Screens Sunday, October 23, 5:30 pm
Café Paraiso (Paradise Café)
Mexico / 2008 / 10 min
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Producer: Patricia Coronado
Screenwriter: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Cast: Tenoch Huerta, José Sefami, Sophie Alexander-Katz, Enrique Arreola
Run Time: 10 min
Two Mexican immigrants work as cooks at the Café Paraíso. While preparing an endless array of dishes, the youngest rehearses his heroic resignation, through which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even win the love of a waitress. But things aren´t as they seem at the Café Paraíso, where reality becomes fiction and fiction reality.