The sixth annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival runs from Friday, September 28, through Sunday, October 7. Apart from the opening night screening–which will be held at the First Chicago Center Theater, First National Bank of Chicago, 1 S. Dearborn–screenings will be held at the Three Penny Cinema, 2424 N. Lincoln; at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton; and at the Roberto Clemente High School auditorium, 1147 N. Western. Ticket prices per program, apart from opening night, are $6 for adults; $4 for students, senior citizens, and handicapped persons; and $3 for Facets and Chicago Latino Cinema members. Tickets for opening night (which includes a reception at 5:30 and cocktails after the feature) are $25, $15 for CLC members. Festival passes are $70, $40 for CLC members; group discounts are also available. For information call 751-3419, 431-1330, or 663-1600, ext. 317.
LIZARDS’ TALES Written and directed by Juan Carlos Bustamante, this Chilean feature set in northern Chile consists of three sketches that explore the effects of a totalitarian regime on families and individuals (1989). (Three Penny, 3:00)
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HOPE This Mexican-Soviet production–directed by Sergio Olhovich, who will be present at the screening–follows the adventures of a young Russian emigre. who flees the Russian Revolution and settles in Mexico City, where he works as a miner, piano tutor, and petroleum engineer (1987). (Three Penny, 7:00)
PUERTO RICAN SHORTS A program that includes two narrative films–Noel Quinones’s The Bell, and Kevin McCarey’s San Juan Story–Paco Lopez’s animated short The Owl’s Feathers (1989), and Sonia Fritz Macias’s documentary about graphic artist Myrna Baez, The Mirrors of Silence (1989). (Facets Multimedia Center, 9:00)
BURNING PATIENCE A Chilean feature (Ardiente paciencia) by Antonio Skarmeta that focuses on the friendship between a young postman who lives in a small fishing village and the poet Pablo Neruda (1983). Actress Marcela Osorio will be present at the screening. (Facets Multimedia Center, 6:00)
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NATAL FROM PORTELA Paolo Cezar Saraceni’s Brazilian feature, shot partially at the 1987 carnival in Rio, focuses on a kindhearted bookie who is the king of the samba. Saraceni and actress Zeze Motta will be present. (Three Penny, 9:00)
