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Bolivia - Adrián Israel Caetáno
A moving story of xenophobia and homesickness, Bolivia charts the demise of an illegal immigrant in Buenos Aires with riveting precision. Freddy has left in Bolivia what he loves most, his family. He has come to Buenos Aires with no papers, aiming to find a good job and a place for his family to join him. He gets a job cooking
in a bar thanks to Enrique, the owner, who tries to lend him a hand. The clientele, largely coarse beer-drinking drivers, view the new cook with suspicion and disgust: why did the owner take on a foreigner when there are so many unemployed Argentineans? Trying to ignore their insults and threats as best he can, he befriends
El Oso and Marcelo, two struggling taxi drivers, Hector, a street salesman from Córdoba, and Rosa, a young waitress
from Paraguay who brings them all closer together. El Oso, whose money problems are about to cost him his taxi, turns his fury on the unfortunate Freddy, who cannot bear the burden. (75 mins.) Print courtesy of Rebeca Conget.
Filmography: Pizza, Beer, Smoke (98), A Red Bear (02).
Showtimes: 2/24, 6:30pm GU and 2/26, 4:30pm BW.

Love and Fright: Borges - Juan Carlos Desanzo
Aficionados of Argentina's Nobel Prize-winning writer Jorge Luis Borges will find veteran director Juan Carlos Desanzo's
bio-pic a fascinating experience. It is 1946. General Perón, a man with a facist past sympathetic to the Nazis, has just won the Presidential election. It is becoming clear that the dictatorship of the past is being replaced by an even more ruthless one. Forced from his job by political pressure, Borges takes up a paranoid refuge in a board house in Buenos Aries, where he must figure out the political treality of an unfolding nightmare and do what he can to save the woman he secretly loves from the clutches of her Perónist husband. Unable to trust anyone and uncertain of his enemies actions, Borges wrestles with love, literature and intrigue as only Borges would have it. (90 mins.) Print courtesy of Juan Carlos Desanzo.
Filmography: Passengers of the Garden (82),
The Search (87), Eva Perón (96).
Showtimes: 2/27, 9pm and 3/1, 9:15pm WH.

Kamchatka
Marcelo Pineyro
Argentina's selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Kamchatka is a heartfelt, intelligent film with historical depth and universal themes of family, childhood, love and loss. Proving the adage that all politics is personal, director Pineyro uses a single family to paint an intimate portrayal of the menacing early days of Argentina's 1976 military coup. The tale is narrated by
10-year-old Harry, plucked out of school, along with his younger brother, affectionately known as "the midget," and whisked away to a rural hideaway. Having witnessed the disappearance of dissident friends, their parents (Darin and Roth) are fleeing persecution by the new regime. "to be together, the four of us for as long as we can." They eventually take in Lucas, another young man on the run who slowly befriends the sulking Harry and adds joy to their exile. Together, they are able to forget or ignore-however temporarily-the dreaded finale foreshadowed in opening scenes.(104 mins.) Print courtesy of Menemsha Entertainment.
Filmography: Wild Tango (93), Wild Horses (95), Burnt Money (00).
Showtimes: 2/28, 9:30pm and 3/1, 7pm WH.