Almost 40 at AFI Latin American Film Festival

The AFI Latin American Film Festival celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections with the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal.

Now in its 29th year, the AFI Latin American Film Festival is one of North America’s largest and long-running showcases of Latin America cinema. With the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal, the festival celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections during National Hispanic Heritage Month.

From September 13 to October 3, the Festival will bring to AFI Silver Theatre a selection of films that includes numerous international film festival favorites, award winners, local box office hits and debut works by promising new talents.

Almost 40 (Casi 40)

• On Saturday, September 22 at 5:30 pm. Buy tickets.
• On Sunday, September 23 at 5 pm. Buy tickets.
• Directed by David Trueba, Spain, 2018, 83 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. View trailer.

Tristán reunites with his longtime friend and former lover, retired singer Lucía, when he books her a small concert tour –her first shows since starting a family six years prior. Seeing straight through his pretense, Lucía agrees to play the concerts to escape her life of domesticity and catch up after 20 years. The pair fill each other in on the two decades they have spent apart and talk about old times, as they travel from gig to gig in this sophisticated road movie with striking similarities to Richard Linklater’s dialogue-driven Before trilogy.