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Seattle Latino Film Festival |
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Bringing audiences and filmmakers together for an educational experience and to support the magic of film-making as part of Hispanic culture globally.
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online lineup coming soon • October 11th -17th
October 8th - 17th
seattle latino film festival 13th annual edition
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OPENING NIGHT | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8TH
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM | 6:00PM NORTHWEST COAST PREMIER
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The Opening Night Gala in Seattle welcomes Dennis Mencia , a Honduran-American actor who will be the evening's MC . He is known for playing the role of Mateo Villanueva on the CW's "Jane the Virgin" as well as the role of Samuel Soto on the film "Infiltrators", a drama selected by the Sundance Film Festival about migrant detention centers. For more information about Dennis Mencia click here
General admission includes the AFTER party reception at the SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM; Hors d'oeuvres, wine and dessert will be provided. You must be 21+ to attend the after party. You will enjoy an wonderful celebration of the Latino Art and Culture in the Film Industry. Each Year the Festival gives the residents of the Pacific Northwest an unique experience of viewing inspiring narratives, documentaries, and short films from all Ibero - American countries. We are thrilled to share this spectacular post covid19 comeback and thank you for supporting us in helping to strengthen the Mission of SLFF in Seattle! * Seattle Latino Film Festival will strictly follow federal, state and local Covid-19 protocols. Hand sanitizers and masks will be provided on site. Attendees regardless of vaccine status should plan on wearing masks for the movie theater screenings where social distance is not possible. |
IN PERSON PROGRAM
The Beacon Cinema
SATURDAY 10/09/2021
Time: 1:30pm
Coast
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NORTHWEST COAST PREMIERE
Directed by: Jessica Hester, Derek Schweickart Year: 2020 Country: USA Genre:Drama, Music, Comedy Runtime: 96' Language: English Cast: Fatima Ptacek, Melissa Leo, Mia Frampton, Mia Xitali, Cristela Alonzo, Ciara Bravo Synopsis: Desperate to escape the trappings of her small coastal farming town, 16-year-old Abby falls for the lead singer of a touring rock band and must decide whether or not to leave her family and friends behind. With live music performances and an exciting ensemble cast, COAST is about female friendships, finding your truth and letting the music take you home. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
SATURDAY 10/09/2021
TIME: 3:45PM
THE RADIO
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NORTHWEST COAST PREMIERE
Directed by: Carlos Novella Year: 2021 Country: Venezuela Genre: Drama Runtime: 14' Language: Spanish | English subtitles Cast: Luis Baralt Synopsis: A grocer tries to save the radio that accompanied him for practically his entire life. His pilgrimage through the streets in search of a solution confronts him with a city that has accepted the disappearance of ways of life and the loss of scenes from the past in the memory. |
OPPOSITE DIRECTION | FEATURE NARRATIVE IN COMPETITION
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NORTHWEST COAST PREMIERE Directed by: Alejandro Bellame Year: 2020 Country: Venezuela Genre: Drama, Road Movie, Migration, Youth Runtime: 120' Language: Spanish & Italian | English subtitles Cast: Claudia Rojas, Christian González, Erick Palacios, Diana Volpe, Alberto Alifa Synopsis: Eugenia, 17, wants to leave chaotic and crisis-ridden Venezuela,. To obtain the long-awaited European passport, she goes on a 500 km road trip in search of her unknown Italian grandfather. Her road partner is Luis, an intriguing and inaccessible young man, with whom she lives a brief and tragic teen love. He accompanies her with promise of an appointment in Rome, 13 years later. |
FINA TORRES, AN ICON
THE BEACON CINEMA
SATURDAY 10/09/2021
TIME: 6:00PM
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COME TO CELEBRATE FINA TORRES' CINEMATOGRAPHIC CONTRIBUTION TO LATIN AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY
We are honored to have her presence! Fina Torres (born Josefina Torres Benedetti; October 9, 1951) is a Venezuelan film director and screenwriter. She became internationally recognized by winning the la Caméra d'Or award at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival with her directorial debut film, Oriana. She is best-known for her films Oriana, Celestial Clockwork, and Fox Searchlight's Woman on Top with Penelope Cruz. The program will include the Big Screen Premiere in Seattle of Fina's critically acclaimed film, Liz in September |
