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International Latino Film Festival

A Portrait of Diego: the Revolutionary Gaze is one of four films to be shown at the Latino Film Festival.

The International Latino Film Festival is coming to Sacramento—via Sacramento State—for the first time in its 11-year history. Sacramento State’s Serna Center is presenting four films to be shown at various locations and times in the University Union Nov. 13, 14 and 19. 

The Festival, which spans eight cities including San Francisco, San Jose, San Rafael, Berkeley and Sacramento, showcases the best in new international Latino cinema, applauds emerging talent and pays tribute to celebrated Latino actors, directors and producers. The films present varied views of social, political and economic perspectives of Latinos in the United States and internationally.

The opening film, Sixty Years from the End of the Holocaust, will run at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13 in the Hinde Auditorium in the University Union. The film tells the story of a young man taking care of his ailing grandfather in Argentina. After coming across an old photograph of his grandfather in Auschwitz, the young man goes in search of his Jewish identity across several countries to fulfill his grandfather’s dying wish.

The City of the Photographers plays at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14 in the University Union’s Redwood Room. The documentary features the work of photographers who captured Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s brutal regime and his army’s atrocities. The photographers’ pictures, published in Chile and abroad, were largely credited with spurring the revolution against the regime.

The third film in the series, The Great Match, will be shown at noon, Monday, Nov. 19 in the Hinde Auditorium. The comedy is centered on three factions of soccer fans—a nomadic family from Mongolia, a camel caravan of Tuaregs in the Sahara, and a group of Amazonian Indians—determined to see the televised 2002 World Cup match between Brazil and Germany. The film illustrates the resourcefulness of those who are isolated from instant access that many of us take for granted in the information age.

The final film, A Portrait of Diego: the Revolutionary Gaze, will begin at 2 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19 in the Hinde Auditorium. The documentary features archived footage from acclaimed artist Diego Rivera’s friends and fellow artists Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa, who set out to capture Rivera’s artistic process. Before completion, they shelved the project, but 60 years later Diego Lopez Rivera (Rivera’s grandson) found the footage, which not only featured Rivera’s work but interviews from family and friends.

The event is co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center, Women’s Resource Center and Department of Theatre and Dance.

For more information, contact the Serna Center at 278-4512.