TAKEPLACE: LAST CALL FOR PIFF

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

LAST CALL FOR PIFF

Attention all Seattleites: there’s still time to gas up the car and head south for the last week of Northwest Film Center’s 34th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF). And although the festival has been screening a steady stream of its more than 130 films over the past 12 days there’s still plenty to like as PIFF heads into the homestretch.

As mentioned previously, there were several Oscar nominated films hitting the screen at PIFF in advance of the big showdown on awards night including Hermano - Venezuela’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film. Centered around their love for soccer Hermano explores the relationship between two brothers as their ideas of family and the bonds that bind them are thrown in flux as they chase their dreams with the Caracas Football Club. EXAMINER

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