The Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) focuses on alternative films with social content from Latin America and Spain, and on films dealing with Latino issues in the United States. Categories include feature films, documentaries and shorts. The festival will host over eighty films in nine days, presenting socially relevant and contemporary themes such as the predicament of the thriving Jewish community in Cuba. As in the past, the festival will host a series of Latino gay-themed films, and, this year, will also feature a series of Brazilian films exploring the political and social climate in South America’s largest country. A highlight of this year's festival is a larger sampling of contemporary dramatic films from Spain. The festival will also include films from the United States, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Mexico, and more than a dozen other countries from the Caribbean and Central and South America.  Many of these films are film festival award winners and will be making their Boston area premieres. BLIFF is committed to breaking stereotypes and building communities, using the medium of film to strengthen inter-cultural understanding and promote the work of independent filmmakers.

For more information please visit www.bliff.org.