Today, there is a good number of Latin American LGBTQ+ movies to peruse, if not yet back in cinemas, then certainly across various streaming platforms. The Brazilian film Bacurau (2019, now on MUBI), by Kleber Mendonça Filho and... Read Article
While Brazilian cinema is suffering severe cuts to its funding, it is also showing its strength at some of the major film festivals of the world. The prestigious Cannes film festival has announced the participation of five Brazilian... Read Article
Not in recent times has a Brazilian film, or any film for that matter, managed to communicate to me on such a personal level. All of my Brazil is here, with the intricacies of dealing with the classes,... Read Article
After being one of the major players in recent Academy Awards history it seems as if Latin America’s run of success is coming to end as this year only a handful of nominations hail from the continent. This... 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
Class relations in upwardly mobile Brazil come to the forefront in writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s precise and promising first feature film. Premiering at last year’s Rotterdam Film Festival, O Som Ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds) takes place in an... Read Article
