Gran Cine, a commercial-free contemporary movie network offering a wide range of originally produced and recently released blockbusters from Spain and Latin America, presents the dates and titles for the 7th annual Festival de Gran Cine (Gran Cine Festival), a week-long celebration of Spanish-language cinema and Hispanic culture as part of its efforts to observe every year the National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Started in 1968 by Congress as Hispanic Heritage Week, it was expanded to a month in 1988, from September 15th to October 15th each year to celebrates U.S. Latinos, their culture and their history. Begins in the middle rather than the start of September because it coincides with national independence days in several Latin American countries. One of the key facts about the nation’s Latino population is it reached 59.9 million in 2018, up from 47.8 in 2008, according the Pew Research Center.
This year Festival de Gran Cine movie’s schedule is:
Venezuela
A procession to celebrates a Patron Saint runs through the streets of a once prosperous town. The collective party serves as a camouflage, not only for a couple of lovers to sneak furtively, also for the mayor to secretly introduce a load of toxic waste.
Director
Miltón Crespo
Cast
Toco Gómez, Dalila Colombo, Carlos Cruz, and Laura Altieri
Spain
It is considered as a special love story, which starts when a woman wants to take a step forward in the relationship and her lover is not able to. As a result, she leaves home, and he starts an inspiring trip by train through Berlin and Verona to find her.
Director
Ana Rodríguez Rosell
Cast
Oscar Jaenada, Manuela Vellés, Jan Cornet, and Clara Wurnell
México
The bachelor parties’ days suddenly stop for a man when his three girlfriends demand marriage at the same time. However, nobody knows who will win the adorable and unexpected romantic race.
Director
Angie Martínez
Cast
Ramsés Soto, Maggie Montúfar, Carla Pelatelli, and Araceli Landín
Ecuador
The life of a police officer takes an unexpected turn when she intervenes in a procedure that culminates in a tragedy, from that moment on she decides to face the menace of intrafamily violence day by day.
Director
Dwight Gregorich
Cast
Karen Montero, Darío León, Ricardo González, and Samanta Cano
Argentina
The Final Football Match is scheduled. For two fans friends this is the most important sport event of their lives and they are determined to travel more than 700 miles to support their team and they will do their best to let them win the game.
Director
Jorge Piwowarski and Andrés Edmundo Paternostro
Cast
Tomás Fonzi, Ariel Pérez De María, and Fernando Govergun
Chile
The son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter, artistic talent discovered by the owner of a drugstore of the small rural town where they live, who will try to make the boy into a great artist, but the boy disappeared with all his work.
Director
Pablo Perelman
Cast
Daniel Giménez, Verónica Sánchez, Juan José Susacasa, and Catalina Saavedra
Dominican Republic
A real estate broker by day and a savvy but out-of-luck thief by night. Desperate to look for respect climbing the money ladder the easy way, he gets caught in the middles of a twisted plot when he gets in the wrong mansion at the wrong time.
Director
Pedro Urrutia
Cast
David Maler, Paula Ferry, Héctor Anibal, and Nashla Bogart
Gran Cine is owned and operated by Olympusat, Inc., and it’s currently available on Liberty, RCN, and Verizon FiOS.
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Jesús Piñango
Senior Director of News
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