This screening of The Prize (El Premio) (Paula Markovitch, Argentina, 2011, 99 minutes) will be in Spanish, with subtitles in English.
From the CPL Web site: "Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a kindly teacher. A childhood idyll, however, soon becomes contaminated by the general political crisis, as the teacher recruits the class for a patriotic essay contest sponsored by the army—the very people that may have already 'disappeared' Cecilia’s father—in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in illicit times."
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