Sep
8
to Dec 7
Streaming Releases

POV Presents: THE AGE OF WATER

THE AGE OF WATER
A film by Isabel Alcántara Atalaya and Alfredo Alcántara
(USA/Mexico, 2024, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a scientist to investigate their water supply. Their discovery of dangerous radioactivity leads to community backlash and government denial, revealing how deep aquifers harbor ancient nuclear traces from the last ice age. Co-produced and co-presented with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB)

Premieres Monday, September 8
POV on PBS

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12
to Dec 11
Theatrical Releases

U.S. Theatrical Release of WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED

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“A scorching chamber piece
about the country’s unhealed wounds.””
— Carlos Aguilar, Variety


WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED / NO NOS MOVERÁN
A film by Pierre Saint Martin
(Mexico, 2024, 100 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Mexico’s Oscar submission - Best International Feature

Winner of four Ariel Awards—for Best First Feature, Original Screenplay, Actress, and Breakthrough Performance—and selected as Mexico’s official submission for the Best International Film Oscar, We Shall Not Be Moved tells the story of Socorro—played by Luisa Huertas in a tour-de-force performance—a retired lawyer consumed by her obsession to find the soldier who killed her brother during the student protests of October 2, 1968, when demands for democracy and justice were brutally silenced in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Square.

Nearly six decades later, her relentless pursuit has fractured her relationships with her sister, Esperanza, and her son, Jorge. When a new clue emerges, Socorro sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, putting her family, her legacy, and her own life in jeopardy. Shot in striking black and white, director Pierre Saint Martin delivers a powerful and intimate reflection on the enduring wounds of Mexico’s modern history.

Screening Schedule (More Cities TBA):

St Louis, MO: St. Louis International Film Festival at MX Movies and Bar. Saturday, November 8. 
Los Angeles, CA: Instituto Cervantes. Wednesday, November 12. Q&A with the director.
Portland, OR: The Portland Latin American Film Festival at the Hollywood Theatre. Wednesday, November 12. Q&A with protagonist Luisa Huertas.
Chicago, IL: National Museum of Mexican Art. Sunday, November 16.
Tucson, AZ: Cinema Tucsón at Fox Tucson Theatre. Wednesday, November 19. Q&A with the director.
New York, NY: Cinema Village. Friday, November 28 through Thursday, December 4. Q&A with the director at the 6pm shows on Friday and Saturday, November 28 & 29.
San Francisco, CA: Roxie Theater. Sneak Preview on Saturday, December 6. Opens December 19.
Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Friday, January 16, and Sunday, January 18.

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24
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Theatrical Releases

African Diaspora International Film Festival NYC 2025

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33rd Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival
November 24—December 10

Latin American and U.S. Latinx Films co-presented by Cinema Tropical

Now in its 33rd edition, ADIFF NYC continues its mission to present independent films that explore the richness and diversity of the global Black experience. This year’s program brings together a powerful selection of Latin American and US Latinx films that illuminate stories of resistance, identity, and cultural memory across the diaspora.

For tickets and more information visit: https://nyadiff.org

‘Afro-Latino Short Program’

EL CANON
(Martín Seeger, Chile, 2024, 19 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
A Haitian immigrant in Chile finds his body praised as an artistic ideal inside an academy, yet remains unseen and marginalized in everyday life. A striking meditation on the contradictions of visibility and exclusion.

CANDOMBE
(Rafael Deugenio, Uruguay, 1993, 16 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
A portrait of musician and drum-maker Fernando Núñez, who fights to preserve the Afro-Uruguayan legacy of candombe despite erasure and marginalization.

BI ILÉ
(Clarissa Rebouças, Brazil/Canada, 2025, 20 min. In French with English subtitles)
Bi Ilé explores Yoruba cultural continuity across borders through the work of artist Odun Orimolade, weaving tradition, performance, and diasporic identity.

Saturday, November 29, 3pm at The Chapel, Teachers College and Sunday, December 7, 12:30pm at Cinema Village

ROSA CHUMBE
(Jonatan Relayze, Peru, 2015, 75 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Rosa is a mature police officer with both a gambling and a drinking problem. She lives with her daughter Sheila, who has a little baby. One day, after a big fight between them, Sheila steals her mother's savings and storms out of the house leaving her baby behind. Rosa is forced to spend some time with her grandson. Something changes inside her heart of stone. However, everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.

Monday, December 8, 3pm at Cinema Village

ADIÓS MOMO
(Leonardo Ricagni, Uruguay, 2005, 107 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

An 11-year-old street boy, Obdulio, who sells newspapers for a living but cannot read or write, finds a magical "Maestro" in the night watchman of the newspaper's office. Obdulio's charismatic mentor not only introduces him to the world of literacy but also teaches him the real meaning of life through the lyrics of the "Murgas" [Carnival Pierrots] during the magical nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan Carnival.

Tuesday, December 9, 11am at Cinema Village, New York City

MARIGHELLA
(Wagner Moura, Brazil, 2021, 155 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

This action-packed political drama chronicles the life and struggle of Carlos Marighella, the legendary Afro-Brazilian revolutionary and writer who led the urban guerrilla fight against Brazil's military dictatorship in the late 1960s. The film was directly targeted by the Bolsonaro administration due to its political content, which is sympathetic to the leftist guerrilla leader, resulting in the blocking and significant delay of its theatrical release in Brazil through politically motivated regulatory obstruction.

Wednesday, December 10, 3:30pm at Cinema Village, New York City

MALÊS
(Antônio Pitanga, Brazil, 2024, 122 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

From the award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Antônio Pitanga—one of the key actors of Brazil's influential Cinema Novo movement (1960s and 70s), Malês is a dramatic journey of courage, faith, and resistance set in 1835 Salvador, Bahia. The film centers on a young Muslim couple ripped from their African homeland and sold into slavery in Brazil on the eve of their wedding. Separated by cruel fate, they struggle not only to survive the daily horrors of the sugar plantations and urban servitude but also to find a path back to each other. Their personal fight for survival becomes swept up in the Malê Revolt, the largest and most influential organized uprising of enslaved people in Brazilian history, led by Muslim Africans.

This powerful historical drama vividly brings to life the resilience, intellect, and unity of the enslaved and free Black communities who dared to challenge the entire institution of slavery, cementing Malês as a monumental contribution to the cinematic history of the African Diaspora.

Sunday, December 7, 9:10apm and Wednesday, December 10, 3:30pm at Cinema Village, New York City

BRICK BY BRICK / TIJOLO POR TIJOLO
(Victória Álvares & Quentin Delaroche, Brazil, 2024, 102 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

After being forced from their collapsing home during the pandemic, Cris and her family rebuild their lives in the outskirts of Recife while navigating motherhood, survival, and political struggle.

Saturday, December 13, 1pm at 177 Grace Dodge, Teachers College

SUGAR ISLAND
(Johanné Gómez Terrero, Dominican Republic, 2025, 91 min. In Spanish and Haitian Creole with English subtitles)

Sugar Island immerses us in the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane fields, where Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager, navigates an unwanted pregnancy and the harsh labor that defines her world. Director Johanné Gómez Terrero masterfully blends social realism, spirituality, and Afro-futurism to expose the enduring legacy of colonial exploitation. As Makenya confronts family burdens and the specter of displacement, the arrival of a mysterious theater troupe illuminates haunting connections between past and present struggles. As Makenya fights for her future and her grandfather battles for justice, Sugar Island unfolds as a lyrical, visually rich meditation on identity, survival, and the enduring power of cultural memory.

Saturday, December 13, 7pm at The Chapel, Teachers College

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U.S. Theatrical Release of THE SECRET AGENT

“★★★★★.
One of the best films of the year
—perhaps the best.””
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian


THE SECRET AGENT / O AGENTE SECRETO
A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho
(Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany, 2025, 159 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles

Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship's political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers, from ghosts of the past and from the ruthless, mischievously militant spirit of Brazil in 1977. In the midst of these mounting threats, Marcelo, with the help of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country's growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his young son.

Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho teams up with renowned actor Wagner Moura—giving an extraordinary, career-defining performance—to craft a thrillingly unpredictable, playfully shape-shifting epic steeped in history even as it feels remarkably contemporary, paying affectionate tribute to the movies of Filho’s youth while unfolding against the backdrop of political turmoil and palpable danger.

New York, NY: Film at Lincoln Center, opens Wednesday, November 26
New York, NY: Angelika Film Center, opens Wednesday, November 26
Los Angeles, CA: AMC Century City 15, opens, Friday, December 5

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7
3:00 PM15:00
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Sneak Preview of A POET

“Hilarious. A truly unique cinematic experience” ”
— Murtada Elfadl, Variety


A POET / UN POETA
A film by Simón Mesa Soto
(Colombia, 123 min. 2025. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Colombia’s Best International Film submission for the 2026 Academy Awards 

Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment. 


Sunday, December 7, 3pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, New York City
Tickets and more information: https://movingimage.org/event/a-poet/


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Dec
17
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: AN OSCILLATING SHADOW at Anthology Film Archives

AN OSCILLATING SHADOW / UNA SOMBRA OSCILANTE
A film by Celeste Rojas Mugica
(Chile, 2024, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
New York premiere

“A game played by two – a father and a daughter. This game, involving chemicals in a film lab, becomes a bridge between two generations who understand and experience photography in very different ways. Will they be able to understand each other? Will they reconnect after the scars of a violent national history, exile, and complex family dynamics? Artist Celeste Rojas Mugica crafts a hybrid, first-person film that reconstructs, with singular humor and a precise touch, the memory of her father amid the political violence of Chile’s dictatorship. Winner of the Jury Special Mention at FIDMarseille 2024, An Oscillating Shadow embraces the ontology of cinema to explore how images from the past can still illuminate our present selves – especially within our most intimate and sensitive circles.”
—Matías Piñeiro

Wednesday, December 17, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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Nov
20
7:00 PM19:00
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BAD HAIR at BAM

“Bold and intelligently perceptive.
Provocative and gripping.”
”
— IndieWire


BAD HAIR / PELO MALO
(Mariana Rondón, 2013, 93 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
With Samuel Lange, Zambrano Samantha, Castillo Beto Benítez

Junior, a nine-year-old boy living in a bustling Caracas tenement with his widowed mother and younger brother, believes he has pelo malo—“bad hair,” a term widely applied to naturally curly ethnic hair—and tries to straighten it so he can look like a popular singer in his school photo. His unemployed yet overworked mother suspects her son is gay, but Grandma is more accepting, teaching Junior to dance to one of her favorite 60s rock ‘n’ roll tunes. Writer-director Mariana Rondón grounds her film in the cultural realities of working-class Venezuela, finding warmth and humor between mother and son even as the uncertainties of pre-adolescence threaten to pull them apart, in a feature that won the Golden Shell (Best Film) at the 2013 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Thursday, November 20, 7pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

For tickets and more information visit:
https://www.bam.org/film/2025/bad-hair

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19
9:00 PM21:00
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Lost & Found: PLEBEIAN ULYSSES at Anthology Film Archives

PLEBEIAN ULYSSES / ULISES PLEBEYO
A film by César González
(Argentina, 2024, 68 min. No dialogue)
North American premiere

“Prolific Argentine filmmaker and poet César González has been crafting one of the most original and groundbreaking bodies of work in contemporary Argentine cinema. Yet, far too little of it has been screened in the U.S.—and it’s time to change that. González has authored books of poetry, novels, and essays on cinema, that depict life on the margins of society—a life he has lived and continues to live intensely. This experience resonates deeply in each of his films. Plebeian Ulysses is his most experimental work to date. A collage, an agitprop travelogue, a kaleidoscope of sounds and images – it seeks to awaken the beauty of everyday life in a world the middle class has been taught not to see, but to fear. Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has described his work as ‘a modest sewer through which the ideas with which we mask our privileges seep.’ Plebeian Ulysses is a patchwork of contrasting fragments that bloom like the sharp petals of a copper shiny rose.” —Matías Piñeiro

Wednesday, November 19, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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Latinx and Latin American Titles at DOC NYC 2025

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16th DOC NYC
November 12 — 20, 2025

The 16th annual edition of DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, is taking place in-person November 12-20 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Village East by Angelika and continuing online through November 30. This year’s edition includes a selection of Latinx and Latin American features from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico.

