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3 Beauties
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Carlos Caridad-Montero • Venezuela • 2014 • A dark comedy satirizing the Venezuelan beauty industry.
Perla is a middle-aged seamstress, aging and a bit portly. She once dreamed of being a beauty queen, and like many mothers in Venezuela she sees the pageant circuit as her family’...
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Battle in Heaven
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Carlos Reygadas • 2005 • Mexico • A web of sex and secrets in Mexico City
Ana's father is a Mexican general. Privileged, wealthy, and bored, she forms a connection with Marcos, the family chauffeur—he is the only member of her household who knows about her double life working as ...
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Güeros
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Alonso Ruizpalacios • 2014 • Mexico • An angsty youth's journey through Mexico City's hidden streets
Capturing the buoyancy and insouciance of youth, and the undercurrents of class conflict through the eyes of its young protagonists, Güeros is a shrewd and stylish journey into the...
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Ixcanul
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Jayro Bustamate • 2015 • Guatemala-France • A Mayan girl lives at the foot of an active volcano
Immersing the spectator in the rhythms of a vanishing world amidst ever-present threats of geological rupture and encroaching modernity, Ixcanul navigates the precariousness of female i...
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Liverpool
Lisandro Alonso • 2008 • Argentina • Follows a merchant sailor en route to his hometown.
Farrel has been at sea for years. Steeped in the quotidian routines of life on a merchant ship, one day Farrel requests to disembark. His goal is to visit his ailing mother in Ushuaia. Equipped solely with a...
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Los Bastardos
Amat Escalante • Mexico • 2008 • A crime film recalling Haneke and Bruno Dumont.
Jesus and Fausto have left their families behind in Mexico, trying to carve out a better future in El Norte. Like the rest of the day-laboring migrant workers who gather each morning on a southwestern American stri...
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Museo
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Alonso Ruizpalacios • Mexico • 2018 • A heist to steal cultural artifacts inspired by true events.
Juan and Benjamín are caught in a state of stasis. Seemingly unable to finish their veterinary degrees, neither have a girlfriend—even worse, they both still live with their parents...
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Perfect Obedience
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Luis Urquiza • Mexico • 2014 • Based on the true story of Legion of Christ founder Marcial Marcial.
Thirteen years old, Julian has been sent to study the word of God at a Catholic seminary. He soon learns that on this journey to priesthood, even more valuable than one’s love for ...
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Post Mortem
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Pablo Larraín • 2010 • Chile • A civil servant unravels as Pinochet's Chile heads toward bloodshed
Chile, 1973. Mario is a civil servant at the state morgue, where he transcribes notes dictated by the coroner. A tryst with his neighbor draws him into a conflict—Nancy's activist ...
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Silent Light
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Carlos Reygadas • 2007 • Mexico • Filmed with nonprofessional actors among a community of Mennonites.
Johan lives with Esther, his wife, and their seven children in rural Chihuahua state, among a community of Mennonites. For the past two years Johan has engaged in a passionate af...
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The Pearl Button
Patricio Guzmán • Chile • 2014
Navigating Chile's colonial and political histories vis-à-vis its expansive waterways, The Pearl Button charts the labyrinths of individual and collective memory.
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The Prince
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Sebastián Muñoz • 2019 • Chile • Masculine repression and desire as seen in a 1970s Chilean prison.
The inmate bond between Jaime, a handsome young man, and a notorious older flourishes into a clandestine romance, continually threatened by the escalating violence and perilous powe...
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The Tenth Man
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Daniel Burman • Argentina • 2016 • A lighthearted comedy set in Argentina’s Orthodox community.
Ariel has spent many years away from Buenos Aires. One day he returns home to reconnect with his father, Usher, who has founded a charity foundation in Once, the city's bustling Jewish...
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Tony Manero
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Pablo Larraín • 2008 • Chile • Tony is an obsessive John Travolta impersonator in Santiago de Chile.
Raúl Peralta performs at a bar on the outskirts of Santiago de Chile, meticulously recreating scenes from Saturday Night Fever. His dreams of becoming a star appear reasonably att...