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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Please join us for the next screening of the 2021 Latin American Film Festival.
<b><i>Birds of Passage</i> (Colombia, 2018),</b> directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, will be screened next
<b>Wednesday, February 24, at 7pm</b>, and it will be available for streaming from the Festival portal from February 24 to March 3. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, return with this inspired mob epic for the ages
— a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.<o:p> </o:p></i></span></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”<o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence
and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades,
the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Watch the trailer here:
<a href="https://youtu.be/QV0uWf72ZQw" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://youtu.be/QV0uWf72ZQw</a>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Register for the screening here:
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/latin-american-film-fest-birds-of-passage-tickets-132990172185" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/latin-american-film-fest-birds-of-passage-tickets-132990172185</a></span><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;">Learn more about the Festival here:
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/news/latin-american-film-festival" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable">
https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/news/latin-american-film-festival</a> </span></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The 2021 Latin American Festival is organized by the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Kitchener Public Library
and the Spanish Film Club by Pragda. </span></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Hope to see you there!</span></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Best wishes, </span></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Mario</span></span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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