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Spain's Academy Award submission, "The Dancer and The Thief" marks the first fiction film in eight years for Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba ("Belle Epoque"). Set in post-Pinochet Chile and based on an acclaimed novel by Antonio Skármeta ("Il Postino'), this atmospheric blend of crime story and fairy tale moves from the teeming streets of Santiago to the snow-capped peaks of the Andes as it brings together a veteran safecracker, a high-spirited young horse thief, and a ballerina-each wounded by the past and pursuing elusive dreams. In Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the 13th annual European Union Film Festival. Admission: General, $10 general; students, $7: faculty and students of the School of the Art Institute and staff of the Art Institute, $4; Film Center members, $5.