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AFI Silver announces Latin American Film Festival lineup

August 31, 2010 - 05:51 PM
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Revolución is among the selections at the AFI Silver's Latin American Film Festival.

An omnibus drama featuring directorial work by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna (both of Y tu mamá también) leads this year's lineup of the 21st annual Latin American Film Festival at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring.

Revolución, composed of ten filmmakers' perspectives on the state of revolution in modern Mexico, is one of more than 30 films that will screen at the cinema between Sept. 21 – Oct. 13. Other films include 2009 Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk of Sorrow, from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa (Madeinusa); Linha de Passe, the latest effort by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station); Hiroshima, by Uruguayan filmmaker Pablo Stoll (Whisky); Bolivian director Juan Carlos Valdiviand's Southern District, which won Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at this year's Sundance Film Festival; and Chance, a comedy by Panamanian Abner Benaim.

I saw Southern District at Sundance and was underwhelmed, but Salles and Stoll are among the finest filmmakers working in Latin America today, while Llosa is one of Peru's most promising young writer-directors. As for Revolución, anything involving Bernal and Luna can do no wrong. My critical faculties are blinded by my man-love for them.

Festival passes are $74 for AFI members and students, and $99 for everyone else. Individual tickets cost $10.

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