Latinamerican Cinema

It's the late 1980s in Cuba, and in an isolated ranch in a small town near Santa Clara, lives Vilma, a young nurse who dreams of a better place to raise her upcoming baby, along with her disabled husband Ivan. However, neither her skills as a nurse nor as a shooter will free Vilma from her harsh reality until a natural phenomena sweeps her away and Vilma wakes up in a place where it seems her dream will come...

In between prejudiced gazes, Margarita, a free spirited woman and salsa music lover, walks away from her marriage searching for her own identity. At night Margarita finds refuge in a seashore kiosk, where improvised salsa parties take place. Her path crosses with Liana’s, a deaf tourist who arrives at the peak of the party. Seeing in Liana a world foreign to her own, Margarita finds the perfect company to explore her true being, and decides to teach Liana how to dance, understanding her...

An exciting and inspiring story about Zuko's life, which exemplifies the human spirit's preseverance and resilience in the face of adversity. He worked as a professional mountain guide for 15 years before being injured and losing the mobility of his legs. However, this does not deter him, and he demonstrates to us, through his inner search and the expedition to Kilimanjaro, that limits only exist in our...

After a serious mistake in an illegal operation, four detectives have 48 hours to try to clean their tracks and get rid of an investigation that accuses them of drug trafficking, torture and...

From her empty nest in Santo Domingo, Dominique is waiting for her first grandchild to be born abroad, and she eagerly expects a baby girl. When Carmen, her live-in maid, vanishes without a warning and leaves behind her 7-year-old granddaughter, Dominique takes the girl in. As she deals with pushback from her family, Dominique finds herself challenging her own...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the dynamics of communication,transportation, work and interaction of societies in Mexico and the world, but for the patients hospitalized by the virus, all possibilities of contact with their own were...

Sergio arrived to the Oaxaca highlands and created a project for indigenous kids to discover their own capacity to dreams through basketball. Through studying, effort, and will power they struggle to break the cycle of poverty around them and defeat their most powerful rival:...

A Northwestern Argentinian teacher leads a mobile cinema crew to the most isolated school in the Jujuy high-altitude valleys, undergoing a 20-hour journey on foot in adverse conditions. Their arrival involves us in the high-altitude educational values, portraying the isolation in the Andean worlds and how communities engage with the earth. “The Andean Screen” is a poetic analogy between cinema and travel; a choral history spun by Silvina Velázquez, principal of the school, whose tenacity...

Rich is a 30 year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his place in the world, but not the same feelings. A weekend with her and her young, polyamorous friends will make him question his life so far and his concept of...

Claudio is the new insurance expert in a small town far from the capital. It seems like a simple job, but when he arrives, he is faced with the worst series of intentional car fires the town had ever seen. Cornered by clients, Claudio must discover what and who is behind the attacks, without being able to trust anything or...

In a busy and chaotic city, we met Juan, a young isolated from society, with a deep need to recover the meaning of his own life. Juan goes out to encounter the city, that he lives differently, building a parallel reality, that helps him escape the tedium of the city and finally find...

On Christmas Eve, a peasant family embarks into a surprising revelation about the absence of a dear loved one and the unsettling presence of spooks in the...

Wilderness explores the unknown life in ten deserts around the world. This is a documentary built from impericia, from misunderstanding, from surprise and mutual amazement; It is a film that reflects on the idea of community, the relationship of man and his environment in which nature, beasts and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a world that is supposed to be...

Muete, a deserter from an armed group, visits his cousin Karina, a transgender sex worker with whom he shares a past, in town. He wants to convince her to return to town because her mother is very ill. The only condition is that she goes with her former...

Tired of loneliness, a middle aged motorcyclist goes to a lesbian party for the first time. There she meets four young queers who share their home and affections. An encounter of generations, a tribute to those who brought us...

Everybody has a mother. But motherhood still remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ -always patient, caring, happy and the reality of mothers around the world. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, MALAMADRE narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mother’s point of...

Sarah – A non-binary person, and Tom, a conservative cis-jock boy , are forced to spend the night in a college bathroom because they accidentally get locked up. Within this small universe, their particular worldviews and ideals collide, forcing them to face their own demons, questions of freedom, identity and gender start to come...

Mothers of Derick portrays the daily life of these four women who, together, raise Derick, a nine-year-old boy. The four women – lesbians, bisexuals, non-monogamists and anarchists – built a house to raise their child in a forest on Brazil's southern coast, despite threats of expulsion by the...

