If you are in the DC area, there will be two screenings of Un Traductor (A Translator) along with post-screening discussions with the directors: Saturday, April 27 at the National Gallery of Art, 2:30pm, admission free; and Sunday, April 28, 12:30pm at E Street Cinema. Un Traductor is a Cuban film, in Spanish, with English subtitles.
Nothing brings home the tragedy of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster quite like the stories of the children it afflicted. The Cuban drama, Un Traductor (A Translator), a true story, carries this off with quiet, moving grace, through the eyes of a Russian-speaking Cuban academic. When he is abruptly ordered to cease teaching and report to the Havana hospital as an interpreter, he faces the realization that many of the young patients flown in from the Soviet Union for treatment, will die. http://www.filmfestdc.org/filmView.cfm?passID=72