Iconic Mexican actress Columba Domínguez Adalid passed away Wednesday night at the age of 85 in Mexico City. Born in Guaymas, Sonora on March 4, 1929, Domínguez would go onto become one of the leading actress of the Mexican 'Golden Age' of cinema. In 1946, she made her film debut in Pepita Jimenez, by the hand of director Emilio "El Indio" Fernández.
She is most remembered for her roles in Maclovia (1948), in which she won the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress and Pueblerina. Domínguez worked with legendary directors like Fernández (pictured below along with Marilyn Monroe) in La malquerida (1949) and Reportaje (1953); Luis Buñuel in El río y la muerte (1955) and Ismael Rodríguez in Los hermanos del hierro (1961) and Ánimas Trujano (1962).
In 1984, the Mexican National Association of Actors (ANDA) gave Domínguez the “Virginia Fábregas” medal for 25 uninterrupted years of artistic work. The actress returned to the screen in 2008 after more than two decades away from the spotlight in the film Paloma by Roberto Fiesco.
Domínguez’s last screen appearance was in En el último trago (2014) by Jack Zhaga, a tribute to Mexican composer Jose Alfredo Jiménez.
Last year the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences gave Domínguez the Gold Ariel in recognition of her long and fruitful trajectory that included more than 60 films and included extensive work in radio, television and theater.
Two South American films will form part of the Official Selection for Spain’s 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Competing for the coveted Golden Shell will be the Argentinean film Open Air / Aire libre from Anahí Berneri and Chilean director Cristián Jiménez’s comedy, Voiceover / La voz en off (pictured left). 
Three Argentinean films have been selected for the main slate of the 52nd annual edition of the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced. The films, making their U.S. premiere, are Jauja by Lisandro Alonso, The Princess of France / La princesa de Francia by Matías Piñeiro, and Two Shots Fired / Dos disparos by Martín Rejtman.
As in his critical hit Viola (2013), Piñeiro doesn’t transplant Shakespeare to the present day so much as summon the spirit of his polymorphous comedies. Víctor (Julián Larquier Tellarini) returns to Buenos Aires after his father’s death and a spell in Mexico to prepare a radio production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Reuniting with his repertory, he finds himself sorting out complicated entanglements with girlfriend Paula (Agustina Muñoz), sometime lover Ana (María Villar), and departed actress Natalia (Romina Paula), as well as his muddled relations with the constellation of friends involved with the project. As the film tracks the group’s criss-crossing movements and interactions, their lives become increasingly enmeshed with the fiction they’re reworking, potential outcomes multiply, and reality itself seems subject to transformation. An intimate, modestly scaled work that takes characters and viewers alike into dizzying realms of possibility, The Princess of France is the most ambitious film yet from one of world cinema’s brightest young talents, a cumulatively thrilling experience. 
The first feature in a decade by Martín Rejtman (The Magic Gloves), a founding figure of the new Argentine cinema, is an engrossing, digressive comedy with the weight of an existentialist novel. Sixteen-year-old Mariano (Rafael Federman), inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice—once in the stomach and once in the head—and improbably survives. As his family strains to protect Mariano from himself, his elder brother (Benjamín Coehlo) pursues a romance with a disaffected girl (Laura Paredes) who works the counter at a fast-food restaurant, his mother (Susana Pampín) impulsively takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a young woman (Manuela Martelli) to join his medieval wind ensemble. Rejtman tells this story with both compassion and formal daring, pursuing one thread only to abandon it for another. Two Shots Fired is a wry, moving, consistently surprising film about the irrationality of emotions and how they govern our actions at each stage of our lives. 
Lucía Puenzo's The German Doctor / Wakolda (pictured) was the big winner at the 62th edition of the Silver Condor Awards which were announced at a ceremony in Buenos Aires yesterday. Puenzo's third feature film was awarded with seven Silver Condors including for Best Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actress (Natalia Oreiro), Best Supporting Actor (Guillermo Pfening), Breakout Female Actress (Florencia Bado), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has announced the one-week theatrical run of the Brazilian film Once Upon a Time Veronica / Era uma vez eu, Verônica (pictured) by Marcelo Gomes, which will play September 8-14
The Wavelenghts section of the festival will host the North American premieres of the Argentinean films Jauja by Lisandro Alonso and Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France / La princesa de Francia (pictured right), and it will also feature the Canadian-Chilean short film Lunar Almanac by Malena Szlam and the U.S.-Mexican co-production short Night Noon by Shambhavi Kaul.
