Cine Latino: A New Festival of Latin American Cinema will bring the sights, sounds and stories of Latin America to Australia for the first time in August.
Screening at Palace Cinemas across Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, the festival will feature films from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Alongside opening night film Neruda, the festival’s gala events include Sérgio Machado’s The Violin Teacher, which follows the story of a former prodigal child violinist, while the stunning music and dance performance film Argentina, by master filmmaker Carlos Saura will close the festival.
The festival puts a sporting focus on the region with ‘Back Four: Four Films About Football’, comprising football buddy story Back Four, The Football Boys, about football talent scouts, documentary Maracanzo: The Football Legend, an account of the historic 1950 World Cup Final, and comedy-drama Papers in the Wind, about friendship and family ties bonded by the game.
Other program highlights include Endless Poetry, the latest work from cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky straight from the Cannes Film Festival, Lisandro Duque Naranjo’s The Bribe of Heaven, Fernando Vallejo’s erotic drama Fragments of Love, and Daniel Rodríguez Risco’s The Womb, Peru’s first bona fide box office smash hit horror film.
The Westerner has ten double passes to a special advanced screening of Cine Latino Film Festival opening night film Naruda, the audacious and grandly entertaining new film from multi-award winning director Pablo Larraín, to give away.
Neruda is a lavishly-mounted reimagining of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s pursuit into political exile. In 1948, the Cold War has reached Chile. In Congress, Neruda (Luis Gnecco) accuses the left-wing government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached. Bumbling police prefect Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal) is appointed to arrest him.
The advanced screening of Naruda is at Palace Barracks cinemas in Brisbane on Wednesday July 27 at 6.30pm.
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