The annual Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale, or LIFFY, will celebrate its 11th anniversary in a new virtual format. The festival will run from Nov. 9 through Nov. 15, thematically highlighting notions of “diversity, truth and justice.”
LIFFY’s goal has always been to promote cultural diversity and awareness. With the support of the MacMillan Center Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale, the festival achieves this through presenting movies by filmmakers from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
“This year especially, our team felt an urgent need to call attention to the problems of intolerance, divisiveness, and disinformation,” said Margherita Tortora, founder of LIFFY at Yale. “We want our filmmakers to get a platform to speak their truths, to show different stories and to really put the focus on justice and diversity.”