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Jimena Larraguivel, actor, writer

Mexican actor Jimena Larraguivel has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company twice - first in 2018, in a musically devised piece about the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and then again in 2023 in the UK tour of…

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Meow! (2024) by Mexican Ariel de la Garza and Czech Michal Vojtech.

Meow! a comedy short film that has just premiered at the Norwich Film Festival, is an intriguing, quirky and amusing run through the Gothic shadows of the city of Prague, as a toilet attendant searches for her lost cat, trying to…

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Brazil’s big beautiful – and still illegal – balloon-making culture

From centuries old traditions Balloon-making developed into a competition between dedicated groups to create the biggest and most beautiful balloons which were released into the sky carrying lights and often fireworks, and then…

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Gabriela (2023) Oscar-qualifying short film by Guatemalan-American director Evelyn Lorena

Gabriela, a young Guatemalan undocumented immigrant struggles to fulfill her dreams of becoming a competitive swimmer for a local Country Club in North Carolina.

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MAGDALENA, TE AMO (2024) by Andrea Calao

‘Magdalena, Te Amo’ (2024) is a moving short film about student sex workers in New York. Premiered at the New York Latino Film Festival, it has also been longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.

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Power Alley (Levante- 2023) by Brazilian director Lillah Halla

Lillah Halla is emerging as the new kid on the block in Brazil with her opera prima, Levante (Power Alley) that questions Brazilian politics and feminist freedoms and has already garnered no fewer than 8 wins and 8 nominations at…

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Memories of a Burning Body (2024) by Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss

The Costa Rican submission to the 97th Academy Awards for ‘Best International Feature’ is Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’s moving fictional documentary ‘Memories of a Burning Body’, which will be screened at the BFI London Film…

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SUJO (2024) by creative Mexican duo Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez

With ‘SUJO,’ a cartel drama, award-winning writer/directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez bring a new slant to the ‘shadow of violence’ that haunts Mexico to the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.

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OLIVIA AND THE CLOUDS (2024) visually exciting animated feature by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat.

“Like they don’t see something is pulling them apart.” In ‘Olivia and the Clouds’, relationships flounder, steeped in memories and hopes as animator, film maker, professor and artist from the Dominican Republic, Pichardo-…

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Collective Monologues (2024) by Jessica Sarah Rinland

‘Wednesdays are a day of rest in the zoo’. Not for the visitors or the carers, but for the animals. Anglo-Argentine Rinland gazes into the finer, intimate life of zoos and rescue centres across Argentina, making it a sensual…

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MAGDALENA, TE AMO (2024) by Andrea Calao

‘Magdalena, Te Amo’ (2024) is a moving short film about student sex workers in New York. Premiered at the New York Latino Film Festival, it has also been longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.

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DRAGONKEEPER (2024) fantasy animation adventure directed by Salvador Simó and Yianping Li.

“There are questions that should not be answered because the answers should be found!” Based on Carole Wilkinson’s book, ‘Dragonkeeper’ is an exciting animated feature being released on September 27th in the UK,

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BBC’s STORYVILLE has found a quiet gem with ‘INHERITING THE CASTLE (2023)’ by Argentine director Martin Benchimol.

Inheriting the Castle (2023) is the moving and gentle tale of 60- year-old Justina and her 20-year-old- drum- mad daughter Alexia, who inherit a mansion, deep in the Argentine pampas.

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LOS TALLOS AMARGOS (1956) by Argentine Fernando Ayala

“There are fools in Germany, fools in France and fools in Argentina.” Cine Lumière screens a classic cult film noir from the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, 'Los Tallos Amargos' (1956) directed by Fernando Ayala.

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EL AFFAIRE DE MIU MIU (2024) by Laura Citarella.

The Giornate Deglo Autori’s world première of ‘EL AFFAIRE MIU MIU’ (2024) by fêted Argentine director Laura Citarella, at the 2024 Venice Film Festival on August 31st, has added a thrilling mystery tale to the compelling female…

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As Fado Bicha – Challenging the Taboos of Portugal's Most Famous Music

Whilst the ‘Three Fs’ of fado - Fatima (the shrine), Football and Fado - which cemented the genre's association with the Salazar dictatorship, and its inherent conservatism, especially about gender issues, have put many…

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SORCERY (BRUJERÍAS) 2023, by Chilean director Christopher Murray, based on true events, opens on June 14th 2024.

