Short films from Latin America

Video On Demand / Online Short films from Latin America One Tundra (Cuba)Directed by José Luis Aparicio. 30:00 Papel (Mexico)Directed by Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez, Felix Klee. 8:04 Here to Stay (Colombia)Directed by Camilo Andres Ramirez. 19:47 Short films from Latin America Two Alicia Armstrong Larrain Read More …

Crónicas de un exilio

Argentina, 2021Video On Demand / OnlineDocumentaryDirected by Micaela Montes Rojas and Pablo GuallarSpanish with English subtitles The director Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive images and the protagonist’s own voice, the vast life experience of the director is narrated, in an x-ray Read More …

Strangers To Peace

Colombia, 2022Video On Demand / OnlineDocumentaryDirected by Laura Angel Rengifo, Noah DeBonisSpanish with English subtitles After a lifetime of battle, nearly 10,000 FARC combatants are preparing to leave their jungle strongholds and return to Colombian society, but will a war-weary Colombia accept them? Strangers to Read More …

La Caja Negra

Cuba, 2021Video On Demand / OnlineDirected by Enrique Álvarez (Kiki Álvarez)Spanish with English subtitles La Caja Negra (the Black Box) is a secret diary written by Elsa and read by her granddaughter several decades later, a film about a young woman who finds and reads Read More …

Corazón de mezquite

Mexico, 2019Saturday, October 29, 7:00 pmOnlineDirected by Ana Laura CalderónSpanish with English subtitles A girl in northern Mexico dreams of healing her father’s broken heart by going against tradition and playing the harp. Una niña del norte de México sueña con curar el corazón roto Read More …

Historias del Canal

Panama, 2014Sunday, October 23, 6.00 pmDirected by Carolina Borrero, Pinky Mon, Luis Franco Brantley, Pituka Ortega-Heilbron, Abner BenaimSpanish with English subtitles Five short films (1913, 1950, 1964, 1977 and 2013) that cover a century of lives impacted by the Panama Canal. Cinco cortos (1913, 1950, Read More …

Cortázar y Antín: cartas iluminadas

Argentina, 2018Saturday, October 22, 7:00 pmOnlineDocumentaryDirected by Cinthia RajschmirSpanish with English subtitles In the intense 1960s, the young filmmaker Manuel Antín meets Julio Cortázar and his letters cross the Atlantic. Manuel films three movies based on Julio’s stories and generates a cinema of ideas that Read More …

Yo nena, yo princesa

Argentina, 2021Saturday, October 15, 8:00 pmDirected by Federico PalazzoSpanish with English subtitles Argentina Movie Night: La boya / Yo nena, yo princesaMeet the directors: Fernando Spiner and Federico Palazzo Gabriela is a mother who faces a struggle that she never expected to have: one of Read More …

La boya

Argentina, 2018Saturday, October 15, 6:00 pmDirected by Fernando SpinerSpanish with English subtitles Argentina Movie Night: La boya / Yo nena, yo princesaMeet the directors: Fernando Spiner and Federico Palazzo Fernando returns to the town where he lived as a young man to meet his poet Read More …

Bosco

Uruguay, 2020Saturday, October 15, 4:00 pmDirected by Alicia Cano MenoniSpanish with English subtitles Between imagination and memory, between the sides of the Atlantic Ocean, BOSCO is both a fable about time and a search to build an image of a place that exists beyond cartography Read More …

Las mejores familias

Perú, 2020Saturday, October 8, 8:00 pmDirected by Javier Fuentes-LeónSpanish with English subtitles Luzmila and Peta are two sisters who inherit their mother’s job and work as housemaids for aristocratic families. The two sisters know how to cater to señoras and are so well versed in Read More …

Cuentos de un día más

Cuba, 2021Saturday, October 8, 6:00 pmDirected by Rosa María Rodríguez (La trenza), Alán González (La muchacha de los pájaros), Carolina Fernández Vega-Charadán (Mercuria), Yoel Infante (Él y ella), Katherine T. Gavilán, Sheyla Pool (Los días), Eduardo Eimil (Gallo)Coordinated by Fernando PérezSpanish with English subtitles Six Read More …

Intersection

Chile, 2022Saturday, October 8, 4:00 pm.Directed by Cecilia AranedaSpanish with English subtitles Chilean refugee Daniela (Carmen Aguirre) came to Canada as a child after her mother was assassinated during Chile’s dictatorship. Her father, Pepe, never wants to speak about Chile, but when her daughter Rocío Read More …

Lienzo en blanco

El Salvador, 2017Saturday, October 1, 8:00 pm.Directed by Leslie Ortiz and Gabriela CruzSpanish with English subtitles Alicia is a painter who gives art therapy workshops to women who have suffered different types of violence. Luz is a young plant lover who was sexually assaulted on Read More …

Ernesto, gracias

Costa Rica, 2019Saturday, October 1, 6.00 pmDirected by Laura Ángel CórdobaDocumentarySpanish with English subtitles Facing a pregnancy, the filmmaker finds strength in her single mother and autistic brother as they struggle together in Costa Rica to overcome economic and social instability in this radiant story Read More …

Años luz

Uruguay, 2021Saturday, October 1, 4:00 pmDirected by Joaquin MauadSpanish with English subtitles Mateo, Belén and María José, three sibling that have grown apart, are forced to meet again in order to close the deal to sell the house they spent their childhood in. Therefore, they Read More …