[An] enticing new service, Tropical on Demand gives voice to the best new directors from Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia and elsewhere.”
— Guy Lodge, The Guardian
 

The Cinema Tropical Collection, Vol. III:

 

The Cinema Tropical Collection, Vol. II
Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers

 

The Cinema Tropical Collection, Vol. I:


ESTRELLAS / STARS
A film by Federico León and Marcos Martínez
(Argentina, 2007, 64 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Reality and fiction meet in a shantytown in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where a group of residents have found professional careers playing poor people in film and television productions. A humorous and self-reflective meditation on the ways the movie industry represents poverty and on self-management as a method of creation and survival.

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IS THE CITY ONLY ONE? / A CIDADE É UMA SO?
A film by Adirley Queirós
(Brazil, 2011, 79 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

The fascinating debut feature from Adirley Queirós is a fiction/documentary hybrid focusing on a satellite city of Brasilia called Ceilândia and reflects on the spatial and social exclusions that have defined the relationship between the federal district, its surroundings, and the people who built the city from nothing.” —Film at Lincoln Center

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YOUR BONES AND YOUR EYES / SEUS OSSOS E SEUS OLHOS
A film by Caetano Gotardo
(Brazil, 2019, 118 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)

In Caetano Gotardo's follow-up to The Moving Creatures, João, a middle-class filmmaker living and working in São Paulo, has extensive conversations with friends and strangers that change his life.

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AWAY FROM MEANING / LEJOS DEL SENTIDO
A film by Olivia Luengas
(Mexico, 2018, 88 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Awarded the Best Documentary Prize at the Havana Film Festival New York, this deeply personal family love story directed by Liliana’s sister, Olivia, is a poignant meditation about normality and stigma attached to mental illnesses and a portrait of Liliana’s inner world, where her emotions take form.

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STILL BURN / ALGO QUEMA
A film by Mauricio Alfredo Ovando
(Bolivia, 2018, 77 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Winner of the Best Director and FIPRESCI awards at the 2018 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Still Burn is a courageous, perceptive documentary about how collective and personal memories are created from—and ultimately shape—a complicated legacy.

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TÚ Y YO
A film by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada
(Dominican Republic, 2014, 86 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cartagena Film Festival and acclaimed at Visions du Réel, the debut feature by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada is a poignant chamber piece that delves deeply into divisions of class and race.

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EVERYTHING ELSE / TODO LO DEMÁS
A film by Natalia Almada
(Mexico, 2016, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

Selected as one of the best films of the year (Amy Taubin, Artforum), and winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival, Natalia Almada's debut fiction film Everything Else stars Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza (Amores PerrosBabel) as Doña Flor, a 63-year-old bureaucrat living in Mexico City as she awakens from her bureaucratic malaise and yearns to become visible again.

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LA CAMIONETA
A film by Mark Kendall
(Guatemala/USA, 2013, 71 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)

“An upbeat story of resilience, regeneration and artistic imagination” (Stephen Holden, The New York Times), La Camioneta is a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected world in which we live.

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