Mar del Plata Film Festival Starts Saturday

The 24th annual Mar del Plata International Film Festival begins Saturday.

The festival runs from Nov. 7 thru Nov. 15 in the coastal city of Mar del Plata and will screen films from Argentina, Spain, South Korea and the US, among many other countries.

The opening film, which is featured here in the YouTube trailer, is “A Serious Man” by the Coen brothers.

In previous years, celebrities attending the festival have included Jacqueline Bisset, Renee Zellweger, Kathleen Turner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, among others.

For more information about the festival in English click here. You can download a PDF of the complete film schedule by clicking here. A much better document, available in both English and Spanish, is this one, which gives great overviews of the films and their directors, etc.

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