HARRISONBURG, VA (Rocktown Now) – Court Square Theater has announced the 2025 Hispanic Film Festival, September 24-29. The film series focuses on celebrating Hispanic and Latinx cultures, and festival dates correlate with National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15). All films are presented or subtitled in English.

Tickets – available online (courtsquaretheater.org/hispanic-film-festival-2025) and at the door – are $10 for adults and seniors, $5 for students).

Films and showtimes:

  • Déjame Estar Contigo (Let me Stay with You) – Wed (9/24) at 4 pm and 7 pm. Lucía lives with an incurable disease, and Bruno was deported to Mexico with no place to sleep. An unexpected phone call brings them together in an emotional story of overcoming, reconstruction and hope.
  • Cadejo Blanco – Friday, Sept 26 at 4 pm and 7 pm. After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young gang members. As she risks her life to join the gang, Sarita becomes involved with her sister’s dangerous ex-boyfriend and gets closer to learning what happened to her sister.
  • Mariposas Negras – Saturday, Sept 27 at 2 pm and 7 pm; Sunday, Sept 28 at 5 pm Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects, and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
  • Los océanos son los verdaderos continents (Oceans are the Real Continents) – Sunday, Sept 28 at 2 pm and 7 pm. Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, live their relationship made up of small gestures and everyday life among the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an elderly woman now retired, tries to survive by selling peanuts and spends her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old friends, go to school and dream of emigrating together to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. Against the backdrop of San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in inland Cuba where time seems to stand still, these three narratives and their respective worlds unfold. Over this mosaic of contemporaneity, however, brought to life through the characters’ memories, hovers the specter of separation, the true great scourge of Cuban society.