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- DirectorLucía GaribaldiStarsRomina BentancurFederico MorosiniFabián ArenillasTwo young lovers embark on a relationship while a rumor of sharks at the beach has everyone talking.
- DirectorNatalia CabralOriol EstradaStarsPachy MéndezFrank PerozoCarolina RohanaAs her 15th birthday approaches, Miriam doesn't know how to explain to her family that the boyfriend she met online is black.
- DirectorAlejandra Márquez AbellaStarsIlse SalasFlavio MedinaCassandra CiangherottiA well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsGabriela CartolAgustina QuinciTeresa SánchezA look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.
- DirectorCesar DiazStarsArmando EspitiaEmma DibAurelia CaalErnesto is a young anthropologist in Guatemala. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a "guerrillero" who went missing during the war.
- DirectorSofía QuirósStarsSmashleen GutiérrezHumberto SamuelsHortensia SmithSelva (13) lives in a coastal town in the Caribbean. After the sudden disappearance of her only motherly figure, she is left to take care of her grandfather who doesn't want to live. Between shadows and wild games, she must decide if she will help her grandfather die, even though that means going through her last moments of childhood alone.
- DirectorFranco LolliStarsAntonio MartinezAlejandra SarriaDavid RoaA single mother balances taking care of her mother during her fight with cancer while dealing with a corruption scandal at work.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsSofia BuenaventuraJulián GiraldoKaren QuinteroOn a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
- DirectorIgnacio JuricicStarsRoxana CamposPaula ZúñigaRodrigo PérezThe story centers on a woman who debates whether to go on TV to discuss the murder of her LGBT daughter.
- DirectorAlice FurtadoStarsSílvia BuarqueLuiza KosovskiLourenço MutarelliAn introspective young girl falls for the new boy in class, an outcast who is also a hemophiliac.
- DirectorAna KatzStarsMercedes MoránGustavo GarzónManuela Martínez MoránA recently separated Argentinian couple, along with their two teenage children, go on a family vacation to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.
- DirectorMaría AlchéStarsMercedes MoránLaura López MoyanoFederico SackMarcela's world becomes strange and fragile after the death of her sister Rina. She feels lost in her own home and the connections with her close family environment are dislocated.
- DirectorNuria IbañezChilo and Omar seem to be the last men on earth. They live on a beach and they fish to survive. Their friendship, surrounded by sensuality, becomes a love story. Through their conversations, the film explores the human condition.
- DirectorRené BallesterosA teenagers prison in the middle of the Mapuche countryside, in the South of Chile. Every night the teenagers are attacked by recurrent nightmares.
- DirectorJoanna Reposi GaribaldiStarsPedro LemebelWriter, Visual Artist and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire were protagonists in his work that he attempted to perpetuate in the last eight years of his life in a film he was never able to see finished. In an intimate and poetic journey through his risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights, "Lemebel" portrays a culmination of yearning immortality.
- DirectorMarina Meijer
- DirectorMaíra BühlerDowntown São Paulo, Brazil. An Apartment Building: 7 floors, 28 rooms, 107 residents who all have in common the addiction to crack. Over the course of several months, life in a social housing - part of a city hall "damage reduction" program about to be extinguished - is revealed. Characters on a hallucinated hunt for bonding and fighting passionately for life can be seen as the camera drifts through hallways, rooms, elevators, stairs; day and night. In this claustrophobic place, anything can happen.
- DirectorPablo StiglianiJanuary 19, 2018. Santa Teresita, Buenos Aires. A mosaic (intimate and observational) about the typical workers of the Argentinian beach. Each of their stories will be articulated throughout a working day: morning, afternoon and evening, portraying the color and joy of a summer day.
- DirectorEloisa SolaasStarsMaría AlchéJonathan ArgüelloJuan BrizuelaSoláas's feature debut is a vérité chronicle of final examinations at Argentina's public universities, in which students from a wide array of disciplines-botany, anatomy, astronomy, law, physics, music-prepare for, worry about, and ultimately partake in oral tests. Soláas trains her focus on a diverse and disparate group of 12 such students, capturing the intensity, nerves, and pressure bound up in their by turns dramatic and absurd experience of the examinations. A singular work of observation and pathos, The Faculties offers a thought-provoking meditation on the contemporary state of education and marks an auspicious debut for Soláas.
