In collaboration with the Intercultural Senior Center, Film Streams will host a showing of Maite Alberdi's The Mole Agent (2020). Join us after the film for an in-depth discussion with Fabian Ayala, Intercultural Senior Center Client Services Manager; Bob Herrera, Intercultural Senior Center Board Member; Paula Wallace, artist and instructor at the Center; and moderated by Intercultural Senior Center Outreach & Programs Manager Marina Rosado about improving the dignity, quality of life, and physical well-being of our senior community through advocacy, education, and access to social services.

Synopsis of The Mole Agent

Sergio is a Chilean spy. Sort of. At least, he is offered the role of one after a casting session organized by Detective Romulo, a private investigator who needs a credible mole to infiltrate a retirement home. Romulo’s client, the concerned daughter of a resident, suspects her mother is being abused and hires him to find out what is really happening.

However, Sergio is 83, not 007, and not an easy trainee when it comes to technology and spying techniques. But he is a keen student, looking for ways to distract himself after recently losing his wife. What could be a better distraction than some undercover spy action? While gathering intelligence, Sergio grows close to several residents and realizes that the menacing truth beneath the surface is not what anyone had suspected.

Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent is a stylish combination of an observational documentary and a spy movie, with sleek camerawork and wonderfully watchable characters. It’s a unique meditation on compassion and loneliness that will infiltrate your heart and never let go. — Dogwoof