Your guide to the best Latin events coming up in Argentina.
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“When that April with its sweet showers…,” as waxed the poet Chaucer, with lyrical words to that effect. Indeed, when April cometh and music bubbles forth from all corners of the Latin world to add its sweet chimes... Read Article
Good grief! This job doesn’t get any easier. There’s so much to choose from and only one pair of ears to listen and two hands to bang out words on the keyboard. But I’m not complaining. I could... Read Article
In this essay, which has also been adapted into a Prime Video series, Argentine journalist Tamara Tenembaum explores various topics regarding the ways in which love and desire manifest in the age of virtual and digital reality.
Despite the conflicts within this web of voices, Belén López Peiró’s book is a crystal-clear denunciation of abuse told with rage and exactness.
A slow burning heist drama with a twist: Rodrigo Moreno creates a meditative, genre-bending take on a bank robbery gone wrong. This time fusing surreal, slow cinema into a narrative usually associated with a sense of panic and... Read Article
The leap year has leapt, the daffodils are in bloom and spring is in the air. It’s time once more to catch up on some singles from the wonderful world of Latin music. So shake off your winter... Read Article
Directed by the Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso, Eureka stands as a masterful work of cinema, boldly defying categorisation by smoothly blending elements of the Western genre, Indigenous culture, colonialism trauma, and existential exploration. Alonso assembles a diverse cast including acclaimed actors... Read Article
Just to prove that it’s never too late to discover a worthwhile album, here’s a quick run-through of some worthies you might have missed since Christmas. Doesn’t it seem like a long time ago already? Julián Solarz: Resonancia... Read Article
Winter begone and banish thy chilly blues! Here are some timely singles to instil a glow of warmer climes within thee, gentle reader. (Sorry, I’ve been reading a biography of Jane Austen and the good woman’s prose has... Read Article
Trenque Lauquen, the second solo work (and third feature after Dog Lady, co-directed with Verónica Llinás in 2015) from Argentine director Laura Citarella, is a beautifully complex treatise on the notion of discovery, the wholly biased act of... Read Article
Quite liderally, a bumper batch for you this month; it must be getting near to Christmas. Pens and wish-lists poised please… Körinn Pierre-Fanfan: Rêver (Rozo Productions) I’ll start with this Guadeloupian singer’s second solo album, since I’ve been... Read Article
A toxic agro-economy: big ag fuels public health disasters in Argentina September 2023 marked the fourth anniversary of the 2019 explosion in Mercedes, Argentina, of an illegal agrochemical deposit owned by global agrochemical firm, SIGMA AGRO — the... Read Article
“The Right to Identity is Universal”, artist Julieta Polimeni tells S&C. Murales X Identidad de Origen is an Argentine project using murals to raise awareness of the appropriation of up to 3 million babies in Argentina. For decades,... Read Article
Described by Time Out as “one of the world’s most eclectic celebrations of Latin music”, The London Latin Music Festival – or La Linea as it’s known and loved – returns to the capital from April 12th, 2024.... Read Article
Under the aegis of Movimientos, Argentina’s 15-piece cumbia orchestra La Delio Valdéz will be appearing at The Garage, North London, as part of this year’s EFG London jazz festival. With (count ’em!) 361 million views on their YouTube... Read Article
Another month, another batch of stimulating new releases. Where does the time go? Before you know it, they’ll be turning the clocks back. Here are my nominations for the current Best of Batch. Jorge López Ruiz: Un Hombre... Read Article
An aloof migrant resists belonging until it confronts her one day, in the shape of a mysteriously large package on her doorstep, inexplicably containing her mother. Margarita García Robayo has a sure signature: direct language, dryly honest statements,... Read Article
“Greetings, pop-pickers!” as Alan Freeman was given to disclaim (when he wasn’t too busy advertising Brentford Nylons). The prog-loving, pop-tastic Australian DJ might have struggled with this month’s pick of the pops from around the Latin world, but... Read Article
Once again the annual EXIB Ibero-American music showcase rolls into Portugal bringing some of the finest artists from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula to Lisbon’s neighbouring city Setubal. From 19-21 October over 20 concerts represent some of... Read Article
Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann are the directors and screenwriters of The Klezmer Project (Adentro mío estoy bailando, Austria-Argentina, 2023), a meta-cinematic story in which viewers can follow different paths: the encounter between Leandro and Paloma and the development of... Read Article
September… (cue Phenix Horns). Everyone’s packed up and gone home now. It’s back to school, back to work, back to normality. Back, too, to all those new singles from the Latin world that just keep on keeping on.... Read Article
Lionel Messi: Destiny, is a slickly produced, engaging document of Argentina’s victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the greatest moment in the career of – quite possibly – the greatest footballer of all-time. Along the way, a formidable squad... Read Article
Published in Spanish as Una suerte pequeña in 2015 and translated into English by Frances Riddle as A Little Luck in 2023, this novel from Claudia Piñeiro is a journey of introspection and mystery. The protagonist and narrator,... Read Article
Rewind, a multi-disciplinary play inspired by the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, combines music, physical theatre, puppetry and lighting to tell the story of Alicia, an embodiment of those who endured and continue to endure harsh... Read Article
