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IFI presents a season of Spanish and Latin American Film
8th-16th May 2009
This year’s celebration of recent Spanish-language cinema aims to tempt the Sun back to Irish shores with a spicy selection of the best features from the last year.
The vibrant fiction film selection includes the heavyweight boxing drama Round Two (featuring the seriously sculpted Álex González) and Sleep Dealer, a Mexican sci-fi that offers a disturbing vision of the sweatshops of the near future. Fermat’s Room offers a puzzling and claustrophobic thriller that sees four mathematicians stuck in a room where the walls are closing in. The tight set piece’s dramatic potential is utilised to brilliant effect.
There is a particularly strong documentary thread running through the programme. The opening film LT22: Radio La Colifata by Carlos Larrondo promises to be something quite special; a tender and inspirational documentary made over a period of ten years about a radio station run by the patients of El Borda, a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires. There is more documentary magic in Night Flowers a political film about the slum barrios of Madrid that exposes the poverty and government neglect that have blighted the lives of the inhabitants.
The festival closes with the stunning new dark comedy Spleen that features top Spanish actor Luis Tosar playing the hero whose obsessions in life are The Smiths and bad girls with fringes; a quirky and unmissable treat that will wrap up a fantastic season of Spanish and Latin passion and politcs.
Tickets are available at the IFI Box Office in person, by telephone on 01 679 3477 or on www.ifi.ie.
