{"id":65795,"date":"2025-08-20T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/2025-latin-american-film-festival-natural-phenomena\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:49:24","slug":"2025-latin-american-film-festival-natural-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/2025-latin-american-film-festival-natural-phenomena\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Latin American Film Festival &#8211; \u201cNatural Phenomena\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tribe-events-schedule tribe-clearfix\">\n<p class=\"tribe-events-schedule__datetime\">\n\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__date tribe-events-schedule__date--start\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__separator tribe-events-schedule__separator--date\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t @ \t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"tribe-events-schedule__time tribe-events-schedule__time--start\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Natural Phenomena &#8211; Marcos D\u00edaz Sosa \/ Cuba \/ 2024 \/ 80 min<\/h2>\n<p>Spanish with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p><em>His wildly original tropical Cuban reinterpretation of Victor Fleming\u2019s The Wizard of Oz is nothing short of mind-blowing. While the iconic red shoes make an appearance, everything else is reimagined in unexpected and delightful ways.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In late-1980s Cuba, local nurse Vilma is a crack shot eager to enter the national skeet shooting competition. The prize money would help her fulfill her dream of a bigger, more comfortable home where she could care for her injured husband and raise their soon-to-arrive child. Unfortunately for her, pregnant women are barred from competing, dashing her hopes \u2014 until a freak tornado whisks her over the rainbow to Ni\u00f1a Bonita, the isle hosting the tournament. Donning a blue dress and red slippers, Vilma sets out to prove her mettle in a strange land.<\/p>\n<p><em>Natural Phenomenon<\/em>&nbsp;captivates with its depiction of a strong, determined woman facing personal and social challenges as she seeks emancipation in a limiting context. A darkly comedic portrait of Cuban society, the film is a flourishing take on social cinema, a striking and moving narrative that addresses themes of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring the rarely discussed topic of the exile of entire populations due to land exploitation, the film intertwines the protagonist\u2019s struggle with broader social transformations in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pragda.com\/film\/natural-phenomena\">https:\/\/pragda.com\/film\/natural-phenomena<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 pm, Mergenthaler 266<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free entrance<\/p>\n<p>All films are captioned<\/p>\n<div class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__venue tribe-clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tribe-block tribe-block__events-link\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events tribe-common\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__container\">\n<div class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"tribe-common-c-btn-border tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__button\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__button-text\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"tribe-events-subscribe-dropdown-content\" aria-label=\"View links to add events to your calendar\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdd to calendar\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"tribe-events-subscribe-dropdown-content\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__content\">\n<ul class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list\">\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--gcal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGoogle Calendar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--ical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiCalendar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--outlook-365\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOutlook 365\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item--outlook-live\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"tribe-events-c-subscribe-dropdown__list-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow noindex\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOutlook Live\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@ Natural Phenomena &#8211; Marcos D\u00edaz Sosa \/ Cuba \/ 2024 \/ 80 min Spanish with English subtitles His wildly original tropical Cuban reinterpretation of Victor Fleming\u2019s The Wizard of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":65796,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-65795","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-20 16:10:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/65795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/65795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66280,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/65795\/revisions\/66280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65795"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=65795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}