Round 8: Tossup 17

A middle-class family are embroiled in a tragedy in this non-American city in the heavily censored 1989 film Red Dawn. A director from this city attacked his country’s leading political party in satires like Hell and Herod’s Law. Strangely, the only adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Midaq Alley (15[1])shifts its setting to this city. In a film whose title roughly translates as “whiteys,” a dark-skinned young man witnesses a violent strike by university students in 1999, while he and his cousin search for a reclusive folk singer whose music moved Bob Dylan to (-5[1])tears. An (*) autobiographical film set in this city brought international awareness to a 1971 massacre of students by a government force nicknamed the “falcons” on the day of Corpus Christi. 2010s films set in this city include Güeros (“GWAY-rohs”) and Museo by Alonso Ruizpalacios and a film starring Indigenous actress Yalitza Aparicio. For 10 points, alumni of UNAM’s film school in what city include Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuarón? ■END■ (10[1])

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