A Swiss banker tries to navigate the unfamiliar and increasingly unsettling world of military-led 1980s Argentina in ‘Azor’, a chilling political thriller in cinemas 29th October.
Director Pedro Speroni spent two years living amongst a group of violent criminals at a Buenos Aires maximum-security prison in... Read Article
So, after twelve days, over 400 films, hundreds of thousands of cinema tickets sold, a whole bunch of awards, and... Read Article
My favourite acting performance so far at BAFICI is undoubtedly that of 11-year old Paula Hertzog in Argentinean film Ciencias Naturales, a... Read Article
It’s 4am on the dark, deserted streets of downtown Buenos Aires and I’ve just been turned away from about the... Read Article
On the day that the ex-dictator of Argentina, Jorge Rafael Videla, died in prison at the age of 87, I... Read Article
The representation of Latin American cinema at the Cannes Film Festival has, since the festival’s inception in 1939, been about... Read Article
The curtain came down on the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) at the weekend, and as ever... Read Article
Contrary to what the name might lead you to believe, White Elephant is not a film about the Millennium Dome,... Read Article
Leonardo (Rafael Spregelburd) is a successful interior designer whose obsession for architecture threatens to ruin his perfectly refined existence when... Read Article
April is a big month for Latin American film with the staging of the annual Buenos Aires International Festival of... Read Article
The Mugger (El Asaltante) is a story based on a real event which the director, Pablo Fendrik, read in a... Read Article
