The Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul is presenting what it calls the “region’s largest celebration of Spanish and Portuguese language film,” and tickets for the general public go on sale Monday.
The 38-film event is called Cine Latino, and it has a nearly week-long run from Oct. 30 – Nov. 5. The films will screen at two Minneapolis venues: the St. Anthony Main Theatre and the Heart of the Beast Theatre. Twenty-eight of them will make their Minnesota premiere while one, Son of Trauco, will make its U.S. premiere.
The celebration kicks off with The Liberator, a film about Simón Bolívar’s life-long struggle to free South America from the Spanish crown. After the screening, there’ll be a party at the Aster Café, which is just next door to the St. Anthony Main Theatre.
The festival closes with a bang, Escobar: Paradise Lost. Starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson, the film tells the story of a surfer who falls in love with a gorgeous girl whose uncle just happens to be the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. As you can imagine, the surfer dude doesn’t give up on this girl, and he ends up in some dangerous waters. (Watch the trailer above.)
As part of the line-up, there’s also an eight-film showcase on Mexican cinema called “It Could Only The Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul is presenting what it calls the “region’s largest celebration of Spanish and Portuguese language film,” and tickets for the general public go on sale Monday.
The 38-film event is called Cine Latino, and it has a nearly week-long run from Oct. 30 – Nov. 5. The films will screen at two Minneapolis venues: the St. Anthony Main Theatre and the Heart of the Beast Theatre. Twenty-eight of them will make their Minnesota premiere while one, Son of Trauco, will make its U.S. premiere.
The celebration kicks off with The Liberator, a film about Simón Bolívar’s life-long struggle to free South America from the Spanish crown. After the screening, there’ll be a party at the Aster Café, which is just next door to the St. Anthony Main Theatre.
The festival closes with a bang, Escobar: Paradise Lost. Starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson, the film tells the story of a surfer who falls in love with a gorgeous girl whose uncle just happens to be the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. As you can imagine, the surfer dude doesn’t give up on this girl, and he ends up in some dangerous waters. (Watch the trailer above.)
As part of the line-up, there’s also an eight-film showcase on Mexican cinema called “It Could Only Happen in Mexico.”
Cine Latino tickets are $10 for the general public. For students, they’re $5, and for Film Society members they’re $7. For more on Cine Latino, click here.
HERE for the Cine Latino Screening Schedule
