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From the Land to Your Table(¿Qué Culpa Tiene el Tomate?)Jorge Coira, Alejo Hoijman, Josué Méndez, Marcos Loayza Montoya, Carolina Navas, Alejandra Szeplaki, Paola VieiraSeven countries, seven popular markets, seven cultures. The first documentary of its kind, From the Land to Your Table shows the perspectives of seven Ibero-American filmmakers as they capture ...
Panama Canal Stories(Historias del Canal)Abner Benaim, Carolina Borrero, Luis Franco Brantley, Pinky Mon, Pituka Ortega-HeilbronThis impressive, sweeping historical drama chronicles five incredible stories of people who helped build the famous canal and Panama itself. Spanning a century, from 1913 to 2013, the film weaves ...
Asier and I(Asier ETA biok)Aitor Merino, Amaia MerinoAsier and I tells the story of the friendship between Aitor and Asier Aranguren from their time growing up together in the conflict-affected and politicized eighties of the Basque Country. ...
The Companion(El Acompañante)Pavel GiroudCUBA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS® Set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatched HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule, The Companion narrates the unlikely friendship ...
The Tenth Man(El Rey del Once)Daniel BurmanAward-winning director Daniel Burman returns with The Tenth Man, a quiet and well-observed comedy that wrestles with notions of identity, home, and the intricacies of the father son relationship. ...
El Amparo(El Amparo)Rober CalzadillaIn the Venezuelan town of El Amparo, near the border with Colombia, a group of fishermen sets off down the Aruca River. But only two men return, their friends shot down by the military, who claim ...
Sealed Cargo(Carga Sellada)Julia Vargas WeiseBOLIVIA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS® With a promotion in the offering and his beautiful wife Nena at his side, things couldn’t be better for ambitious policeman Hector ...
Red Gringo(Gringo Rojo)Miguel Angel Vidaurre Reminiscent of Searching for Sugarman, director Miguel Ángel Vidaurre’s self-described “pop memory exercise” follows North American singer Dean Reed’s surprising and unlikely ...
Tempest(TEMPESTAD)Tatiana HuezoA poignant doc by celebrated filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, Tempest narrates the parallel journey of two women. Mirror-like, it reflects the impact of the violence and impunity that afflict Mexico. ...
3 Beauties(3 Bellezas)Carlos Caridad MonteroFrom the country that boasts over 600 beauty pageants each year comes 3 Beauties, a scathing satire of Venezuela’s fixation with beauty and its relation to social status. Perla is the single ...
Everybody Leaves(Todos se van)Sergio CabreraShot in Colombia (because the director didn’t get permission to film in Cuba) and featuring a cast consisting mostly of expatriate Cuban actors, Everybody Leaves is a celebration of freedom and a ...
A Moonless Night(Una noche sin luna)Germán TejeiraURUGUAY’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS® – BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Up-and-coming Uruguayan director Germán Tejeira creates a moving, poignant, witty character study in his ...
The Country of Fear(El país del miedo)Francisco EspadaA festival favorite, The Country of Fear touches upon one of the most talk about behavioral issues happening on campus these days. Carlos, Sara, and their preteen son Pablo, live a peaceful ...
Guaraní(Guaraní)Luis ZorraquínA heartfelt story, Guaraní follows fisherman Atilio as he travels with his granddaughter Iara to Buenos Aires. His great desire is to have a grandson to transmit the Guaraní culture. When he ...
Ixcanul, Volcano(Ixcanul, Volcán)Jayro BustamanteGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS® The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives ...
NN(NN Sin Identidad)Héctor Gálvez Peru’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, NN is a compelling drama that won filmmaker Héctor Gálvez the Best Director Award at the Cartagena Film Festival for this ...
The Second Mother(Que horas ela volta?)Anna Muylaert BRAZIL’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS® An excitingly fresh take on some classic themes and ideas, The Second Mother dissects with both impeccable precision and humor such matters as ...
Don’t Call Me Son(Mãe só há uma)Anna Muylaert This poignant coming-of-age film from Brazil is focused on Pierre, seventeen and in the middle of puberty. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger ...
The Boss, Anatomy of a Crime(El patrón, radiografía de un crimen)Sebastián SchindelBased on a true story, The Boss, Anatomy of a Crime is a neo-realistic portrait of the inhumane work environment, and the power imbalances existing between worker and employer. The multiple ...
True Smile(La sonrisa verdadera)Juan RayosA heart-warming story of self-improvement, True Smile follows the extraordinary 1,300 kilometers journey Sergio, a blind autistic young man, undertakes with his brother. Over 30 days, Sergio and ...
