Screenings
posted: 4.24.09
12th Annual Cine Las Americas Begins This Week!
Discounts for Austin Film Society Members
The Austin Film Society is proud to once again co-sponsor events at the upcoming Cine Las Americas International Film Festival.
This 12th annual film festival features an amazing array of over 100 feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation, and experimental films from Argentina (10 films), Brazil (12), Canada (3), Colombia (4), Cuba (2), Ecuador (1), France (2), Guatemala (1), Italy (1), Mexico (22), Nicaragua (2), Paraguay (1), Peru (4), Spain (5), United Kingdom (1), Uruguay (2), USA (26), Venezuela (5) and a focus on the special guest country, Chile - with a 9-film retrospective of that country's films from 1994 to 2004 along with a great selection of 10 new Chilean titles.
There is also a special showcase, "Emergencia," devoted to films by emerging filmmakers 19-years-old or younger.
A number of films will be shown several times at the various venues (Regal Metropolitan 14, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Alamo Drafthouse South, and the Mexican American Cultural Center). Opening and closing night films will be presented at the wonderful Paramount Theater.
Opening Night
ALL INCLUSIVE (TODO INCLUIDO)
Directed by Rodrigo Ortuzar Lynch
Chile/Mexico, 2008, distributed by Lions Gate Films, 95 min.
Cast: Jesus Ochoa, Martha Higareda, Maya Zapata, Ana Serradilla
A dysfunctional family tries to heal some wounds by spending quality time together at a 5-star hotel on Mexico's Caribbean coast, but each member seems to wander off pursuing his/her own interests. Directed by one of Chile's rising star directors, Rodrigo Ortuzar. Read more and buy tickets online >>
Festival passes are $70 or individual tickets are $10 to this screening.
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Co-Sponsored by Austin Film Society
LA VENTANA
Directed by Carlos Sorin, Argentina, 2008, 35mm, 85 min.
Friday April 24, 6 PM
Regal Metropolitan
80-year-old Antonio knows that death is approaching but he is elated about a proposed visit from his estranged son. Before their reunion he decides to take what he realizes might be his last walk over his beloved fields in Patagonia. Austin Film Society happily and appropriately co-sponsors this wonderful film from Argentina's Carlos Sorin, director of BOMBON EL PERRO and HISTORIAS INTIMAS, both films shown by AFS during its Argentinean series in late 2008. To be repeated on Monday 27 April @4pm at the Metropolitan. Read more and buy tickets online (discount not available online) >>
AFS Members receive a $1 discount off of individual ticket purchase (regularly $6 or $8) with your AFS membership card (to receive discount, you must purchase at the theater).
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Closing Night
ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA (TEAR THIS HEART OUT)
Directed by Roberto Sneider, based on the novel by Ángeles Mastretta
Mexico/Spain, 2008, distributed by 20th Century Fox, 107 min.
Cast: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, and José María de Tavira
Thursday April 30, 7 PM
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Reportedly Mexico's biggest budget film ever and certainly a huge Mexican box-office hit, this Oscar semi-finalist explores the post-Revolutionary period through the eyes and life of a young woman, Catalina. Swept away from her humble beginnings by a powerful and ambitious rebel general, Andres Asensio, the young girl matures into a woman who sees possibilities as her husband rises in the tumultuous realm of politics. Complications arise when Catalina finds herself falling in love with an artistic left-wing activist. Epic in scope, ARRANCAME LA VIDA examines the chaos of a country torn apart by civil war and reborn with new ideals of social justice and individual possibilities. Read more and buy tickets online >>
Festival passes are $70 or individual tickets are $10 to this screening.
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posted: 3.25.08
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