Seattle Latino Film Festival: Friday October 14

SIFF Cinema at 7:00 pM

Dos Hermanos – Brother and Sister

Seattle Premiere

HDCam
Narrative Feature
Comedy/Drama,  2010
Spanish w/ English subtitles
(Argentina) 107 min.
Directed by  Daniel Burman
Cast: Antonio Gasalla, Graciela Borges Elena Lucena, Rita Cortese...

Marcos and Susana, both in their sixties, are brother and sister. Their lifestyles and temperaments are completely different, but they feel obligated to mend their tattered relationship due to the death of their mother. When Susana sells the flat in which Marcos cared for their mother until her death, he is forced to move to a small Uruguayan bathing resort. It is these new circumstances, where neither knows if they need or hate the other, that they discover the need to start living again. buy tickets

9:15 PM Sun City Picture House

Seattle Premiere

HDCam
Historical Short Documentary, 2010
English
(Haiti) 27 min.
Directed by David Darg & Produced by Olivia Wilde

After watching the last of the old colonial movie theaters destroyed in the earthquake, a young Haitian man enlists the help of a priest and two young aid workers to build Haiti's only movie theater on a hill above a tent city. This is the joyful and moving story of a community torn apart by disaster then united in a singular vision. buy tickets

La Hija Natural / Love Child

Seattle Premiere

HDCam
Narrative Feature
Drama/Comedy/ Romance, 2010
Spanish w/ English subtitles
(Dominican Republic/ Puerto Rico) 90 min.
Directed by Leticia Tonos
Cast: Julietta Rodriguez, Victor Checo, Andres Ramos…

Maria decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the middle of a neglected banana plantation. Amidst the peculiarities and superstitions of the Dominican countryside, father and daughter will have to face the ghosts of the past that haunt them both. buy tickets