By Travis Johnson
The 11th annual Sydney Latin American Film Festival hits Dendy Opera Quays from September 8 – 12, and this year’s program is packed to the brim with exciting cinema from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Cuba, Chile, Argentina and Urugay.
This year’s festival opens with the Brazilian film, Jules and Dolores, which took home the Audience Award at SXSW 2016. Set in 1983, the film imagines the circumstances surrounding the theft of the World Cup Trophy, which still remains unsolved. The Opening Night Fiesta at Cruise Bar follows the screening, with music from the Kriola Collective and DJ Don Juan.
Cuban hip hop artist Yotuel Romero stars as a disgraced boxer who is forced to be the companion of an HIV patient in a Cuban sanitarium circa 1988 in Pavel Giroud’s The Companion, while Alejandro Alvarez’s Walking Distance is the story of a morbidly obese man and his quest for friendship.
Other highlights include the documentaries Patient, Your Parents Will Come Back, and Beyond my Grandfather Allende, the buddy road move Road to La Paz, and Between Sea and Land, which won Acting and Audience Awards at Sundance. The closing night film is the Mexican coming of age comedy, Jeremy.
For session times and tickets, shoot over to the official site.