In 1998, Zoilamerica accused her adoptive father of rape and sexual abuse. Almost 20 years later, she lives in exile while caring for her 10-year-old son. Her adoptive father is Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista revolution and current president of...

The portrait of a popular bullfighting festivity in North Colombia, which reveals the contradictions of a society complicit with its very own games of...

A man wakes up in a world where the water has disappeared. There’s no water in the pipes nor in the bottles. Not even one drop falls from the clouds. The sea itself has become a desert. However, everyone acts as if nothing happened. In the bars they sip from empty glasses, from a springboard a diver falls into a dry pool. Alone, the protagonist realizes the incredible disappearance – and nobody pays attention to...

In the late 70's, Yan María Castro founded the first lesbian-feminist group in Mexico. Within a climate of discrimination and repression, Yan María and her group organized a political movement to win their place in...

A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the...

Celina and Alejo have gone through a rough patch for a while, almost as long as they have had their son Camilo, who is 4 years old. Alejo’s mother gives them a voucher for a hotel night and offers to look after the kid for the night. The proposal feels weird to them, but they do their best to live the experience enthusiastically. Cecilia uses her best perfume and Alejo wears skinny pants, which will cause some trouble. Finally the night does not turn out to be what they...

Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “Birth Wars” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save...

On Easter Sunday, Plínio, a retired carpenter, waits for his family's visit, but they don't show up. Anselmo, the gardener of the home he lives in, offers him a lift home. Plinio revisits along the way his memories of the neighborhood where he was born and raised, but when he gets there, a surprise puts his memories in...

Juan of the Witches honors 82-year-old Juan Medellín's legacy as a founding company member of Mexico City's prestigious Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández. An intimate portrait of a life richly lived and a testament to the power and the force of art, the film uses colorful hand-drawn animation to illustrate cherished memories from Medellin's childhood and introduction to dance to his heyday with the Ballet during its golden era in the 1960s and 1970s. Born from the director’s first...

A unique expedition composed by five indigenous women: their goal is to climb the Aconcagua. Their adventure will show an inspiring way of being a woman and relating to...

"What does Latin America say?" is a documentary that explores various socio political views from an authentic and critical perspective of the people living in different countries in Latin America. Through the stories of these individuals, the film uncovers social situations that are often hidden behind media paradigms, prompting essential questions about life and the different ways of perceiving...

At the gates of the peace in Colombia, the young Camila, a FARC`s member, face to a painful memory of her childhood, the day in which her father tried to rape her, in an internal struggle from where she will come out...

We plunge right into the epicenter of the current crisis in Venezuela through the voices of its true protagonists. "The Broken Country" is five intertwined stories showing how the citizens are making their way through the remains of a run-down...

Every morning at school, when girls and boys stand in their lines, Sam, a child who thinks of himself as an extraterrestrial being, is confronted with his situation: he doesn’t fit into this society where everything has to be classified. However, thanks to a teacher he will find his place in the...

Argentinian photographer Carlos Bosch, goes through an intense creative crisis. Cut off from photojournalism, he is looking for a way to represent his present fears, inspiring a debate about image, freedom and...

In a hidden basement of one of the best film schools in the world, female students gather to break their silence and share their testimonies. With the promise of anonymity, a dark reality previously unspoken about starts to emerge and the real truth about being a woman in film is finally brought to...

Francisco offers to Roxana an oportunity to promote to sales executive in White Beach, a company dedicated to programme suicides for retired people. Guillermo is his first client and she must close the deal to obtain the...

The daily life of a popular neighborhood in Bogotá is interrupted by a man threatening to commit suicide by jumping into the void. Echeverry, an old mariachi and Jacinto, a gambling addict, will bet the money they have to the man's...

A group of friends are smoking marihuana in a car, when they are intercepted by a groupo of corrupt police officers who bully them to let them...

HERMANOS tells in parallel the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, with the story of an American woman who lost her house and today believes she can get it back through Trump’s promises. Their journeys take them on road trips to meet with their past and with relatives who they believe can help them achieve their...

Miguel, a 27th young man, woke up one morning with the job of processing his death father intestate succession certificate. When he arrive to the registration office, the process and their public servers show him that the bureaucracy it seems like a joke, but isn't, putting him in a labyrinth of papers and...

Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded to flee to USA but her emigration inflicted consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-years-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system. Her "American Dream" turns to be an "American Nightmare", while her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle so he can come and live with her in...