The Travel Agent(Pequeñas Mentiras Piadosas)Niccolò BrunaFrom her tiny office overlooking the U.S. Interests Section, 58-year old Lourdes counsels thousands of Cubans seeking a U.S. travel visa. She coaches them on answering tricky questions, fine-tuning ...
The Liberator(El Libertador)Alberto Arvelo
The Crow’s Nest(Malacrianza)Arturo MenéndezThe first fiction film from El Salvador to be produced since 1969 and the first ever to see a worldwide release, The Crow’s Nest follows Don Cleo, a humble piñata salesman who receives an ...
Mr. KaplanÁlvaro BrechnerFilmmaker may be available for a Q&A via Skype. Speaker fee: $300. Inquire at filmclub@pragda.com. Uruguay’s official selection for Best Foreign Academy Award, Mr. Kaplan follows Jacob ...
Open Cage(Los Bañistas)Max ZuninoOpen Cage takes a subtle and ultimately hopeful look into one of society’s mayor issues: the abandonment to its youth and senior populations. Among those affected when the economy collapses are ...
I Am From ChileGonzalo Díaz UgarteA coming of age story, I Am From Chile draws from the director’s personal experiences to tell a different kind of immigration story. I Am from Chile is the story of Salvador, who moves to ...
339 Amín Abel Hasbun. Memory of a Crime(339 Amín Abel Hasbun. Memoria de un Crimen)Etzel BáezBased on a real story, 339 Amín Abel Hasbun. Memory of a Crime is an intriguing account of the murder of Amín Abel Hasbun, a brilliant student leader in the Dominican Republic accused of ...
Paradise(Paraíso)Mariana ChenilloChildhood sweethearts Carmen and Alfredo live a life of quiet bliss in Satélite, a sleepy suburb outside of Mexico City. When Alfredo is offered a promotion, the lovebirds make the move into the ...
Bajarí: Gypsy BarcelonaEva VilaBajarí: Gypsy Barcelona offers an intimate look at how flamenco’s legacy is kept alive within Barcelona’s tight-knit Gypsy community. Juanito is about to fulfill his dream of getting a pair of ...
Truman(Truman)Cesc GayWhen Julián (super star Ricardo Darín, SFC’s Chinese Take-Away) receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tomás (Javier Cámara), the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion, ...
Even the Rain(También la Lluvia)Icíar BollaínJuan Carlos Aduviri (actor who played Daniel) and the real activists who organized the riots in Bolivia may be available for Q&A via Skype. Speaker fee: $300. Inquire at filmclub@pragda.com. ...
Post MortemPablo LarraínPablo Larraín first broke onto the international film scene when Tony Manero premiered at the Cannes Directors´ Fortnight. This Chilean director has now followed up with visceral Post Mortem. ...
The Club(El Club)Pablo Larraín CHILE´S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO ACADEMY AWARDS The Club is acclaimed director Pablo Larraín’s taut, blackly comic commentary on individual responsibility, organized religion and the ...
Neruda(Neruda)Pablo LarraínCHILE’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS® Gael García Bernal joins award winning Chilean director, Pablo Larraín, in this a noir-infused reimagining of the Nobel Prize-winning poet and ...
Operation E(Operación E)Miguel Courtois PaterninaA controversial film in Colombia due to the real event on which it is based (the kidnapping of Clara Rojas and Ingrid Betancourt), Operation E was at risk of being banned but was finally released ...
Here and There(Aquí y Allá)Antonio Méndez EsparzaFilmmaker may be available for a Q&A via Skype. Speaker fee: $300. Inquire at filmclub@pragda.com. Winner of the top prize at the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival, Antonio ...
Chico & RitaFernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal & Tono Errando
Illiterate(Las Analfabetas)Moisés SepúlvedaXimena is an illiterate woman in her fifties who has learned to live on her own in order to keep her illiteracy a secret. Jackeline is a young unemployed elementary school teacher who tries to ...
Eternal Amazon(Amazônia Eterna)Belisario FrancaThe Amazon is a vast laboratory for sustainable experiments that are revealing new relationships among human beings, corporations, and the natural heritage crucial for life on the planet. This is ...
Bad Hair(Pelo Malo)Mariana Rondón“A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale. ...
Wrinkles(Arrugas)Ignacio FerrerasBased on Paco Roca’s award-winning graphic novel, Wrinkles illustrates the visual beauty and tender emotion that can be created by traditional animation as it tackles a universal subject matter ...
