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Annual Phoenix College Latin American festival offers week of free films

Cinema fans can get their fix of celluloid at Phoenix College's free Latin American Film Festival March 27 - 31. Each evening, beginning at 7 p.m., a different film is screened in the college's Bulpitt Auditorium.

What's cool are the discussions with directors that follow each movie. Among films scheduled:

March 27: Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side), Mexico, 2004; director: Gonzalo Loza. Three stories about the search for a better life.

March 28: Sueños Bi-Nacionales (Bi-national Dreams), USA, 2004; director Yolanda Cruz. Documentary about indigenous immigrants; also Los Veteranos (The Veterans), USA, 2005; directed by PC history professor Pete Dimas.

March 29: Suite Habana, Cuba, 2004; director Fernando Pérez, about Cuban life.

March 30: El Perro (The Dog), Argentina, 2004; director Carlos Sorín. A man dreams big after his dog wins a local dog show.

March 31: Voces Inocentes/Innocent Voices, Mexico/El Salvador, 2004; director Luis Mandoki. A boy's fight for life in El Salvador.

Phoenix College is located at 1202 W. Thomas Road. For info, call (602) 285-7416.