- DirectorMelina TerribiliStarsAlfredo ZitarrosaMoriana ZitarrosaSerena ZitarrosaAfter a long political exile, in the summer of 1989 the Uruguayan Alfredo Zitarrosa died in his native country. After his death, hundreds of boxes with their memories remain closed in the family home for twenty-seven years. Today, his daughters and his wife rescue those memories, marked by exile and that are torn between oblivion and destruction by the passage of time.
- DirectorLuke LorentzenStarsJuan OchoaFer OchoaJosue OchoaIn Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
- DirectorAntonella SudasassiStarsDaniela ValencianoLeynar GomezIsabella MoscosoIsa has more than enough on her plate with two children and the household, which she manages on her own. When her husband persists with his wish for a third child, she realizes that something must change.
- DirectorSimon HernandezStarsCiro GuerraLuis OspinaJairo PinillaA documentary about Jairo José Pinilla Téllez, the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at over age 70, he is working to finish his last film: his first non-animated 3D film.
- DirectorFellipe BarbosaClara LinhartStarsClemente ViscaínoMichael WahrmannMartha NowillJanuary 1st, 2003. As Brazil celebrates President Lula's historic investiture, two middle-class provincial families from Rio Grande do Sul gather in an old, poorly maintained house, around a champagne-fired barbecue, family secrets and frustrations. Domingo could be a day like any other, a sweet and peaceful day. But the changes promised to the Brazilian people by the new president deeply worry Laura, the matriarch, who fears to see his authority and wealth disappear a little more.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDira PaesJulio MachadoAntonio PastichA woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.
- DirectorSofía MoraStarsRodolfo Livingston
- DirectorArturo Castro GodoyStarsJulieta ZylberbergMaría OnettoCarlos BellosoLucia is a single parent to a child with Asperger's. She has a minimum wage job and a very difficult relationship with her mother, but she thinks she can deal with everything on her own. On that day she receives an urgent call form the school: her son hit his head and she needs to pick him up. She anxiously makes her way to the school but when she gets there they tell her that he's been moved to the hospital. With this development her barely put together life shatters into a thousand pieces. Without being able to calm down and control her asthma attack Lucia must cross the city in her quest to find Mateo. But she will only be able find him if she surrenders control and lets go.
- DirectorBenjamín NaishtatStarsDarío GrandinettiAndrea FrigerioAlfredo CastroIn Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
- DirectorClaudia SparrowStarsMaxima Acuna Atalaya ChaupeA multi-billion dollar corporation meets their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.
- DirectorMalena MartinezStarsHugo Blanco GaldosPortrait of Hugo Blanco, the 'Peruvian Che Guevara". A mythical peasant leader and famous Trotskyist "guerrilla fighter" who preferred to encourage self- government and to become an anonymous: Hugo Indio.
- DirectorCarlos Marin TelloStarsLiliana AlegríaFernando CobeñasCristhian EsquivelA TRANS-Amazonian love triangle
- DirectorFrancisco LupiniStarsMaria Conchita AlonsoRafael de la FuenteGaby EspinoA desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party honoring his recent Pritzker Prize, now she must survive the pain of heartbreak and a night of celebration, without being found out.
- DirectorJonathan ReveronStarsMargot BenacerrafLeonardo PadrónJonathan ReveronThe filmmaker and writer Margot Benacerraf is not only the pioneer of auteur cinema in Venezuela, but one of the most important cultural managers of that country. This documentary shows the life and work of the director and founder of the National Film Library of Venezuela.
- DirectorNanni MorettiJeffrey B. MallianStarsSalvador AllendeCarmen CastilloPatricio GuzmánAfter the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them Italy. These brave men are represented in this outstanding movie.
- DirectorLaura CazadorFernando PérezStarsSylvie TestudBetiza Bismark CalderónAntonio Buíl1810. Enrique Faber, a Swiss surgeon, lands in Cuba in search for his son. After a few weeks of investigation, he is told that his son was burnt alive in the attack on a plantation led by a slave revolt. Enrique Faber does not believe this. He settles in Baracoa and carries on with his research. His success as a doctor and his marriage to Juana, a young strange and attractive pariah from the area soon create jealousies. Malicious rumours immediately spread about his high-pitched voice and his fragile appearance. One night, he comes across four men sent by a slave trader. They undress him and discover that Enrique is a woman... Enrique is thrown into jail. Soon begins the most scandalous trial of Cuban colonial history. Based on a true story
- DirectorCarlos SorinStarsVictoria AlmeidaDiego GentileJoel NogueraUnable to have kids of their own, Cecilia and Diego get a call from the adoption agency they registered to some time ago. The sudden arrival of Joel, a nine-year-old with a troubled history, will change the course of their lives.
