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Soldier's Woman
In an exclusive interview for Latino Life, Clorrie Yeomans talks to filmmaker Patricia Wiesse Risso about her new documentary 'Mujer de Soldado' (Soldier’s Woman) which serves to break the silence surrounding the human…
Fish Finding Water: The Story of Pescadito Films
Children’s films do not always get the headlines they deserve despite being vital to the film industry these days. With Disney recently finding a lucrative business in Latino related animations such as the hugely successful Coco…
'Reputations' by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, translated by Anne McLean (Bloomsbury)
Depicting the slippery nature of the past and the unreliability of memory, Juan Gabriel Vasquez' fifth novel draws a convincing portrait of the complex world of Bogotá in recent years, adding to his own reputation as one of…
‘The Silence of my Hands’ (2024) by Mexican documentary film maker Manuel Acuña.
Screening at the 2025 BFI Flare LGBTQAI+ Film Festival, ‘The Silence of my Hands’ follows the travails of two deaf Mexican women who struggle to keep their relationship alive despite separations, the short spells when they are…
On Writing a Continent’s Story - A conversation with acclaimed poet Leo Boix
Poet, translator and critic Leo Boix is a lyrical tour de force and a fire-keeper for a new generation of British Latinx writers, having edited the ground-breaking 'Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American…
COSMIC CONNECTIONS
Patricia Diaz describes herself as a migrant storyteller, for she has lived longer in London than in her native Colombia. Her debut novel ‘The Golden Bat’ touches on the tragic events of the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano eruption…
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,…
THE ROAD TO PATAGONIA Dir. Matty Hannon
This is a document of 16 years of ecologist Matty Hannon’s life, as he follows his dream to travel and be at one with nature, while falling in love and surfing some of the wildest waves on the planet travelling down America'…
Only Room for One Latin Diva?
Ever since Yanet Fuentes, the only Latin American ever to grace the UK’s prime-time talent shows, left the BBC’s 'So You Think You Can Dance', the blogosphere has been awash with outrage at judge Sisco Gomez's…
LATIN LONDONER #2 Vanessa Carvalho - Brazilian Singer and Dancer
Vanessa Carvalho from Salvador, Bahia – Brazil. started singing and dancing at the age of 8 and performed with many Brazilian artists. She embarked on a musical adventure together with Leo Mantini from Rome, which became that…
Maria (2024) by multi-award-winning Chilean director Pablo Larraín.
“I’m in a mood for adulation” Pablo Larraín explores the last years in the life of coloratura soprano María Callas once the applause had faded, as she lives, almost unknown and forgotten in a sumptuous apartment in Paris, France…
EVERYBODY KNOWS - When a Secret is not a Secret
When a young teenager is kidnapped at a family wedding in a small Spanish town, layer-by-layer, dark secrets, unsatisfied revenge and rivalries are revealed. Unable to contact the police, the whole family is trapped in a fraught…
“Grief is Grey”: An interview Merced Elizondo, Oscar-qualified director of ‘THE MOURNING OF’ (2025)
With gentle black humour, superb craftmanship and performances, ‘THE MOURNING OF’, a moving short film by Merced Elizondo leaves the viewer wanting more. It's no surprise that the film, “The Mourning of”, which explores…
'Memory House' Dir João Paulo Miranda María
Set in modern-day Brazil, with a fantastical narrative using hallucinations and dreams, in his film Memory House 2020, João Paulo Miranda María explores the lonely and tortured life of Cristovam as he suffers the harsh clash of…
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…
Something Contagious
CONTAGIO (Contagion) is an exciting new group exhibition of nine Latin American artists covering a wide range of different techniques and styles. Based at the CECILIA BRUNSON GALLERY and curated by gallery artist Jaime Gili,…
Paraguay – Piercing the Silence
Juanjo Pereira began his film, Bajo Las Banderas, El Sol (Under the flags, the sun) as a modest project to better understand his country and its cinema, which has no national archives, and where the history of the dictatorship,…
“FEELS LIKE AN ITCH YOU CAN’T SCRATCH”
