Five-week festival celebrates 鈥楻eel Latin America鈥 Events open with Sept. 27 Pride Week drama screening

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    LOUISVILLE, Ky. 鈥 Several dramas, a teen thriller and a documentary fill the lineup of the University of Louisville鈥檚 free, public 鈥淩eel Latin America鈥 Film Festival Sept. 27-Nov.1.

    The 25th annual festival, organized by UofL鈥檚 classical and modern languages department, offers multiple screenings of seven films in Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles. Locations will be on UofL鈥檚 Belknap Campus as well as Speed Art Museum鈥檚 Speed Cinema.

    This year鈥檚 offerings are from countries including Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Nicaragua. UofL faculty or staff members with expertise in film or the movies鈥 social justice themes will introduce the films and lead discussions after the screenings.

    The schedule opens with a UofL Pride Week showing of 鈥淒on鈥檛 Call Me Son,鈥 a 2016 Brazilian drama about gender identity and family, at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium. That film will be shown again at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 in Swain Student Activities Center鈥檚 Floyd Theater. Here鈥檚 the rest of the lineup:

    • 鈥淲ho is Dayani Cristal?鈥 5 p.m. Oct. 4, Floyd Theater
    • 鈥淭he German Neighbor,鈥 7 p.m. Oct. 4, Floyd Theater; 5 p.m. Oct. 25, Floyd Theater
    • 鈥淒elicate Balance,鈥 5 p.m. Oct. 11, Planetarium; 7 p.m. Oct. 18, Ekstrom Library 104W
    • 鈥淪pider Thieves,鈥 7 p.m. Oct. 11, Floyd Theater; 5 p.m. Oct. 18, Floyd Theater
    • 鈥淭he Companion,鈥 12:30 p.m. Oct. 21, Speed Cinema; 7 p.m. Oct. 25, Floyd Theater
    • 鈥淥n the Roof,鈥 12:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Speed Cinema; 11 a.m. Nov. 1, Floyd Theater

    For a listing of film descriptions, discussion leaders and additional sponsors, check

    For more information, contact Manuel Medina, classical and modern languages, at 502-419-6114, 502-852-0501 or manuel.medina@louisville.edu.

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    Judy Hughes
    Judy Hughes is a senior communications and marketing coordinator for UofL鈥檚 Office of Communications and Marketing and associate editor of UofL Magazine. She previously worked in news as a writer and editor for a daily newspaper and The Associated Press.