For tickets and more information visit: https://www.docnyc.net

APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS / APOCALIPSE NOS TRÓPICOS
(Petra Costa, Brazil/USA/Denmark, 2024, 110 min. In English and Portuguese with English subtitles)
Q&A with director Petra Costa and producer Alessandra Orofino
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Following up on her Oscar-nominated The Edge of Democracy, about the institutional corruption and populist mistrust plaguing Brazil’s democracy almost since its 1980s restoration, Costa explores the Christian fundamentalism seizing the nation’s political discourse. With stunning access to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, and others, Costa distills the recent chaos of Brazil’s politics into a clear-eyed, deeply troublesome, and internationally resonant vision of brazen and unseen forces at work on a vulnerable population.

Thursday, November 13, 2pm at IFC Center. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

AURORA
(João Vieira Torres, Brazil, 2025, 132 min. In Portuguese and French with English subtitles)
North American Premiere – Q&A with director João Vieira Torres and producer Marina Meliande
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Vivid dreams and ghostly visits from Brazilian director João Vieira Torres’ grandmother compel him to explore the stories of the women in his family, many of whom were victims of violence. With intimate family conversations, haunting photos, and his coming-of-age story, João traces his journey to uncover a tragic legacy. In the process, he weaves a poignant, powerful narrative of generational trauma and the triumph of love in the face of Brazil’s racism and sexism

Friday, November 14, 6:15pm and Monday, November 17, 1pm at Village East by Angelika . Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

TRACES OF HOME
(Colette Ghunim, USA, 2025, 89 min. In English, Arabic, and Spanish with English subtitles)
World Premiere – Q&A with director Colette Ghunim, producer Sara Maamouri, and film participant Baha Hilo
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Delving into the past and not shying away from the dug-up pain, a young filmmaker speaks to her Mexican mother and Palestinian father about their trying journeys into the United States. In a society with rhetoric increasingly vilifying Mexicans and Palestinians, the filmmaker picks up her camera in a bid to address the grief at the center of the generational trauma that has underscored her relationship with her family. A meditation of loss and grief relieved, ultimately, through reconciliation.

Friday, November 14, 7:15 and Saturday, November 15, 4pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

KING HAMLET
(Elvira Lind, USA, 2025, 86 min. In English)
NYC Premiere – Screening preceded by an introduction by Elvira Lind, Oscar Isaac, and Sam Gold
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While preparing to play Hamlet in an intense NYC production, actor Oscar Isaac learns that his mother has fallen ill with an aggressive cancer—at the same time he and partner, filmmaker Elvira Lind, are imminently expecting their firstborn. As Elvira’s camera quietly captures Oscar at rehearsal, at home, and with extended family, her observations become a meditation on love, grief, and the porous boundary between performance and private life—as Oscar shapes his very personal take on the legendary Prince of Denmark.

Friday, November 14, 7:15pm at SVA Theater. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

LOSS ADJUSTMENT / AJUSTE DE PÉRDIDAS
(Miguel Calderón, Mexico, 2025, 74 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere – Q&A with director Miguel Calderón and producer Andrea Paasch.
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While preparing to play Hamlet in an intense NYC production, actor Oscar Isaac learns that his mother has fallen ill with an aggressive cancer—at the same time he and partner, filmmaker Elvira Lind, are imminently expecting their firstborn. As Elvira’s camera quietly captures Oscar at rehearsal, at home, and with extended family, her observations become a meditation on love, grief, and the porous boundary between performance and private life—as Oscar shapes his very personal take on the legendary Prince of Denmark.

Friday, November 14, 9:35pm and Monday, November 17, 4:15pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

A PLACE OF ABSENCE
(Marialuisa Ernst, USA, 2025, 88 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
World Premiere – Q&A with director/producer Marialuisa Ernst, co-producer Brenda Avila, and film participant Anita Zelaya.
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Shedding light on the familial burden of the migrant crisis, A Place of Absence charts the physical and emotional journey of Central American mothers on a bus caravan as they desperately search for their disappeared children, clinging to hope against overwhelming odds. Interwoven with the filmmaker’s story of her beloved uncle’s disappearance, this film offers a poignant look at migration, loss, and the enduring bonds of family.

Saturday, November 15, 4pm and Monday, November 17, 4:30pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

MAD HOT BALLROOM
(Marilyn Agrelo, USA, 2005, 105 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
20th Anniversary –Q&A with director/producer Marilyn Agrelo, producer/writer Amy Sewell, editor Sabine Krayenbuehl, and film protagonists Yomaira Reynoso and Alejandro Mejia.
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Twenty years after it first charmed its way into audiences’ hearts, DOC NYC presents a retrospective screening of Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell’s classic about NYC public school fifth-graders competing in the extracurricular world of ballroom dancing. The filmmakers followed students from a school in each of Bensonhurst, Tribeca, and Washington Heights as they learned about ambition, discipline, respect, and perspective—all to the beats of merengue, rumba, tango, and other rhythms. The film exists as a snapshot of a tolerant and respectful time, with expressions of such values seemingly in much shorter supply today. Some of the students featured in the film, now in their 30s, are expected to attend alongside some of their former teachers.

Saturday, November 15, 4:15pm at Village East by Angelika; Thursday, November 20, 1:15pm at IFC Center

STREET SMART: LESSONS FROM A TV ICON
(Ernie Bustamante, USA, 2025, 85 min. In English)
NYC Premiere –Q&A with director Ernie Bustamante and film protagonist Sonia Manzano.
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Sonia Manzano, best known as “Maria” on Sesame Street, shares her inspiring journey from childhood in the Bronx to becoming a trailblazing television icon. Through her own words, and with appearances by Stephen Schwartz, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and more, STREET SMART celebrates Manzano’s groundbreaking work as an actress and Emmy-winning writer while exploring life after Sesame Street. This uplifting portrait honors a beloved Latina role model who made an impressive and indelible mark on children’s television.

Sunday, November 16, 2pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

PARA VIVIR: THE IMPLACABLE TIMES OF PABLO MILANÉS
(Fabien Pisani, USA, 2025, 85 min. In English)
North American Premiere –Q&A with director Fabien Pisani, producer Carlos Sosa, and editor Clementina Mantellini.
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This rich, music-filled portrait of Afro-Cuban icon Pablo Milanés traces his extraordinary life from child prodigy to beloved musician and activist. Framed by tender scenes of an aging Pablo in Madrid with his sprawling family, PARA VIVIR journeys through Cuba’s political and cultural evolution alongside his legendary career. With intimate stories from music legends and loved ones, rare archival footage, and unforgettable songs, this film celebrates a fearless artist who sang truth to power beautifully.

Sunday, November 16, 4:15pm, and Wednesday, November 19, 1:45pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

MUSEUM OF THE NIGHT / MUSEO DE LA NOCHE
(Fermín Eloy Acosta, Argentina, 2025, 88 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere –Q&A with director Fermín Eloy Acosta and producer Ramiro Pavón.
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For archivists, the world of avant-garde theater and cinema in early 1970s NYC is a rich cauldron of no-safety-net experimentation and creativity—the time of legends such as Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and David Johansen—and Theater of the Ridiculous. The latter was particularly well-documented by the Argentine photographer Leandro Katz. Now very late in life and living in Buenos Aires, Katz shares the fascinating specter of a past intertwined with sexuality, art, and death.

Monday, November 17, 6:30pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

I DREAMED HIS NAME / SOÑÉ SU NOMBRE
(Ángela Carabalí, Colombia, 2025, 86 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
NYC Premiere – Q&A with director/producer/participant Ángela Carabalí, writer/participant Juliana Carabalí and producer Sandra Tabares-Duque.
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When her father, a farmer and activist, disappeared in 1992, filmmaker Ángela Carabalí was just 7 years old. Decades later, a dream in which he asks Ángela to find him sparks a journey of remembrance and reckoning. Blending family testimony, archival images, and Indigenous rituals, Carabalí confronts the silence of Colombia’s armed conflict. Her poetic film becomes both an inquiry into political violence and a tender act of mourning, resilience, and intergenerational healing.

Tuesday, November 18, 7pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

EL CANTO DE LAS MANOS
(María Valverde, Venezuela, 2025, 91 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
US Premiere
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Renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel partners with Coro de Manos Blancas, a choir of deaf performers in Venezuela, to stage Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. As the choir prepares for their innovative performance, the film follows them through auditions, rehearsals, and personal stories of resilience in the face of anti-deaf discrimination. With music expressed through sign language, this film delivers a moving portrait of an often-overlooked community, celebrating the transformative power of art and self-expression.

Thursday, November 20, 6:30pm at IFC Center .Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

THE AGE OF WATER / LA EDAD DEL AGUA
(Alfredo Alcántara and Isabel Alcántara Atalaya, Mexico, 2025, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
NYC Premiere – Q&A with co-directors Alfredo Alcántara and Isabel Alcántara Atalaya, and producers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster.
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Set in Mexico’s heartland, this urgent investigative documentary follows a group of women who uncover radioactive contamination in their water after three young girls die of leukemia. These mothers-turned-activists link the crisis to the corporate extraction of ancient rocks. Facing government denial and community resistance, they fight for accountability. Blending expert insight with local history and mythology, The Age of Waterexposes a growing global issue, making clear that water contamination knows no borders.

Thursday, November 20, 7pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 15 – 30

ISLAND WILLING
(Cece King, USA, 2025, 29 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
NYC Premiere – The first, second, and third screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer/cinematographer Cece King.
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Faced with new conservation policies that threaten their way of life, a family living on a remote Chilean island fights to preserve a unique culture of environmental stewardship

Sunday, November 16, 5:30pm at IFC Center; Monday, November 17, 8:35pm at IFC Center; Wednesday, November 19, 9:20pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 12–30.

SUNSET OVER AMERICA
(Matías Rojas Valencia, Colombia/Chile, 2025, 18 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
US Premiere – Q&A with producer Françoise Nieto-Fong.
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The danger and the tedium of a young Venezuelan migrant’s constant movement to avoid detection. An empathetic, restrained, and breathtaking exploration of statelessness, from physical tolls to uncertain futures.

