Vamos A Ver Una Pelicula!

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For all you indie film lovers, particularly those with a fondness for Spanish and Latin American films, or those like me who have Spanish-speaking friends and significant others (hola Tricia Par!), Instituto Cervantes is celebrating its 10th year of Pelicula: Spanish Film Festival, "the biggest presentation of Spanish Cinema in Asia and the Pacific",  this October 5 to 16 at the Greenbelt 3 cinemas.

This year, the festival will be showing 17 Spanish and Latin American films, including Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem as Uxbal, a father engaged in illegal immigrant trafficking who sets out to improve the lives of his children after finding out he has terminal cancer. Bardem won Best Actor at the 2011 Goya Awards, which is the Oscars to the Spanish and Latin American speaking countries, and the film was nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. For the rest of the films and their schedules, head on over to www.pelicula.ph.

The festival will also highlight a special cycle of audience choice winners of previous Pelicula installments entitled "Diez años de Película (10 Years of Película)," featuring films like Alejandro Amenábar’s Mar Adentro, Isabel Coixet's La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words), or Nacho Vellila’s comedy Fuera de carta. 

I'm planning to see Biutiful probably on October 5 Thursday or on October 15 Saturday. Tickets are priced at 65 pesos a piece, which is very much affordable compared to the bloated ticket prices of the regular cinemas,  so let's all head on over to Greenbelt 3 Cinemas and experience the finest selection of Spanish films that Pelicula has to offer. Vamos al Cine!

*The 10th PELÍCULA Spanish Film Festival is organized by Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in cooperation with ICAA, Ministerio de Cultura of Spain, the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines, Spanish Agency International Cooperation for Development (AECID), Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation, and the Greenbelt and Ayala Malls Cinemas.

*For more information, call 526 1482 or visit http://manila.cervantes.es or www.pelicula.ph. 

Instituto Cervantes de Manila is at 855 T.M. Kalaw St., Ermita, Manila.