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AFI Fest 2012: White Elephant

A 2012 Argentine, Spanish, and French film by director Pablo Trapero- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th

Saturday, November 03, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
American Cinematheque
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 

Pablo Trapero returns to AFI FEST following his pulsating neo-noir CARANCHO with an explosive vision of Argentina's crumbling slums and the men who labor to sustain those struggling to survive in them. When an Amazon tribe is brutally slaughtered, Father Nicholas leaves the jungle and heads toward the slums of Buenos Aires and the abandoned monolith nicknamed the "White Elephant." The unfinished tuberculosis hospital is now a hulking reminder that society has turned its back on this place where violent drug lords rule the day. Deep in the slums, Father Nicholas encounters another missionary priest, the grizzled but effective Father Julian who has a unique way of using the gangs for good. As police crackdowns continue, we experience from the inside what bone-crushing poverty does to a man determined to do right. Shocking and rigorously adherent to its internal morality, WHITE ELEPHANT is a sweaty, dirt-encrusted tale you will never forget.

111 min

Screenings:

Egyptian
11/03/12, 12:30 PM

Egyptian
11/04/12, 3:00 PM

Watch the trailer:

Cost: All regular tickets to AFI FEST are FREE. To reserve individual tickets or to purchase an AFI FEST CINEPASS EXPRESS pass go to AFI.com/afifest.

For more information please contact

Magaly Lopez
Tel: 310-825-4571
latinamctr@international.ucla.edu

Download File: AFI-FEST-2012-tl-avb.pdf

Sponsor(s): American Film Institute