The second half of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month is now in full swing in the United States and is bringing a dozen of film festivals that will offer a plethora of U.S. Latinx and Latin American titles to audiences across the country, from California to Massachusetts, and Georgia to Washington.
Check them out!
GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL
September 29 - October 1
FICG in LA transforms itself and becomes GuadaLAjara Film Festival in honor of the two cities that have seen it grow. The festival’s mission is to show the best of Latin cinema and it’s creators, in order to cultivate relationships for a borderless industry. We are seeking to become the bridge that maintains the heritage’s roots and customs from each of the nations involved. This year’s edition of the festival kicks off with the documentary feature Omara by Hugo Pérez, and also includes Rodrigo Reyes’ Sansón and Me, among other titles.
CINEFEST LATINO BOSTON FILM FESTIVAL
September 29 - October 2
CineFest Latino Boston Film Festival is committed to using the power of film to break stereotypes, bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues affecting the Latinx community in the United States, as well as communities in Latin America and Spain. In its initial edition the film festival is presenting three films: the Bolivian eco-drama Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi, the Mexican musical film The King of All the World / El rey de todo el mundo by Spanish director Carlos Saura, and the Salvadorean documentary Fly So Far by Celina Escher.
GEORGIA LATINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
September 29 - October 2
The Georgia Latino International Film Festival (GALIFF) is produced every September-October during Hispanic Heritage month by the Georgia Latino Film Alliance (GALFA) an Afro–Latino curated, nonprofit, multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to developing, promoting and increasing awareness of Latino culture among Latinos and other communities by presenting a wide variety of films, music and entertainment.
AFI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Through October 12
The AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center is presenting the 33rd edition of the AFI Latin American Film Festival, one of the largest and longest-running showcases of Latin American cinema in the United States, dedicated to presenting Latin America's prolific and versatile talent. This year's wide-ranging selection of 41 films from 21 countries spans international festival favorites and award winners, local box-office hits and dynamic debuts from a new generation of Latin American filmmakers.
The Festival opens with the East Coast premiere of Argentina, 1985, the hotly anticipated historical drama from Santiago Mitre, starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani. The Festival closes with Brazilian-Portuguese co-production Dry Ground Burning, a genre-defying firecracker about queer oil pirates in Brasília from filmmakers Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta.
HOLA MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL
October 2 - 10
The largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, Hola México Film Festival, returns for its 14th annual edition. After last year’s triumphant return to in-person attendance, Hola México Film Festival (HMFF) once again will give viewers the opportunity to gather in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month by seeing some of the latest and greatest classic films to have come from Mexico. The festival gathers more than 10,000 cinephiles to see over twenty films, many of them making their premiers with red carpet galas attended by the biggest actors and directors in Mexican cinema.
MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL, ¡VIVA EL CINE!
October 6 - 16
Mill Valley Film Festival’s ¡Viva el cine! initiative is a showcase of Latin American, Latinx, and Spanish-language stories, connecting audiences with a diversity of cultures, identities, and histories explored through the magic of cinema. This year will include films from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Uruguay, including Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths by Alejandro González Iñárritu and Chile, 1976, by Manuela Martelli.
SEATTLE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
October 7 - 15
The Seattle Latino Film Festival was founded in 2009 and is the only one of its kind in the entire Northwest of the United States. The Festival runs during the month of October to coincide with the National Hispanic Heritage Month. SLFF includes international filmmakers, producers, and actors with the specific purpose of engaging the Seattle community with cross-cultural perspectives, and to create a forum to explore those perspectives, many of which are integral to the experience of "Latinidad." This year’s opening night is the Bolivian film Gaspar by Diego Pino, and the closing night selection is the Dominican film Carajita by Argentine directors Silvina Schnicer and Ulises Porra.
SAN FRANCISCO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
October 7 - 22
Cine+Más SF is back during Heritage Month to present the 14th San Francisco Latino Film Festival. This year it will be a hybrid event with online and in-person screenings. The festival kicks off with the screening of the documentary film José Feliciano- Behind the Guitar by Frank Licari, Helen Murphy, and Khoa Le on Friday, October 14 at the Opera Plaza Cinema.
NORTH CAROLINA LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
October 11 - 19
The North Carolina Latin American Film Festival celebrates the power and artistry of Latin America’s film and audiovisual production. Its mission is to provide a space for Latin American images, sounds, and stories to reach a wider audience. Some of this year’s highlights include My Imaginary Country / Mi país imaginario by Chilean master documentarian Patricio Guzmán; the Brazilian film Mars One / Marte Um by Gabriel Martins; and the Argentine film The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet / El perro que no calla.
PORTLAND LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
October 12 and 23
The Portland Latin American Film Festival (PDXLAFF) serves the community as a non-profit cultural promoter under the guidance of the Hollywood Theatre. We are dedicated to showcasing perspectives of Latin American culture through an exploration of Latin film and increasing the visibility of Latin American cinema locally. PDXLAFF presents films with universal appeal that can be enjoyed by native Spanish, Portuguese, and English speakers, and other lovers of the Latin culture. In October PDXLAFF will screen the Bolivian film Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi and the Mexican animated documentary Home Is Somewhere Else by Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos.
www.hollywoodtheatre.org/programs/series/portland-latin-american-film-festival
CINE LATINO
October 13 - 20
Cine Latino is the upper Midwest’s largest showcase of the best new films from U.S. Latinx, Latin American, and Iberian cinema, and this 10th anniversary festival promises to blow the roof off with a full array of lively film screenings, engaging filmmaker conversations, and exciting parties to engage the Twin Cities’ growing Spanish-speaking populations and vast community of global cinephiles. Some of the highlights for the 10th edition of the festival include Patricio Guzmán’s My Imaginary Country, Manuela Martelli’s Chile 76, and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985.
NALIP’S LATINO MEDIA FEST
October 13
This year's Latino Media Fest will take place on October 13, 2022. NALIP's Latino Media Fest is the unique presenter of the best U.S. Latine content across all media platforms: narrative short films, TV/streaming pilots, digital content, and documentary shorts. The Fest brings together Latine filmmakers, industry reps, executives, and film aficionados for a 1-day event to celebrate the Latine work making waves in the industry and to support the next generation of industry leaders.
For the last twenty-three years, NALIP has been devoted to advancing Latine creatives across all media platforms. Today, we stand as the premier and leading organization championing the support and advocacy of Latine content creators. NALIP's programs and events aim to propel the careers of diverse and Latine creatives through connections, resources, mentorship, and valuable insight about the state of media and entertainment. Standing at the forefront of systemic change within the industry, our organization works with industry leaders toward seeing a more inclusive future both on and off-screen.
