The Cinelatino Film Festival will be back in Minneapolis this fall for five days of international film, music, dancing, food and cultural events. The 13th edition, sponsored by the MSP Film Society, will showcase over 2 dozen movies from Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Latino communities in the United States at The Main Cinema from Oct. 7-11.
Film screenings, opening and closing-night parties, flamenco dancing, food trucks, visiting filmmakers and family activities will be included in the festival. The event is meant to “be a bridge between the Spanish/ Portuguese-speaking communities of Minnesota and films and stories from throughout Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula,” organisers state.
The festival will run from Oct. 7 with “La Bola Negra,” a Spanish-French drama directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. The film is a trilogy of films about three generations of men during key moments in Spanish history, delving into the shades of family secrets, identity, desire and the power of the past. A party will start at 5:30 p.m., with the film beginning at 7:30 p.m.
These are dramas, documentaries, animation, environmental stories and family movies. Highlighted films are Carlos Saura’s “Blood Wedding”, “Daughters of the Forest”, “The Garden We Dreamed”, “Gugu’s World”, “Light Memories”, “The Newcomers”, “On Behalf of My Son”, “One of Our Own: Joan Roca’s Legacy”, “A Song for My Land” and “TheyDream”.
Cine Latino will be coming to the Minneapolis Institute of Art on Oct. 11 with Kid Flicks: ¡Hola Cine!, a free series of kid-friendly short films, part of the museum’s Family Day programming.
The Brazilian comedy Old Bandits, directed by Claudio Torres, will wrap up the festival. The movie features Fernanda Montenegro and Ary Fontoura as seniors who get caught up in a bank robbery when two thieves target them. The closing night party starts at 5:30 p.m., and the show itself at 7:30 pm.
MSP Film Society members pay $75 for all-access passes; the general public pays $150. During the advance-purchase period, the opening-night and closing-night tickets will be $25 for member attendance and $30 for general-public attendance, and $20 for students. Single tickets for the other films are on sale Sept. 9 at $12 for members, $18 for the public and $10 for students.
Other visiting filmmakers, parties and events will be added in September. Cine Latino is made possible by the nonprofit MSP Film Society and The Main Cinema, and celebrates Latin American, U.S. Latino and Ibero cinema, presenting the cultures and stories of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking communities.
