Toulouse. Films, encounters, tango… This festival will breathe an air of Latin America
By Anthony Assemat
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Toulouse is the Spanish culture pegged to the body. The abundant cinema of Latin America is no exception to the rule. Every year, the Cinélatino festival we show all the riches of this cinema with a packed program concocted by the Arcalt association, interpreted by François Saint-Dizier.
Opening of Square de Gaulle and the Cinémathèque
Cinémathèque, media libraries, Les Abattoirs, ABC cinemas, Gaumont, American Cosmograph… More than ten places in Toulouse will host screenings. For the opening day, Friday March 25, 2022, there will be a screening of short films in the open air, square de Gaulle, from 8 p.m. It’s free… and we hope that the good weather will be there. In the evening, the Cinémathèque broadcasts “Salvador Allende” by Patricio Guzman and “La Francisca, a Chilean youth”, by Rodrigo Litorriaga.
A zoom on Chile and Colombia
Chile (with a big retro Guzman and a meeting with this great author on Saturday March 26 at 5:30 p.m. in the temple on rue du Taur, in partnership with the Cité de l’espace and the Envol des Pionniers) and the Colombia will be two countries closely scrutinized during this 34and editing. Chilean news will be extended to Ombres Blanches, Monday, March 28 at 6 p.m., with a meeting-debate with Carmen Castilloaround the book “A day in October in Santiago” published by Verdier.
A “Cinelatino Night” at the Crater
Friday 1uh April, Le Cratère cinema, in Saint-Michel, will take part in the celebration with the “Cinélatino Night”, from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day! For one night, discover six films around feminist and LGBTQI + themes in Latin America. Latin meals and breakfast are included, as well as entertainment such as quizzes, blind tests, debates… Price for this special evening: 15 euros.
Prize giving and tango demonstration
The closing evening of the festival will take place on Saturday April 2 at the Gaumont Wilson, in Toulouse, with the unprecedented screening, in France, of “Domingo”, directed by Raúl López Echeverría. But from 6:30 p.m., the long-awaited prize-giving will take place (free entry).
But the real finale will be held on Sunday April 3 with the screening of the film “Hugo in Argentina”, at 3 p.m. at the Cinémathèque, followed by a tango demonstration, a milonga and a concert with El Gancho y la Barrida, in partnership with the Tangueando festival. It’s from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and it’s free.
Program and reservations on cinelatino.fr
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