Make your way down to the waterfront at Socrates Sculpture Park for a sultry summer evening that includes a live tango performance and Argentine food by Mundo, in support of the sundown screening of Argentine film director Matias Pineiro’s VIOLA, tonight, July 30, at 7pm.
A youthful troupe of Buenos Aires actors mingle their tangled personal lives with their performances of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in this witty, seductive, urban comedy. “A triumph of narrative imagination and bottom-line ingenuity…” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times.
VIOLA will be preceded by the Warner Bros. cartoon, “A Ham in a Role.”
LIVE MUSIC & PERFORMANCE – 7PM
Tango ensemble Los Chantas
SCREENING – SUNDOWN
Viola, introduced by the Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro
RESTAURANT – ALL NIGHT!
Astoria’s own Mundo, who will be serving delicious Beef Empanadas, Choripan (Chorizo sandwiches), Alfajores (Home-made dulce de leche cookies), and Terere (Iced mate drink).
Programmed by Film Forum.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014 Pre-screening performance begins at 7PM
VIOLA, 2013, 65 mins. Film begins at sundown.
Directed by Matías Piñeiro, who will be at the screening in person!
EIGHT-WEEK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF QUEENS
Wednesdays at 7pm, JULY 2 – AUGUST 20, 2014
Pre-screening performances at 7 PM, films begins at sundown
Socrates Sculpture Park and Film Forum, in collaboration with Rooftop Films, present this annual international film festival, which focuses on a different country or culture each Wednesday evening. This program invites visitors to picnic on the grass, see musical and dance performances, enjoy the cool waterfront breeze as the sun sets over the Manhattan skyline, and watch exceptional international films on an outdoor screen.
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