Eighth Annual Foreign Film Festival

ECU's 8th Annual Foreign Film Festival begins on Friday, February 2nd with Neruda, a Spanish-language film from Chile about a determined police inspector (Gael García Bernal) who is hunting Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) after he goes into hiding in 1948.

The film will be introduced by the director of ECU’s Spanish Language program, Dr. Errol King, who will be taking a group of ECU students to Mexico in March.

The screening will be held in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center. Admission is free and open to the public.

After each screening, audience members will be given door prizes in the form of books, DVDs, food and works of art associated with the culture of the films featured in the festival. Additional door prizes have also been generously donated this year by several local businesses, including Amber’s Sweet Shoppe, Brown’s Pharmacy and Gifts, Cinemark Ada, Delicias Mexican Restaurant, Hampton Inn Ada, Hot Shots Coffee House, Mojo’s Coffee Bar and Cafe, and Scraptopia.

Neruda is rated “R” for sexuality/nudity and is for mature audiences.