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Argentina
Shy and awkward teenager Lucas (watch-worthy Nahuel Perez Biscayart) spends his days hanging out with his best friend, heartthrob Nacho, and their bookish...
Gaffet’s character-driven comic debut, a light intelligent comedy, centers around Buenos Aires’s Garllington pub, the daily meetingplace for Daniel Kuzniecka...
Marcelo Pavan’s debut feature, a must-see on the big screen, boasts atmospheric sound design and a sharp script. Diagnosed with a brain tumor, a Buenos Aires docto...
Bolivia
Director Valdivia’s earthy post-9/11 film garnered Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress honors at Mexico’s Ariel Awards as well as a GOYA nomination for Best...
Upon its release in Bolivia, the wildly creative and fast-paced WHO KILLED THE WHITE LLAMA shattered domestic box office records, quickly becoming the...
Brazil
A beautiful but impoverished Brazilian fishing village is the setting for director Kirill Mikhanovsky’s eloquent and detailed story of Jusce, an orphan who scrapes...
Hermila returns from São Paulo to the expansive rural landscape of her youth. Eagerness fades to sorrow as she realizes the father of her newborn son has no intention of...
A documentary profile of sui generis musician/provocateur Tom Zé: a gifted, self-taught tunesmith, one of the founders of Brazil’s Tropicalia scene in the 1960s, and...
Seasoned Brazilian director Diegues’s solemn tale delves into the human search for closure. At 55-years-old and battling cancer, a middle-aged astrophysics...
Chile
On October 5, 1974, in a house on Santa Fe Street in the suburbs of Santiago, Chile, Carmen Castillo is wounded by the secret police. Her companion, Miguel Enriquez...
Pinochet had the power and the guns, but the people had a weapon—the camera. In the bloody riots and protests on Chile’s streets, taking pictures was resistance...
The ghosts of Chile's Pinochet-era history, in the guise of family secrets, come back to haunt two families. Bride-to-be Macarena learns some startling facts about...
Colombia
Double crosses abound in this wickedly funny thriller. Nicolas (Federico Lorusso) wants revenge. Ever since his boss Pablo stole and married his girlfriend Margarita...
What do you do with $46 million of untraceable loot? Testosterone-fueled soldiers in a Colombian anti-guerrilla patrol face this tough dilemma when they stumble on a...
Cuba
Cuba’s candidate for the Best Foreign Film Oscar was this colorful biopic of one of the biggest legends in Cuban music, 1950s bandleader and all-around mambo king...
Dominican Republic
Writer/director/producer Alfonso Rodriguez’s issue-oriented film packs in plenty of action and drama with an optimistic message about the resilience of the Dominican...
Ecuador
AFI graduate Daniel Andrade’s first feature is a character-driven, female ensemble drama centered on the emotional journeys and personal struggles of five former school...
Esperanza (“Hope”), a Spanish tourist looking for exotic adventure, meets Tristeza (“Sadness”), a cynical Ecuadorian student, when a bus strike strands them in the middle...
El Salvador
From its consulate in Geneva, the tiny country of El Salvador issued life-saving certificates of citizenship to some thirty-thousand Jews fleeing the Third Reich. Featuring...
Mexico
In director Patricia Riggen’s debut film, nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother Rosario live parallel but separate lives in Mexico and the United States. Rosario works...
One hot day and night on the seedy side of Acapulco, the lives of several lonely and desperate people crash against each other in this moody and atmospheric...
Called “a masterpiece” by Mexican critics, Francisco Vargas’s rich and layered debut feature melds compelling social consciousness with a moving—and metaphorical...
Panama
Called “a masterpiece” by Mexican critics, Francisco Vargas’s rich and layered debut feature melds compelling social consciousness with a moving—and metaphorical...
Paraguay
The greatest Latin American lightweight of all time, Panamanian Roberto ‘Stone Hands' Duran, is the subject of this documentary on the power of sports to uplift a nation.
Peru
Veteran director Francisco Lombardi freely adapts the novel by Alonso Cueto, itself a "free interpretation" of real-life events surrounding former Peruvian...
Peruvian director Quattrini’s first feature film follows taxi driver Julio César after news of his teenage daughter’s pregnancy compels him to change his destiny and become...
Portugal
Provocative Portuguese director Teresa Villaverde's latest film is an abstract and dreamlike mood piece recounting the abduction and forced prostitution of a young...
Spain
In this stirring drama of lost opportunities and second chances, awarded Best European Film at the Venice Film Festival, youthful romance clashes with...
An official selection at Cannes Director’s Fortnight, Pedro Aguilera’s riveting debut feature recalls the ambitious work of filmmaker Robert Bresson in its...
Spain’s isolated backwoods provide the setting for this noir thriller told in six interconnected “episodes” whose timelines and characters overlap. The innovative structure...
Uruguay
Failed college exams lead to academic exile for David Olivera (Pablo Riera), a hapless student who longs to head back to university in Montevideo. His...
Venezuela
This captivating documentary of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System—an incredible network of hundreds of town and village orchestras—portrays the...
Special Presentation
This captivating documentary of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System—an incredible network of hundreds of town and village orchestras—portrays the...
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