Maria Teresa, and her male partner Montoya, are two officers in Mexico City. Known as the “love patrol” by their workmates, they are both romantic partners and colleagues. A Cop Movie (Una película de policias), Güeros and Museum director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ new work, immerses us... Read Article
Mexico City has been recognized for its work to combat the climate crisis. WWF has announced that Mexico City is the Global Winner of its 2020 One Planet City Challenge (OPCC). Created in 2011, the OPCC aims to... Read Article
Lila Avilés is a Mexican actress and film-maker, born in 1982 in Mexico City. She studied performing arts, screenplay writing and film-making. As a kid, she always knew she wanted to be a film-maker. Even though she began... Read Article
Renowned Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas’ latest feature Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) is a 3-hour study of a modern relationship gone awry. The celebrated director has said that Our Time is about marriage and love, “about the contradictions of... Read Article
We’ve got new pop goodness out of Mexico by way of Ximena Sariñana and a dreamy downtempo cumbia from Berlin via Daniel Haaksman. GERMANY: ‘La Añoranza’ by Daniel Haaksman feat Dengue Dengue Dengue, Ori Kaplan & Coco Maria “La... Read Article
Following the touching and action-packed La Playa D.C. (2012), former Colombian National University student, Juan Andres Arango, returns to present us with X500*, an urban cinematic tale of youth, migration, and the struggle to claim a space and an... Read Article
In his latest film Extraño pero verdadura (Strange But True, 2017), Michel Lipkes tells the story of two young lovers, Jonathan and Yesi, who work on a rubbish truck, and their fellow workmates, Maestro Limpio (Master Clean) and... Read Article
“Our situation is unbearable, stuck between the empire of Octavio Paz and the empire of Pablo Neruda” Los Detectives Salvajes (The Savage Detectives, 1998) is too vast and original to fit into any tag or category easily. It... Read Article
2017 marks the end of an era for El Búho, as he moves to France after two highly productive years in Mexico which saw his distinctive brand of organic, melodic cumbia digital reach new levels of popularity. Although... Read Article
On Wednesday March 15th Mexican rapper Danger released his latest album, Sembrando Laureles. Danger aka Alfredo Martinez is an original rapero from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, an area with a strong influence from North America due to its proximity with... Read Article
As the year came to an end, 2 new productions were released by Wakan Tanka Records, a label based in Europe but formed by Latin American talent that we talked about a while ago, during the visit of... Read Article
Although the terms ‘third world’ and ‘first world’ may still hold true in some aspects of Latin America, contemporary architecture and building developments in recent years have certainly elevated this region on par with the rest of the... Read Article
