El Gran Movimiento (The Great Movement) is a lysergic and dizzying tour de force from one of Bolivia’s most promising film-makers. Veering between bleak realism and eerie supernaturalism, the film follows the wanderings of Elder (Julio César Ticona) and... Read Article
Rosa Chumbe is an intriguing debut feature length drama from Chinese-Peruvian director Jonatan Relayze. Yet despite moments of glimmering promise, it is let down by an oblique ending which fails to dazzle. The film was selected as the... Read Article
It’s that time of the year again. And by this we mean of course, the announcement of La Linea Latin Music Festival’s keenly anticipated 2018 line-up. If you can overlook December’s impending tide of boozing, baubles and ubiquitous... Read Article
“We were in a dazzling and secret world of nature which at the same time was a growing menace of cold, snow and persecution.” Pablo Neruda, Nobel Lecture 1971. Few poets have captured the imagination of a continent like... Read Article
The crunching chill of the post-Christmas winter months is always a testing time for Londoners. And what with a Trump Presidency and Hard Brexit, 2017 presents an especially lugubrious prospect for many. But for Latin music lovers (partial)... Read Article
It may conjure up connotations of a particularly incapacitating post-party hangover, but Wahaca’s Day of the Dead festival looks set to be the teeming life-blood of London’s 2016 nocturnal calendar. The Day of the Dead (Dia de los... Read Article
Few electronic music artists today so unabashedly embrace the realm of the sacred in their musical philosophy. But ÌFÉ, the first solo project of Puerto Rico based producer Otura Mun, has no qualms on this front. Rooted in... Read Article
Recent clashes between Sioux tribes people and private energy contractors over an oil pipeline proposed on sacred land in North Dakota (USA) have attracted renewed focus to questions surrounding indigenous peoples and the environment. Gatekeepers to resource abundant... Read Article
Though set in Quito, Ecuador this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with the ways memory of sin and suffering unite a 98-year old Jewish émigré and a young Austrian director. Continuing... Read Article