Saturday, November 15, 4:30 at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 12–30

LA ORQUESTA
(Monica Villavicencio and Stephanie Liu, USA, 2025, 21 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere – Q&A with co-directors Monica Villavicencio and Stephanie Liu.
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A tenacious Atlanta music teacher creates the first youth orchestra for undocumented and mixed-status families, providing a place to find community, beauty, and hope in the face of increasing adversity.

Saturday, November 15, 4:45pm at IFC Center; Monday, November 17, 2:15pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 12–30

MURMURATIONS
(Xavier Marrades, Spain, 2025, 21 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere – Q&A with producer Françoise Nieto-Fong.
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Fragmented images of love, activism, and ancestral resilience intertwine with poignant voice messages between the filmmaker and his lover in Brazil, forming a lyrical reflection on memory and survival.

Monday, November 17, 9:30 at IFC Center. Available to Stream Online November 12–30

CASA AMADEO
(Ariana Marie Luque, Spain, 2025, 21 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere – Q&A with producer Françoise Nieto-Fong.
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Salsa pioneer Miguelito Amadeo keeps the spirit of music and community alive in his Bronx record shop, even in the face of an uncertain future.

Thursday, November 13, 9:20pm at IFC Center; Saturday, November 15, 11:30am at IFC Center. Available to Stream Online November 12–30

VOICES FROM THE ABYSS
(Irving Serrano and Victor Rejón, Mexico, 2025, 23 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
NYC Premiere – Q&A with co-director Irving Serrano.
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A powerful portrait of Acapulco’s cliff divers, revealing the danger and discipline behind their daily work—and the personal and economic pressures that drive each leap from the rocks.

Thursday, November 13, 9:20pm at IFC Center; Saturday, November 15, 11:30am at IFC Center. Available to Stream Online November 12–30

THE NEW YORKER THEATER: A TALBOT LEGACY

(Sergio Maza, USA/Argentina, 2025, 26 min. In English)
NYC Premiere – Q&A with filmmakers
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In a slice of NYC history, Dan and Toby Talbot transform a struggling Upper West Side theater into a landmark arthouse cinema, showing how passion can shape community and leave a lasting legacy.

Wednesday, November 12, 9:30pm at IFC Center; Wednesday, November 19, 9:30pm at Village East by Angelika. Available to Stream Online November 12–30.

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Theatrical Releases

Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz

Color Congress, through its Elev8Docs Marketing Initiative, and Cinema Tropical are proud to present "Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz," the first-ever retrospective of the three-time Emmy-nominated Mexican-American filmmaker.

Programmed by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, this multi-venue celebration of five feature films—each followed by in-person Q&A sessions with the filmmaker and special guests—will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Firehouse Cinema at DCTV, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Maysles Documentary Center, and New York University’s Espacio de Culturas throughout November 2025.

The five films in this mid-career retrospective chart the filmmaker’s evolution as one of the most significant nonfiction voices of his generation—an artist who bridges investigative journalism and cinematic poetics, and whose commitment to public media has expanded the possibilities of documentary practice.

“Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz” is presented by Color Congress, through its Elev8Docs Marketing Initiative, and Cinema Tropical. Hosting venues are Museum of the Moving Image, the Firehouse Cinema at DCTV, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Maysles Documentary Center, and Espacio de Culturas at NYU. Community partners are CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Bronx Documentary Center.


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EL EQUIPO
(Bernardo Ruiz, USA, 2023, 80 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
Q&A with Executive Producer Simon Kilmurry and Mercedes “Mimi” Doretti, co-founder of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
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Working with a trove of archival materials spanning four decades and unfolding as part procedural, part true crime thriller, El Equipo chronicles the history-making collaboration between Dr. Clyde Snow, a legendary forensic scientist originally from Texas, and a group of Argentine university students, who were dubbed “unlikely forensic sleuths” by The New York Times. With an unprecedented access to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and its archives, the fifth feature film by director Bernardo Ruiz offers a welcome twist to the traditional true crime film by focusing on systemic political and human rights abuses rather than on one-off tales of murder or lone serial killers, and deftly creates a direct link between state atrocities from the past and present.

Saturday, November 1, 6:30pm at Museum of the Moving Image

REPORTERO
(Bernardo Ruiz, USA/Mexico, 2012, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Q&A with Bernardo Ruiz and Joel Simon, founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
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Bernardo Ruiz’s acclaimed debut feature Reportero follows veteran reporter Sergio Haro and his colleagues at Semanario Zeta, a Tijuana-based muckraking weekly, as they persist in their work in one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists. Since the paper’s founding in 1980, two editors have been murdered and the founder viciously attacked. Former editor Francisco Ortiz was gunned down just after buckling his two children into the back seat of his car, killed for printing the names and faces of drug traffickers who had long operated with impunity. Gripping and timely, Reportero confronts the violence, corruption, and power struggles along the border. As the drug war intensifies and the threats to journalists grow, the film asks a pressing question: will the free press be silenced?

Wednesday, November 5, 7pm at Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film

THE INFINITE RACE
(Bernardo Ruiz, USA/Mexico, 2020, 70 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
Introduction by Rarámuri activist Irma Chávez. Q&A with Bernardo Ruiz and Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Executive Director of Cinema Tropical
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The Infinite Race follows an annual marathon in Mexico’s Copper Canyon, where the indigenous Rarámuri—renowned for their endurance—compete in a grueling long-distance race. Founded in 2004, the event honors Rarámuri traditions and supports the community, including essential corn vouchers. With stunning cinematography and intimate access to the runners, the film explores tensions beneath the race: cultural appropriation, economic pressures, and the threat of drug cartels. When violence threatens the next race, the complexities of the organizers and the global spotlight come into focus. Amid these challenges, the film offers a vivid portrait of a resilient people whose connection to land and tradition endures—race or no race, the Rarámuri continue to run.

Monday, November 10, 6:30pm  at CUNY Graduate Center

HARVEST SEASON
(Bernardo Ruiz, USA, 2018, 83 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
Q&A with Bernardo Ruiz and Monika Navarro, producer and director of Firelight Media's William Greaves Production Fund
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Harvest Season delves into the lives of the people who make California’s premium wine possible, following Mexican-American winemakers and migrant workers whose labor is essential yet often overlooked. Set against one of the most dramatic grape harvests in recent memory, the film immerses viewers in the rhythms and challenges of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, where wildfires, a growing labor shortage, shifting immigration policies, and climate change threaten livelihoods. Through the stories of three individuals deeply rooted in the craft, director Bernardo Ruiz captures the intimacy, dedication, and resilience behind every vine and vintage, offering a lush and immersive portrait of an industry—and the people—at the heart of it.

Friday, November 21, 7pm at Maysles Documentary Center

A Conversation With Director Bernardo Ruiz
+ An Advance Look at THE LOW SEASON
Q&A with Bernardo Ruiz and Lucila Moctezuma, producer and documentary consultant
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UnionDocs presents acclaimed filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz for a special evening of conversation and preview, part of “Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz”—the first retrospective of the three-time Emmy-nominated director and one of the most incisive voices in contemporary nonfiction media.

 With over two decades in independent film, Ruiz will reflect on the collapse of traditional funding, the rise of the creator economy, and the challenges of making meaningful work outside legacy systems. Through film clips and personal insights, he’ll share his “imperfect strategy” for navigating today’s media landscape. The evening includes a sneak peek at Ruiz’s newest project, The Low Season—a hybrid fiction-documentary about a woman from the future who helps immigrant families in present-day Queens. Blending participatory storytelling and speculative fiction, the film opens up bold new possibilities for socially engaged cinema.

 Join us for this timely and thought-provoking conversation—and be among the first to experience Ruiz’s daring new work in progress.

Saturday, November 22, 7pm at UnionDocs

KINGDOM OF SHADOWS / LO QUE REINA EN LAS SOMBRAS
(Bernardo Ruiz, USA, 2015, 75 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)
Q&A with Bernardo Ruiz, CLACS Director María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, and documentary filmmaker Edwin Martínez
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Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico drug war, weaving together the stories of a U.S. drug enforcement agent on the border, an activist nun in violence- scarred Monterrey, Mexico, and a former Texas smuggler, to reveal the human side of an often misunderstood conflict that has resulted in a growing human-rights crisis that only recently has made international headlines.

Monday, November 24, 6pm at Espacio de Culturas at New York University

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Oct
29
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: EARTH ALTARS at Anthology Film Archives

EARTH ALTARS / LA TIERRA LOS ALTARES
A film by Sofía Peypoch
(Mexico, 2023, 68 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
New York premiere - Q&A with director

In her haunting debut feature, Mexican filmmaker and visual artist Sofía Peypoch returns to the site of her kidnapping, undertaking a visceral excavation of memory beneath the earth’s surface. Through intimate, tactile gestures—her hands probing the soil alongside others replicating this chimerical act—the film weaves personal trauma with ancestral history, positioning the earth as an unyielding witness that refuses to forget. Combining film, photography, ceramic sculpture, and found objects, Peypoch crafts a sensory meditation on memory as a living, mutable space where past and present converge. earth altars intricately explores how archaeology lends historical depth to intimate trauma, creating a profound dialogue between personal and collective histories.

Wednesday, October 29, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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Oct
28
7:15 PM19:15
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Southampton Playhouse Presents the Spanish Version of DRACULA

DRACULA
(George Melford, USA, 1931, 104 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

* Q&A with filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz, grandchildren of iconic Mexican star Lupita Tovar

Silent film actress Lupita Tovar moved from Mexico to Hollywood in 1929, as movies transitioned to sound, and quickly garnered fame as "The Mexican Rose" when she landed the lead role in 1931's classic monster movie Dracula. This wasn't the famed Bela Lugosi version, though: Universal simultaneously shot a Spanish-language version of the movie, directed by George Melford, on the same sets after dark. The result is an atmospheric gothic wonder, anchored in part by Tuvar's sensitive performance opposite Carlos Villarias as the count. 

Decades later, Tovar's grandchildren Paul and Chris Weitz would find Hollywood successes of their own, with their celebrated screenplays for American Pie and About a Boy, which snagged them an Oscar nomination. The Weitz brothers will join the Playhouse after this very special Horror on Hill Street event to discuss their mother's legacy and the ongoing resonance of her most famous movie all these years down the line. 

Tuesday, October 28, 7:15pm
Southampton Playhouse
43 Hill St, Southampton, NY

For tickets and more information visit:
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Oct
22
7:00 PM19:00
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Cinema Tucsón Presents TAKE IT AWAY

TAKE IT AWAY
A film by Adrian Alejandro Arredondo and Myrna Perez
(USA, 2025, 73 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)

Take It Away is a vibrant, deeply resonant documentary chronicling the rise of Tejano and Regional Mexican music through the story of one unforgettable figure: Johnny Canales. As the charismatic host of a wildly popular, nationally syndicated variety show, Canales introduced viewers across the U.S. and Mexico to rising stars like Selena, Ramón Ayala, and Intocable—bringing borderland sounds into countless homes and onto the mainstream stage. Blending dynamic archival footage with revealing new interviews, the film traces the arc of Canales’s legacy alongside the evolution of a genre that has moved from regional roots to international dominance, paving the way for today’s chart-toppers like Peso Pluma and Grupo Frontera. Both a tribute and a critical reappraisal, the film captures a pivotal era in Latin music history—one where charisma, community, and sound collided to reshape the pop landscape forever.

