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
There is a serious dearth of queer cinema in Mexico, and when it comes to stories about queer women and lesbians, I could count the number of feature-length films on one hand. While the gap is slowly being... Read Article
The BFI London Film Festival’s Experimenta programme aims to screen “films by artists that revolutionise and reshape our vision of cinema”. For the 65th edition of the festival, the programme included the section “Thinking With Other Senses” with... Read Article
A caterpillar drawn in chalk on a concrete floor. Its artist, the eleven-year-old Nando. The camera lingers, before cutting to dizzying shots: the Maracanã Stadium, a football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Mangueira favela; a ‘slum’... Read Article
This review was originally published by Sounds and Colours’s partner, Latin America Bureau, in October 2020. You can read the original here. ‘El Nombre del Hijo’ premiered at BFI’s London Film Festival in October. Gianna Giordani takes a... Read Article
A new short film by Goma Collective puts the spotlight on a community of surfers from the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro who are aiming to both further togetherness and educate kids through one of Rio’s most... Read Article
At S&C we’re always on the lookout for music, films, news and other juicy tidbits that we think will interest our readers, meaning plentiful net-casting goes into building magazine content. And our cultural comrades at Colombian online mag Cartel... Read Article
Another day, another Latin American film gets awarded at a European film festival. Colombian director Juan Perez Villalba was the winner at the recent Monfragüe Short Film Festival in the Spanish city of Cáceres. His film, Our World,... Read Article
