandro Gonzales Urzi and Diego Carabelli, and Tlatelolco, by Austrian Lotte Schreiber. These films reflect the Latin American reality through different historical events, in Argentina and Mexico. Each documentary will be featured in three screenings (venues, times and ticket availability can be checked at this website). “To us, it was important to take into account and reflect how these changes affect the lives of the people we work with. From the simplest and most ordinary to the deepest and most intimate. What their everyday lives are like and what they dream about. How they live today and how they imagine their life tomorrow,” wrote the young Argentine filmmakers about Errantes. In the case of Tlatelolco, the film tells the end of an urban architectonic utopia, as captured by Schreiber and cameraman Juan Hammel in hundreds of material details that reveal the economic and political swings of Mexican history.