Here, everything feels warm, vibrant, and full of character, just like Latin America. Every movie is like a dance you never want to see end.

Normal

In his stunning debut, which established him as a unique voice in contemporary cinema, Carlos Reygadas explores the inseparable unity of nature, religion, body, and soul, through an existential journey into uncharted cinematic genres and hauntingly beautiful images.

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A cynical and disillusioned man travels from Mexico City to a remote canyon to commit suicide. There he meets a devout elderly widow and stays in her crumbling house. Although they exchange only a few words, her humanity reignites his desire to live.

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Golden Camera - Special Mention | Cannes Film Festival | 2002
Critics Award - Honorable Mention | São Paulo International Film Festival | 2002
Best Director | Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2002
FIPRESCI Award | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 2002

Japan

In a vast metropolis full of antitheses, love could be hiding where you least expect. This ingenious rom-com from Argentina lives and breathes where the others merely begin, justifying why it’s been worshipped by audiences. Winner of the Golden Athena at the Athens International Film Festival.

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Mariana and Martin live on the same block in Buenos Aires. They pass by each other daily, shop at the same stores, swim at the same pool but have never met. Martin rarely leaves his apartment after his breakup, while Mariana works as an architect and feels incapable of any serious commitment, since coming out of a 4-year relationship.

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Golden Athena | Athens International Film Festival | 2011

Sidewalls

Fatih Akin is in the mood for epic adventure and history, courageously focusing on the Armenian genocide. This imposing and affecting quest of one man gives us a chance to contemplate: how far would we go to be reunited with our loved ones?

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Mardin, 1915. A young blacksmith is violently separated from his family. Years later, having survived the genocide, he discovers that his daughters are still alive, and his life's mission becomes to find them again. He travels from the deserts of Mesopotamia to Havana and the pastures of North Dakota. During his journey, he will experience people’s capacity for kindness, but also disdain and brutality.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2014
Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award | Special Mention | Venice Film Festival | 2014
Audience Award | Sofia International Film Festival | 2015

The Cut

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, the remarkable Golden Athena award-winning Tatiana Huéso weaves a stunning story about the things that cling to the soul, the refuge provided by those around us and the vertigo in the face of life. A story for what we call growing up.

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In the remote village of El Echo in northern Mexico, children are forced to care for their parents and sheep. While frost and drought punish the land, the children learn to understand death, illness and love with every act, command and silence of their parents. One of them, however, will rebel against this strict perpetuation of harsh discipline.

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Encounters Award - Best Director | Berlin Film Festival | 2023
Documentary Award | Berlin Film Festival | 2023
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2023
Official Selection | Athens Film Festival | 2023

The Echo

Based on Jack Kerouac's landmark novel, Walter Sales' film profiles the Beat Generation through its poetry, sex and drugs and this enchanting uncertainty about the future, set against the backdrop of endless American highways.

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In the late 1940s, young writer Sal meets Dean Moriarty, an ex-con from Denver, and his underage wife. The three of them, along with their quirky friends, will embark on a hellish journey of self-discovery from one end of America to the other with the help of drugs, disenchanted carnal pleasures and electrifying jazz tunes.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2012

On the Road

That’s how Apocalypse Now would look like if instead of the Vietnam jungle, Coppola had set it in hushed lounges, offices with giant doors and eclectic swimming pools. Made with enviable confidence, Azor is a fascinating directorial debut about the dark journey to corruption.

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In 1980 Argentina, in the midst of dictatorship, a Swiss private banker disappears under unspecified circumstances. When his partner takes over the investigation of the case himself, he immerses in a mystery set behind bourgeois offices' heavy doors and dense gardens of the regime's favoured parvenus.

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Official Selection - Encounters | Berlin Film Festival | 2021
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2021
First Feature International Competition | London Film Festival | 2021
Official Selection | Athens Film Festival | 2021

Azor

An informal continuation of the movie "Nostalgia for the Light", linking the disappearance of the indigenous people of Chile with the secrets hidden in one of the country’s most important elements, water. An unconventional narrative lament that magically travels through space and time.

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Water is the largest border of Chile and at the same time hides the secret of two buttons found at the bottom of the ocean. The water has trapped the voices of local natives from past centuries. The whole history of Chile is transformed into an incredibly wonderful contemplation that starts from the sea and the wild adventures hidden in its waters and reaches the sky and the genesis of the universe itself. At the centre of it all, a time traveller named Jeremy Button.

