Foreign Film Night: The Weavers' Songs
Documentary director Ismael Vásquez Bernabé turns his camera on his hometown: the Indigenous community of San Pedro Amuzgos in Oaxaca, Mexico, known as “the town of the spinners.” The Weavers’ Songs focuses on three key figures of the community: a legendary violinist and his son, and the director’s own mother, who is the only one of her sisters who still practices the art of weaving…