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Rochester Labor Film Series: La Cocina (NY)

Date and Time

Friday, October 17, 2025, 7:30 PM until 9:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)

Location

Dryden Theater
900 East Ave.
Rochester, NY  14607
USA

Category

Film/Video

Registration Info

Registration is not Required

About this event

La cocina (Spanish for 'The Kitchen') is a 2024 comedy-drama film written and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios. The film elaborates on the theme and style of Ruizpalacios' early short Café Paraíso (2008) and is based on the 1957 stage play The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker, which was already adapted to the 1961 film The KitchenHowever, while in the play and the British film the kitchen staff were continental European immigrants, in the present film they are mostly Latin Americans with some Arabs. The film stars Raúl BrionesRooney Mara, Soundos Mosbah, Anna Diaz, Motell Foster, Oded Fehr, Eduardo Olmos and Spenser Granese.

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