🎬 Official Trailer is here! 🎬
“Winner of the International First Feature prize @sheffdocfest , Comparsa is a remarkable example of collaborative filmmaking, offering an intimate coming-of-age story and a stirring portrait of courage, sisterhood, and resilience.” – Jessica Edwards, Documentary Programmer
🌟 COMPARSA is coming to @woodstockfilmfestival for its NY Premiere!
📅 SCREENINGS: 🎭 Thu Oct 16 @ 7:45pm - Upstate Kingston 🎭 Sat Oct 18 @ 6:30pm - Orpheum Saugerties
Both screenings followed by Q&A with filmmakers @vickiecur@dougafresh & film participants @rolelaspapas@lupe_canel .
Por las que están y por las que ya no están. 💜
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Speaker: Meryl Streep - Award winning American actress
Follow @comparsafilm for more inspiring stories. ❤️🔥
Full video can be watched on Youtube: 'The Post': Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks talk new movie - Full Panel
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🎉 Audience Choice Award Winners Announced! 🎉
Our Programming Manager, Sandra Bernal A. (@sandrabernala ), revealed the winners of this year’s Audience Choice Award of documentary winner. 1st place will received an award designed by Mexican sculptor David Camorlinga Tagle (@david.camorlinga )
Congratulations to this year’s winners:
3rd place "42 street" (@la42movie )
Directed by: Jose Maria Cabral (@josemariacabral )
2nd place "A Shabbat on the other side of the river"
Directed by: Diego Lajst (@diego_lajst )
1st place and winner Comparsa (@comparsafilm )
Directed by: Vickie Curtis & Doug Anderson (@dougafresh@vickiecur )
But we’re not done yet! 🎬
Stay tuned for the launch of our Reel Film Club series and Films in the Park summer lineup.
📲 Follow us for festival highlights and upcoming events.
Thank you for being part of the journey—we’ll see you at the 43nd Chicago Latino Film Festival, April 15–26, 2027! 🎥
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Celebrating this year’s Special Award Winners at Portland Panorama Film Festival ✨
Thank you to all our audience members for voting and being part of this year’s festival.
The full list of winners, jury statements, and special mentions is now available in our official press release and on our website.
🏆 Outdoor School (Audience Choice Award)
🌟 Comparsa (Bushra Azzouz Impact Award)
🌲 A Simple Machine (Made in Oregon Award)
Thank you @ashlandfilm for a beautiful weekend among the lightcatching leaves and blossoms 🌱
@comparsafilm is grateful to reach new audiences in radical spaces where art leads the way!
#somoslassemillas
As part of PUÑO’s political education series, join us for the screening of @comparsafilm , a documentary about two sisters in Guatemala who use art and street performance to mobilize youth and demand justice after a state-run “Safe-House” fire kills forty-one girls.
A film by Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson
📽️🎞️
Friday, April 24
Begins at 5:15 PM
Landmarks Century Centre Cinema
$17 Tickets Online (Link in bio)
Drinks & Discussion Afterward ✨🎥
Our film follows “ordinary” people finding ways to heal, build community, and reclaim joy—even in the face of state violence.
Honored to bring Comparsa to the Twin Cities this week for the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF). Director @dougafresh will be there Sunday for a Q&A.
🎟 Link in bio
Discount code: COMPARSAMSPIFF45
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Nuestra película sigue a personas “comunes” que encuentran formas de sanar, construir comunidad y recuperar la alegría, incluso frente a la violencia del Estado.
Un honor llevarla a las Ciudades Gemelas esta semana en el Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF). @dougafresh (director) estará allí el domingo para una sesión de preguntas y respuestas.
🎟 Link in bio
Código de descuento: COMPARSAMSPIFF45
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Two powerful stories. One shared spirit of resistance.
In this special double screening, we bring together two documentaries that center courage, community, and the fight for dignity.
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥 follows local leader Manolo Betancur after his bakery becomes ground zero for immigration activism amid a series of ICE raids.
𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗦𝗔 takes us to a Guatemalan barrio where two teenage sisters transform grief into action, using performance, fire, and giant puppets to confront gender violence in a bold and joyful act of resistance.
🎟️ Tickets in bio
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COMPARSA screens April 19 at 12pm the Kennedy School
In a Guatemalan barrio silenced by fear, two teenage sisters lead a luminous rebellion—unleashing giant puppets, fire, and artful performance to protest gender violence in a joyful fight for survival.
