Showtimes
Friday, April 24, 2026
4:30PM Oriental Theatre - Herzfeld Cinema (east)
Monday, April 27, 2026
6:00PM Downer Theatre - North Cinema
Description
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY DILES QUE NO SOY MALO) chronicles young Rico's summer of selling "Nuttys" on the NYC boardwalk, reckoning with becoming a parent alongside his teenage girlfriend, and ideas of what adulthood should look like. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns the Bronx into a living, breathing backdrop for a story about young love and the fragile space between boyhood and adulthood. Working with non-traditional actors, Vargas fills the screen with humor, warmth, and authenticity.
- Series
- North American Independents Program – MFF26
- Cine Sin Fronteras Program – MFF26
- Year
- 2025
- Length
- 101 minutes
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Subtitles
- English
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Joel Alfonso Vargas
- Producer
- Paolo Maria Pedullà
- Writer
- Joel Alfonso Vargas
- Cinematographer
- Rufai Ajala
- Editor
- Irfan van Tuijl
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