Wednesday, October 22, 7pm
Fox Tucson Theatre
17 W. Congress St. Tucson, AZ

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Oct
19
to Oct 20
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U.S. Premiere of OCA at the Chicago International Film Festival

63rd Chicago International Film Festival

OCA
A film by Karla Badillo
(Mexico, 2025, 109 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

In a remote, crumbling convent, young nun Rafaela has recurring, seemingly prophetic dreams. When rumor of a new archbishop in a nearby town reaches the small congregation, Rafaela is sent to find him with the mission of securing funds to save the convent and to ask for guidance regarding one particular mysterious dream that haunts her. Her journey finds her lost in a beautiful and perplexing landscape, guided only by her wavering faith. It is on this road, seemingly to nowhere, that her path intersects with other pilgrims and wayward souls who all seek the archbishop—and whose often questionable motivations unwittingly shape the course of Rafaela’s journey.

Director Karla Badillo’s home region—the sweeping, sparse landscape of San Luis Potosí—is a labyrinth for the spiritually adrift in their surreal, fraught pilgrimages. Oca, named for an ancient board game inspired by the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, is a contemplation on one’s journey through faith and its many detours on the shifting winds of destiny.

Sunday, October 19, 8:15pm at the AMC Newcity 14
Monday, October 20, 5:45pm at the AMC Newcity 14

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Oct
9
to Oct 21
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U.S. Latinx and Latin American Films at NewFest 37

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The 37th Annual NewFest:
New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival

October 9 —21, 2025

Founded in 1988, NewFest is New York’s largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media and the largest convener of LGBTQ+ audiences in the city. Cinema Tropical is a community partner.

NIÑXS
A film by Kani Lapuerta
(Mexico/Germany, 2025, 86 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
East Coast Premiere — Q&A

Fifteen-year-old Karla navigates the turbulence of adolescence while making the life-changing decision to legally transition. Supported by her parents and community yet confronting the prejudices of her rural Mexican town, Karla tells her own story alongside trans filmmaker Kani Lapuerta, who has documented her since childhood. Together, they craft a vivid portrait of what it means to grow up proudly trans in a world mediated by the ever-present lens of a front-facing camera. NIÑXS is a nuanced and intergenerational coming-of-age story that reimagines small-town life—and a whimsical reminder that no one escapes the painful, awkward, and beautiful parts of adolescence.

Thursday, October 16, 6:45pm — Nitehawk Prospect Park
Wednesday, October 9 — Tuesday, October 21 — Online Streaming

NIGHT STAGE / ATO NOTURNO
A film by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon
(Brazil, 2025, 117 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
New York Premiere — Q&A

Matias, a Brazilian theatre actor hungry for mainstream success, begins an erotic power game with a discreet man who shares his taste for risky public sex. When Matias discovers his new fling is a rising politician on the verge of a major campaign, their affair quickly becomes a dangerous liability. Directors Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon (Hard Paint, NewFest30) deliver a singular, contemporary erotic thriller—one that reimagines what it means for public figures to live openly today. Night Stage dazzles with neon style, drawing bold parallels between the polished lives we perform in public and the dangerous desires we play out in the bedroom—or a dark alleyway, as the case may be

Thursday, October 16, 8:00pm — SVA Theater
Wednesday, October 9 — Tuesday, October 21 — Online Streaming

SAME, AGAIN / LA MISMA ESTACIÓN
A film by Ruth Caudeli Martí
(Colombia 2025, 121 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere — Q&A

A powerful, emotionally charged ensemble drama, Same, Again follows a theater group as buried tensions begin to surface during their rehearsal process. What appears to be a standard production slowly unravels, exposing layers of invisible abuse, homophobia, and long silenced pain. As the women in the cast begin to speak openly, they discover how much they’ve endured, and how rarely they’ve been heard. With a sharp point of view, a fearless cast, and a script improvised with remarkable precision, this new work from prolific NewFest alum Ruth Caudeli pulses with authenticity. Intimate, raw, and quietly radical, Same, Again is a striking narrative that shows the power of shared truth.

Monday, October 13, 8:00pm — Nitehawk Prospect Park
Wednesday, October 9 — Tuesday, October 21 — Online Streaming

ONLY GOOD THINGS / APENAS COISAS BOAS
A film by Daniel Nolasco
(Brazil 2025, 104 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
New York City Premiere — Virtual Exclusive

Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures and is divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and is taking care of his small farm, isolated, until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident while passing through. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds and the two fall in love. Their romance transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them in this beautifully bold journey from writer/director Daniel Nolasco (Dry Wind, NewFest32).

Wednesday, October 9 — Tuesday, October 21 — Online Streaming

NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS
A film by Deborah S. Esquenazi
(US, 2025 , 83 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
East Coast Premiere — Q&A

In 1981, James Reyos, a young gay Apache man from Odessa, Texas, was pressured into confessing to the murder of a Catholic priest and sentenced to 38 years in prison. Nearly four decades later, armed with new evidence, justice-driven lawyers from The Innocence Project of Texas fight to clear his name. With Night in West Texas, Peabody-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated documentarian Deborah S. Esquenazi transcends the tropes of true crime to expose decades of systemic injustice stacked against marginalized communities. The result is a powerful and deeply moving portrait of a man seeking redemption and a legal system reckoning with its failures.

Friday, October 17, 7:30pm — The Center
Wednesday, October 9 — Tuesday, October 21 — Online Streaming

SECOND NATURE
A film by Drew Denny
(Costa Rica/The Netherlands/US, 2025 , 81 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
World Premiere — Q&A

This bold, visually rich documentary invites viewers to rediscover the natural world as a place of diversity, fluidity, and complexity. While science remains our most powerful tool for understanding life, in an era clouded by fear and prejudice it’s easy to forget what the natural world truly reveals. Second Nature dismantles outdated assumptions and highlights the very real biological presence of LGBTQIA+ identities across species. Narrated by Elliot Page and featuring groundbreaking research from scientists like Joan Roughgarden, the film celebrates the wonderful, inherently queer essence of nature and calls on us to look, listen, and learn without bias.

Saturday, October 18, 6:45pm — SVA Theater

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8
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Cinematic Borderlands Film and Conversation Series at the Fox Theater

This new film and dialogue series explores the U.S.- Mexico borderlands as a space of layered histories, cultural intersections, and creative possibility. Part of the Fox’s Curious Conversations program, the series uses cinema as a springboard for dialogue and connection. Through authentic storytelling and meaningful conversations, this combination of film and panel discussions explores a region that is often portrayed by mainstream media in distorted ways, offering instead a lens rooted in nuance, hope, and humanity.

LAS MARTHAS
(Cristina Ibarra, USA, 2014, 68 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)

In 1939, the Society of Martha Washington was founded to usher each year’s debutantes (called “Marthas”) into proper society at the Colonial Pageant and Ball in Laredo, Texas. Celebrated as “a striking alternative portrait of border-town life” (The New York Times), the film follows two Mexican-American girls carrying this gilded tradition on their shoulders during a time of economic uncertainty and tension over immigration. Cristina Ibarra’s landmark documentary, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best U.S. Latinx Film, offers an intimate exploration of identity, belonging, and the contradictions of heritage in a community shaped by both sides of the border.

Screening followed by the a panel discussion with director Cristina Ibarra; folklorist and educator Dr. Maribel Alvarez; and documentary filmmaker, author, and educator Jacob Bricca.

Wednesday, October 8, 7pm — Tickets $12
To purchase tickets and more information visit: www.foxtucson.com

SLEEP DEALER
(Alex Rivera, USA/Mexico, 2008, 88 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Sleep Dealer is a groundbreaking cyberpunk science-fiction thriller that reimagines the U.S./Mexico border in a near future where migration is no longer physical but digital. Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña), a young man from rural Mexico, dreams of a better life in the United States. But in this new world order, borders are sealed, and the only way to “cross” is through the net—by connecting his body to a global network, Memo remotely operates machines in America, sending his labor without his presence. A winner at Sundance and the Berlinale, the film blends genre spectacle with urgent social commentary to depict a world shaped by militarized borders, drone warfare, and outsourced labor. Visually striking and politically resonant, this visionary debut feature by Alex Rivera challenges who gets to be the hero in science fiction—and what futures are worth fighting for.

Screening followed by the a panel discussion with director Alex Rivera; border journalist Melissa del Bosque; and UA professor of art David Taylor.

Wednesday, October 15, 7pm — Tickets $12
To purchase tickets and more information visit: www.foxtucson.com

TAKE IT AWAY
(Adrian Alejandro Arredondo and Myrna Perez, USA, 2025, 73 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles)

Take It Away is a vibrant, deeply resonant documentary chronicling the rise of Tejano and Regional Mexican music through the story of one unforgettable figure: Johnny Canales. As the charismatic host of a wildly popular, nationally syndicated variety show, Canales introduced viewers across the U.S. and Mexico to rising stars like Selena, Ramón Ayala, and Intocable—bringing borderland sounds into countless homes and onto the mainstream stage. Blending dynamic archival footage with revealing new interviews, the film traces the arc of Canales’s legacy alongside the evolution of a genre that has moved from regional roots to international dominance, paving the way for today’s chart-toppers like Peso Pluma and Grupo Frontera. Both a tribute and a critical reappraisal, the film captures a pivotal era in Latin music history—one where charisma, community, and sound collided to reshape the pop landscape forever.

Wednesday, October 22, 7pm — Tickets $12
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26
to Oct 13
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Latin American Films at New York Film Festival 2025

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63rd New York Film Festival

September 26 - October 13, 2025

The 63rd annual edition of the New York Film Festival (NYFF) starts Friday, September 26, screening different films by Latin American filmmakers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in its Main Slate, Spotlight, and Currents sections.

For tickets and more information, visit: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/

THE SECRET AGENT / O AGENTE SECRETO
A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho
(Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, 158 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
New York Premiere - Main Slate
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Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.

Saturday, September 27, 5:15pm at Walter Reade Theater; Sunday, September 27, 2:30pm at Walter Reade Theater; Tuesday, October 7, 2:30pm at EBM Film Center (HGT)

LANDMARKS / NUESTRA TIERRA
A film by Lucrecia Martel
(Argentina/USA/Mexico/France/Netherlands/Denmark, 2025, 124 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
New York Premiere - Main Slate
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Lucrecia Martel’s expansive and enlightening first feature documentary takes a sweeping approach to the tragic true story of a member of Argentina’s Indigenous Chuchagasta community who was killed trying to defend his people from being forcibly evicted from their land.

Tuesday, October 7, 8:45pm at Walter Reade Theater; Sunday, Wednesday, October 8, 6pm at Walter Reade Theater

THE CURRENTS / LAS CORRIENTES
A film by Milagros Mumenthaler
(Argentina/Switzerland, 2025, 104 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere - Main Slate
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A celebrated fashion designer finds it impossible to readjust to her former life after surviving a shocking plunge into an icy lake in Argentine filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler’s existential puzzle, a work of compelling psychological interiority.