Liz in september
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Genre: LGBTQ,Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela Year: 2014 Runtime: 100' Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles Cast: Patricia Velasquez, Mimi Lazo, Danay Garcia, María Luisa Flores, Rafael Soler Synopsis: This story follows Eva, a traveler who experiences some car trouble and ends up spending some time with a group of women in a hotel outside of town. These women gladly accept Eva in their home and make her feel at ease. Quickly, Eva discovers the secret that unifies these seven interesting women she has met. As relationships develop, an even deeper relationship is formed between Eva and Liz. As they go on different adventures, Liz's long kept secret is revealed and it takes a toll on everyone involved. It is worthy to note that there are not many male characters in this film. This leaves room for these women to show their own strengths and skills thereby revealing their true natures as vibrant women living their lives. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
SATURDAY 10/09/2021
TIME: 9:00PM
SURVIVORS
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Carlos Gómez-Trigo Year: 2020 Country: Spain Genre: Sci-fi, Dark Comedy Runtime: 7' Language: French w/ English subtitles Cast: Stephanie Magnin Mia Frampton, Maarten Dannenberg, Alex Moreu Synopsis: Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid? |
vera de verdad | FEATURE NARRATIVE IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere Directed by: Beniamino Catena Year: 2020 Country: Italy & Chile Genre:Sci-fi, Drama Runtime: 90' Language: Italian, Spanish | English subtitles Cast: Marta Gastini, Marcelo Alonso Synopsis: VERA (10) disappears without a trace. Two years later, she returns but not as a teenager. Instead, she is a woman of about twenty-five years old. She does not remember anything. Doctors believe that she has a strange premature aging syndrome. The family is upset but the DNA test confirms that woman is really their child. When the images resurface in memory, Vera realizes that she has lived the life of a man, clinically dead, who woke up at the same moment in which she vanished into nothing. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
SUNDAY 10/10/2021
TIME: 2:00PM
Lata
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Isabella Hicks Year: 2021 Country: Cuba Genre: Romance, Drama Runtime: 8' Language: Spanish | English subtitles Cast: Anabel Espinosa, Robin Corrales Synopsis: Luz and Santiago confront life-changing news on the day the U.S. visa lottery winner is announced. |
Invisibles | FEATURE NARRATIVE IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere Directed by: Gracia Querejeta Year: 2020 Country: Spain Genre: Drama, Comedy Runtime: 83' Language: Spanish|English subtitles Cast: Marta Gastini, Marcelo Alonso Synopsis: Three women meet every Thursday for a morning walk before going to work. It is the occasion to share their worries and daily happenings. Despite their differences and disagreements, they find unity by their age and the burden of knowing they are halfway through their lives. Also uniting them is the sad sensation that the passing of the years has displaced them into a space where they feel almost lost and out of place. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
SUNDAY 10/10/2021
TIME: 6:45PM
Tio | NARRATIVE SHORT ANIMATION IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere Directed by: Juan Medina Year: 2021 Country: Mexico Genre: Animation Duration: 13' Language: Spanish | English subtitles Synopsis: On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenager will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors. |
modern love
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Matías Meyer Year: 2021 Country: Mexico Genre: Drama, Comedy, Dramedy, Family Runtime: 83' Language: Spanish | English subtitles Cast: Ludwika Paleta, David Ángulo, Andrés Almeida, Ilse Salas Synopsis: The unexpected death of Armida forces Alex, her youngest son, to return from Argentina to Mexico City for the funeral. At the wake, Alex finds himself face-to-face with his estranged father, Don Luis, and his elder brother Carlos, who he bears a grudge against. The appearance of Rocío, a mysterious woman no one seems to know, upsets the dynamics of existing relationships between the family members, friends and couples involved. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
Tuesday 10/12/2021
TIME: 7:00PM
Elder LEaves
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Sergio Nolasco Year: 2020 Country: Mexico Genre: Drama Runtime: 18' Language: Spanish|English subtitles Cast: Eva Corpus, Jacinto Astiazarán Synopsis: Silvio and Mariana are two senior neighbors that spend their days between their loneliness, daily routines and constant disputes over whom the tree leaves that divide their sidewalk belong to. |
