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'LA BOLA NEGRA', directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.
A magnificent epic that soars to astonishing heights taking us with it, as it reveals an historical tale of life, death, and above all love, mysteriously linked over generations.
DOLORES (2024) animated short film by Mexican director Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo
Cecilia Andalón’s stop-motion animated short is a dark fantasy that explores ancient Mexican lore, in particular, highlighting discoveries of pre-Hispanic graves where several children were found. Why were they there?
MISTURA (2024) by Peruvian director Ricardo de Montreuil
Steeped in the rigid and unforgiving class structure of Peruvian high society in 1965, a woman, abandoned by her husband struggles to survive. Breaking unspoken rules, she decides against all advice to open a fine restaurant. Can…
¡QUE SUENE LA BANDA! (2025) short film by Jorge Parra Jr.
This moving 23- minutes short by Jorge Parra Jr was his thesis film at UCLA. Beautifully shot and edited with music pouring out of every pore. Corina J Poore caught up with him to talk about the film.
A Festival of Festivals at the 70th BFI London Film Festival
Latino-American, Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese & Brazilian films make their mark at the 70th BFI London Film Festival that was founded by Sunday Times film critic Dilys Powell and James Quinn. It was launched in 1957 at…
Latin America enthralls at Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Latin America is one of the most biodiverse regions of the world and among the winners and highly-commended entries at this year’s prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards are these eight extraordinary images captured…
Brazilian FERNANDA SALGADO, talented animation director at the 2026 BFI London Film Festival.
Salgado presented her gorgeous animated feature ANA, EN PASSANT (2026) as it celebrated its European and UK première in the ‘Journey Strand’. It is a moving and delightful film that explores new and innovative ways to tell a…
JAVIER BARDEM shines at his SCREENTALK for the 2026 BFI London Film Festival
The Audience at the Curzon Soho for the 70th BFI London Film Festival were privileged to attend a ‘Screentalk’ with the much loved, multi-award- winning actor JAVIER BARDEM.
GLAXO (2026) by award-winning Argentine director Benjamín Naishtat
This period, noir- thriller is based on a novella by Hernán Ronsino where, in a provincial town in Argentina, the tight bond of four inseparable friends is torn apart by betrayals, romance and murder, leading to tragic…
ISABEL (2026) by Brazilian director Gabe Klinger
This warm, intimate film by Gabe Klinger premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2026, and has also been screened in the Journey Strand at the 2026 BFI London Film Festival. Gabe Klinger talks to Corina J…
LA PERRA (2026) by Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor Castillo.
LA PERRA, a stark and unsentimental tale of loneliness & motherhood, celebrated its World Premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the Director’s Fortnight section to much acclaim and has now been screened at the 2026 BFI…
ANA, EN PASSANT (2026) by Brazilian director Fernanda Salgado
Fernanda Salgado's original and moving animated feature ANA, EN PASSANT had its European and UK Premiere at the BFI 2026 London Film Festival in the ‘Journey strand’, having earlier won the ‘Zózimo Bulbul Award’ in Brasilia…
TROPICAL FRACTALS (2026) by Brazilian director Leonardo Pirondi
When an undescribed apocalyptic catastrophe erases most of humanity, a small team of scientists is sent on a mission into space, in the hope of preserving as much as possible of the flora and fauna of our planet. Corina J Poore…
THE BELOVED (El Ser Querido) 2026 BY Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen ‘s latest film is a powerful study of a toxic father/ daughter relationship. Can past pain ever be swept away or will it linger forever?
Culture and Resilience - What is Being Latino?
Latino – where does the term come from? Do you feel it represents who you are? Do you dislike it? Are there many ways of being Latino/a/x? In a world full of contradictions, where the Black Lives Matter Movement has global reach…
PRINCE (2026) by Uruguayan director Federico Borgia
Celebrating its World Premiere at the 2026 70th BFI London Film Festival, Uruguayan writer/ director Federico Borgia has created a dark comedy thriller that comments on how people manage their values and priorities, or not.
FLIES (MOSCAS) 2026 by Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke.
