REVIEW Netflix’s ‘Maya and The Three’ is an All-Star Animated Romp Through Mesoamerican Mexico
Jorge R. Gutiérrez’s Maya and the Three is a supercharged, Aztec-inspired animation funfair promoting female superpowers. Why be a slo-mo... Read Article
REVIEW ‘A Cop Movie’ Looks at What it Means to be a Police Officer in Mexico City
Maria Teresa, and her male partner Montoya, are two officers in Mexico City. Known as the “love patrol” by their... Read Article
“Upper middle-class families could have a son or a daughter who had also been ‘disappeared’.” – Andreas Fontana on his Argentine Thriller ‘Azor’
Azor is a disquieting political thriller that tells the story of Yvan de Wiel, a Swiss private banker who travels with... Read Article
REVIEW Thinking With Other Senses: Sense-Searching Unaided By Film Conventions in Three Short Films
The BFI London Film Festival’s Experimenta programme aims to screen “films by artists that revolutionise and reshape our vision of... Read Article
REVIEW ‘Bantú Mama’ And The Power Of The Chosen Family
Emma is a French-Cameroonian flight attendant who gets caught by the police when she tries to smuggle drugs on a... Read Article
Latin American Films Abound at This Year’s BFI London Film Festival
Filmmaking heavyweights, A-list talent, an aural journey in Colombia’s capital, Maradona’s Hand of God… The BFI London Film Festival, which... Read Article
¡VIVA! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival returns to Manchester’s HOME Cinema for its 27th edition this August
Films from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Paraguay will be screened as part of the 27th ¡VIVA!... Read Article
Two Years On The Inside: Pedro Speroni talks about the making of his Argentine prison doc ‘Rancho’
Director Pedro Speroni spent two years living amongst a group of violent criminals at a Buenos Aires maximum-security prison in... Read Article
Latin American Films Take Top Awards At Sheffield DocFest
Three Latin American films have been awarded the top prizes at the 28th edition of the Sheffield DocFest (4-13 June... Read Article
Acclaimed Argentine Film ‘The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet’ To Be Released by Curzon Home Cinema
73 minutes is all you need to grapple with the meaning of life in the enigmatic, life-affirming wonder that is... Read Article
REVIEW The Man Who Writes Women: Chile’s Gonzalo Maza speaks about his Directorial Debut ‘Ella Es Cristina’
Sounds and Colours speaks to the screenwriter behind the Oscar-Winning A Fantastic Woman about his directorial debut Ella Es Cristina.... Read Article
Creating a Microcosm of Brazilian Society: An Interview with Bacurau’s Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s third film Bacurau, which he co-directed with long-time collaborator Juliano Dornelles, is a futuristic genre-bending survivalist thriller... Read Article