Featuring a stunning performance by Bahiano Wagner Moura (Narcos / Elite Squad), THE SECRET AGENT (O Agente Secreto-2025) by write /director Kleber Mendonça Filho opens a door to the tenuous aspects of life in Brazil and Recife…
Turning Up the Heat
Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa has worked with top dance companies across the globe – and yet she says there is something special about Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. Which is why she’s delighted that the Havana-based company…
In Oaxaca The Walls Speak
In a country whose history simmers with political resistance and art, graffiti has come to reflect a post-modern merging of the two. Far away from the Banksy hype, we celebrate the art of Mexican political graffiti and the…
MECKY CREUS: DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR 'MAÑANA FUE BONITO'
Karol G’s brand-new documentary ‘Mañana Fue Bonito’ has landed on Netflix and shows viewers what it's like to balance life as one of the world's biggest reggaeton stars while on a sold-out stadium tour. Director of…
LATIN LDONDONER #7 Julieta Hernández Adame - Visual Artist
Mexican born Julieta Hernández Adame is a talented artist and printmaker who skilfully uses the urban, the industrial and above all the power of words to make us reflect on the world we leave in. She was voted the Visual Artist…
A Big Budget for a Big Man
HANDIA (Giant) swept the boards at the 2018 GOYA AWARDS, with 13 nominations, and carrying away 10 awards. In particular it won Best original Script, Best New Actor, as well as awards for Cinematography, Editing, Special Effects…
Venezuelan Cinema in Search of 'Our Language'
Can Venezuela’s new state-sponsored cinema live up to its Cuban and Russian precedents or will it drown in the accusations of mediocrity and dogma that surrounds it?
Bravery and Tragedy in the Pampas
Corina Poore talks to the up and coming Argentine director Martin Rodriguez Redondo whose debut feature film “Marylin’ recounting the tragic real life events of a teenager targeted for challenging gender stereotypes in the…
Chasing Butterflies
Victoria Kellaway visits the birthplace of Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize winner, pioneer of Magical Realism and Colombia’s most famous writer.
MAKING MAGIC: The Latina Filmmakers Making Audiences Cry and Imaginations Fly
There are more Latina directors and producers on the international film circuit than ever before. Having to break conventions and funding barriers, they are forced to be pioneers as well as creative sparks to astonishing results…
THINESTRA (2025) by Nathan Hertz
A comedy / horror that is highly entertaining! Director Nathan Hertz explores where the world of weight-loss tablets might lead us.
PORTO (Dir. Gabe Klinger)
Presenting his debut fiction feature at the London Film festival this week, Brazilian/American Director Gabe Klinger talks about the film's central themes around the intense experience one can have with a stranger and…
O silencio das Ostras (The Silence of the Oysters) 2024 by Brazilian director Marcos Pimental
Screening at the Berlinale 2025 is a powerful debut fiction feature by documentarist Marcos Pimental. Based in a ghostly mining village, it relates the subsequent devastation of toxic sludge caused by the bursting of a dam in…
SURVIVE - SOBREVIVIR
Denisse Vargas -Bolaños is a Bolivian poet and writer. She is a member of the feminist literary collective Las Juanas and SLAP (Spanish and Latin American Poets and Writers). She was also part of the Invisible Presence Project.…
FRANCESCO (2020) Dir Evgeny Afineevsky
THE BRIDGE MAKER- Pope Francis has broken from some traditions, opening his arms and his heart to all sectors of afflicted humanity in the world. Evgerny Afineesky’s moving documentary reveals the huge scope of Pope Francis’…
A Little Private Heaven?
Is film the last refuge of poetry? Or a refuge of dreams? At the BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Corina J. Poore talks to Brazilian film maker Guto Parente, director of Inferninho (My Private Hell, 2018), about his film…
EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF (2020) dramatic documentary directed by Mo Scarpelli
“The root of all shades of machismo is fear, the root of family is love. In ‘EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF’ this fear and love collide.”
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