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In addition to all the groovy films from all over Latin America that will be shown, they're screening a restored version of Battleship Potemkin, the 1925 classic by Eisenstein, which will contain scenes deleted by Soviet censors and is believed to be as close as possible to the original director's cut.

Gabriel García Márquez will be continuing a workshop in which nine scriptwriting students from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Spain and Mexico work on their own short films that will eventually be compiled into a feature film.

Perhaps the coolest thing of all is that Mexican film star Silvia Pinal, who starred in several films by one of the best directors ever, Luis Buñuel, will be in attendance to be awarded the Orden de Isabel la Católica. One of her films, La Soldadera, will be shown at the festival.

By the way, did you know you can download a Quicktime movie of Buñuel and Dali's 1929 surrealist classic, Un chien andalou at the Internet Archives? If you don't already know why you should download and watch this film, you should read about it at Wikipedia. I'll warn you though, since the file is 93.3 MB, if you have no taste for surrealism, you might simply find it disturbing and pencil.