Dir. Santiago Lozano | Colombia, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 87 min | Narrative Seventy-year-old José de los Santos lives in a village on Colombia’s Pacific coast. He learned the art of ritual burial as a child. Like his ancestors who were brought to Colombia as African slaves, he accompanies the dying and the […]
*There is a second screening on Wednesday, Sept 10th at Cineworks Dir. Antonella Sudasassi | Costa Rica, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 90 min | Narrative This is the second feature film by Antonella Sudasassi, an up and coming Costa Rican filmmaker. Growing up in a repressive era when sexuality was a taboo subject, […]
Dir. Nicolás Pereda | Canada/Mexico, 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 76 min This is Nicolas Pereda´s nine feature. Pereda is a Mexican- Canadian film director, who has built a peculiar career having always worked with the same group of actors (the Mexican theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol) is known for his narrative, […]
Dir. Miguel Coyula | Cuba, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 77 min | Narrative ”Had Kafka been Cuban, he would have been a non-fiction writer.” Virgilio Piñeiro In Cuba, artistic legitimacy and subsistence require official recognition by a state-sponsored art institution. Working independently means having scant income and limited rights, and, as filmmaker Miguel […]
Dir, Nicolás Pereda Canada, Mexico 2025 ''Nicolás Pereda is a central figure in a diverse group of Latin-American directors whose innovative approaches to narrative filmmaking over the last 15 years have together defined one of the most exciting trends in world cinema''. Coming across a body on his way to work in a remote mining […]
Dir, Nadine Gomez Quebec, Mexico 2025 Filmmaker in attendance! A patchwork of millions of lives, urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold. Chronicle of a City drifts and strolls through time and chance encounters, moving between fantasy and reality, echoing the intimate and ghostly voices […]
Dir. Semillites Hernández Velasco & Tania Hernández Velasco Mexico 2025 ''There is no cinema more challenging than that which advocates for taking responsibility for our own bodies... in this sense, Our Body Is an Expanding Star, is emblematic.'' Ernesto Diezmartínez, Letras Libres Semillites and Tania, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship, journey through […]
Dir. Álvaro Olmos Torrico Bolivia, 2025 A source of pride for Bolivian cinema, The Condor Daughter has not only garnered more than 25 international awards, but in Bolivian cinemas the film became the most watched national film in the last decade, demonstrating that the local public consumes its own cinema with pride and a genuine […]