Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

[Available to watch between Oct. 16 at 12 a.m. and Oct. 22 at 11:59 p.m. as part of the 8th annual Cine Latino at Home festival at the MSP Film Society at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to mspfilm.org or ticketing@mspfilm.org.] Anabel Rodríguez Ríos' award-winning, depressing, powerful, down-to-earth, heartbreaking, 98-minute documentary that follows amidst political turmoil and unrest and government corruption in 2015 Chávez-loving, swine-owning Communist Mrs. Tamara who has political ambitions and vocal opponent and critic schoolteacher Natalie, who teaches in a decrepit one-room school, while living in extreme poverty in rundown shacks on stilts in the neglected fishing village of Congo Mirador in northern Venezuela that desperately needs Lake Maracaibo to be dredged of sedimentation that is choking the life of out of villagers who are barely existing.
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