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Victoria Theater 2/10/2007 12PM

Victoria Theater 2/16/2007 4:30PM

Our relationships with our mothers is usually a charged dynamic, beginning the moment we’re born. The mother-daughter variety can be particularly complex, especially if your single mom is mentally unstable and threatens to kill when you’re 19 years old, as is the case for filmmaker Tara Wray.

Near the beginning of Wray’s debut feature, “Manhattan, Kansas,” she notes, “My mother was my entire life...she and I were so close it was difficult to tell where one of us ended and the other began. But we were always running from her demons, both real and imagined. All the while it was my job to love and protect her as much as I could, but it was never enough.”

After years of estrangement, “Manhattan, Kansas” charts the return of Wray, camera in hand, as she struggles to understand who her mother is and was, and to consider the possibility of connecting with her anew, on different terms.

With:

A Drop in Oicata

Diana Logreira

Columbia/ USA, 2006, 18 min

www.dianalogreira.com/adrop

US Premiere

The story of a filmmaker who returns to her native Colombia to document a donkey beauty pageant in an old Andean village.