Who is Dayani Cristal?(¿Quien es Dayani Cristal?)Marc SilverDeep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, Arizona border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt they expose a tattoo that reads “Dayani ...
The Facilitator(El Facilitador)Victor ArreguiA political thriller about human rights, The Facilitator is one of the most successful films to come out of Ecuador in the last few years. When Miguel, a successful businessman, learns he is ill, ...
I Thought It Was A Party(Pense Que Iba A Haber Fiesta)Victoria Galardi“For how long is the ex-partner of a friend untouchable? Lucía (Victoria Bertuccelli, To Fool A Thief) has been separated from Ricki, the father of her daughter Abi, for 4 years. She invites ...
Cows Wearing Glasses(Las Vacas Con Gafas)Alex Santiago PérezDirected by one of the most talented emerging filmmakers coming out of the new wave of Puerto Rican cinema, Cows Wearing Glasses uses a subtle sense of humor to touch upon issues of aging. Marso, ...
The Death of Pinochet(La Muerte de Pinochet)Bettina Perut & Iván OsnovikoffOn December 10, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly in Santiago’s Military Hospital. For 24 hours, his death reawakens the political divisions that marked Chile’s recent history with death ...
The Cinema Hold Up(Asalto al Cine)Iria Gómez ConcheiroFirst-time feature director Iria Gómez Concheiro draws pitch-perfect performances from the talented ensemble cast and registers a strong and original voice in Mexican cinema. Negus, Chale, Sapo and ...
Southern District(Zona Sur)Juan Carlos ValdiviaLa Paz’s Zona Sur neighborhood is Bolivia’s most exclusive enclave and has housed the country’s affluent elite for generations. In an adobe-tile-roofed castle, a statuesque matriarch reigns ...
Yvy Maraey, Land Without Evil(Yvy Maraey, Tierra Sin Mal)Juan Carlos ValdiviaA Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the Guaraní people. The starting point is a 1911 film by Swedish explorer ...
La YumaFlorence JaugeyNicaragua’s first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer. Looking beyond ...
7 Boxes(7 Cajas)Juan Carlos Maneglia & Tana SchémboriIt’s Friday night in Asunción, Paraguay, and the temperature is sweltering. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of fame and owning a fancy TV set from the infamous Mercado 4. ...
With My Heart in Yambo(Con Mi Corazón en Yambo)María Fernanda RestrepoIn 1988, when director María Fernanda Restrepo was only 10 years old, her life changed in the cruelest of ways: her two brothers—then 14 and 17—vanished without a trace. Only later did the ...
WilayaPedro Pérez RosadoFatimetu is born to a Sahrawi family in a Saharan refugee camp in Algeria and later sent to live with foster parents in Spain. After the death of her mother, she returns to the camp. She has been ...
The Return(El Regreso)Hernán JiménezThe Return is the story of a delightful and life-changing journey back to Costa Rica. After living 10 years in New York, 30 year-old Antonio returns to San José where he is forced to deal with ...
The Delay(La Demora)Rodrigo PláMaría lives with her three school-age children and 80-year-old father, Agustín. It’s clearly a struggle for her to make ends meet and to juggle all of her commitments. Agustín has periods of ...
Clandestine Childhood(Infancia Clandestina)Benjamin ÁvilaBenjamín Ávila’s Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina) is an earnestly heartfelt cine-memoir based on the director/co-writer’s own tragic early life. Argentina, 1979. After years of ...
Chinese Take-Away(Un Cuento Chino)Sebastián BorenszteinArgentina’s national treasure, Ricardo Darín, is best known for his intense dramatic performances in films such as Nine Queens, The Aura, and the Oscar-winning The Secret in Their Eyes, but ...
Black Bread(Pa Negre)Agustí VillarongaThe Spanish selection for the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film, Black Bread is set in the war-ravaged Catalan countryside of the early 1940s where a local man is accused of murder and his ...
After Lucía(Después de Lucía)Michel FrancoSix months after the death of his wife in a car accident, Roberto and his teenage daughter Alejandra set off from Puerto Vallarta for a fresh start in Mexico City. Alejandra finds her way more ...
The Empty Classroom(El Aula Vacía)Gael García Bernal, Carlos Gaviria , Daniel and Diego Vega, Eryk Rocha, Flavia Castro, Lucrecia Martel, Mariana Chenillo, Nicolas Pereda, Pablo Fendrik, Pablo Stoll Ward, Tatiana HuezoNearly half of all young people in Latin America never finish high school. To explore this dropout crisis, creative director Gael García Bernal gathered 11 award-winning filmmakers who have ...
