The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Fishbowl” showing April 11-16 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres.

“The Fishbowl” is the first-ever Puerto Rican-produced film to be selected for Sundance, and it has played to critic and audience acclaim.

Noelia, a 40-year-old Puerto Rican visual artist, discovers her cancer has metastasized after spending several years in remission. Despite the insistence of her partner, Jorge, she refuses to continue her treatment and decides to return to Vieques, the small Caribbean island east of Puerto Rico where she grew up and where her mother, Flora, lives.

Once there, she keeps her cancer a secret in order to live freely and throws herself into the work she had dedicated herself to years before — denouncing pollution left by the U.S. Army after years of military exercises on the island. However, as Noelia's health worsens and she joins her neighbors to secretly enter closed testing areas to document undetonated bombs and toxic remains, her struggle to survive and the struggle of Vieques to recover from decades of bomb testing become inextricably intertwined.

When an approaching hurricane threatens the island and Noelia rekindles an old romance, she faces the decision to leave and seek treatment or stay with her community.

“Striking. A thought-provoking meditation on the impact of the political on the personal, and on how women’s bodies become the battleground for men’s struggles.” — Screen International

“The Fishbowl” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres April 11-16. Showtimes will be Friday and Sunday, April 11 and 13 at 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, April 12 at 12:30 p.m.; and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 14, 15 and 16 at 4:00 p.m.

Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.