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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?
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 #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.
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…
FILMS TO WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE #10: AMORES PERROS (2000) Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
“To make God Laugh, tell him your plans.” In this intense and gritty debut feature by Academy Award-winning director Mexican Alejandro G. Iñárritu (who went on to make Birdman, The Revenant) and starring Gael García Bernal, no…
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…
LES SURVIVANTS DU CHE (Che Guevara: The Last Companions)
Christophe Dimitri Réveille has created an absorbing and fascinating documentary on the handful of six Che followers, who, having failed in their attempt to start a Bolivian revolution and protect Che, managed to survive fleeing…
ROMERÍA (2025) the final film in the semi-auto-fiction trilogy by Catalan writer/director Carla Simón.
Set in Vigo during a traditional ‘romería’ festival, young Marina arrives to seek some vital documents from her prejudiced grandparents to establish her legitimacy, while her family continue trying to hide too many secrets. The…
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Chilean writer/ director Diego Céspedes
A challenging new voice has emerged from Chile onto the international film circuit, and he is making his mark. Chilean writer/ director Diego Céspedes explores the lives of more marginalized souls with sympathy and depth.
Latino Life congratulates The RIO CINEMA on its 50th anniversary of community cinema (1976-2026)!
How is it then, that this grade II- listed Art Deco RIO CINEMA has a history that stretches back over 100 years? The reality today, is that it is now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its latest incarnation, as a community-…
NIGHT STAGE (2025) by Brazilian writer/directors Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.
“On the Stage no one hides” Erotic and political tensions explode in a is this dark thriller and melodrama worthy of an opera in NIGHT STAGE, as an actor and a politician begin an intense affair developing a fetish for public sex…
GABRIEL MASCARO: "The Future is for All"
In this dystopian view of a future Brazil, the elderly are supposed to feel honoured to be relocated to a remote colony from which no one seems to return. However, Tereza at 77, is nowhere near ready to obey this call, as there…
“When a person breaks the unspoken rules, all hell breaks loose"
Liz (Cecile van Welie) tries to conceal her true self, after her girlfriend's death, until, on a weekend retreat, someone awakens her passions again. When her sexuality is exposed, the secret provokes paranoia and violence…
DEATH & LIFE OF MADALENA (Morte e Vida Madalena -2025) written & directed by Brazilian Guto Parente
Filmed against the stunning backdrop of Lagoinha Beach in Ceará, northern Brazil, this quirky and delightful drama/ comedy by Guto Parente reveals his love of people, embracing all their genders and idiosyncrasies.
Essential Films to watch about Argentina's 'Dirty War'
Fifty years ago, on 24th March 1976, Argentina's armed forces, led by Jorge Videla, Emilio Massera and Orlando Agosti, deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup, establishing a dictatorship. What happened next was one of the…
DAUGHTERS OF THE FOREST (Hijas del Bosque -2026) Dir. Otilia Portillo Padua
Seeking to protect their forests and in particular its rich diversity of mushroom species, two indigenous mycologists in Mexico, (fungi specialists), Julieta Serafina Amaya and Eliseete Ramírez Carbajal, seek out the lore before…
Witch Girl Summer
Playwright Margarita Valderrama’s horror comedy, Witch Girl Summer, explores the evils of insecurity - quite literally - as an influencer’s plummeting self-esteem drives her toward the demonic in a desperate quest to achieve her…
Papaya (2024) Dir. Brazilian Priscilla Kellen
Proud to be a part of the global success of Brazilian cinema, and rubbing shoulders with Walter Salles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Gabriel Mascaro to mention a few, carioca Priscilla Kellen shone at the Berlinale 2026 as she…
THE RIVER TRAIN (2026) co-written and co-directed by Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale
The world premiere of the Argentine film ‘The River Train’ has been screened in the ‘Perspectives’ section of the 2026 Berlinale. In a warm coming-of-age story, (or is it a road movie?) 9- year-old Milo runs away from home in…
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