FROM POPES TO POETS, FOOTBALL LEGENDS TO VENEZUELAN BEAUTIES 
CELEBRATES LATIN AMERICA
The inaugural CINE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL launches Friday night exclusively at Palace Barracks Cinema, until August 24, featuring films from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The Festival opens with the Queensland Premiere of the gripping and ingeniously conceived film, NERUDA. Staring the acclaimed Gael García Bernal, the astonishing new Chilean film is a lavishly-mounted reimagining of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s pursuit into political exile. The pre-film celebration starts at 6pm and will include a taste of Latin America with wine, Quilmes beer, gastronomic delights and live music, followed by a 7pm the screening.
On Saturday, experience FRANCIS: PRAY FOR ME, the biographical portrait of Argentinean priest Father Jorge Bergoglio, who in 2013 became Pope Francis I, current pope of the Roman Catholic Church, screening at 12:30pm. Enjoy the Back Four: Four Films about Football with two of the spotlight films screening on Saturday, with the documentary MARACANAZO: THE FOOTBALL LEGEND showing at 2:45pm and the Argentinian comedy PAPER IN THE WIND screening at 6:30pm.
Start your Sunday with a Caribbean brunch and the Queensland Premiere of pitch-black Venezuelan comedy 3-BEAUTIES. Pre-film brunch starts at 10.30am includes arepas (maize flour pancakes with yummy fillings) and coffee, with the film commencing at 11:30am. Following on from bunch, is the sharp-witted new comedy from Lisandro Duque Naranjo, THE BRIDE OF HEAVEN, screening at 1.45pm. If you missed the opening night, we invite you to join for the audacious and grandly entertaining film NERUDA screening at 3:45pm.
For full weekend program, please see below or visit the official website here.
SATURDAY 13 AUGUST
12:30pm Francis: Pray for Me
2:45pm Maracanazo: The Football Legend
4:30pm Panamerican Machinery
6:30pm Papers in the Wind
8:30pm Red Earth
SUNDAY 14 AUGUST
11:30am 3 Beauties CARIBBEAN BRUNCH
1:45pm The Bribe of Heaven
3:45pm Neruda
6:00pm Fragments of Love
8:15pm Endless Poetry
JIM LEE PHOTO