The charming film FLIES, which will be screened at the BFI London Film Festival in the LOVE strand, premiered in February 2026 at the Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. This modest…
Latin Londoner #72: Sergio Maggiolo - writer, performer, and director
Sergio Maggiolo is a London-based writer, performer, and director born in Peru and trained in the U.S. Known for making theatre that is political, irreverent, and charged with emotional truth, Sergio’s work blends personal…
THE PORTUGUESE HOUSE (2025) by Spanish director Avelina Prat
This charming and tender film is Avelina Prat’s second feature. It premiered at the 28th Málaga Film Festival in 2025, and has won over 10 awards and had 17 nominations, including a Gaudí Award for Best New Director and a Goya…
Salon de Belleza (Beauty Salon) 2026 by Mexican director Nathalia Acevedo
Selected for the ‘Giornate degli Autori’ at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, Nathalia Acevedo’s unusual debut feature was adapted from the strange and meditative novella of the same name by Mario Bellatin, about death and dying on…
Latin Londoner #71: Monica Lopera - Actress and Producer.
Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Monica is an award-winning actress who has worked across film, television and theatre in both Spanish and English, taking leading roles in The Hijacking of Flight 601 (Netflix), Killing Eve (…
Latin Londoner #70: Guido Garcia Lueches - Actor, Poet, Theatre maker
Guido Garcia Lueches is a Uruguayan actor, poet, theatre maker and co-founder of interactive theatre company Say It Again, Sorry? Guido's first solo show Playing Latinx played the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 at Summerhall, and…
Rosebush Pruning (2026) by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz
A dark, satirical-comedy melodrama, with a gentle Greek connection that is very suitable as it has echoes of Greek tragedy as siblings and parents destroy each other as they live a life of indolence and vanity in a gilded cage
BITTER CHRISTMAS (Amarga Navidad-2026) by Pedro Almodóvar
Almodóvar returns to our screens with a complex and introspective drama full of autobiographical elements, in which the role of a screenwriting cult filmmaker is seriously challenged.
origo: an earth giant at the Barbican
An earth giant now stands in the Sculpture Court. Origo, conceived by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, is an oval structure that extends 24 metres following the crescent shape of the building that surrounds it. The installation…
THE GUESTS Dir. Cristina Diz and Stefan Butzmühlen
A Spanish-German collaboration has produced this interesting ‘road’ movie set in 1973, that touches on how old ingrained traditions affect us when a Spanish ‘guest’ worker tries to take her dying mother back her village in…
‘El Conserje’ Dir. David Figueroa García and Mauro Mueller.
This film, produced by ‘Region 4’, a sister company to ‘Fidelio Films’, explores the life of 78- year- old Ricardo, a primary school janitor, one of the many under-appreciated workers in our society, who deals with life’s…
Latin Londoner #69: Erika Vibez - salsa lecturer, creative producer and community leader
British-Colombian Erika Vibez is a dance teacher, creative producer and community leader. In 2026 she became one of the first Salsa lecturers in the UK, introducing Salsa Caleña (Cali style) into the formal dance curriculum. She…
‘Queremos tanto a Jane’ by Juana Libedinsky.
250 years on from her birth, Jane Austen’s books still fly off the shelves today as they did during the regency period. She not only invented the narrative format, the idea of a third voice, a narrator, but she ended up inventing…
Life Through Dance: A Cuban Journey
When Yanet Fuentes arrived in the UK at just eighteen years old to star in the theatre sensation Lady Salsa, her beauty, elegance and stunning dance style caused a mini-earthquake in the salsa scene. Since then, the Cuban dancer…
THE LAST DIVE (2025) Dir. Cody Sheehy
600 miles from the coast of Mexico, deep in the Sea of Cortés lies a volcanic island, San Benedicto. There, a man with a troubled past found peace and an extraordinary 19-year friendship whilst diving with a giant Pacific Manta…
Forever your Maternal Animal (2026) by Valentina Maurel
Maurel’s film, which explores a dysfunctional family in San José of Costa Rica, had its world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the 'Un Certain Regard' section.
FOR THE OPPONENTS (2026-Para los Contrincantes) by Argentine director Federico Luis
Federico Luis’ ‘FOR THE OPPONENTS’, has just won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival against stiff competition. In it, Damián López, a young aspiring boxer from the rough ‘Barrio Bravo’ of Mexico City,…
PESCADOR (2024) by Harry Domenico Rossi
The lives of an American marine biologist, her missing shipwrecked brother and a Costa Rican fishermen interlink in this debut feature touching themes of life and death, mythical creatures and impossible dreams.
Guillermo Del Toro: Mexico's Renaissance Man
Recently awarded the BFI FELLOWSHIP, the highest honour the BFI can bestow, Guillermo del Toro (61) now joins other great and distinguished artists and film makers like Martin Scorcese, Christopher Nolan, Tom Cruise, Akira…
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