In Tumbes, a village in southern Chile, discarded plastic fishing nets are crammed into gaps between parked cars and market stalls, evidence of a global waste problem that the town is working to resolve. Until recently, most discarded fishing... Read Article
With a new Fémina album still in the works, the group’s Sofia “Toti” Trucco, set about releasing her debut EP Adoro under her artistic name Sof Tot. Released in February by Concepto Cero, the EP contains four tracks,... 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
Patricio Guzmán’s new documentary, The Pearl Button, is an exciting exploration of Patagonia and the connection of this land and sea with the history of the indigenous culture and the Chilean settlers. After travelling to the north to... Read Article
It seemed fitting that Francisco Varone’s debut feature, Camino a La Paz, opened 2015’s Argentine Film Festival in London, a festival that also featured a retrospective on the work of a more familiar name in Argentine cinema, acclaimed... Read Article
It’s winter, yet the darker nights have made the atmosphere inside the Ritzy cinema café in Brixton, South London all the more warm and fuzzy. Lively chatter, endless flows of tea, cake and wine, tables packed both upstairs... Read Article
Based on her novel of the same name, writer/director Lucía Puenzo’s latest feature film Wakolda (English Title: The German Doctor) offers a chilling tale of betrayal and deception as an innocent family experiences a living nightmare in 1960s... Read Article
If you asked me to name the world’s great wildernesses, the first three to come to mind would be Patagonia, Siberia and round the back of Sainsbury’s in Harrow, where in a previous life I had to spend... Read Article
The Lost World Cup (El Mundial Olvidado) is an ambiguous piece of work on the World Cup of 1942. What? Yes, that’s right, 1942! It’s all there in the tantalising photographs behind the bar at Pulperia, Banda del... 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
Recent years have seen an increasing number of films set in Patagonia, a Southern area of Argentina and Chile that continaully attracts tourism due to it’s extreme geology, marine life and mountain slopes, but also provides the perfect... Read Article
The New York Times, recently featured an article listing the top places to go in 2012 and Chile was among the article’s highlights. Chilean Patagonia has built a reputation for being one of the world’s ultimate travel destinations... Read Article
