Directed by Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo • Documentary • 2021 • 72 minutes

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria (The Rose Seller). Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that ...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2004 • 52 minutes

Polgovsky’s stunning debut immerses the viewer in the impoverished lives of families in the arid desert region of San Luis Potosi in Mexico (situated on the global parallel known as Tropic of Cancer), who survive by selling plants a...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2016 • 93 minutes

The once-paradisiacal waterfall of "El Salto de Juanacatlán" in Jalisco used to be known as the "Mexican Niagara”, a source of pleasure and sustenance for the villages surrounding it. This natural idyll was heavily polluted when an ...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2012 • 54 minutes

A shaman’s mystical rituals, furious electricians on hunger strike and a euphoric football crowd collide in the Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square, the ancient ceremonial heart of the Aztec empire. The documentary essay Mitote(Nah...

Directed by Laura Faerman, Marina Weis • Documentary • 2022 • 77 minutes

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle wages between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty. An indigenous teacher and a lawyer with strong relations to Bolsonarist federal power are on opposite sides ...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2022 • 83 minutes

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education...

Directed by Ruben Abruna • Documentary • 2013 • 55 minutes

A designer from Puerto Rico pioneered green architecture thirty years ago, and today he confronts climate change with sustainable constructions including a house without a roof that is completely independent of the power and water utilit...

Directed by Marta Rodriguez & Jorge Silva • Documentary • 1972 • 42 minutes

Remastered! Considered a classic Latin American and Colombian documentary film, Brickmakers chronicles the search for a film production methodology that could be adapted to the sociopolitical conditions of Latin America....

Directed by Luisa Riley • Documentary • 2012 • 78 minutes

On February 14th, 1974, 19-year-old Deni Prieto Stock was killed by the Mexican army in the town of Nepantla, along with four of her comrades in the Fuerzas de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Forces), a forerunner to the Zapatist...

Directed by Juan Francisco Urrusti Alonso • Documentary • 2017 • 124 minutes

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) left a million dead and over 500,000 refugees. Mexico welcomed about 20,000. Among them were the filmmaker’s grandparents, parents, and some of their friends. In Exile: A Family Film tell...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2009 • 90 minutes

The most highly praised and awarded Mexican documentary in many years, THE INHERITORS by Eugenio Polgovsky immerses us in the daily lives of children who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor.

The film takes...

Directed by Nicole Costa • Documentary • 2019 • 93 minutes

Chilean-born performer and writer Iván Monalisa fully embraces his / her dual selves: scrappy, masculine Iván as well as diva, transvestite sex-worker Monalisa. A reunion with filmmaker Nicole Costa, Iván’s former college classmate, prov...

Directed by Rick Tejada-Flores • Documentary • 2017 • 58 minutes

My Bolivia is a historic road trip to make sense of a family’s and a country’s past. A Latino filmmaker travels to Bolivia to find the things his parents told him, and what they never said — the family’s slave-owning past, his gran...

Directed by Marco Del Fiol • Documentary • With Marina Abramović João de Deus Damião Dona Flor Mãe Filhinha Zezito Viana Rudá Iandê Denise Maia • 2016 • 86 minutes

Marina Abramović travels through Brazil in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and reve...

Directed by Federico Atehortúa Arteaga • Documentary • 2019 • 83 minutes

A family accident leads the director of the film to discover the strange relationship that exists between his mother, the origins of Colombian cinema and recent events of the Colombian armed conflict. On March 6, 1906, four...

Directed by Ignacio Agüero • Documentary • 2004 • 70 minutes

The inhabitants of the Villa Alegre town, in the central zone of Chile, come together to investigate the history of their town, then put it on stage as a production. When they watch the play, they are amazed. A theatrical experience le...

Directed by José Permar • Documentary • 2020 • 78 minutes

Each year, the slow-paced lifestyle on Mexico’s largest desert in Baja Peninsula is given a turbo boost by the Baja 1000, the largest off-road motorsport race in the world that takes place crossing the Mexican-US border.

In this modern-d...

Directed by Ignacio Agüero • Documentary • 1988 • 55 minutes

100 CHILDREN WAITING FOR A TRAIN poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.

Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into...

Directed by Marcela Zamora • Documentary • 2016 • 85 minutes

An award-winning documentary on the legacy of the internal armed conflict in El Salvador, The Offended features the director’s charismatic father, Rubén Zamora, a key political leader and current Salvadorian Ambassador before the UN, w...

Directed by Cristóbal Valenzuela Berríos • Documentary • 2017 • 80 minutes

In the style of Exit Through the Gift Shop, Stealing Rodin is a critical and humorous statement about Art and the market around it. The documentary traces the story of Luis Onfray’s artistic and criminal act. In 2005, the...

Directed by Michèle Stephenson • Documentary • 2018 • 30 minutes

In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizens...

Directed by Ignacio Agüero • Documentary • 2013 • 120 minutes

The director follows the movement of the sun that enters through the windows of his house and illuminates various objects. He follows these movements during the day and throughout the year, discovering unsuspected associations between...

Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • 2012 • 52 minutes

During the socialist government of Salvador Allende, Franz Hinkelammert (1931-2023) worked at the Catholic University of Chile, where there was a theological battle between the left-wing liberation theologians and the right-wing Opus Dei Cat...

Directed by Tina Leisch • Documentary • 2013 • 85 minutes

It was once illegal to read books by Roque Dalton, one of El Salvador's most celebrated poets, in his own country. A descendant of legendary outlaws the Dalton Gang, he devoted his life to the cause of socialist revolution in Latin Americ...