Dos, por favor by MATTHEW HAYS Montreal's salsa-iest film dude, Adrian Gonzalez, is again spearheading this year's film festival celebrating Latin-American celluloid, Ciné-Fiesta. Now in its third year, the fest has been expanding rapidly and includes documentary, experimental and fiction feature glimpses from countries like Ecuador, Uruguay, Honduras, Venezuela and Chile, among others. Some of this year's highlights: Mario Piazza's award-winning video, Cachilo, poète des murs, will screen. The documentary chronicles the life of Cachilo, an artist who was a legendary part of the town of Rosario, Argentina until his death in '91. The film paints a dimensional, poignant portrait of the artist and the following he inspired. In El Gringito, Sergio Castilla tells the story of a young boy whose parents take him back to Santiago after several years of living in the U.S. The boy is angry with his folks for their return to Chile; the film offers a neat reversal on the usual moving-to-America immigrant-experience movie. The fest will also present the eagerly anticipated 8 Love Stories, a Uruguayan film made up of the different visions of eight film students, each of whom develops their own passionate romance which contributes to the film's whole. All of the students, who attend the Montevideo School of Cinema, worked on the project while only in their first year of the program. Ciné-Fiesta screens through this weekend, May 11-14 at the Goethe-Institut. Info: 523-3515. The Cinema and Urban Remains conference on film and the city continues this weekend until May 14. Amid all the screenings and lectures, a recommendation stands out: Robert Craig's 1988 documentary Overdale, which screens today, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cinémathèque québécoise. The film depicts the struggle of the residents of a downtown Montreal neighbourhood to fight their forced eviction to make way for a real estate development. The group was squashed when a SWAT team descended upon the low-income dwellings where they lived and made 26 arrests. Overdale is dedicated to one of those interviewed, Hazel Craig, who died at 48, apparently so distraught over her fight with the government and developers. Congratulations go out to local filmmaker Lucie Lambert, whose feature-length documentary, Avant le jour, picked up the best feature award at this year's prestigious Hot Docs Festival in Toronto. The prize means a $5,000 grant (courtesy Telefilm) for Lambert and the film's producer, Sylvain L'Espérance. Every year young film hopefuls show off their stuff at Concordia's Year End Screenings (YES). This year, students from both the university's film and communications departments have culled the very best of their work, to be screened at the Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve W.) today, May 11 to Sunday, May 14, nightly at 7 p.m. Past graduates from Con U.'s film program include David Wellington (I Love a Man in Uniform), Pascale Bussières (When Night is Falling, Emporte-Moi), Lynne Stopkewich (Kissed) and Arto Paragamian (Because Why). : COMMENTS: matt_hays@babylon.montreal.qc.ca