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Phoenix, Arizona 85013
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2003 Mexican Film Festival Begins March 5

By: Christy Skeen

The Phoenix College Foreign Language Department will host the 2003 Mexican Film Festival beginning Wednesday, March 5. All movies begin at 7 p.m. in the Bulpitt Auditorium. Films will be shown through Friday, March 7.

This year’s films include:

March 5 – Amores Perros
Named Best Film at the Chicago, Tokyo and Moscow International Film Festivals, Amores Perros contains three separate stories, all relating to one another because of a car crash in Mexico City. Despite scenes of extreme violence, the film is as thoughtful as it is intense. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles.

March 6 – All Of Them Witches
Inspired by Roman Polanski’s classic, Rosemary’s Baby, this eerie psychological thriller brings the horror of dreams and imagination to life with its atmospheric visual style and impressive special effects. Rodrigo Prieto’s haunting cinematography won top honors at the 1996 Mexican Academy Awards. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles.

March 7 – Real Women Have Curves
Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Because she is a talented writer, a caring teacher urges her to apply to college. Ana is secretly excited about this possibility, but her overbearing and hypocritical mother Carmen insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working in her sister’s sewing factory. When a crisis arises at the factory, it seems as if Ana’s fate is unhappily sealed. However, her indomitable will to reach beyond a sweatshop life eventually leads her to burst, defiant and resplendent, through every restriction on her life. The movie is in English.

The event is free and open to the campus community and public. For more information, please call (602) 285-7416.