1968 was a year of tumultuous social upheaval, powerful peoples’ movements from the Black Power Movement, Women’s and LGBTQ civil rights struggles to the anti-colonial struggles from Viet Nam to the continent of Africa to the streets of France.

The film Rojo Amanecer is set in Mexico City. The film opens before the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, a working-class family’s apartment becomes a terrifying safe house when a small student protest transforms into the deadly Tlatelolco Massacre, trapping them in the violent crossfire of state military forces.

Thursday, July 9, 7pm. Spanish with English subtitles. Discussion to follow the screening.