Film guide(Sort by country)
Argentina
Buenos Aires attorney Juan Desouza is on a routine business trip to the provinces. Upon reaching his destination, he realizes that the man traveling next to him is dead...
Official Selection, 2007 Cannes, Toronto Film Festivals. Ana Katz and Daniel Hendler's sputtering relationship literally takes a wrong turn when, bickering on their bus...
A major box office success in Argentina,this is the directing debut by established Argentine actor Ricardo Darín. Set against the background of the decline in health ...
Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (BABEL, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) guides us on a journey into the golden age of tango music. The occasion is a once...
Rock musician-turned-director Fito Páez brings an energetic and outlandish sensibility to the screen in this Almodovar-esque romp through 1980s-era Rosario, Argentina...
Bolivia
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival. Recentlythe US has directed its war on drugs against Bolivian coca-growing regions,...
Brazil
Official selection,2008 Cannes Film Festival. This documentary explores the everyday life of the members of Velha Guarda da Portela,the legendary group ...
This hilarious tale of creativity, resourcefulness and survival travels through the colorful streets of Pelourinho, a small town in the historic district of Salvador, ...
Thiago is the eldest of five children. His family farm is located in the remote region of Minas Gerais and he lives with his beloved mother and a violent father, ...
Winner of awards for best picture, director and actor at the 2007 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Just arrived in the big city, country bumpkin João Miguel takes a job in a dive bar, ...
Alice Braga stars in this Romeo and Juliet styled short.
Chile
On vacation at a beautiful resort in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, a family tries to reconnect with each other, but mounting distractions threaten to keep them ...
Winner of the FIPRESCI Award at 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. This gorgeous first feature captures the hypnotic every-day rhythms of ordinary people living on a remote ...
The story of an airport layover from festival favorite Alberto Fuguet.
Colombia
This powerful drama, a box-office hit in Colombia, provides a unique insight into the complexities of US immigration law, and the lives of people affected by it. ...
Nothing threatens the secret intimate life of Diego Bertie, an outstanding businessman, until the tragic night that a bomb explodes in the Nogal ...
Costa Rica
Official selection, 2008 Berlin, Latinbeat, and Vancouver Film Festivals. This impressive debut feature from Iraqi-Chilean director Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez finds a dreamlike ...
Cuba
Ernesto has retreated into a limbo of his own creation; estranged from his family after the death of his mother, he has dropped out of medical school and ...
Dominican Republic
In the past 20 years more than half a million Dominicans have risked their lives in search of better ones, attempting to cross the shark-infested waters of the Mona Passage in ...
Ecuador
Day in,day out,Quito medical examiner Arturo watches as the recently deceased make one last stop before the grave. Although he takes pride in ...
Guatemala
A store mannequin wishes to become human,and realizes it's what you wear that counts. Filmed with live action dolls! .
Mexico
Winner of the Discovery Award at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Miami International Film Festival. ...
Writer/director Simon Bross constructs a multi-layered psychological thriller, cleverly centered on themes of indulgence and denial and marked ...
Writer/director Aaron Fernandez plunges the audience into the world of Ivan, a 14-year-old living in Mexico, who is sure that a happy life awaits ...
THE MATRIX by way of Mexico? Alex Rivera’s visionary sci-fi film won top awards at the 2008 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals...
Official selection, 2008 Tribeca and Morelia Film Festivals. Alonso Pineda Ulloa's feverish thriller stars Barbara Mori as a Mexico City architect who can’t find Mr...
Paraguay
A man,a hill,a shack.Selection,2008 Cannes Film Festival
Peru
‘A taut, stylish drama brimming with heated sex and illicit desire.’ – The Hollywood Reporter. Callow student Jason Day, feeling both guilt and grief after the traumatic ...
After 15 years in New York,Nélida Silva returns to her birthplace in the Andes to fulfill a lifelong dream of hosting the Fiesta Patronal...
Portugal
Filmmaker Paula Gaitán was married to Glauber Rocha (1938-1981), a key figure in the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, which embodied politically engaged filmmaking ...
Spain
Winner of the Documentary Emerging Filmmaker Award at Tribeca. Legendary Cuban mambo musician Bebo Valdés's career didn't really take off until well after ...
Anyone who has ever experienced a corporate staff retreat will appreciate the rich black humor of this clever cross between “The Office” and a Mike Leigh comedy. ...
Uruguay
Based on real events surrounding Operation Condor, the network of 1970s-era clandestine operations that allowed several Latin American dictatorships...
Venezuela
Venezuela’s 2007 Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1960s Venezuela, Marcela and her couisin Teo live with their grandparents while waiting for ...
Writer/Director Alberto Arvelo Mendoza (TO PLAY AND TO FIGHT; HABANA HAVANA) transposes Edmond Rostand's swashbuckling romance Cyrano de Bergerac to the crowded slums of Caracas, Venezuela...
Special Presentation at Gala Theater
The City of Havana, a day of September, 2000. Sydney’s Olympics Games are taking place; Mauricio is having his seventieth birthday...
Aldo controls his employees, controls the gas, controls his neighbors, controls the walls of his house, controls his diet, controls the video player, controls the remote control,...
This documentary recounts the fascinating stories of eight young members of the Xavante tribe who left their village in order to live with mainstream urban families in upstate São Paulo...
In the bathroom of her house Maria took a pregnancy test. During the five minutes that it takes to get the results, she remembers her recent past...
It is the winter of 1977 in Argentina. Juancho is 8 years old, he moves with his mother and older sister to a new house. ...
It is the winter of 1977 in Argentina. Juancho is 8 years old, he moves with his mother and older sister to a new house. ...
wo narrators tell the story of diffrent patients that live in a non conventional mental institution. All of them suffer from time related problems...
Virginia y Alfonso son dos personas en el umbral de sus existencias las cuales están prácticamente acabadas, se conocen y descubren ...
Cristiano Bruno es un joven residente en uno de los barrios humildes de la parte alta de la ciudad de Santo Domingo, criado por su madre Maritza Bruno,...
Juan es un joven de provincia que emigra a la ciudad en busca de mejorar su calidad de vida y la de su madre...
To date, Lucio Urtubia qualifies as one of the most astonishing political dissidents-cum-career criminals in modern history. A lifelong anarchist, Urtubia (a full-time building...
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