The tenth annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Cinema and Columbia College, runs from Friday, April 22, through Thursday, May 5. Film and video screenings will be at Pipers Alley, 1609 N. Wells; at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton; at the Three Penny, 2424 N. Lincoln; at the University of Chicago’s Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.; at the University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall, 5500 N. Saint Louis; at Columbia College, 624 S. Michigan; at Spanish Coalition for Jobs, 2011 W. Pershing; and at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State. Ticket prices per program (apart from free screenings and opening and closing nights, which cost a lot extra) are $6, $5 for students, senior citizens, and disabled persons, and $4 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. Festival passes, good for all screenings except opening and closing night, are $70, $60 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. For more information call 431-1330.
Cristine List’s Crisis Point: Guatemala Under Serrano (1993) and Patricia Goudvis and William Turnley’s If the Mango Tree Could Speak (1993), both from the U.S. (Facets Multimedia, 6:30)
Lucia
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From Mexico, Juan Carlos de Llaca’s I Am Going to Escape (1992), Moises Ortiz Urquidi’s Date in Paradise (1992), and Maria Novaro’s Autumnal (1992); from the U.S., Bruno de Almeida’s The Debt (1993); from Brazil, Sung Sfai’s The Unmaid (1993); and from Spain and Cuba, Rolando Diaz’s The Long Journey of Rustico and Javier Caldas’s The Last Heartbeat (both 1993). (Facets Multimedia, 3:00)
Long banned in its native Bolivia until protests forced its release, Jorge Sanjines’s 1969 film is a fictionalized account of a U.S.-sponsored population-control program that led to the involuntary sterilization of several thousand Quechua Indian women. (DK) On the same program, Jose Sanchez’s short La Paz. (Three Penny, 3:00)
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