Thursday, October 9, 6pm at Walter Reade Theater; Friday, October 10, 9pm at Walter Reade Theater

FIN DE PARTIE
A film by Alejo Moguillansky
(Argentina, 2025, 106 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere - Currents
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The newest production from boundlessly imaginative Argentine collective El Pampero Cine (La Flor, NYFF57 and Trenque Lauquen, NYFF60) is a delightful and revelatory spin on a Samuel Beckett play punctuated by music, tennis, and a brilliant turn from Laura Paredes.

Saturday, September 27, 6:15pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Sunday, September 28, 3:30pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM)

DRUNKEN NOODLES
A film by Lucio Castro
(Argentina/U.S./ 2025, 83 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
North American Premiere - Currents
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Daring queer Argentinean auteur Lucio Castro weaves five chapters in the sexual life of an art student named Adnan (Laith Khalifeh), all of them united by a waggish, erotic magical realism. While the situations within each of the film’s playful, nonchronological segments seem to represent anecdotal facets of everyday gay life, from urban dating rituals to monogamy anxieties during a weekend upstate, Drunken Noodles consistently pushes things into the realms of the unreal, even the mythic.

Tuesday, September 30, 9pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Wednesday, October 1, 6:15pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Monday, October 6, 2:15pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM)

BARRIO TRISTE
A film by Stillz
(Colombia, 2025, 89 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
New York Premiere - Currents
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Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz makes his feature debut with this gangland tale, a Los Olvidados for the LiveLeak era that melds high-speed heists and found-footage textures with supernatural eeriness.

Saturday, October 4, 6pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Sunday, October 5, 10:30pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Sunday, October 12, 9:15pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM)

TIGERS CAN BE SEEN IN THE RAIN / YA SE VEN LOS TIGRES EN LA LLUVIA
A film by Óscar Ruiz Navia
(Colombia/Canada, 2025, 15 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
World Premiere - Currents Shorts Program 1: Below the Surface
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Desolate interstitial spaces of a wintry, present-day Montreal—alleyways, bike paths, underpasses, skate parks—contrast with the livelier images of decades-old home videos in Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain. Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.

Friday, October 3, 6:30pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Saturday, October 4, 2:30pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM)

09/05/1982
A film by Jorge Caballero and Camilo Restrepo
(Spain/Mexico, 2025, 11 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
World Premiere - Currents Shorts Program 2: Afterimages
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Desolate interstitial spaces of a wintry, present-day Montreal—alleyways, bike paths, underpasses, skate parks—contrast with the livelier images of decades-old home videos in Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain. Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.

Friday, October 3, 9pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM); Sunday, October 5, 1:45pm at Elinor Bunin Munroe Theater (EBM)

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24
7:00 PM19:00
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10th Anniversary Screening of IXCANUL at BAM

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“A transporting, hypnotically beautiful debut feature
from Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante.””
— Scott Foundas, Variety

Ixcanul
A film by Jayro Bustamante
(Guatemala/France, 2015, 91 min. In Kaqchikel and Spanish with English subtitles)

Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear, this brilliant debut by acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante (La Llorona) is set on the slopes of an active volcano. The Guatemalan drama follows María (María Mercedes Coroy, in her acclaimed breakthrough performance), a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya girl caught between ancestral tradition and an unforgiving modern world. Though she dreams of escaping to the city, María faces an arranged marriage and limited options as an Indigenous woman. A sudden snake bite forces her into the state health system, where her body is saved but her agency is stolen. A visually stunning, deeply moving portrait of resistance, desire, and cultural dislocation, Ixcanul stands as a landmark for Central American cinema.

Wednesday, September 24 at 7pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY

For tickets and more information visit:
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Sep
24
7:00 PM19:00
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Cinema Tucsón Presents: THE DEVIL SMOKES

“Beguiling, striking, and piercingly precise.””
— Guy Lodge, Variety

THE DEVIL SMOKES / EL DIABLO FUMA (Y GUARDA LAS CABEZAS DE LOS CERILLOS QUEMADOS EN LA MISMA CAJA)
A film by Ernesto Martínez Bucio
(Mexico, 2025, 97 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Set in Mexico City in the nineties, as crowds prepare to welcome Pope John Paul II, the Palacios López children are left waiting for someone who never returns—their mother. While their father sets off in search of his missing wife, the five siblings remain behind under the erratic care of their grandmother Romana, in a household where superstition and fear begin to take root. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s remarkable and beguiling debut captures the uncanny blur between childhood fantasy and haunting reality. Mixing the intimacy of home movies with the disquiet intensity of its framing, the film weaves a portrait of a family teetering between devotion and madness, innocence and dread. Elevated by luminous performances from its young, non-professional cast, it is a tender yet unsettling tale of abandonment, belief, and the invisible forces that shape a generation.

Wednesday, September 24, 7pm
Fox Tucson Theatre
17 W. Congress St. Tucson, AZ

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Sep
17
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: CIDADE; CAMPO at Anthology Film Archives

“One of the best films of 2024.
A magnetic, gritty-turned-trippy study of faces and places. ”
— Zhuo-Ning Su, The Film Stage


CIDADE; CAMPO
A film by Juliana Rojas
(Brazil/Germany/France, 2024, 119 min, In Portuguese with English subtitles)
New York Premiere!

The latest film by acclaimed Brazilian director Juliana Rojas (Good Manners)—winner of the Best Director Award at Berlinale’s Encounters competition – weaves two stories of migration, memory, and haunting loss. After a catastrophic flood devastates her rural land, Joana flees to São Paulo with her sister and grandson, struggling to rebuild her life amid the city’s chaos, haunted by what she left behind. Meanwhile, Flavia, grappling with her estranged father’s death, moves with her wife Mara to his remote farm, confronting lingering family ghosts and unresolved grief. Through these parallel journeys, Cidade; Campo offers a powerful meditation on the search for belonging and the fragile, often invisible bonds that connect us to the places we call home.

Wednesday, September 17, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found: Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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29
to Sep 11
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U.S. Theatrical Release of MOTEL DESTINO

“A feverishly shambling erotic thriller .””
— Justin Chang, The New Yorker


MOTEL DESTINO
A film by Karim Aïnouz
(Brazil/France/Germany, 2024, 112 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

The neon-hued Motel Destino, a roadside sex hotel steaming under the burning blue skies of the northeastern coast of Brazil, is run by hot-headed Elias and his restless younger wife Dayana. The unexpected arrival of 21-year-old Heraldo, on the run after a botched hit, disrupts the established order. As the tropical noir plays out, loyalties and desires intertwine to reveal that destiny has its own enigmatic design. Distributed by Strand Releasing.

Opens Friday, August 29
New York City, NY: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue (at West 4th Street)
Los Angeles, CA: Laemmle Glendale, 207 N. Maryland Ave., Glendale, CA.

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Aug
27
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: UNDEFINED THINGS at Anthology Film Archives

“Masterful.”
— Diego Semerene, Slant Magazine


UNDEFINED THINGS / LAS COSAS INDEFINIDAS
A film by María Aparicio
(Argentina, 2023, 83 min. In In Spanish with English subtitles)

The third feature by Argentine filmmaker María Aparicio, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Latin American Film, Undefined Things is a delicate meditation on cinema, memory, and mourning. Eva, a 50-year-old film editor – portrayed with quiet grace by Eva Bianco – is working with her young assistant, Rami, on a documentary about people living with blindness, while grappling with the recent death of Juan, a filmmaker friend whose films she once edited. As loneliness and doubt begin to settle into her daily life, Eva starts to question her relationship to cinema and the meaning of her craft. With a subtle and introspective narrative, the film explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary and the persistence of images as traces of the past.

Wednesday, August 27, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found: Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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Jul
30
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: WHEN CLOUDS HIDE THE SHADOW at Anthology Film Archives

WHEN CLOUDS HIDE THE SHADOW / CUANDO LAS NUBES ESCONDEN LA SOMBRA
A film by José Luis Torres Leiva
(Chile/Argentina/South Korea, 2024, 71 min. DCP, 2023, 71 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere!

María travels to Puerto Williams, at the southern tip of Chile, to star in a film. But when a powerful storm prevents the crew from arriving, she finds herself stranded and alone. As she seeks relief for a sudden bout of severe back pain, María begins to discover the rhythms of life in the world’s southernmost city – and with it, an unresolved chapter from her own past. The latest film by acclaimed director José Luis Torres Leiva features María Alché—the Argentine director of A Family Submerged and star of Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl—in a quietly luminous performance. Meditative and atmospheric, the film unfolds like a diary of solitude and revelation, capturing the fragile beauty of place, memory, and the passage of time.

Wednesday, July 30, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.), New York City

Special introduction by Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto, film and media historian and Associate Professor at Columbia University. Screening presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

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Jul
13
6:30 PM18:30
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Las Premieres Presents OS AFRO-SAMBAS: THE BRAZIL OF BADEN AND VINICIUS

Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinícius

A film by Emílio Domingos
(Brazil, 2024, 93 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

A luminous journey into the soul of Brazilian music, Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinícius revisits the making and legacy of the groundbreaking 1966 album Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinícius. Filmed across São Paulo, Salvador, and Rio de Janeiro, the documentary traces the spiritual and artistic synergy between guitarist Baden Powell and poet-lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, capturing the essence of a collaboration that forever changed the country’s musical landscape.

Through intimate testimonies from contemporaries, critics, and family—including Maria Bethânia, Jards Macalé, Dori Caymmi, Russo Passapusso, and Cynara Faria of the legendary Quarteto em Cy—the film uncovers how Afro-Brazilian rhythms and Candomblé traditions shaped an album that channeled both ancestry and innovation. Featuring never-before-seen archival material, this powerful documentary is a celebration of Brazil’s Black cultural roots and  Baden and Vinícius’s profound influence on popular music—an exploration of how rhythm, resistance, and reverence coalesced into one of the most transformative works in Latin American music history. 

Sunday, July 13, 6:30pm
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, New York City
For tickets and more information visit: https://movingimage.org/

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7
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POV Presents IGUALADA: REFUSING TO KNOW YOUR PLACE

“Stirring… rousing and intimate.””
— Lisa Kennedy, Variety


IGUALADA: REFUSING TO KNOW YOUR PLACE
A film by Juan Mejía Botero
(Juan Mejía Botero, Colombia/USA/Mexico, 2024, 81 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

In a country marked by deep racial and economic inequality, a Black woman from rural Colombia dares to run for president. Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place follows the extraordinary rise of Francia Márquez as she reclaims a slur used to diminish her and transforms it into a rallying cry for dignity, justice, and political change. With rare behind-the-scenes access, this vérité documentary captures a grassroots movement from the inside—and offers an unflinching portrait of the cost and courage of leadership.

