In a turning point of Bestia, the animated short from Chilean director Hugo Covarrubias that has been nominated for the Oscars Best Animated Short Film Category, the protagonist, a female doll with a porcelain face, rips a frame... Read Article
Jayro Bustamante’s powerful postcolonial supernatural fable unearths the repressed horrors of the Guatemalan conflict through the story of a young Mayan maid who joins the household of a genocidal general
In the opening scene of Alelí (2019, dir. Leticia Jorge) a notary reads out loud the details of a sales agreement. A beach house in an indeterminate location is being sold for U$S 134,000 plus one unit in... Read Article
Héctor Babenco, a renowned Brazilian-Argentinean filmmaker, passed away in 2016 at the age of sixty, after struggling with cancer for three decades. The fragmentary, impressionistic documentary, Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2019) is directed by his widow,... Read Article
I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí) is a remarkable new film by Mexican Director Fernando Frías de la Parra. Released on Netflix in May 2020, it has made an impressive debut at international film festivals across... Read Article
Deciding to review A Fantastic Woman, after finding out it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film already set the precedence that critics love it – and that’s why I decided to approach it without reading... Read Article
After Chile received its first nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2012 for Pablo Larraín’s No, it’s back at it again, with Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman in the shortlist of 5 contenders for this... Read Article
No, Pablo Larrain’s film about the “No” publicity campaign that helped force Pinochet out of power, has been chosen out of 71 films from around the world for the prestige of being Best Foreign Language Film at the... Read Article