‘Dead birds for sorrow.’ With elements of mystery, myth, magic realism and horror, SORCERY, Set in the enigmatic Chilean island of Chiloè, in 1880, has a mesmerizing quality, that was recognized with awards at the Cinélatino…

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“I always dreamt of making movies in Hollywood”: An Interview with Eugenio Derbez

This hard-to-resist family-friendly comedy paints Mexico in a bright shade of flamingo pink. Its star and one of the most famous Mexican faces in show business, Eugenio Derbez, speaks to Latino Life about his Apple TV+ series…

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Women of Toil - Maria Barea, pioneering Peruvian Director of ‘Antuca’ (1992)

Maria Barea decided to start filming the plight of young indigenous women working as domestic servants in Peru "to give them a voice." We look at the life of the pioneering Peruvian director of ‘Antuca’ (1992) and ‘…

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Brazilian film ‘BABY’, by Marcelo Caetano to be screened at the BFI London Film Festival 2024 for the 63rd ‘Semaine de la Critique’ at Cannes 2024

“I did not run away from home; they ran away from me”. After two years and barely 18, Wellington emerges from a youth detention centre to find his family have disappeared. Lost and homeless in the streets of São Paulo, he meets…

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CABRINI (2024) directed by Mexican director Alejandro Monteverde

‘One small gesture of love can change everything’. How do you do credit to a biopic of a saint? This true story of the turbulent journey of Francesca Cabrini to achieve her goal of orphanages and hospitals in late 19th Century…

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OUR MOTHERS (Nuestras Madres) - A Debut feature by César Díaz

Winner of the Camera D’Or in Cannes, Guatemalan filmmaker César Díaz’s multi award-winning film, OUR MOTHERS opens us to the horrors of the 36 year civil war in Guatemala between 1960 and 1996, through the experiences of Ernesto…

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“FREEDOM IS WITHIN EVERYONE”

The Delinquents is a heist film with a twist: the aim is not for wealth and luxury, but for freedom and the meaning of life. Selected as Argentina’s entry for the Oscars, this latest offering from Rodrigo Moreno is based on the…

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'REAS' by Lola Arias

“I see beyond the wall”...Having its UK premiere at the BFI Flare 2024 Festival, Argentine cinema and theatre director Lola Arias' award winning new documentary ‘REAS’ has created a novel take on the prison documentary,…

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Llamadas desde Moscú (Calls from Moscow) by Cuban director Luis Alejandro Yero

In the ‘Minds’ strand of the BFI Flare Festival 2024, the documentary ‘CALLS FROM MOSCOW’ is the story of four young Cuban immigrants, who find themselves stuck in Moscow, just one day before the invasion of Ukraine. Lost,…

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AMERICAN STAR (2024) by Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego

Ian McShane excels as an assassin on his last assignment in Fuerteventura. A loner, partly by force of his choice of career, Wilson’s life is thrown into a turmoil when his target is delayed.

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Basque director, Pablo Berger, warms our hearts with ROBOT DREAMS

Following three acclaimed live-action movies, Pablo Berger, known for ‘Blancanieves’ (Snow White) has further surprised us with Robot Dreams, (2023) - a delightful, dialogue-free, 2D animated buddy movie of a Dog and a Robot.

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Celluloid Colonialism

Felipe Gálvez’s much-anticipated directorial debut, ‘The Settlers’, deals with a taboo topic in Chile’s official history - the genocide of the Selk’nam people in Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost part of South America, at the…

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SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) - The Ultimate Survival Movie

“Reality is not enough, only dreaming”. Despite having been released recently (October 2023), this film recounting the famous crash in the Andes of a plane carrying the Uruguayan national rugby team, by Spanish director J.…

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Latin Shorts

Since short films were removed from accompanying all features at cinemas, they have struggled to find venues to reach an audience. The The 21st London Short Film Festival aims to change that, in style. We review four Latin…

Features
The Rise of Female Mexican Filmmaking

Mexican filmmaker Lorena Valencia’s “DANDELION” (Cuanacaquilitl) recently won the top prize at the recent ‘16 Days 16 Films’ competition. ‘Esperanza’ and ‘A Very Nice Guy’, also directed by Mexican female directors, featured…

Interviews
“No Tengo Dogma" - an Interview with Mexican Director Lila Avilés

Mexican writer/ producer/ director LILA AVILÉS is reaching audiences far and wide, way beyond her Latin American roots, as her second film TÓTEM (2023) hits the screens in the UK and other countries. Both her films, LA CAMARISTA…

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LA SINGLA (2023) by Spanish writer/ director Paloma Zapata

“She understood music because she was born with it within her.” This drama documentary, part-fiction, part reality, reveals the astounding story of a young girl, who despite being profoundly deaf, became one of Flamenco’s most…

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Deconstructing Chile's Past

Up and coming Chilean writer/ director FELIPE CARMONA URRUTIA's 'Penal Cordillera’ (2023) was nominated for the Sutherland Award (Best First Feature) at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival. He talks to Corina J Poore…

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Penal Cordillera (2023) by Felipe Carmona Urrutia

“Not only condors fly.” In 'Penal Cordillera' a group of five high-ranking military officers convicted of crimes against humanity during the Pinochet Military Dictatorship, find their privileges threatened at their…

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