After the success of Paulina last year, which won multiple awards – among them, FIPRESCI at Cannes film festival and the Horizons Award at San Sebastián International Film Festival – the acclaimed Argentinian director Santiago Mitre is preparing... Read Article
Cinema Novo, directed by the Brazilian film-maker Eryk Rocha, won The Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary Film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Cinema Novo is a movie-essay that explores one of the most important cinematic movements... Read Article
Pablo Larraín’s much-anticipated feature Neruda will have its world première next month in Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors’ Fortnight. The film unravels in Chile in the late 1940s, depicting the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s political struggle... Read Article
The award-winning Colombian film Gente De Bien, from writer/director Franco Lolli, is set to hit selected UK cinemas from April 17th. The film tells the story of a young boy who is sent to live with his estranged... Read Article
The representation of Latin American cinema at the Cannes Film Festival has, since the festival’s inception in 1939, been about as visible as a contact lens in the bath. In spite of the strong cinematic heritage of Brazil... Read Article
Every once in a while, a film appears which seems to come out of nowhere, but which touches everyone who sees it. The way it happens is that usually the film festival circuit see it first: programmers, critics... Read Article
The full schedule is in for the 55th BFI London Film Festival and there’s a fine selection of Latin American cinema on offer. As previously reported, Argentine Cinema is heavily represented with one film each from Brazil, Colombia... Read Article
