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Tomorrow Closing & Awards Night Chicago Latino Film Festival: “Chicogrande”
Chicogrande Mexico, 2010, 100 min. | Director: Felipe Cazals | Genre: Drama | Spanish with subtitles.
Chicogrande
Following the frustrated invasion of Columbus in New Mexico, Pancho Villa retreats, only to be injured by Mexican troops in the city of Guerrero. As a pretext for the US military to journey into Mexico, a massive campaign is launched to capture Villa dead or alive. Convalescent, Villa takes refuge deep in the mountains while Chicogrande (Damián Alcázar), an anonymous Mexican Revolution hero, is given the task of finding medical assistance while preparing to give up his life in the attempt. (more…)
Friday, April Chicago Latino Film Festival Opening Night “No Return/ Sin Retorno”
No Return/ Sin Retorno Argentina/Spain, 2010, 106 min. | Director: Miguel Cohan | Genre: Thriller | Spanish with subtitles.
No Return/ Sin Retorno
On a hot summer night in Buenos Aires, a hit-and-run accident will link the lives of three men, one of them played by Leonardo Sparaglia. After running over a young man, the guilty driver leaves the scene of the crime without leaving a trace. The deceased young man’s father, with the support of the media, demands that the person responsible for his son’s death be hunted down and sent to jail. Entangled in a mesh of chance and despair, the characters in the story must face guilt, responsibility and the intimate need for redemption in an escalation that eventually reaches a point of no return. (more…)
