The fourth annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival is showing 50 films, virtually all of them subtitled, from 19 Latin American countries, Spain, and the U.S. (including several independent works from Chicago). Screenings will continue at the Three Penny Cinema, 2424 N. Lincoln, from Friday, September 30, through Sunday, October 2. Ticket prices per program (short and a feature) are $6 for adults, $4 for students, senior citizens, and handicapped persons. For information, call 751-3421 or 431-1330.
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ALMACITA, SOUL OF DESOLATO Folklorish fantasy by Curacao-born director Felix De Rooy, about the virginal priestess of a West Indian animistic cult who gives birth to a child after being seduced by an evil spirit; forced from her ancestral village, she eventually sets out on a purifying quest that brings her into contact with powerful mystical forces. With Marian Rolle and Nydia Ecury and cinematography by Ernest Dickerson (of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It and John Sayles’s The Brother From Another Planet). (PG) On the same program, Ricardo Block’s Mexican short The Persistence of Memory, an autobiographical film by a French-Jewish filmmaker born and raised in Mexico, featuring found footage and home-movie excerpts (1984). (Sunday, October 2, 2:00)
THE LEMON GROVE INCIDENT Frank Christopher directed this 1985 U.S. documentary, which re-creates the community struggle of Mexican Americans in a California rural town in 1931–a struggle that resulted in the first successful challenge to school segregation in the U.S.; producer Paul Espinosa will be present at the screening. On the same program, a 1987 Guatemalan documentary by Pat Goudvis and Robert Richter, Under the Gun: Democracy in Guatemala. (Sunday, October 2, 6:00)
