Latin American & Spanish Film Festival

PAST EDITIONS

2019

Guest speaker: Film director Gonzalo Justiniano (Damn Kids, Chile 2018).

• PERFECT STRANGERS / Perfectos desconocidos (Mexico, 2018)
• BROKEN PANTIES / Calzones rotos (Chile, 2018)
• BIRDS OF PASSAGE / Pájaros de verano (Colombia, 2018)
• THE ANGEL / El Ángel (Argentina, 2018)
• THE CHAMBERMAID / La camarista (Mexico, 2019)
• JOURNEY TO A MOTHER’S ROOM / Viaje al cuarto de una madre (Spain, 2018)
• DAMN KIDS / Cabros de mierda (Chile, 2018) and Q&A with Damn Kid’s director Gonzalo Justiniano

https://youtu.be/2eoFyY5lQNc

2018

Guest speakers: film director Carla Cavina (Puerto Rico), and producers Tania Zamora and Francesca Romero, LU '11 (Mexico).

• WOODPECKERS (José María Cabral, Dominican Republic, 2017)
• THE LAST SUIT (Pablo Solarz, Argentina, 2017)
• TEMPEST (Tatiana Huezo, Mexico, 2016)
• THE UNTAMED (Amat Escalante, Mexico, 2016)
• EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS (Carla Cavina, Puerto Rico, 2016)
• NOBODY'S WATCHING (Julia Solomonoff, Argentina, 2017)
• SUMMER 1993 (Carla Simón, Spain, 2017)
• SPIDER THIEVES (Guillermo Helo, Chile, 2017)

2017

Guest speaker: film director Arí Maniel Cruz (Puerto Rico).

• THE BRIDE (Paula Ortiz, Spain, 2015)
• THE CLAN (Pablo Trapero, Argentina, 2015)
• ALIAS MARIA (José Luis Rugeles, Colombia, 2015)      
• THE COMPANION (Pavel Giroud, Cuba, 2015)
• BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS (Arí Maniel Cruz, Puerto Rico, 2016)
• DESIERTO (Jonás Cuarón, Mexico, 2016)
• NERUDA (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2016)
• JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2016)

2016

Keynote: "Latin American Cinema and Globalization," Dr. Sophia McClennen (Penn State U).

Guest speaker: Film director and actor Brionne Davis (Embrace of the Serpent).

• WILD TALES (Damián Szifron, Argentina 2014)
• MAGICAL GIRL (Carlos Vermut, Spain 2014)
• 600 MILES (Gabriel Ripstein, Mexico 2015)
• FROM AFAR (Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuela 2015)
• THE CLUB (Pablo Larraín, Chile, 2015) 
• THE EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Ciro Guerra, Colombia 2015) 
• MARSHLAND (Alberto Rodríguez, Spain 2014)

2015 

Keynote: “Latin America and/in the Global World Order,” Dr. Walter Mignolo (Duke U).

Guest speakers: film directors Rubén Mendoza (Colombia) and Moisés Sepúlveda (Chile).

• BAD HAIR (Mariana Rondón, Venezuela 2013)
• DUST ON THE TONGUE (Rubén Mendoza, Colombia 2014)
• TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina 2014)
• TO KILL A MAN (Alejandro Fernández, Chile 2014)
• CANTINFLAS (Sebastián del Amo, Mexico, 2014)
• THE ILLITERATE (Moisés Sepúlveda, Chile 2013)
• LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED (David Trueba, Spain 2013)

2014

Guest speakers: film directors Juan Andrés Arango (Colombia), Adrián Saba (Perú) and Catherine Tatge (USA).

• AFTER LUCÍA (Michel Franco, Mexico 2012)
• WAKOLDA/THE GERMAN DOCTOR (Lucía Puenzo, Argentina 2013)
• LA PLAYA DC (Juan Andrés Arango, Colombia 2012)
• SO MUCH WATER, (Ana Guevara, Uruguay 2013)
• THE CLEANER, (Adrián Saba, Peru 2012)
• WHITE ELEPHANT, (Pablo Trapero, Argentina 2012)
• GLORIA, (Sebastián Lelio, Chile 2013)
• CANNIBAL (Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain 2013)

2013

Guest speakers: film directors Solveig Hoogesteijn (Venezuela) and Raphael Alvarez (Brazil), and Dr. Javier Guerrero (Princeton U)

• BLANCANIEVES (Pablo Berger, Spain 2012)
• MAROA (Solveig Hoogesteijn, Venezuela 2006)
• DUDAMEL: LET THE CHILDREN PLAY (Alberto Arvelo, Venezuela 2010)
• DZI CROQUETTES (Raphael Alvarez and Tatiana Issa, Brazil 2009)
• THE VIOLIN (Francisco Vargas, Mexico 2005)
• BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Rachel Lears, USA-Uruguay 2009)
• MARIMBAS FROM HELL (Julio Hernández Cordón, Guatemala 2010)
• THE WIND JOURNEYS (Ciro Guerra, Colombia 2009)
• VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN (Andrés Wood, Chile 2011)

2012

Keynote: "The Films of Pedro Almodóvar," Dr. Paul Julian Smith (CUNY)

• THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain 2011)
• THE FISH CHILD (Lucía Puenzo, Argentina 2009)
• REVERÓN (Diego Rísquez, Venezuela 2011)
• LEAP YEAR (Michael Rowe, Mexico 2010)
• A YEAR WITHOUT LOVE (Anahí Berneri, Argentina 2005)
• UNDERTOW (Javier Fuentes León, Peru 2009)
• LOVE FOR SALE (Karim Ainou, Brazil 2006)
• MOSQUITA & MARI (Aurora Guerrero, USA 2012)
• CHICO & RITA (Fernando Trueba, Spain 2010)