• Title:
• My Mexican Shiva

• Director:
• Alejandro Springall

• Spanish, Yiddish and Hebrew with English subtitles

• USA/Mexico, 102 minute

• Venue:
• AFI Silver Theater and
  Old Town Theater

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After his abrupt death at a mariachi banquet, Moishe Tartakovsky has two angels hovering over his Mexico City shiva where his friends and family have gathered to remember their patriarch. The angels are attempting to divine from the mourners the content of Moishe’s character, and whether the good or bad angel will escort him on. In short, Moishe’s in trouble. His middle-aged son is trying to arrange an abortion for his girlfriend, his ultra-orthodox grandson faces arrest on an old drug charge and his daughter, still bitter and angry at her father for having left her mother, is obsessed with planning her plastic surgery. Based on a short story by Ilan Stavans and featuring a raucous mariachi inflected score by the Klezmatics, this dark comedy generates authentic moments of reconciliation and hilarious escapades in the face of loss.

In cooperation with Yiddish of Greater Washington

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