The 13th annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Cinema and Columbia College, runs from Friday, April 4, through Monday, April 14. Film and video screenings will be at Chestnut Station, 850 N. Clark; Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton; Art Institute Rubloff Auditorium, Columbus Drive at Monroe; First Chicago Center, 1 S. Dearborn; Spanish Coalition for Jobs, 2011 W. Pershing; Calles y Suenos, 1900 S. Carpenter; Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. Saint Louis; University of Illinois at Chicago Halsted Lecture Center, 750 S. Halsted; and Rosary College Fine Arts Building, 7900 W. Division, River Forest. Tickets for most programs are $7.50, $6.50 for students, senior citizens, and disabled persons, and $6 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. The opening and closing nights cost a lot more, but some screenings are free. Festival passes, good for 15 screenings excluding special events, are $70, $60 for Chicago Latino Cinema members. For more information call 312-431-1330.
Brazilian shorts
A Sao Paulo family is torn apart by a factory strike, the father siding with the radical unionists, the son with the conservative business leaders, in a 1981 Brazilian film by Leon Hirszman. With Fernanda Montenegro and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri. (Facets Multimedia Center, 7:00)
Eva Peron: The True Story
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A 1995 Mexican comedy directed by Ernesto Rimoch about a middle-class woman who’s to marry a wealthier man, allowing her family to climb up the social ladder, when the theft of money at the wedding puts a new spin on things. To be shown with the short film Whacked. (Chestnut Station, 8:30)
A Brazilian docudrama directed by Jose Joffily, based on two nonfiction books about the life of Fernando Ramos da Silva, the nearly illiterate 11-year-old boy who starred in the 1980 film Pixote and was gunned down while still in his teens. (Chestnut Station, 9:00)
Videos from Spain and the U.S. (Facets Multimedia Center, 4:00
