La Señal International Summer Screenings Program: The Signal (La señal) It is 1952, Buenos Aires. While Eva Perón is lying on her deathbed, Corvalán, a small-time private detective with a past he’d rather keep hidden, finds himself entangled in a story of betrayal and greed. Hired by...

Ratio Nation & Arte y Vida Chicago Present: Natalia Lafourcade Latin Grammy Winning Mexican Pop-rock Singer/Songwriter! Natalia Lafourcade + Hello Seahorse + Guests November 13 Logan Square Auditorium 2539 N Kedzie 9PM $25 Advance/$30 DOS Cash Only 18+!! Tickets also available...

“Why weren’t you murdered?” Dedé Mirabal is constantly asked. “I lived to tell the story”, she answers. And in the pages of Vivas en su jardín she does exactly that: she tells us the story of her three sisters, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa, known as “the butterflies”,...

En Tu Ciudad Tour Friday, May 8th The Bottom Lounge with live performances by Making Movies, Los Vicios de Papá, Saber and DJ Chavez. Doors open at 8pm, the show is 21 and over. For free entrance, visit MySpace.com/EnTuCiudad to sign up to receive the secret password to get...

From December 5 through 29, the Gene Siskel Film Center in collaboration with Pragda, presents the Festival of New Spanish Cinema 2008. The series offers a first-rate selection of vibrant, artful, and eclectic recent films, many international award winners, representing dramatic, comic, and...

Tim Parsa 2008  Documentary Feature Run time: 70 min. | Mexico The documentary tells the story of two very different men – a well-heeled American expatriate living in Mexico City and a Mexican horse groom who is...

TONY WIGHT GALLERY is pleased to present Devoured By Symbols, a solo exhibition of new works by Diana Guerrero-Maciá. In her new work, Diana Guerrero-Maciá continues to pair unconventional materials with open-ended quotations in order to investigate the interplay of text and image. The...

Cine en el Parque / Film in the Park presented by The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago. Enjoy our films outside in a picnic-style environment during the warm summer nights. A summer series that shows free of charge some of the most popular movies of the Chicago Latino Film...

Mario Ybarra Jr. Go Tell It…#1, 2001. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles. May 29–August 24, 2008 Mario Ybarra, Jr. is a visual and performance artist, educator, and activist who combines street culture with fine art in order to produce...

General Admission: $10 Students/Seniors/Disabled: $9 ILCC Members: $8 (To receive discount, show current student i.d. or ILCC membership card) AMC Loews Pipers Alley 1608 N. Wells St. (at North Ave.) (312) 642-7500 6:30pm - August Evening, US, 128 min. – (Director will be present for Q...

April 4 – 16, 2008     Show-times, Wednesday ~ April 9, 2008 AMC Loews Pipers Alley 6:30pm - Fiestapatria, Chile, 102 min. 6:30pm – Noel poeta da vila / The Samba Poet, Brazil, 99 min. (Correct Synopsis: Noel Rosas, “The Samba Philosopher,” was one of...

TIMECRIMES (LOS CRONOCRÍMENES) 2007, Nacho Vigalondo, Spain, 88 min. With Karra Elejalde, Nacho Vigalondo Generating much buzz at Sundance, Vigalondo’s auspicious debut (following his Academy Award-nominated short 7:35 IN THE MORNING) has already been slated for an American remake. The...

TIMECRIMES (LOS CRONOCRÍMENES) 2007, Nacho Vigalondo, Spain, 88 min. With Karra Elejalde, Nacho Vigalondo Generating much buzz at Sundance, Vigalondo’s auspicious debut (following his Academy Award-nominated short 7:35 IN THE MORNING) has already been slated for an American remake. The...

THE SKY TURNS (EL CIELO GIRA) 2005, Mercedes Álvarez, Spain, 106 min. Winner of the top award at both the Rotterdam and Buenos Aires Film Festivals, this sublime documentary evokes such great cinema pastorals as PATHER PANCHALI, THE TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS, and THE WIND WILL CARRY US. After...

THE SKY TURNS (EL CIELO GIRA) 2005, Mercedes Álvarez, Spain, 106 min. Winner of the top award at both the Rotterdam and Buenos Aires Film Festivals, this sublime documentary evokes such great cinema pastorals as PATHER PANCHALI, THE TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS, and THE WIND WILL CARRY US. After...

SOME PHOTOS IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (UNAS FOTOS EN LA CIUDAD DE SYLVIA) 2007, José Luis Guerín, Spain, 67 min. Composed of hundreds of haunting b&w photographs, this companion piece to IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA expands that film’s autobiographical and historical dimensions, as it revisits...

IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (EN LA CIUDAD DE SYLVIA) 2007, José Luis Guerín, Spain, 84 min. With Xavier Lafitte, Pilar López de Ayala “Seemingly aimed at voyeurs, the film is built on sensuous interplays between people and objects, reality and representation, implying something profound is at...

IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (EN LA CIUDAD DE SYLVIA) 2007, José Luis Guerín, Spain, 84 min. With Xavier Lafitte, Pilar López de Ayala “Seemingly aimed at voyeurs, the film is built on sensuous interplays between people and objects, reality and representation, implying something profound is at...