- DirectorGastón SolnickiStarsGastón SolnickiA man wanders the streets of Vienna, guided by the memory of a friend who has recently passed away. The vestiges of a once sumptuous empire become the setting for a cinematic elegy and a dark celebration of life.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléAlex DescasSolveig DommartinDah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsVincent LindonChiara MastroianniJulie BatailleMarco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsRobert PattinsonJuliette BinocheAndré 3000A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
- DirectorSantiago LozaStarsRomina EscobarPaula GrinszpanLuis SodaTania learns that her grandmother spent the last years of her life in the loving company of an alien. Together with two friends, the Trans woman travels through rural Argentina to bring the creature back to its place of origin.
- DirectorEmiliano Mazza De LucaA ship, fifteen men, the river. A sensory film, a journey towards introspection. A portrait of loneliness, labour and absence, on board this floating society trapped in time. Could it be the reflection of our own « life on board »?
- DirectorCésar Alejandro JaimesJuan Pablo PolancoStarsCarmen González JusayúDoris González JusayúA young Wayuu woman exhumes her cousin's remains buried in the middle of the Guajira Desert in order to meet her for the last time.
- DirectorMaría Silvia EsteveStarsSilvia ZabaljáureguiMaría Silvia EsteveCarlos EsteveA poetic family chronicle in which a diplomat's daughter and her two sisters try to come to grips with the great drama in their mother's life. The film deals with all that pulsates beneath the omissions, the deviations that arise from trying to piece together Silvia's memory. Part documentary, part re-cut, the fragments of the past are accentuated, blurred, frozen, and played backward until the family chronicle becomes a universal drama, raising questions about memory, truth, illusions and appearances, as well as the nature of parent-child relationships.
- DirectorJavier ÁvilaAfter the murder of Cintia, 19, her mother and older sister begin to explore their own lives marked by abusive relationships with their partners, trying to find an explanation for the crime and a new meaning to their lives.
- DirectorMarlén ViñayoStarsEvelyn ChilenoRuth H. VegaMagdalena HenríquezFive Salvadoran women take to the stage to tell their stories about being poor, single moms and working as street vendors.
- DirectorArmando PraçaStarsMarco NaniniDenise WeinbergDemick LopesPedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse, is taking care of Daniela, his ailing transgender friend. In order to find her a vacant hospital bed, he decides to help an arrested and wounded criminal to escape.
- DirectorJuan SolanasA documentary on the women fighting for abortion rights in Argentina.
- DirectorGuillermo RocamoraStarsMuhammad AbdallahAfter thirteen years in Guantanamo, Muhammad is set free and taken to Uruguay. He has a second chance in an unknown place where he shall start to live a new life in freedom.
- DirectorLula CarvalhoNatasha NeriA documentary about the Rio de Janeiro police killings praticed as so-called "self-defense acts". The film follows people who deal with those deaths in their daily lives, showing how Brazil's Federal Government deals with these cases, from the police investigations to the courtrooms.
- DirectorEliza CapaiStarsMarcela JesusLucas 'Koka' PenteadoNayara SouzaYoung Brazilians make history in this radical document. Initially they are fighting for education, then their subversive actions take on a new dimension.
- DirectorPaloma ZapataStarsPepita BecasAndreu BuenafuenteMiliu CalabuchFrom the backwaters of Barcelona to half the world's stages, the artistic and personal adventure of Peret, the artist who with a little mambo, a blast of tanguillo and a pinch of rock created the Gypsy Rumba. 50 years after the hit Borriquito, the grandsons feature an intimate portrait of this great music icon, and the only musical genre created on the streets of Europe in the 20th century.
- DirectorCynthia BiestekRuben GomezStarsBenicio Del ToroCharlie MusselwhiteEliades OchoaPoor country musician playing on the streets of Eastern Cuba and striving to meet the challenge of spreading his beloved traditional music around the world and finds success as a original member of the famous Buena Vista Social Club
- DirectorDiego LevyStarsJuansePablo MemiPablo 'Sarcófago' CanoThe new version of rockstar Juanse, leader of 'Ratones Paranoicos', now a devout Catholic, but still doing rock.
- DirectorMarilina GiménezFormer all-female punk band bassist turns documentarist and follows women's bands from Argentina, showing their struggles and achievements, both musical and feminist.
