Pablo Larraín updates our concept of the modern fiction film with Ema, a feature-length showreel of modern Valparaíso through emotive dance, social commentary and one woman’s wild determination. Ema is stylistically intrepid for a feature film. Larraín has... Read Article
A mountain village caught in the crossfire between guerillas and paramilitary groups in Colombia is the subject of The Colours of the Mountain (Spanish: Los Colores De La Montaña | Carlos César Arbeláez, 2010), a beautifully evocative and... Read Article
With Fidel Whatever Happens (Con Fidel Pase que lo Pase), directed by Serbia’s Goran Radovanović for Nama and See Film, is a stylised snapshot of Cuban life. If you are familiar with Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Ludwig... Read Article
¡Vivan las Antipodas! is a documentary based around the existence of antipodes, or places on the Earth’s surface which diametrically oppose each other through the centre. This seems like something of a shaky premise on which to base... Read Article
Based on the book Ciencias Morales by Martin Kohan, The Invisible Eye (La Mirada Invisible) is a film about discipline and the stranger sides of sexuality, all set against the allegorical backdrop of a strict private school during... Read Article
180º is not your average Brazilian film: there’s no violence in the favelas, no drug-trafficking, prison riots or corrupt police; there is little, if any, on-screen sex and no blood is spilt. If anything, Eduardo Vaisman’s first feature... Read Article
The Tribeca Film Institute’s Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists working in documentary, animated and/or hybrid projects and living and working in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
