12th Irish Latin American Film Festival

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday March 29, 2011 11:26 by Rachel O'Hanlon - Latin America Solidarity Centre members at lasc dot ie

The 12th Irish Latin American Film Festival, once again aligned with Latin America Week 2011, takes place in Dublin from the 5th-8th April in the Irish Aid Centre, O’Connell St., Dublin 1. Admission to all screenings is free at this small and intimate screening space, and attendees are requested to be seated on time for each screening.

This bi-lingual Film Festival is organised in our indigenous language, Irish, with English as back-up, and as in all previous Festivals, features short films and documentaries. This year three indigenous languages of The Americas – Guaraní (Karoi Norte), Quechua (Ukuku) and Mapuche (La Voz Mapuche) feature. Films are infrequently available on Central America, but this year’s Festival programmes an excellent documentary on Honduras and the detrimental influence of its imperial neighbour, the US.

The screenings will include introductions and discussions afterwards lead by speakers familiar with the subjects. Several of the directors will also be in attendance to talk about their work.

Sincere gratitude is extended to all the filmmakers and producers from Latin America, and the European filmmakers for their goodwill and efficient co-operation in drawing up the programme for this year’s Festival. Covering many diverse topics and styles of film-making it should prove to be an exciting, interesting and informative festival.

More information and a full bilingual version of the programme is available on the Latin America Solidarity Centre website www.lasc.ie