Latin American Film Festival Continues at SIUE
The SIUE Latin American Film Festival continues through October 28. In Spanish with English subtitles, recent award-winning films will interest a wide audience. The public is invited to attend these free films at Woodland Hall:
- Mr. Kaplan will be shown Wednesday, Oct. 7 and Friday, Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. Jacob Kaplan fled Europe for South America because of World War II. Now 76 years old, he recruits a former police officer to investigative an elderly German, whom he suspects is a runaway Nazi.
- Simon Bolivar (who led Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Peru and Ecuador toward independence) is the subject of El Libertador (The Liberator), a spectacular epic with breath-taking landscapes shown Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m.
- 7 Cajas (7 Boxes) will be shown Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. It is the story of a Paraguayan delivery boy who is offered an easy job that proves to be complicated.
- Infancia Clandestina (Clandestine Childhood) is an Argentinian story of militancy, undercover life and love set in the late 1970s. It will be shown Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m.
The festival is part of a Spanish Film Club series made possible with the support of Pragda, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, and SPAIN arts & culture. SIUE’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literature host the festival in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences, SIUE Housing, and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
Parking is available in the Visitor’s Lot (B). Visitors must pay to park for the Wednesday films. The Morris University Center is next to the Visitor’s Lot (B), and Woodland Hall is a dormitory within walking distance. A map of SIUE is available at: www.siue.edu/maps. GPS: SIUE Lot B.
For more information and to see trailers of the films, call 618-650-3510 or go to www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/fll. For additional information, contact professor Carolina Rocha at crocha@siue.edu
