Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! THE FINGER (EL DEDO), 2011 Los Angeles Premiere! THE STUDENT (EL ESTUDIANTE), 2011, November 19, 2011

Saturday, November 19 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: Los Angeles Premiere! THE FINGER (EL DEDO), 2011, 93 min. Devilish would-be politician Don Hidalgo's (Gabriel Goity) ambitions of being voted in as the local councilor are temporarily thwarted when his town's 501 occupants (the necessary minimum for an election) are reduced to 500 after the murder of Hidalgo's political opponent, Baldomero. Hidalgo persuades Baldomero's brother not to sign the death certificate so that the election may proceed. When Baldomero’s amputated finger takes on a life of its own, fantastically pointing at things from inside its jar of formaldehyde and ultimately running opposite Hidalgo in the impending race for councilor, filmmaker Sergio Teubal's hilarious satire proves its capacity for both belly laughs and observant political barbs. Official selection of the 2011 Guadalajara International Film Festival. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Los Angeles Premiere! THE STUDENT (EL ESTUDIANTE), 2011, 124 min. Dir. Santiago Mitre. Roque (an excellent Esteban Lamothe) has left his provincial hometown for the University of Buenos Aires, a campus he finds teeming with students engaged in political activism. As he develops a crush on a cute teaching assistant (Romina Paula) who is trying to instigate reform, and befriends Professor Acevedo (Ricardo Felix), a veteran campus politician, Roque is lured into the school's vibrantly seductive political realm (and away from his homework). As he climbs the ranks as Acevedo's campaign and event organizer, Roque discovers that political allegiances are not without a price. Official selection of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and 2011 Locarno Film Festival. "A taut, incisive look at university wheeling and dealing." -Variety In Spanish with English subtitles. Discussion between films with director Sergio Teubal (THE FINGER).
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