The eleventh annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Cinema and Columbia College, runs from Friday, March 24, through Monday, April 3. Film and video screenings will be at the Three Penny, 2424 N. Lincoln; at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton; at Kino-Eye Cinema at Chicago Filmmakers, 1543 W. Division; at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson; at the International Cinema Museum, 319 W. Erie; at the Rosary College Recital Hall/Fine Arts Bldg., 7900 W. Division, River Forest; at Northwestern Univ. Norris Center, 1999 South Campus Dr., Evanston; at Northeastern Illinois Univ., 5500 N. Saint Louis; at Columbia College Residence Hall, 731 S. Plymount Ct.; at Spanish Coalition for Jobs, 2011 W. Pershing; at International House, 1414 E. 59th St.; and at Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted. Ticket prices are $6, $5 for students, senior citizens, and disabled persons, and $4 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. A few special events cost more, and some screenings are free. Festival passes–good for all screenings except opening and closing nights, Mexican Night, and the anniversary celebration–are $80, $65 for students, senior citizens, and diabled persons, and $50 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. For more information call 431-1330.
Burn Me
An independent U.S. feature by Lourdes Portillo in which the filmmaker returns to her home town in northern Mexico to investigate the murder of her uncle. (Kino-Eye Cinema at Chicago Filmmakers, 7:00)
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A group of eccentric tenants in Bogota join forces to combat a greedy landlord who wants to evict them in a 1993 Colombian feature by Sergio Cabrera. This is the festival’s opening-night attraction. (Film Center, 8:00)
The Century of Enlightenment
Three videos from Brazil. (Kino-Eye Cinema at Chicago Filmmakers, 9:00)
A 1993 Portuguese comedy about a man’s mid-life crisis by writer-director Joaquim Leitao. (Three Penny, 6:45)
