Hispanic Film Festival: 'La Odisea de los Giles' (Heroic Losers)

Augustana College will sponsor its 26th annual Hispanic Film Festival on Wednesdays, Oct. 26-Nov. 30.

All films will be shown at 7 p.m. in Hanson Hall of Science, Room 102. Films are free and open to the public. Films are in Spanish with English subtitles.

Tonight's movie, "La Odisea de los Giles" (Heroic Losers) is a 2019 Argentine heist film co-written and directed by Sebastián Borensztein, based on the novel "La Noche de la Usina" (The Night of the Heroic Losers) by Eduardo Sacheri, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film runs two hours and is rated PG-13.

In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it. (IMDB)

"Corralito" was the informal name for economic measures taken in Argentina at the end of 2001 to stop a bank run.

• Winner Best Iberoamerican Film Goya Awards 2020
• Winner Best Latin American Picture José María Forqué Awards 2020