The UWM Union Theatre kicks of its week-long Latin American Film Series tonight with a free 7 p.m. screening of XXY, a 2007 drama about Alex, a 15-year-old girl born with both female and male sex characteristics. Alex’s already difficult life becomes even more confusing when she begins a relationship with . . .

The biggest name in the world of touring animation festivals, Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation swings through Milwaukee again for 26 new shorts filled with sex, violence and general subversion, with a screening tonight at 11:50 p.m. at the Times Cinema.

The UWM Union Theatre continues its Latin American film festival tonight with a free 7 p.m. screening of the 2006 Bolivian blockbuster comedy, Who Killed The White Llama? It’s a screwball romp about a couple of characters, who for ridiculous reasons, have to smuggle a rare llama across the border.

UWM Union Theatre’s Latin American Film Festival continues tonight with a free 7 p.m. screening of the 2007 drama Cochochi. Two young brothers leading indigenous lives in the Sierra Tarahumara region of Mexico go against their grandfather’s wishes and borrow his horse to deliver some medicine to a far-off . . .

The Charles Allis Art Museum continues its series of classic, biographical films tonight with a 7:30 p.m. screening of the 1946 oddity Magnificent Doll, a rare period film staring Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays Dolley Madison, the Quaker torn between two powerful romantic interests: Aaron Burr and James Madison . . .

The title role of Erendira Ikikunari is one that Mel Gibson might have considered playing himself, if only it weren’t a stretch to cast the aging epic-film actor as a young, beautiful Mexican woman. When Spanish conquistadors invade her country, Erendira turns badass, stealing a horse and fighting them off in this 2006 action . . .

Smart People is about what can happen when the mind is divorced from the heart and spirit. It is also a droll peek into the dreary environs of academia, where the pursuit of knowledge has stumbled onto the treadmill of careerism. It stars Dennis Quaid as Lawrence Wetherhold, an English professor trudging grimly across Carnegie Mellon, face twisted and frozen into an expression of contempt for his colleagues and students. His colleagues, exactly the sort of twits infesting many universities, are probably even poorer souls than Lawrence.

A pair of films tonight shown at a free 7 p.m. screening at the UWM Union Theatre examine the black gay identity. In the 1990 documentary Tongues Untied, filmmaker Marlon Riggs gives a personal and historical account of what it’s like to be a black homosexual, while the 1989 documentary Looking for Langston . . .

Using loads of found footage—as well as creating some of his own new footage on the cheap—experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin created an epic visual collage/mind-trip for his latest project, Mock Up on Mu, an oddball science fiction/western/outer space fantasy loosely based on historic events. The . . .

As a clock ticks off the seconds, the camera stares as a pair of college roommates, Gabita and Otilia, engage in an apparently ordinary conversation. The camera slowly pulls back to reveal a narrow, cramped dorm room at the opening of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and follows Otilia down a dismal hallway to a communal washroom, then to the dorm room of a student running a thriving black market in cigarettes and into another room where she buys hand cream from girls operating a cosmetics bazaar