International: Latin America
Fantaspoa 2026: Brazilian Genre Fest Announces Festival Lineup
Fantaspoa, Brazil's amazing genre film festival, has revealed the lineup for this year's festival.
Berlinale 2026 Review: A CHILD OF MY OWN (UN HIJO PROPIO), Documentary Reenacts a Kidnapping
Based on a notorious crime in Mexico, A Child of My Own (Orig. Un hijo propio) examines how and why a nurse kidnapped a baby for her own. As she did in The Mole Agent, director Maite Alberdi mixes fact and fiction...
ZUMECA Teaser Trailer: Historical Epic Drama to Premiere at Slamdance
We are debuting the teaser trailer for Zumeca, a historical epic drama, written, directed, and produced by David Maler. Based on a true story, Zumeca shows us the first family of the Americas: a Spaniard, Miguel, and a Taino,...
ABRACADAVER: Mexican Heist Comedy to Start International Rollout This Spring
Our friends at FilmSharks have been locking down sales at EFM all week and have announced more sales for the Mexican heist comedy, Abracadaver. Three magician siblings from the circus world find themselves brought back together to perform a...
UNDER YOUR FEET Trailer: Sales Mount up For Spanish Language Chiller
We have the first trailer and more stills from Cristian Bernard's Spanish-language chiller, Under Your Feet. Isabel moves with her two children into a prestigious building that has a peculiar admission method, but at an affordable rental fee. Once...
Animation First 2026 Review: HEART OF DARKNESS, More Fascinating Than Compelling
Directed by Rogerio Nunes, the new animated adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book launches into the future.
TONY ODYSSEY Teaser Exclusive: Surreal Brazilian Trip to Premiere at Slamdance
Thales Banzai's feature-length debut, TONY ODYSSEY, is an ode to the "more provocative Brazilian films of the '60s and '70s". Its world premiere is happening at Slamdance, and we have an exclusive look at the trailer.
Berlinale 2026: Exclusive THE RIVER TRAIN Poster Premiere
An austere yet intuitive debut, the film observes childhood not as innocence lost but as a state of restless transit, where movement, solitude, and imagination quietly collide.
Sundance 2026 Review: JARIPEO, Queer Identity in Masculine Arena
Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig offer a glimpse into the lives of Mexican queer cowboys in their documentary.
A POET Review: The Unbearable Weight of Passive Talent
Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto's melancholy film, which is "primarily a story about humans, not professions or vocations."
BOWELS OF HELL: Blue Finch Films Boards Sales On Rotterdam Selected Horror-Comedy
Ah, toilet humor. It exists both as a description of a type of humor, and currently it has served as a setting and location for a growing crop of movies within the horror genre (Scared Shitless, Holy Shit!, and Flush). ...
98th Academy Awards Nominations: International Films
Brazil, France, Norway, Spain, and Tunisia will be represented in this year's ceremony.
ÚLTIMA TERRA Exclusive: Filming Wraps on Science Fiction Feature From Lucio A. Rojas
Stick around the periphery of this filmmaking business, and you begin to form friendships with folks who are embedded within it. Case in point, look at our longtime friendships with folks in Chile and Argentina. Specifically, we are talking about...
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO Review: Queer Period Drama Doubles as a Call For Radical Empathy
Diego Céspedes' debut feature is Chile's official submission as Best International Feature Film.
THE WHISPER (El Susurro): Official Trailer Shows an Energetic Mix of Snuff, Psycological Horror And Vampire Lore
We have the official trailer from the upcoming horror flick, The Whisper (El Susurro), the new film from Uruguayan genre director Gustavo Hernández Ibáñez. They are the director of films we have talked much about on these pages: The Silent...
Friday One Sheet: THE LIFE OF OTHERS
Not to be confused with the Oscar winning German film on Stasi surveillance, The Lives of Others, Guillermo Arcaya's 35mm shot Venezuelan short, The Life Of Others, has an intriguing bit of key art. There is also a vertical version...
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!
