The 21st Chicago Latino Film Festival runs Friday, April 8, through Thursday, April 21, at the Beverly Arts Center; Chicago State Univ., 9501 S. King Dr.; Columbia College Ludington Bldg.; Dominican Univ., 7900 W. Division; Facets Cinematheque; Pipers Alley; Landmark’s Century Centre; Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Van Buren; Moraine Valley Community College, 10900 S. 88th Ave., Palos Hills; Northwestern Univ. Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago; Richard J. Daley College, 7500 S. Pulaski; St. Xavier Univ. McGuire Hall; and University of Illinois at Chicago, Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $10, $9 for students, seniors, and the disabled, and $8 for members of the School of the Art Institute, the Gene Siskel Film Center, or the International Latino Cultural Center. A festival pass, good for ten shows excluding special events, is available for $80, $70 for ILCC members. For more information call 312-409-1757. Following are listings through Thursday, April 14; a full festival schedule is available online at www.chicagoreader.com. Unless otherwise noted, all films are in Spanish with subtitles.
Bye Bye Brazil
A Mexican-American attorney in the Phoenix public defender’s office must represent a border-patrol officer accused of shooting a boy in the back. Chicago filmmaker Juan J. Frausto (Once Upon a Time in the Hood) directed. 93 min. (Landmark’s Century Centre, 7 PM)
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A banker fights to preserve the work of obscure artists in this Spanish-Chilean-Argentinean coproduction. Director Silvio Caiozzi will attend the screening, part of the festival’s opening-night gala. Tickets are $20, $15 for ILCC members. (Northwestern Univ. Thorne Auditorium, 8 PM)
SATURDAY 9
Fuera de juego
A private detective looks into the murder of a married couple and their employees at a Puerto Rican travel agency. Edmundo H. Rodriguez directed this 2004 feature. 107 min. (Landmark’s Century Centre, 6 PM)
