Event

A POET IN THE DARK & LATIN NOIR

The Radio

Northwest Coast Premiere

Directed by Juan Urgell

2021

Mexico, Venezuela

Art

Duration: 18'

Spanish w/ English subtitles

Synopsis:

A blind elderly craftsman creates immense human sculptures with his bare hands, as the moonlight embellishes his simple yet poetic vision of the world.

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Latin Noir

Northwest Coast Premiere

Directed by Andreas Apostolidis

2020

Greece

Noir, Literature, Art, Culture, History

Country of Filming: Argentina, Greece, Mexico, Spain

Duration: 55'

English & Spanish w/ English subtitles

Synopsis:

Latin Noir travels to five Latin American cities, to meet with famous crime novelists Leonardo Padura (Havana), Luis Sepulveda (Santiago), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico City), Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima), Guillermo Orsi and Claudia Pineiro (Buenos Aires). Through their work, we discover a unique genre of flourishing literature that has a strikingly different tone from its North American or Nordic counterparts: its political, dark and above all concerned with a sense of extreme disorder created by the states involvement in crime.

* Seattle Latino Film Festival will strictly follow federal, state and local Covid-19 protocols. Hand sanitizers and masks will be provided on site. Attendees regardless of vaccine status should plan on wearing masks for the movie theater screenings where social distance is not possible.

*Parking available on the street or at the Walgreens's parking crossing the Rainier Ave.