#latin american films

[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

The Secret Nation (La Nación Clandestina) | Jorge Sanjinés | 1989 | Bolivia

[flowersmooon]

Filme cinco julias

[gael-garcia]

El Crimen del Padre Amaro (2002, Carlos Carrera) 🇲🇽

With release delayed a few months to avoid collision with the Pope's visit, around the time the Catholic church was being exposed for pedophilia all over the world, the film broke box office records in Mexico after the country’s Catholic leadership and conservative / anti-abortion groups tried to ban it, driving even more people to see it.

It proceeded to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards and won Best Picture at the Ariel Awards.

[orpheuslookingback]

Watching 1 horror film everyday in October 24/31

The Wolf House (2018), dir. Joaquin Cocina & Cristobal Leon

[celluloidrainbow]

HOJE EU QUERO VOLTAR SOZINHO (2014) dir. Daniel Ribeiro Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans. (link in title)

[illustratus]

“Toro? Sounds like a load of bull.”

Octopussy (1983)

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"At first glance, the term 'Tropical Gothic' sounds a lot like an oxymoron, since in popular understanding the genre is often synonymous with its early settings of bleak European wildernesses battered by howling winds and tumultuous storms. In contrast, Tropical Gothic heroes and heroines have vacated traditional eerie castles and chilling wind-swept moors to take up residence in haunted plantation houses, overgrown bayous, mysterious jungles and exuberant tropical cities, where the horrific and the uncanny not only lurk in the shadows but occupy open, sun-drenched spaces alongside humans."

— Anita Lundberg, Katarzyna Ancuta & Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, "Tropical Gothic: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences."

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[atlxolotl]

Alucarda (1977) dir. Juan López Moctezuma

[roadimusprime]

I want to make a shitpost where everytime a character Transforms in the 1986 Transformers movie, it switches dubs

[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

Kukuli | 1961 | Luis Figueroa Yábar | Peru

"Kukuli, a young Quechua-speaking llama herder, leaves her grandparents in the countryside of Cusco to attend the Feast of Mamacha Carmen in the town of Paucartambo."

[ladysophiebeckett]

white ppl on twitter saying ben affleck is more famous than jlo….

[piononostalgia]

Heliconia

dir. Paula Rodríguez Polanco

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Tatiana Huezo

Director and screenwriter Tatiana Huezo was born in 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador. Huezo first garnered international attention for her 2011 debut documentary film, The Tiniest Place, which was screened at over 80 film festivals globally and won the Grand Prix for Best Feature-length film at Visions du Reel. Her film Tempestad, which follows the stories of two women affected by human trafficking, won Best Documentary at the 2016 Fenix Awards, and four Ariel Awards. Huezo's first fictional feature, Prayers for the Stolen, received a Special Mention from the jury at Cannes.

[garadinervi]

Informes sobre la violencia y la tortura, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC), Buenos Aires, 1973 [The CAyC Files, International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX + Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, NY]

[celluloidrainbow]

LATIN BOYS GO TO HELL (1997) dir. Ela Troyano When his incredibly handsome cousin Angel comes to stay with him and his mother, 20-year-old Justin is overcome with attraction. But there is one problem, Angel is straight, and fascinated with Andrea. While Andrea is contemplating Angel, her best friend Braulio and his boyfriend Carlos are having their own relationship problems, all while a murderer is on the loose. (link in title)