Premieres Monday, July 7
POV on PBS

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Jun
25
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: SILENT WITNESSES at Anthology Film Archives

“Ospina and Atehortúa curate fascinating footage
from an especially unknown pocket of world cinema.””
— Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine

SILENT WITNESSES / MUDOS TESTIGOS
A film by Luis Ospina and Jerónimo Atehortúa
(Colombia, 2023, 78 min. No dialogue)

Silent Witnesses is an imaginative journey through the history of Colombia—and its cinema—during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, using exclusively the surviving footage of Colombian silent cinema. This melodrama tells the impossible love story between Efraín and Alicia, set against the political upheaval in the early 1900s. The story begins with Efraín falling in love with Alicia, a woman promised to Uribe, a powerful and vengeful strongman. Their romance quickly unfolds into a journey through the heart of the jungle, where Efraín witnesses the dire conditions of peasants in the southern region and the birth of an armed rebellion. This film is the last work of the late Luis Ospina, one of the most influential filmmakers in Latin American cinema, and the debut feature of producer and film critic Jerónimo Atehortúa.

Wednesday, June 25, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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21
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U.S. Premiere of NIÑXS at Frameline

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NIÑXS
A film by Kani Lapuerta
(Mexico/Germany, 2025, 84 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Exploring what it means to be a queer teen in the 2020s, Niñxs turns the transition narrative and the coming-of-age portrait on their heads, as director Kani Lapuerta lets Karla Bañuelos — who is always playfully aware of the camera — shape the project into a cinematic diary. But a vanity project, this is not… Joyful and revelatory, Niñxs is the culmination of eight years of trust and bonding between Karla and the director — who defy the conventions of “documentarian” and “subject” by collaborating as co-authors of the film.

Supported by her friends and parents (a pair of former punks) as she decides to legally transition, Karla still has to deal with the prejudices of a mostly conservative society in a small and isolated town. When asked what she wants the audience to think as they watch the film, Karla says she just wants them to laugh. And by using that as a barometer, Niñxs is a grand success.


Saturday, June 21, 1:30pm at the Roxie Theater
Monday, June 23, 12am — Monday, June 30, 11:59pm online

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Jun
12
7:00 PM19:00
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Rooftop Films Presents CORINA

CORINA
A film by Urzula Barba Hopfner
(Mexico, 2024, 96 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
New York premiere!

Set in her hometown of Guadalajara during the early aughts, the auspicious and quirky debut by Úrzula Barba Hopfner tells the story of Corina, a a young woman who has rarely left her home for the past 20 years except to work at a local publishing house. She finds herself in crisis after making a grave mistake in the final installment of the company’s most famous book saga. To save her job—and the company itself—she must face her fears and, with Carlos’s help, set off on a journey to track down a mysterious writer. Starring the charming Naian González Norvind (New Order) in the title role and Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso) in a supporting role, Corina is an uplifting and endearing fable, reminiscent of Amélie, about stepping beyond one’s comfort zone to embrace the unknown.

Thursday, June 12, 8:45pm
Fort Greene Park
Myrtle Ave and N Portland Ave, Brooklyn, NY
For more information visit: https://rooftopfilms.com/event/corina/

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XV para XV: Premios Cinema Tropical, travesías por los cines de América Latina

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XV para XV: Premios Cinema Tropical, travesías por los cines de América Latina

Co-presentado por Seminario Públicos y Audiencias del Futuro y Cinema Tropical
Programado por Isabel Rojas y Carlos A. Gutiérrez

En 2025 se celebra el 15º aniversario del Seminario Públicos y Audiencias del Futuro y de los Premios Cinema Tropical. A lo largo de estos quince años, el Seminario se ha consolidado como un espacio de encuentro, diálogo e intercambio de saberes en torno al pensamiento fílmico, la exhibición, la formación y el desarrollo de audiencias del sector audiovisual en México y Latinoamérica.

Paralelamente, Cinema Tropical —la organización cultural sin fines de lucro con sede en Nueva York creada en 2001 y dedicada a la promoción de los cines latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos— reúne cada año a un jurado de profesionales del cine para seleccionar las películas más relevantes de la región. Con el tiempo, la lista de ganadores se ha convertido en un referente fundamental, trazando un mapa para explorar la diversidad y riqueza cinematográfica del continente del siglo XXI.

Como parte de las celebraciones, este ciclo de cine itinerante compuesto por 15 títulos, ofrece una oportunidad excepcional para adentrarse en los cines latinoamericanos contemporáneos y (re)descubrir la multiplicidad de historias y miradas que lo componen.

Esta colaboración entre el Seminario y Cinema Tropical refuerza el compromiso de ambas entidades en la construcción de espacios teóricos y prácticos para la apreciación y circulación del cine de la región. Además, este ejercicio curatorial propone pautas, rutas y desvíos en la cinematografía reciente, al tiempo que traza una guía esencial sobre cineastas latinoamericanos claves que han hecho escuela, sentado precedentes y parámetros fundacionales de aproximación formal e informal a la creación fílmica.

Otra de las metas de este ciclo es activar redes de exhibición en América Latina mediante intercambios curatoriales con organizaciones y espacios de exhibición que el Seminario ha cultivado en años recientes, fomentando un diálogo continuo sobre la circulación y visibilidad del cine de la región.

Programa (por órden cronológico)

EL LUGAR MÁS PEQUEÑO
(Tatiana Huezo, México/El Salvador, 2011, 104 min. En español)

“Uno de los debuts más impactantes del cine mexicano” (Robert Koehler, Variety), El lugar más pequeño narra la historia de Cinquera, un pueblo salvadoreño arrasado durante la guerra civil de doce años, y de los sobrevivientes que, años después, regresan a reconstruirlo. A través de conmovedores testimonios orales, la cineasta salvadoreña-mexicana Tatiana Huezo construye un relato coral de resiliencia, duelo y memoria colectiva. Con la magistral fotografía de Ernesto Pardo, este documental fundacional ha influido a una nueva generación de cineastas en América Latina y consagrado a Huezo como una voz imprescindible.

Martes, 10 de junio, 8:30pm

EL SALVAVIDAS
(Maite Alberdi, Chile, 2011, 70 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Documental

Conozcan a Mauricio, un salvavidas en una concurrida playa chilena cuya obsesiva adhesión a las normas de seguridad irrita tanto a los veraneantes como a sus colegas. Su manera de controlar la playa provoca quejas y alimenta una silenciosa pero creciente rivalidad con un compañero de trabajo. En su ópera prima, la reconocida cineasta chilena Maite Alberdi —nominada al Óscar por El agente topo y La memoria infinita— retrata este microcosmos playero con un estilo visual vibrante, profundidad de campo táctil y una narración que transforma un día común en la playa en una experiencia sorprendentemente tensa y fascinante.

Miércoles, 11 de junio, 8:30pm

SONIDOS VECINOS
(O Som Ao Redor, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brasil, 2012, 131 min. En portugués con subtítulos en español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Película

Una palpable sensación de inquietud recorre una cuadra en Recife, Brasil, hogar de familias acomodadas y su servicio doméstico, bajo el mando de un patriarca mayor y sus hijos. Cuando una empresa privada de seguridad es contratada a regañadientes para proteger la zona de una serie de delitos menores, se desatan temores, ansiedades y resentimientos de una sociedad dividida y marcada por su pasado conflictivo. Sonidos vecinos, la ópera prima de Kleber Mendonça Filho, reciente ganador del premio a Mejor Director en el Festival de Cannes, es un thriller cautivador que consolida una voz clave en el cine mundial.

Jueves 12 de junio, 8:30pm

VIOLA
(Matías Piñeiro, Argentina, 2012, 65 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical — Mejor Película de Ficción

El aclamado cineasta Matías Piñeiro reinventa con ingenio Noche de reyes de Shakespeare, trasladando la historia a la Buenos Aires actual. La película narra un seductor juego entre jóvenes actores y amantes, combinando melodrama y comedia sentimental junto a reflexiones filosóficas y emociones del corazón. Con su característico estilo, Piñeiro emplea movimientos de cámara fluidos y un lenguaje lleno de matices, creando una narrativa elíptica que juega constantemente con la delgada línea entre realidad y ficción. Viola captura lo lúdico de la filmografía del director, donde lo artístico y lo real se entrelazan en una experiencia única y envolvente.

Viernes, 13 de junio, 8:30pm

EL OTRO DÍA
(Ignacio Agüero, Chile, 2013, 122 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical — Mención Especial del Jurado como Mejor Documental

El destacado cineasta chileno Ignacio Agüero convierte su hogar en el centro de El otro día, un retrato íntimo donde los objetos hablan de la historia familiar y nacional. El filme comienza con un rayo de sol sobre una foto de sus padres y se expande cuando Agüero decide visitar a quienes tocan su puerta. Así, lo personal se entrelaza con lo social, el pasado con el presente, el interior con el exterior. Con sensibilidad y elegancia, la película reflexiona sobre la memoria, el tiempo y la comunidad.

Sábado, 14 de junio, 8:30pm

TANTA AGUA
(Ana Guevara y Leticia Jorge, Uruguay/México, 2013, 100 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Ópera Prima

La ópera prima de las realizadoras uruguayas Ana Guevara y Leticia Jorge se convirtió en uno de los máximos exponentes del cine latinoamericano sobre el despertar juvenil. Desde el divorcio, Alberto ya no pasa tanto tiempo con sus hijos Lucía y Federico. Los tres salen hacia un balneario una madrugada de tormenta para unas breves vacaciones. Siempre entusiasta, Alberto intenta que nada arruine sus planes, pero las piscinas cerradas y las miradas reprobatorias de sus hijos tensan el ambiente. La lluvia no cesa, los ánimos se vuelven más susceptibles y el clima más pegajoso. Y la casa que alquilaron parece hacerse cada vez más pequeña.

Domingo, 15 de junio, 8:30pm

MOSQUITA Y MARI
(Aurora Guerrero, Estados Unidos, 2012, 100 min. En español e inglés con subtítulos en español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical — Mejor Película Latina de Estados Unidos

Un hito del cine latino en Estados Unidos, la ópera prima de Aurora Guerrero se convirtió en un clásico instantáneo del cine chicano. Esta delicada historia de iniciación queer retrata la amistad entre dos adolescentes mexico-estadounidenses de Los Ángeles. Yolanda y Mari provienen de mundos distintos, pero un incidente escolar las une y despierta en ellas una conexión íntima e inexplorada. A través de miradas, silencios y gestos mínimos, Mosquita y Mari explora el despertar emocional y el dilema entre las obligaciones familiares y el deseo de ser fiel a una misma.

Lunes, 16 de junio, 8:30pm

SANTA TERESA Y OTRAS HISTORIAS
(Nelson Carlo de los Santos, República Dominicana/México, 2015, 65 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical — Mejor Ópera Prima

En su primer largometraje de ficción, el vanguardista cineasta dominicano Nelson Carlo de los Santos (Pepe) se inspira en la novela inacabada 2666 de Roberto Bolaño para construir un relato coral sobre la violencia en la ciudad ficticia de Santa Teresa, trasunto de Ciudad Juárez. Juan de Dios Martínez, un investigador que se mueve entre el periodismo y la pesquisa policial, examina crímenes contra mujeres y trabajadores en medio de un clima de impunidad. Con un enfoque híbrido que mezcla ficción, documental y ensayo, Santa Teresa y otras historias es una propuesta lírica y radical sobre la crisis humanitaria en México.