The Fall | FEATURE NARRATIVE IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere Directed by: Diego Rocha Year: 2020 Country: Brazil Genre: Drama, Suspense Runtime: 110' Language: Portuguese w/ English subtitles Cast: Daniel Rocha, Gracindo Junior, Branca Messina Synopsis: Beto (30) is a forensic photographer who lives and cares for his sick grandpa, Gera (80). Beto's life is divided by taking care of Gera and photographing crime scenes. But when a 75-year-old man falls from the 7th floor of a hospital, Beto decides to investigate the case himself. As Beto discovers what is behind the man's death, he also realizes what is really going on in his grandfather's life. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
Thursday 10/14/2021
TIME: 6:00PM
strength
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Jorge Díaz Sánchez Year: 2021 Country: Mexico Genre: Sports Runtime: 88' Language: Spanish|English subtitles Synopsis: Sergio Zúñiga is an idealist who has created a project for indigenous children of Oaxaca so that their dreams can come true through basketball. For years, the Indigenous Academy of Mexico (AIM) has allowed children to recognize that study and sport should be their main weapons to break the cycle of poverty that surrounds them. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
THURSDAY 10/14/2021
TIME: 8:00PM
ODDS OR EVENS
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Dan Jiménez, Gabriela Martínez Year: 2020 Country: Spain Genre: Drama Runtime: 18' Language: Spanish | English subtitles Cast: Dan Jiménez, Pepe Palomo, Beto Mendoza, Natalia Martínez, Alberto Pareja Synopsis: A young father named Leo receives constant visits from his son in prison. One day, Lili, the mother of the kid; informs Leo of a decision that will tear his world apart completely. |
LAS INTEMPERIES | FEATURE NARRATIVE IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Guido de Paula, Andy Riva Year: 2021 Country: Argentina Genre: Drama Runtime: 72' Language: Spanish|English subtitles Cast: Alfonso Tort, Dani Castillo del Toro Synopsis: Lorenzo confines himself to the Andes range at the End of the World looking for a hermit who got lost years ago and might be his brother. He needs to find him to get rid of a strong guilt but for some locals the questions asked threaten to reveal a well hidden secret. The search puts his life in danger. Diego is suffering to a point he decides to surrender his life to wilderness and nature. But meeting Sully, a badly beaten woman, forces Diego to face once more the obstacles of our world. Diego and Lorenzo reflect the same painful past and maybe a destiny with the same emotional scar. |
THE BEACON CINEMA
Sunday 10/17/2021
TIME: 2:30PM
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Northwest Coast Premiere
Directed by: Juan Urgell Year: 2021 Country: Mexico, Venezuela Genre: Art Runtime: 18' Language: Spanish|English subtitles Synopsis: A blind elderly craftsman creates immense human sculptures with his bare hands, as the moonlight embellishes his simple yet poetic vision of the world. |
Latin Noir | FEATURE documentary IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere Directed by: Andreas Apostolidis Year: 2020 Country: Greece Genre: Noir, Literature, Art, Culture, History Country of Filming: Argentina, Greece, Mexico, Spain Runtime: 55' Language: English, Spanish | English subtitles Synopsis: Latin Noir travels to five Latin American cities, to meet with famous crime novelists Leonardo Padura (Havana), Luis Sepulveda (Santiago), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico City), Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima), Guillermo Orsi and Claudia Pineiro (Buenos Aires). Through their work, we discover a unique genre of flourishing literature that has a strikingly different tone from its North American or Nordic counterparts: its political, dark and above all concerned with a sense of extreme disorder created by the states involvement in crime. |
CLOSING NIGHT
THE BEACON CINEMA
SUNDAY 10/17/2021
TIME: 5:30PM
WITHOUT A KINGDOM
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all the world is sleeping | FEATURE NARRATIVE IN COMPETITION
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Northwest Coast Premiere Directed by: Ryan Lacen Year: 2021 Country: USA Genre: Drama Runtime: 111' Language: English Cast: Melissa Barrera, Jackie Cruz, Jorge Garcia, Kristen Gutoskie, Luis Bordonada, Lisandra Tena Synopsis: Fighting for her own life and the ones she loves, a Mother in New Mexico sinks in her addiction while struggling to surface for her daughter. |
Seattle Latino Film Festival 2021
OCTOBER 8TH - 17TH
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