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AFI EUROPEAN UNION FILM SHOWCASEA total of 53 films from all 27 European Union member states screen in-person at this year’s 34th annual showcase, featuring some of the best new films and most promising new filmmakers from the continent, including the latest from legendary gay Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, whose Parallel Mothers closes out the showcase on Friday, Dec. 17.Other titles of LGBTQ interest include Great Freedom, a searing drama from Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Meise chronicling the real-life travails of Hans Hoffmann, a Holocaust survivor who continued to be persecuted and imprisoned by German authorities after the war simply for the “crime” of being gay (12/4 at 1:45 p.m.