Martes, 17 de junio, 8:30pm

ARÁBIA
(Affonso Uchôa y João Dumans, Brasil, 2017, 97 min.  En portugués con subtítulos en español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Película

En una ciudad industrial, el adolescente André encuentra el diario de Cristiano, un obrero herido. A medida que lo va leyendo, la película se transforma en un viaje lírico por la vida del joven trabajador: sus oficios, amores y búsquedas. Con narración epistolar y estética fabulesca, Arábia se convierte en un road movie sobre la dignidad y el anhelo de una vida mejor. Ganadora del Premio Cinema Tropical a la mejor película latinoamericana, esta emotiva oda a la memoria, la solidaridad de clase y al arte de contar historias es un emblema del vibrante cine brasileño contemporáneo.

Miércoles, 4 de junio, 7:30pm
Miércoles, 18 de junio, 8:30pm

LAPÜ
(Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes, Colombia, 2019, 75 min. En wayú con subtítulos en español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Documental

En una noche ventosa en el desierto colombiano, una joven wayúu sueña con una prima fallecida. Al contarle a su abuela, ambas reconocen el inicio de un ritual ancestral: debe exhumar y limpiar los huesos de su prima para que se disuelva la barrera entre vivos y muertos. Lapü sigue este rito de “segundo entierro” mediante una puesta en escena hipnótica y sensorial. Los cineastas Polanco y Jaimes conjugan imagen y sonido para dar forma a una visión donde lo espiritual y lo terrenal conviven, desafiando las nociones occidentales de muerte, tiempo y narración documental.

Jueves, 19 de junio, 8:30pm 

COMO EL CIELO DESPUÉS DE LLOVER
(Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo, Colombia/Argentina 2020, 76 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Documental

En su ópera prima Como el cielo después de llover, la directora Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo regresa a su ciudad natal, Medellín, para acompañar el rodaje de La mujer del animal, dirigida por su padre, el reconocido cineasta Víctor Gaviria. Con una mirada íntima, Mercedes explora las complejidades de su familia, utilizando material de archivo y reflexiones personales para abordar temas como el silencio de su madre, la obstinación de su hermano y su propio camino como cineasta. Como el cielo después de llover es un poderoso ensayo visual sobre la memoria, el cine y las relaciones familiares.

Viernes, 20 de junio, 8:30pm 

MATORRAL SECO EN LLAMAS
(Mato Seco em Chamas, Joana Pimienta y Adirley Queirós, Brasil, 2022, 154 min. En portugués con subtítulos en español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Película

Recién salida de prisión, Léa regresa a la favela de Sol Nascente en la periferia de Brasilia y se une a su media hermana Chitara, la intrépida líder de una banda femenina que extrae petróleo de tuberías clandestinas, lo refina y lo vende a una red subterránea de motociclistas. En constante oposición al gobierno autoritario y militarizado de Jair Bolsonaro, las mujeres de Chitara reclaman las calles como un acto de resistencia política radical en nombre de las ex convictas y los oprimidos. Mezclando documental, ficción y elementos de género, Joana Pimenta y Adirley Queirós retratan una distopía tan inquietante como posible.

Sábado, 21 de junio, 8:30pm 

FAUNA
(Nicolás Pereda, México, 2020, 70 min. En español)

Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Película

Luisa y Gabino visitan a sus padres en un pueblo minero en el norte del país. La familia queda fascinada con Paco, el novio de Luisa, quien también es actor y es famoso por su papel en la conocida serie Narcos. Para enfrentar las tensiones familiares, Gabino imagina una realidad paralela llena de detectives y crimen organizado. Este largometraje del destacado cineasta mexicano Nicolás Pereda, protagonizado por sus actores habituales Luisa Pardo y Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez —quienes interpretan varios roles— es un astuto y cómico ejercicio de metaficción que muestra cómo la violencia se ha infiltrado en la imaginación popular mexicana.

Domingo, 22 de junio, 8:30pm 

TRENQUE LAUQUEN
(Laura Citarella, Argentina, 2022, 250 min. En español)
Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Película

Una mujer desaparece en un pequeño pueblo de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Dos hombres, su pareja y un chofer, intentan dar con su paradero, pero cuanto más indagan, más se alejan de las certezas. Dividida en dos partes y narrada en doce capítulos, Trenque Lauquen es un rompecabezas fascinante que se despliega como un mapa lleno de pasadizos secretos, relatos dentro de relatos, y giros de género que van del thriller al romance, del policial a lo fantástico. Laura Citarella dirige esta obra expansiva y envolvente sobre el deseo, la libertad y los enigmas que elegimos no resolver.

Lunes, 23 de junio, 6pm (parte 1) 
Lunes, 23 de junio, 8:30pm (parte 2) 

LAS COSAS INDEFINIDAS
(María Aparicio, Argentina, 2023, 83 min. En español)
Ganadora Premio Cinema Tropical – Mejor Película

El tercer largometraje de la cineasta argentina María Aparicio, es una delicada reflexión sobre el cine, la memoria y el duelo. Eva, una montajista de 50 años, trabaja junto a su joven asistente Rami en un documental sobre personas con ceguera, mientras enfrenta la reciente muerte de Juan, un amigo cineasta cuyas películas solía editar. A medida que la soledad y el escepticismo se apoderan de su presente, Eva se cuestiona su vínculo con el cine y el sentido de su oficio. Con una narrativa sutil y contemplativa, la película explora los límites entre la ficción y el documental, y la persistencia de las imágenes como huellas del pasado.

Martes, 24 de junio, 8:30pm

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Tribeca Festival: World Premiere of RUNA SIMI

2025 Tribeca Festival

RUNA SIMI
A film by Augusto Zegarra
(Peru, 2025, 81 min. In Quechua and Spanish with English subtitles)

“Fernando, a Peruvian single father, sits in an audio-recording room with his young son Dylan, recording voices together from Spanish into Quechua — their indigenous language. Fernando provides careful but spirited direction to Dylan, who nails the specific intonation. What seems as a playful game between a father and son is actually a treasured creative hobby for Fernando, who has dubbed online clips of many animated movies into Quechua. As a voice actor who’s always had an interest in crafting voices and dialects, Fernando uses his platform as a radio host in his native Cusco to create content in Quechua, enabling this language to thrive and not be forgotten. “Our language Quechua,” affirms Fernando, “is like life itself.”

All too quickly, Fernando’s online hobby of dubbing film clips goes viral — and it spurs him to pursue his most ambitious goal yet: fully dub Disney’s animated “The Lion King” into Quechua. The creative hobby now becomes a real cultural endeavor. Augusto Zegarra’s buoyant first feature Runa Simi delivers a big-hearted and emotionally-resonant story, anchored by a captivating exploration of fatherhood and cultural appreciation.—Jose Rodriguez

Tribeca Festival Screenings:
Thursday, June 5, 7pm at Village East by Angelika — World Premiere
Friday, June 6, 6:30pm at AMC 19th St. East 6
Saturday, June 7, 11:15am t Village East by Angelika

For tickets and more information visit: https://tribecafilm.com/films/runa-simi-2025

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4
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World Premiere of A BRIGHT FUTURE at Tribeca

2025 Tribeca Festival

A BRIGHT FUTURE / UN FUTURO BRILLANTE

“In a bleak little neighborhood that seems to exist out of time, clever and curious 18-year-old Elisa has been selected to go work in the North, a great honor both for her family and the entire neighborhood. The trouble is that nobody is able to visit the North, and the few people who are selected to go — like Elisa’s older sister — don’t come back. While Elisa’s mother desperately saves money to enter in the town’s lottery to go North and finally be with her daughters again, Elisa begins to wonder if leaving is really what’s best for them.

Dystopian yet hopeful, A Bright Future is a stylish and weird look into a world where ants are evil, dogs are extinct and youth is the most valuable thing in the world. As we follow promising young Elisa on her journey, we also examine the dilemmas she encounters: how much to question authority, how right your parents really are and how much of yourself to sacrifice for the so-called greater good.—Camille Ramos

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World Premiere of ESTA ISLA at Tribeca

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2025 Tribeca Festival

ESTA ISLA (THIS ISLAND)
A film by Lorraine Jones Molina and Cristian Carretero
(Puerto Rico, 2025, 114 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

“Siblings Charlie and Bebo maintain a humble but freewheeling lifestyle living in a public housing complex in their coastal Puerto Rican town. They drink and party together — often on the beach, at night, with friends — and by day, they try to make ends meet as fishermen with the occasional side hustle. Against this backdrop, teenage Bebo meets and falls in love with Lola, a young woman from a privileged family. But when Charlie becomes embroiled in shady dealings running up against the business of a local drug dealer, the young lovers flee and seek shelter deep in the island’s untamed and isolated mountains… biding their time to evade peril. With grounded performances and striking cinematography, Lorraine Jones and Cristian Carretero’s confident first feature is a potent exploration of wayward youth seeking a better future for themselves amidst their precarious present —Jose Rodriguez, Tribeca Festival

Tribeca Festival Screenings:
Saturday, June 7, 5:45pm at Village East by Angelika — World Premiere
Sunday, June 8, 9:15pm at AMC 19th St. East 6
Saturday, June 14, 12pm at at Village East by Angelika

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May
28
7:00 PM19:00
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Cinema Tucsón Presents VALENTINA OR THE SERENITY

VALENTINA OR THE SERENITY / VALENTINA O LA SERENIDAD
(Ángeles Cruz, Mexico, 2023, 85 min. In Spanish and Mixtec with English subtitles)
Q&A with director Angeles Cruz

Mexican filmmaker Ángeles Cruz returns to her Indigenous community in Oaxaca for her second feature, a tender tale of loss inspired by her own childhood. Valentina’s world shatters when her beloved father drowns in a nearby river. Refusing to accept the body at the funeral, she becomes convinced he’s still alive and will return. Her conviction deepens after she falls into the same river and hears his voice speaking Mixtec—a language she’s never learned. As she waits for another message, Valentina enlists her friend Pedro to teach her Mixtec, even as her belief begins to affect her family and school life. Valentina or the Serenity is an exploration of love and mortality through a child’s eyes, and ultimately an uplifting ode to life.

Wednesday, May 28, 7pm
Fox Tucson Theatre
17 West Congress St., Tucson, AZ

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May
22
7:00 PM19:00
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20th Anniversary Screening of DUCK SEASON

“I love you, DUCK SEASON.””
— Amy Taubin, Film Comment


DUCK SEASON / TEMPORADA DE PATOS
A film by Fernando Eimbcke
(Mexico, 2004, 90 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Teenagers Flama and Mako have been inseparable since childhood. Left alone by their parents, they prepare for yet another uneventful Sunday in their housing complex: video games, pizza, soda, comics—everything they need to fend off boredom. But their quiet afternoon is upended by the arrival of their neighbor Rita and a pizza delivery man named Ulises, each seeking their own escape from monotony. A gently absurd and tender exploration of adolescent curiosity, Duck Season offers a timeless portrait of friendship, loneliness, and the small ruptures that shape us. Shot in luminous black and white by Alexis Zabé, Fernando Eimbcke’s cherished debut feature marked a turning point in Mexican cinema. Twenty years after its release, it remains as poignant—and wryly funny—as ever.