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Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Berlin Film Festival | 2015
Best Script | Berlin International Film Festival | 2015
Official Selection | London Film Festival | 2015
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2015

The Pearl Button

What happens when a tiny Brazilian village starts disappearing from the map? A bloody, futuristic neo-western that spews rage, with influences ranging from John Carpenter to Asterix. Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps. There is no phone signal anywhere, strange visitors start showing up and an imperceptible threat lurks nearby…

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Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2019

Bacurau

With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Héctor Babenco’s fully restored by Film Foundation "Pixote" offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society in the 80s.

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The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo who, after escaping a nightmarish reformatory, will resort to a life of violent crime, even as he forms a makeshift family with some fellow outcasts.

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Special Jury Prize | Locarno Film Festival | 1981
Honourable Mention | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1981
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 1982

Pixote

In one of the most classic films of the world cinema of the '00s, a glance at organized crime against the background of Rio’s favelas turns into an epic of conflicts of jaw-dropping beauty. Nominated for 4 Oscars, including the Award for Best Director for Fernando Meirelles.

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In the poor favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer documenting the increasing drug-related violence in his neighborhood. Zé is an ambitious drug dealer who uses Rocket and his photos as a way to increase his reputation as a war breaks out with his rival. The conflict will be sweeping.

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Nomination for Best Director Oscar | Oscars | 2004
Nomination for Best Original Screenplay Oscar | Oscars | 2004
Best Editing | BAFTA Awards | 2003
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 2003
Visions Award - Special Mention | Toronto Film Festival | 2002

City of God

Heaven is in the sky and hell beneath the ground. One of the best existential documentaries ever made, Patricio Guzmán's study of the dichotomy between ignorance of the unknown and the sad knowledge of political events that shook Chile, brings history and astronomy closer than ever.

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In Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of three thousand feet, astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The desert's sky is a place where the harsh heat of the sun "falls" on human existence, which remains intact: on mummies, miners and explorers... as well as on the political prisoners of the dictatorship; and while astronomers examine the farthest galaxies, just below the observatories, women dig through the desert in search of their missing relatives.

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European Documentary Award | European Film Awards | 2010
Black Pearl Award | Abu Dhabi Film Festival | 2010
Official Selection | Toronto International Film Festival

Nostalgia for the Light

A story full of secrets and lies both on an individual and collective level from the beloved Argentinian, Pablo Trapero ("The Clan" and "
"White Elephant"), that flirts with the genres of both melodrama and psychological thriller and enchants the viewer.

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Prompted by her father's illness, a woman returns to her family's mansion near Buenos Aires but the reunion with her mother and sister will lead to the revelation of the dark secrets of their common past during the military dictatorship.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2018

The Quietude

Audience favourite Ricardo Darin and Leonardo Sbaraglia ("Wild Stories", "Pain and Glory") join forces in a riveting mystery thriller in the modern Argentinian tradition of the genre.

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Having been accused of murdering his brother when they were teenagers, Salvador lives in isolation in Patagonia. His brother, Marcos, and his daughter-in-law, Laura, will come to find him in order to convince him to sell their paternal house in which he lives in. This meeting will bring to the surface memories and secrets from the past.

Black Snow

Reminiscent of early Guillermo Del Torro, Issa Lopez unravels a dark tale about the scars of childhood trauma, through an aesthetic of fantasy and magical realism. After the success of this film, Lopez actually now works with Del Torro and mega-producer Jason Blum for her next film.

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A haunting horror fairytale set amidst Mexico’s drug war. A group of orphans, armed with three magic wishes, run to escape the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that killed their parents.

Tigers Are Not Afraid

Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco continues his incisive exploration of the modern human condition, moral decay, and individual responsibility in a world rife with inequality, through the clinically enigmatic portrait of a man in deep existential fatigue, suspended between desire, guilt, and resignation.

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At a luxurious seaside resort in Acapulco, the family tranquility of a wealthy European man is shattered by sudden news of a death. Withdrawn and silent, he chooses never to return and sinks into a purposeless life on the fringes of the city.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2021

Sundown

Political thrillers are not always defined by the lives and actions of politicians, but also by those of normal people during turbulent times. Rafa Russo exquisitely showcases that in his tight-knit film that looks for the unseen heroes at the dawn of the dictatorship in Uruguay.

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Uruguay (1972) unavoidably falls into a terrible dictatorship. Two writers of a well-known TV comedy show, struggle to maintain their integrity under the pressure they receive to tone down their political satires against the military. On the side of the oppressors, the lieutenant in charge of torturing subversive youth, finds emotional refuge in a prostitute. Slowly, the lives of all of them are deeply impacted by the yoke of the dictatorship that looms over them.

