OLE’ MIAMI

The Miami Film Festival, which closes tonight with Alan Rudolph’s “Trouble in Mind,” has taken on a flavor as international as the city itself.

Although new Latin American and Spanish features were abundant among the 30 films from 12 countries, a major highlight was “Dust,” adapted from South African writer J. M. Coetzee’s “In the Heart of the Country,” a haunting drama of a lonely young woman’s fantasies, directed (in English) by the Belgian Marion Hansel, starring Britishers Jane Birkin and Trevor Howard--and shot in Spain.

This tendency toward international co-production could also be seen in “A Great Wall Is a Great Wall,” the first joint venture of China and the United States, and “Tangos,” a co-production of France and Argentina about exiles in Paris.