Thursday, May 22, 7pm
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

For tickets and more information visit: https://www.bam.org/film/2025/duck-season

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May
7
7:00 PM19:00
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Lost & Found: RIDERS at Anthology Film Archives

“RIDERS’s consistently gorgeous, rigorously worked-over images lean even further into aggressive formalism.””
— Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine


RIDERS / EL REPARTIDOR ESTÁ EN CAMINO
A film by Martín Rejtman
(Argentina/Portugal/Venezuela, 2024, 82 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere!

“A leading light of the New Argentine Cinema (with Lucrecia Martel and Lisandro Alonso, among others) at the end of the 1990s, Martín Rejtman is best known for his minimalist fiction. His second documentary is set in Buenos Aires during the pandemic and follows delivery drivers for local UberEats clone apps, the majority of which are Venezuelans who have fled the crisis ravaging their country. The precise framing highlights the mechanical aspect behind the work that these young men do. Constantly on the go, carrying their fluorescent, cube-shaped delivery bags, they have become the paradoxically invisible icons of 2.0 platforms.

“However, Rejtman also intends to give them depth by filming the day-to-day life of Joel and his brother, particularly their private life. These two ‘riders’, recently arrived in Argentina, put human faces on the anonymous collective of delivery drivers, and establish a connection with the second part of the film, which was shot in their home country. Through exceptionally fluid editing work, the Argentinian director has created a humanist and structuralist film which powerfully reveals the close links between migratory dynamics and the net economy, at opposite ends of the South American continent.”

–Emmanuel Chicon, Visions du Réel

Wednesday, May 7, 7pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363

Presented as part of Lost & Found:  Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

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7
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Latin American Films at the 32nd New York African Film Festival

32nd New York African Film Festival
May 7 — 31, 2025


The 32nd annual edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF32) runs May 7-31, 2025 at Film at Lincoln Center, Maysles Documentary Cinema, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). This year Cinema Tropical is delighted to co-present four Latinx and Latin American films. Convened under the theme Fluid Horizons: A Shifting Lens of a Hopeful World, NYAFF32 honors the resilience of African youth and the forbearers that paved the way.

Despite the continent’s vast natural resources, many still face poverty, inequality, and political volatility. Climate change has further strained agriculture, often leading to interethnic conflict and youth emigration. Yet, African youth see only potential in their motherland, using storytelling to express their vision. Even when displaced, they carry the power of African culture, acting as ambassadors and spreading its stories across the globe.

Inspired by the veterans before them, this generation continues the legacy of African cinema as a tool for resistance, liberation, and celebration. To this effect, NYAFF32 presents over 50 contemporary and classic films from Africa and its diaspora, offering a rich and multidimensional reflection of African culture, history, and identity.

For tickets and more information visit:
https://africanfilmny.org/

‘Shorts Program 1: Notions of Home’

NWA (BLACK)
(Hans Augustave, 2024, USA, 20 min. In English, French, and Haitian with English subtitles)
Nwa is a candid, emotional coming-of-age film about Frantz, a first-generation Haitian-American boy, torn by the decision to get the haircut he knows his strict immigrant father would approve of, or a trendy cut connecting him to the Black American culture he’s been warned by his father not to embrace.

RUN WE LIKE
(Rhys Aaron Lewis, 2024, U.K., 13 min. In English. New York Premiere)
It’s the 2012 London Olympics and the whole world is going crazy for the fastest man on the planet: Usain Bolt. Everyone apart from Alvin, an awkward 14-year-old who hates sports and constantly disappoints his Jamaican father, Lester, an ex-athlete who can’t understand why his son is “so soft.” So when Alvin is unexpectedly nominated to represent his class in the upcoming school sports day, it could be his last chance to make his dad proud and prove that he can be just like Bolt.

Thursday, May 8 at 9:15pm and Friday, May 9 at 3pm at Film at Lincoln Center

  

‘Shorts Program 3: Centennial Legacies’
Marking a century of history, culture, and resistance, this short film program honoring the visionaries and movements that shaped the past and continue to inspire the future includes Lou de Lemos’s The Legend of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra’s It Was Four Years Ago, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra’s Ousmane Sembène: The Making of Ceddo, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda’s The Draughtsmen Clash, and Lebert Bethune’s Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom.

THE LEGEND OF ARTURO ALFONSO SCHOMBURG
(Lou de Lemos, Puerto Rico/U.S., 1986, 25 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
This biography tells the story of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a Puerto Rican of African descent who dedicated his life to studying African history and collecting Black-related materials from the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa. His collection forms the core of the collection found today at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research center of the New York Public Library.

Sunday, May 11 at 3:30pm and Monday, May 12 at 3pm at Film at Lincoln Center

 

THE SERPENT OF SHELMECA / LA SERPIENTE DE SHELMECA
(Laura Bermúdez, Honduras, 2023, 3 min. In Miskitu and Spanish with English subtitles)
*Preceding The Tree of Authenticity
The second most important rainforest in the Americas hides an archaeological secret of an ancient indigenous population, known today as Ciudad Blanca. Wildres Wood, the first biologist from the Miskitu ethnic group, embarks on a journey to the heart of the jungle to protect Honduras’ most important treasure for the world. 

THE PLANET OF WATER
(Leonardo Gámez Gil, Mexico 2024, 3 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
*Preceding The Tree of Authenticity
In the near future, humanity—obsessed with saving water while destroying its own planet—faces a devastating environmental crisis. Humans begin to explore space in search of water, and in their absence, the Earth regenerates itself. 

Monday, May 12, 6pm at Film at Lincoln Center

 ARTE CONGO… ARTISTS JOURNEY ON THE CONGO COAST OF PANAMA
(Arturo Lindsay, 2024, USA, 68 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)

Arte Congo...Artists Journey on the Congo Coast of Panama is a documentary film that depicts a unique "insider's" view of a new Afro-centric Panamanian art movement that was born at a metaphoric crossroad in the village of Portobelo, Panama when Congo elder Virgilio "Yaneca" Esquina, photographer/author Sandra Eleta and artist/cultural investigator/educator Arturo Lindsay met. Along with a group of artists from Portobelo and the Spelman College Summer Art Colony, they established the painting workshop of Taller Portobelo.

Friday, May 16 at 5:30pm at the Maysles Documentary Center

  

‘Shorts Program #1: The Ancestors Smile’
A captivating collection of shorts that explore the powerful connections between tradition, identity, and legacy through personal stories, myth, and memory.

PA’LANTE
(Karisma Jay, 2025, USA, 18 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. World Premiere)
In a world of endless victories on the track, PA’LANTE tells the story of Afro - Latina twin siblings who dominate every race except the most elusive one: navigating the complexities of being human.

Friday, May 16 at 8:30pm at the Maysles Documentary Center

  

AT ALL KOSTS
Joseph Hillel, 2025, Canada, 86 min. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles. U.S. Premiere)
At All Kosts offers an intimate look at a group of Haitian artists who use theater, dance, and music to resist the chaos of their times. Born after the Duvalier dictatorship and shaped by decades of political turmoil, natural disasters, and gang violence, they choose art as a lifeline and act of defiance. Centered around Port-au-Prince’s Festival Quatre Chemins, their stories blur the line between fiction and reality, transforming stages, streets, and sacred spaces into sites of resilience. Amid hunger, fear, and uncertainty, these performers bring forth another vision of Haiti—one of dignity, courage, and unrelenting creative power.

Sunday, May 18 at 3:30pm at the Maysles Documentary Center

 

KIDNAPPING, INC.
(Bruno Mourral, Haiti/France/Canada, 2024, 103 min. In Creole and French with English subtitles)

The son of a wealthy presidential candidate has just been kidnapped. The kidnappers are demanding a hefty ransom. Doc and Zoe are two amateur gangsters-and soccer freaks-who must deliver the young man to their ruthless boss. Impulsive Zoe accidentally kills the candidate's son. Faced with a terrible fate for killing their hostage,Doc and Zoe stumble upon Patrick and his nine-month-pregnant wife, Laura. Theyoung couple must, at all costs, catch a flight out of Haiti to give birth in the US to get citizenship for their baby. Patrick’s great misfortune is that he looks exactly like thesenator’s dead son. In the midst of a heated election and a Barça-Real classic match,Doc and Zoe find themselves at the center of a political conspiracy

Sunday, May 18, 6pm at Maysles Documentary Center

GRANDMA NINETEEN AND THE SOVIET’S SECRET
(João Ribeiro, Portugal/Brazil/Mozambique, 2020, 94min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

Adapted from the novel by esteemed Angolan author Ondjaki, this coming of age tale brings us into the multilayered world of Jaki, a young boy from a small coastal African village living in a cousin-filled house headed by his spunky grandmother Agnette. Jaki spends his days with best friends Pi and Charlita and they discover that a local construction site of a huge mausoleum guarded by Russians threatens to demolish their entire neighborhood. Their spirited efforts to foil this plan are met with the unanticipated involvement of a secretive Soviet.

Tuesday, May 27, 4pm at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

MUEDA, MEMORY AND MASSACRE / MUEDA, MEMÓRIA E MASSACRE
(Ruy Guerra, Mozambique, 1979, 80 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

Mueda, Memória e Massacre (Mueda, Memory and Massacre) depicts an anti-colonial work on memory: an annual theatrical re-enactment of the Mueda Massacre of June 16, 1960, which left over 600 peaceful demonstrators dead after Portuguese soldiers opened fire. Made by Ruy Guerra, a Portuguese-Brazilian director and screenwriter born in colonial Mozambique, the film is widely considered the nation’s first feature.

Monday, May 26, 3:45pm at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

‘Shorts Program 2: Mysteries of the Heart’
A collection of short films created by artists from Africa and the diaspora celebrate the intricacies of love. In as little as five minutes, these films open windows into worlds of the heart, from youthful aspiration to the regrets of old age, and from intimacies between adults to the complexities of family.

JEAN & I
(Mirta Desir, 2024, USA, 13 min. In English)
Michelle, a 10-year-old survivor of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, attempts to escape both her past and her new home when she learns that her "new" family is not what it seems.

LAND.SCAPE NOTES ON EXILE
(Berette S. Macaulay, 2025, U.S., France, Italy, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, 5 min. In English. New York Premiere)
A poetic journey of rediscovery that routes us through shifting landscapes and waterways is guided by narrative reflections of a seeker who is mystically guided by Oshun, the venerated orisha of water and destiny.

Wednesday, May 28 at 8:05pm at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)

 

ECHOES OF THE LAKE
(Nico Muñoz, 2024, Argentina, 3 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
On the shores of Lake Poopó in Bolivia, an ancient culture remains resilient in the face of climate change. In early September 2023 I set out on a journey to film a documentary for the ARTE network. During my visit I witnessed the gradual drying up of the Desaguadero river, which serves as the main tributary to Bolivia's second largest lake. This drying trend has occurred in recent years due to mining, agriculture and urban expansion along its course towards a lake that now exists only in memory. In a small community on the banks of what was once their source of life, 14 families of the Uru ethnic group remain, embodying the consequences of a world that demands more and more resources to sustain an ever-expanding way of life. It is difficult to imagine a world without mining and technology, but a world without water is simply impossible.

Saturday, May 31, 7pm at the St. Nicholas Park

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Cinema Tropical's programs are made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
They are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
in partnership with the City Council, and the Color Congress.