Tomorrow starts the 8th German Film Festival in Buenos Aires.  The German film industry is one of the largest in Europe and since the 90’s has seen a great resurgence with films reaching international acclaim such as Run Lola Run, Good Bye Lenin! and Academy Award winner The Lives of Others that have managed to recapture the spotlight on this New German cinema.  Aside from international releases, a number of smaller budget German films have enjoyed critical success in France, where the term “Nouvelle Vague Allemande” has been applied to smaller productions mostly coming out of Berlin where a circle of directors of penetrating, realistic studies of relationships and characters informally bring their new school of cinema out from behind the shadows of underground cinematic culture.
Location: Recoleta Village Cinema
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Description: German cinema comes to Buenos Aires for the 8th time.
Start Date: 2008-09-11
End Date: 2008-09-17

For those of you like me who are enamored with everything about Brasil… here it is! The Brasilian Film Festival arrived this week in Buenos Aires! From May 8-14, 2008, the Village Recoleta Theaters will be hosting this year’s events. For more information, including trailers, interviews, showtimes and special events, please check out the official website at: http://www.brazilianfilmfestival.com/2008/buenosaires/site/index.asp?lang=esp&id=

When: April 8-20, 2008. Where: Various venues throughout the city of Buenos Aires. Last week started the 10th annual BAFICI with a promising lineup of International and Argentine Cinema. For more information including a day by day schedule of the festival, go to the festival’s website at http://www.bafici.gov.ar