April 2007

The Namesake @ Landmark Century Theatre

Based on the novel by award-winning author Jumpa Lahiri, The Namesake tells story of the Ganguli family migration from Calcutta, India to New York. The main character is son Gogol, who struggles to understand his Indian and new American identity.

Now playing at Landmark Century Theatres in Chicago area.

Admission: Call location for ticket prices and times.

Landmark Century Theatre - 2828 N. Clark St., Chicago - (773)509-4949

AMC River East - 328 E. Illinois St, Chicago - (847)765-7262

Landmark Century Theater -1715 Maple St., Evanston - (847)492-0123

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23rd Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival
April 13-25

This year's Chicago Latino Film Festival boasts more than 100 short length and feature length films from countries of Latin America including Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.

Admission: $10 general; $9 students, Festival Pass (10 admissions) $80
Festival Hotline: 312-409-1757

Theatres:

Pipers Alley 4
1608 N. Wells, Chicago

Landmark Century
2828 N. Clark, Chicago

Facets Cinematheque
1517 Fullerton Ave., Chicago

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Chicago Palestine Film Festival@ The Gene Siskel Film Center
April 16-26

Film festival features film and video work showcasing the culture, experience, and vision of the artist from Palestine. Opening festival will be documentary LEILA KHALED: HIJACKER, in which the world's first female hijacker reflects publicly for the first time on the actions that made her international news almost forty years ago.

Admission:
General: $9
Students: $7 (valid ID required)
Film Center Members: $5

Gene Siskel Film Center - 164 North State Street

Traveling African Film Festival
Weekends through May 6

Facets Cinematheque presents its annual African Traveling Film Festival Series In the 1950s and '60s, African filmmakers began to create images of post-colonial Africa with nuanced understanding of Africa's cultural diversity. Over the last half a century, African cinema has become a unique blend of aesthetic experimentation, history, and politics. As African nations have constructed modern identities from traditional and colonial experiences, the role of visual culture in communicating these new transitional identities is relevant for audiences around the world. The Traveling Series provides access to a neglected part of international film culture and supports African films often overlooked by distributors but which are deserving of larger audiences.
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Admission:
For information on what's playing call: 773-281-4114

Facets Cinematheque - 1517 Fullerton Ave., Chicago