By Katherine Monahan

Tickets for Panama’s International Film Festival go on sale for the general public April 13.

Patrons can order from March 30.  The festival provides an unprecedented opportunity to view award-winning films from around the world, and attend red-carpet events with top actors and filmmakers.

Tickets will be sold at the Cinemark Multicentro Ticket Office, where the films will play April 26-May 2. 

Tickets to red carpet events and opening and closing screenings will be available at the National Theater Box Office and the Kiosk IFF Panama Multicentro.  Package deals, including a five-ticket deal for the film screenings and a 3-Red Carpet event package, will be available at special prices.

*Oscar Winner*

The IFF brings a rich array of critically-acclaimed films to Panama.  “A Separation,” a touching and controversial drama about family life in contemporary Iran, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year, as well as Golden Globe, Cesar, Golden Bear, and Fajr Festival awards.   Many of cinema’s most revered figures, such as Francis Ford Copolla and Woody Allen, expressed profound respect for the film.

“A Separation” begins with a couple’s struggle over whether to move abroad for the sake of their young daughter, or stay in Tehran to care for a sick parent.  A morally-complex web unfolds from there, capturing the audience with the actors’ honest, emotional performances.

Newsroom  Panama from now to the opening date, April 26, will provide daily previews of the 50 films that will be shown.

Watch a trailer for “A Separation”