International: Latin America
Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
EL 4K Review: Bunuel's Cruelty in High Def
Directed by famed Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel, El is coming to 4K and Blu-ray tomorrow here in North America, courtesy of our friends at the Criterion Collection. El is the adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s 1920s novel “He,” which explores the hell...
TORMENT (TORMENTO) International Trailer: FilmDarks Acquires World Sales For Mexican Screamer
Our friends at FilmSharks (FilmDarks) have acquired the worldwide sales rights for the Mexican scarefest, Torment. Written and directed by Olallo Rubio, Torment is a remake of the Paraguayan horror flick, Morgue, written and directed by Hugo J. Cardozo. ...
ORIENTAL SNATCH: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS' Ryland Tews Sets Final Film, Announces Retirement
ORIENTAL SNATCH checks all the boxes: Action! Comedy! Horror! Romance! The 70s! Smoking! Booze!
Morelia 2025 Interview: IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS Directors Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugas on Shooting Their Political Thriller in Secret
Set in 2017, It Would Be Night in Caracas depicts political upheaval through the eyes of a Venezuelan writer desperate to flee the country. As the city collapses around her, she is threatened by revolutionaries, the police, and paramilitary operatives....
FANTASTIC! LAB 2025: The 13 Projects Pitching For a Piece of LatAm Genre Market
The lineup of projects for the genre program in the massive production market Ventana Sur, the re-named Fantastic! Lab, has announced. Thirteen projects have been invited to meet with potential partners and peers, hoping to score the right connections that...
Morelia 2025 Review: IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS, Political Crisis Endangers Writer
Directed by Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, the film stars Natalia Reyes.
New York 2025 Review: THE SECRET AGENT, Stylish, Inventive Political Thriller on the Intricacies of Historical Memory
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
INSURRECCION: FilmSharks Acquires All Rights For Crime Thriller
FilmSharks has acquired all the rights in perpetuity (with no time limit) to Mauricio Marulanda Gonzalez's screenplay, Insurrecion. They intend to produce the film en Espanol, but also hold the rights for an English-language remake down the road. Considering...
MUERTAS VIVAS (Dead Woman Walking) Poster Premiere: Chilean Splatter Horror Comedy Heads to Sitges
Let us preface this by reminding everyone that making movies is hard. We last wrote about Sandra Arriagada's zomcom, Muertas Vivas (Dead Woman Walking), after it wrapped up filming - in early 2021. It was heading into post-production then, but it...
New York 2025 Review: PIN DE FARTIE, Choreographed Verbal Farewells
Laura Paredes, Marcos Ferrante and Santigo Gobernori star in Argentine director Alejo Moguillansky's film.
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE CURRENTS, Oblique and Tactile Nightmare
At the peak of her career, Catalina (or Cata, or Lina, depending on what social context she is in) appears to have it all: a successful career, a tasteful modern home, a sensitive, engaged husband, and a beautiful young daughter....
Toronto 2025 Review: COPPER, The Driest Slacker-Comedy Ever Made
The latest film from particular and peculiar Canadian-Mexican auteur Nicolás Pereda might flirt at times with a plot, but to view it this way is actually fool's gold. It is much more, specifically, a study of character in a...
Friday One Sheet: NOVIEMBRE
27 Hours, 1 Bathroom. 25 Hostages. This festival poster for Tomás Corredor's Noviembre (November) lists the real-life hostages vertically above the catchy tagline. A highly-dramatized account of Colombia's nation-tramautizing 1985 siege and hostage situation at the country's Palace of Justice, the key art...
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THE EVIL THAT BIND US (TODOS LOS MALES): FilmSharks Acquires World Sales Ahead of Fantastic Fest World Premiere
In 1950s Valdivia, a grieving boy sent to live with his estranged family finds comfort in a mysterious girl who exposes their dark secrets--until her disappearance drives him toward betrayal, tragedy, and a thirst for revenge.
VS FANTASTIC! 2025: Blood Window Rebrands, Opens Call For Entries
The folks at Ventana Sur have sent out word that their genre program, VS - FANTASTIC!, is now accepting submissions for this year's program. Highlight projects from the fantastic genres - horror, sci-fi, fantasy, etc - the program offers two...
THE LAST ANNIVERSARY: Canadian Thriller to Have World Premiere at Mexico's Macabro Film Festival
News today that The Last Anniversary, the new thriller from The Butler Brothers, will have its world premiere at the Macabro Film Festival in La Ciudad de Mexico at the end of the month. Written by Brett and Jason...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE VIRGIN OF THE QUARRY LAKE, Argentine Summer of Hell
In the early minutes of Laura Casabe’s sweltering horror-adjacent drama, The Virgin of The Quarry Lake, a homeless vagrant is nearly beaten to death in a middle-class neighbourhood. Bearing passing resemblance to the creature behind the Winkies in Mulholland Drive,...
THE BRIDE: Thai-Vietnamese Horror Starts to Sell Globally
Skyline Media secures multi-territory deals ahead of August Vietnam premiere.
