Karim Aïnouz’s vibrant biopic Madame Satã’ brought energy to a sunny Sunday afternoon at this year’s BFI Flare: London’s LGBTQIA+ Festival. Screened in the BFI’s main auditorium to an audience of four hundred, twenty years after its initial... Read Article
Without Prescription (Receta no incluida) is the latest film from Puerto Rican director Juliana Maité. It is a frank and honest story about mental health. The film was screened at the SXSW film festival in March 2022, a... Read Article
[Lee en español aquí] PowerPaola is a Quito-born-Cali-raised artist, cartoonist, and writer. Her hit autobiographical graphic novel, Virus Tropical (2011), was made into an animated film in 2017. The film, directed by Santiago Caicedo, is an original, visually-arresting... Read Article
“The Indians of Patagonia believed that souls didn’t die and that they could live again as stars.” Five years after making Nostalgia for the Light, Patricio Guzmán comes back to fascinate us again with the second in a... Read Article
This year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking place 5th-15th February 2015, will feature a whole programme devoted to Latin American culture. The NATIVe segment is an ever-present at Berlinale, always focusing on indigenous culture from different parts of the... Read Article
If 2011 was a year of outstanding debuts in Argentine cinema, 2012 highlighted some of the exciting and diverse talent amongst its Latin American neighbours. Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Paraguay were amongst the countries producing some of the... Read Article
Finding out about the artistic diversity of Latin America can sometimes be a difficult task. The media in non-Spanish speaking countries doesn’t tend to carry a lot of information on the arts, cinema, music and literature of the... Read Article
Las Acacias is the story of truck driver Rubén who agrees to give a mother and her daugher a lift from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. Directed by Argentine Pablo Giorgelli it’s a truly unique film that slowly charms... Read Article
The BFI London Film Festival 2011 has now officially started. To save you the work of having to search through the programme for the Latin American films on show, here’s our day-by-day guide to the Latin American movies... 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
