Latin American Film Festival is Sept. 18-24

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will host its 8th annual Latin American Film Festival Sept. 18-24 at the Art Theater Co-op, 126 W. Church St., Champaign. The festival will screen six recent fiction films and one documentary from different countries of the region.

The films:

“The Film Critic” (Argentina, 2013)
“The Invisible Collection” (Brazil, 2013)
“I’m not Lorena” (Chile, 2014)
“Behavior” (Cuba, 2014)
“His Wedding Dress” (Cuba and Spain, 2014)
“Zanahoria” (Uruguay, 2014)
“All of Me” (Mexico, 2014)

This year, the festival celebrates the newly established relations with Cuba with two films. Bernard Attal, the director of “The Invisible Collection,” will be available for a Q&A session with the audience Sept. 18. Each film will be screened three times, and all of the films have subtitles.

For the full schedule and more information about each film, download the festival brochure.

More information also is on the theater’s website.

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