Latin America
Travel to Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico and beyond with MIFF’s selection of Latin American films, including a sex-hotel-set erotic thriller, poignant filial portraits and a reimagining of Sappho.
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Cidade; Campo
Two stories – one involving a country-to-city move, the other in reverse – explore the place of women in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
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La Cocina
Rooney Mara stars in this gorgeously shot, righteously angry portrait of kitchen workers stewing in the pressure-cooker conditions of an NYC bistro.
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Malu
A middle-aged actress begins to unravel in this dynamite debut, featuring an explosive, emotionally wrenching lead performance from Yara de Novaes.
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Motel Destino
From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.
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Reinas
In this winner of the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus Grand Prix, a man fights his worst impulses to be a better father to his two emigrating daughters.
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Simon of the Mountain
In this Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize winner, an enigmatic young man yearns to belong with his disabled besties – but he’s not quite like them.
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Sujo
A young boy orphaned by the cartel is up against inheriting a life of crime in this coming-of-age story from an award-winning Mexican filmmaking duo.
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Toll
To pay for the conversion therapy she believes her gay son needs, a well-intentioned tollbooth operator turns to crime in this crafty drama.
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You Burn Me
This phantasmagoric experimental drama puts Ancient Greek poet Sappho in conversation with the nymph Britomartis.