Dir. Daniel Hendler Uruguay, Argentina 2025 Premiering at the Venice Film Festival last year, A LOOSE END is the 3rd film as a director by the renowned Uruguayan actor Daniel Hendler. Santiago, an Argentinian police constable, crosses the border to Uruguay on the run from the other police officers on his trail. Putting his uniform […]
Our stories do not end when the apocalypsis and destruction arrives. That is just one part of our history, there is a future when the Earth is alive and healthy again, when we can live on it, when we come back following the voice of our ancestors. This does not happen magically, it happens because […]
1982. Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out […]
Mexico City, mid-90s. After the sudden disappearance of their parents, five siblings are left in the care of their grandmother. As they struggle to survive, the line between reality and something darker begins to blur. The grandmother, tormented by strange visions and rising fears, grows more distant, while the children’s grip on their own perceptions […]
Trapped in a city on the verge of collapse, 38-year-old Adelaida buries her mother and is left completely alone. In the streets of Caracas, protests are brutally crushed. When she returns home, she discovers her apartment has been overtaken by women aligned with the regime. With no way out, she hides in the flat next […]
Areo Peña is the chief of the Wounaan tribe, a peaceful community based in the Darien rainforest, on the border between Panama and Colombia. The tribe faces a pressing crisis: the jungle is under threat from illegal loggers, drug traffickers, cattle ranchers, miners and a government that refuses to recognise the Wounaan’s territorial rights. When […]
The curtains rise, revealing the magic of cinema: textures, stories, connections we feel from our seats. In this selection, film channels our devotions, frustrations, losses, and dreams. Honouring their identity and sense of belonging, these Latinx creators nurture their illusions and ingeniously express and overcome personal and social barriers. Throughout this program, the setting transforms […]
A riotous and sharply perceptive anthology comedy from the acclaimed Argentine duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, Homo Sapiens? (original title Homo Argentum) unfolds across sixteen distinct episodes, each led by Guillermo Francella in a remarkable display of comic range and character work.Rooted in the spirit of classic Italian satire, the film deploys humour and […]
Tucumán, Argentina, 2014; a young woman is admitted to a hospital with severe abdominal pain, unaware she is pregnant. She wakes up handcuffed to a gurney and surrounded by police. She is accused of having self-induced an abortion and, after two years in detention, is sentenced to eight years in prison for aggravated homicide. A […]
Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are brought to “enjoy” their final years, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on […]
Comparsa fully immerses audiences in the intense world of Ciudad Peronia, Guatemala, where sisters Lesli and Lupe use art to inspire local youth and heal deep wounds. After 41 girls are killed in a State-run “Safe Home” and the government refuses to act, the sisters respond with a community comparsa—an exuberant street performance featuring towering […]
BELEN is the second feature film directed by renowned actress DOLORES FONZI. BELEN had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and was selected as Argentina's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Tucumán, Argentina, 2014; a young woman is admitted to a hospital with severe abdominal pain, […]