- DirectorAlejandro Gallo BermudezStarsAlan CourtisExtraterrestreMark GergisFrom the mythical town of Curuzú Cuatiá, in the rural heart of Argentine Northeast, a group of quirky musicians invent a new sound: psychedelic chamamé folk. They are Los Siquicos Litoraleños, also known worldwide as "The Pink Floyd of the Poor". Dazzle Lights catches them on their first national tour through their region, where they started a cutting-edge music scene but they decide to step out of it, proposing a cultural debate full of chamamé, UFOs and mushrooms.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsPiti CamposJorge HidalgoLuis AduviriIn November 1825, in the Bolivian city of Chuquisaca, doña Juana Azurduy Bermúdez de Padilla, heroine of the independence war against the Spanish army, receives the visit of the liberators Simón Bolívar, Antonio José de Sucre and José Miguel Lanza. Throughout a long conversation, the woman will receive the admiration of the rulers, while reminiscing the most significant episodes of her career as a patriot and commander of the armed forces.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésIn the village of Tankuy, farmers are roused to revolutionary action against US based imperialism after one of them, an indigenous man, is brutalized by a landowner.Native non professionals contributed to and helped direct this example of radical, Collective oriented Latin American filmmaking.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsDomitila de ChungaraEusebio GirondaFederico VallejoA documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia. The film starts with previous massacres and represions (starting 1942 in Catavi), before and after the bolivian Revolution, and puts the finger on the people responsible. All of this according to the director's belief of movies having to show what people wanted: and people wanted to know causes and responsibilities. A little reading on the history of Bolivia after the revolution should led to a better understanding of this film, for it was directed to people who actually lived the process (some of them acting in the movie), and many meaningful sequences and details may not be understood in all their symbolic and historic value.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsJulio BaltazarPercy BrunZulema BustamanteSebastian Mamani returns to his Aymara community from which he was expelled long ago. He is carrying the great mask of death, he must dance 'til death.
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- DirectorDorian Fernández-MorisStarsJürgen GömezMarisol AguirreAiram GallianiSet in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of her father. With the help of her friends from school, they encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
- DirectorDorian Fernández-MorisStarsMiguel ArceAttilia BoschettiMathías BrivioAfter the death of a group of teenagers using the Ouija, the psychologist Fernanda and her son return to Peru, but they will find themselves surrounded by an evil entity as big as its wicked sect.
- DirectorHenry VallejoStarsLisandro AguilarIsrael AparicioMauricio ArésteguiA man's coworker goes missing and turns to a mystic named Maximo to rescue her after it is suspected she has been taken by the Kharisiri.
- DirectorJosé Antonio Gamboa MartínezStarsNilo AlvizuriMariela CoxMedardo DiazIt recreates the story of the Pishtaco, a legend from the Peruvian highlands. A creature that resembles a wandering man, allegedly a foreigner, who assaulted people on the road, to slay them and extract the fat from their bodies, which he sold or occasionally swallowed. The myth became popular in the times of Peruvian civil war between the army and terrorism.
- DirectorMikael WiströmStarsJosefin Augusta EkermannSamuel Gonzales OsisFlor Gonzales BarbaránJosefin was born in Sweden, but her Peruvian family played a key role in the country's history - her aunt and uncle were the founders of the country's communist party Shining Path and behind the armed uprising of 1980. In this film, she travels back to Peru and meets Flor, whose brother was imprisoned for belonging to Shining Path. Flor was born into the war that Josefina's family fled. Their meeting will mark them both forever.
- DirectorAlberto HerskovitsMikael WiströmStarsNati BarrientosA look at generations of a single Peruvian family. It's a family drama about love and poverty in a globalized world.
- DirectorMikael WiströmA documentary of the complicated friendship between the filmmaker and a poverty-stricken Peruvian family.
- DirectorMikael WiströmThe filmmaker and still photographer Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with Natividad and Daniel Barrientos 17 years after first meeting them in Peru.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsAntonio de la TorreMónica LópezJosep Maria PouA Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper exposes him to the public eye.
- StarsAgnès VardaSandrine BonnaireHervé ChandèsAgnès Varda, photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. Taking a seat on a theatre stage, she uses photos and film excerpts to provide an insight into her unorthodox oeuvre.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsPierre FresnaySuzy DelairJean TissierInspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsPablo PicassoHenri-Georges ClouzotClaude RenoirA filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.