The Year of Fury

A delightful romantic comedy that tackles the midlife crisis with humor and honesty, exploring the challenges that arise from routine and its sudden loss. Ricardo Darín and Mercedes Morán are fantastic as the lead couple.

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Marcos and Ana have been married for 25 years. When their only son decides to study abroad, the couple is left alone, facing an existential crisis that leads to them breaking up. At first, the idea of single life feels appealing, but before long, doubts and new desires start to emerge.

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Official Selection | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2018

An Unexpected Love

The director and writer of "Identifying Features" collaborate again for a tender and poignant coming-of-age drama that impresses with its lyricism and visual power.  Grand Prize at the Sundance 2024 festival.

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When a cartel hitman is murdered, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved four-year-old son. The shadow of violence will follow the child through every stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows up, Sujo will discover that fulfilling the same fate as his father may be inevitable.

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Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2024

Sujo

It's never too late to become a secret agent and live the dangerous mission of a lifetime. That's the message of this surprisingly touching and feelgood documentary from Chile that offers a refreshing look at old age and was rightfully nominated for an Oscar.

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A private investigator hires an elderly man to sneak into a nursing home in El Monte, Chile, to investigate whether one of the residents is being mistreated by nursing home staff.

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Nomination for Best Documentary | Oscars | 2021
Audience Award | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2020
Official Selection | Sundance Film Festival | 2020

The Mole Agent

Boasting an Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and (yet another) masterful performance by Alfredo Castro, this surprisingly tender and emotional film from Chile uses the country’s dark past to talk about difference, acceptance and love.

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The paradoxical meeting of a young revolutionary and an elderly transgender woman in Chile in 1986, amidst a climate of political turmoil, will change their lives in ways neither of them could have imagined.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2020
Audience Award - Open Horizons | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2020

My Tender Matador

Oscar-winning The Secret in Their Eyes director is back, and in a completely different mood. Hilarious black humor, twists and complications, in a mansion where memories of a glorious past thrive, while the results of a chronic decadence lurk.

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A star from cinema’s golden era, an elderly actor, a clever screenwriter and a sneaky director, live an unusual life, all together in a mansion. When a young couple arrives, aiming to convince the actress to sell the house, the group will have to join forces to stop them.

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Best Actress Award (Graciela Borges) | Film Academy of Argentina | 2019

The Weasels' Tale

Best Director Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for an iridescent poem of memory, anguish, and desire, in which Carlos Reygadas abandons realism in favor of inner truth, and distorted cinematography immerses the viewer in a dreamlike dimension.

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A wealthy architect and his family leave the city and move to a remote country mansion. There, their new reality collides with his dreams and desires, and the boundaries between experience and fantasy blur.

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Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2012

Post Tenebras Lux

Linking the exploration of Nature and History, the natural landscape, historical memory and the open wound of the Pinochet dictatorship, Chilean Patricio Guzmán completes his great trilogy by turning his attention to the Andes mountain range.

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After the masterpiece "Nostalgia for the Light" and the Silver Bear award-winning "Pearl Button", Patricio Guzman now turns his gaze to the Chilean Andes mountain range. Taking as his point of reference another characteristic natural feature of a homeland that he now barely recognizes, the leading exponent of poetic and political documentary cinema continues a unique exploration of this delicate frontier where man and the eternity of Nature meet.

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Best Documentary | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2019

The Cordillera of Dreams

A moody journey full of tension, love and hate in constant succession, portrayed in absolute aesthetic freedom and a frenzied camera lens, in yet another stylistic marvel by Wong Kar Wai that touches upon the unpredictability of life.

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A gay couple goes to Argentina on vacation. At some point in their trip they break up. Not having the necessary money to return home, one of them starts working as a doorman at a bar while staying in a small room. One day his ex-partner, who spends his nights out with various people, visits him injured and bloody. While taking care of him, he loses his job but manages to get another one as a dish-washer at a Chinese restaurant. There he meets a young man from Taipei who is traveling the world.

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Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1997
Audience Award | Arizona International Film Festival | 1998
Best Actor | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1998

Happy Together

Aka “Parasite” set in Peru. Families that are so proper they seem to have popped right out of a telenovela, hit some hard times and debase themselves in the eyes of their staff, in this biting social satire about class inequalities in the small Latin American country.

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Two sisters work as house keepers in neighboring houses owned by upper class Peruvian families. They are both considered to be part of the family, or so it seems. On a day when the city is rocked by violent protests, a birthday party brings the two families together and a well-kept secret comes to life, upheaving the fake world they’ve been living in.