International: Latin America
PARVULOS: CHILDREN OF THE APOCALYPSE Review: Coming of Age After the Apocalypse Is a True Horror Show
Mexican director Isaac Ezban's horror film is set in the darkest of ages. Farid Escalante Correa, Leonardo Cervantes, Mateo Ortega Casillas, Carla Adell, and Noé Hernández star.
Tribeca 2025 Review: YANUNI Tracks Daring Activist Fighting Pollution in the Amazon
Richard Ladkani's documentary follows Amazonian activist fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples.
Tribeca 2025 Review: CUERPO CELESTE, Highs and Lows, Amplified By Shifting Tides
Helen Mrugalski comes of age in Nayra Ilic Garcia's Chilean drama.
DIABLO Review: Scott Adkins And Marko Zaror Face Off in LatAm Action Throwdown
Kris, a recently released ex-con, sneaks into Colombia to kidnap Elisa, the daughter of Vicente, a powerful gangster. This puts them on the radar of not only every other gang in the country but also El Corvo, a psychopathic killer...
DON'T LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE New Trailer: Upcoming Mexican Horror Thriller From Emilio Portes
A new trailer for the Mexican horror thriller, Don't Leave The Kids Alone (No Dejes a los Niños Solos) has been released earlier today. Check it out down below. A claustrophobic and psychological horror film about two competitive siblings...
DEAR FATHER Exclusive: First Images From Chilean Thriller, Presented at Marche du Film This Week
We have your first look at the Chilean thriller titled Dear Father ahead of the project's market debut during March du Film. Part of the previously announced launch of VDF Connection, Dear Father recently completed filming and is now in post-production....
New Agency Focused on Brazilian Genre Filmmakers, VDF Connection, to Launch at Marche du Film
Playing a bit of catch-up this morning as Variety announced the other day that a new company called VDF Connection, based out of São Paulo, Brazil will launch at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film. The company will...
Uruguay 2025 Review: PUNKU Traverses Ritual, Trauma, and Time in an Eclectic Meditation
Juan Daniel Fernández Molero's latest feature navigates myth, memory, and identity through a fragmented visual language shaped by the Andean landscape and lo-fi surrealism.
EYES OF THE ABYSS (LOS OJOS DEL ABISMO) Trailer: Argentine Action Horror Takes to The Haunted High Seas
The trailer for Argentine action horror, Eyes of the Abyss, arrived today. Directed by Daniel de la Vega (On The 3rd Day, The Last Heretic) the movie is poised to be set adrift out into the World. Somewhere in...
NO ONE WILL HEAR YOU SCREAM: Watch The Trailer For Argentine Slasher
Our friends at Black Mandala are representing an Argentine slasher flick titled No One Will Hear You Scream. They passed along the trailer this morning. Take a look for yourself, down below. While an entire country is fixated on...
Brussels 2025: Highlights and Award Winners from the 9th BIF Market Industry Showcase
In the shadow of Brussels’ iconic Atomium, the BIF Market, running in conjunction with the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, celebrated its ninth edition last week, hosting no fewer than 50 projects in various stages of development across a five-day...
CONFINED (LA CASA ANGOSTA): Horror Thriller Begins Production in Paraguay
Production began this week on a new horror thriller from Paraguay. The Spanish title is La casa angosta (The Narrow House?), it will be presented worldwide under the English title, Confined. The story follows Salma, a young woman trapped...
Fantaspoa 2025: Brazilian Festival Announces Mammoth Lineup
Our friends at Fantaspoa have revealed the whopping, one hundred feature film lineup for this year's festival, taking place in Porto Alegre, Brazil from April 9th through 27th. Quite frankly, trying to pick highlights out of one hundered titles...
SXSW 2025 Review: CORINA, Style Corrector of Her Own Life
Naian González Norvind and Cristo Fernández star in Urzula Barba Hopfner's directorial debut from Mexico, a gentle and affecting story.
Berlinale 2025 Review: THE BLUE TRAIL Reimagines Aging in a Dystopian Future
Gabriel Mascaro continues his exploration of hybrid storytelling with a dystopian fable that reimagines aging as an act of defiance.
Rotterdam 2025 Interview: RAINS OVER BABEL Director Gala del Sol Talks Mythic Worldbuilding, Queer Programming, Personal Healing
Gala del Sol, a visionary Spanish-Colombian debut director, talks fresh world building and personal healing.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: I'M STILL HERE Will Not Fade From Your Memory
In 1970, Brazil was suffering under a military dictatorship. Political opponents and critics were arrested, tortured and murdered. As much as 20,000 people were "disappeared" under the regime. One of them was Rubens Pavia, an architect who had been a...
Sundance 2025 Review: RAINS OVER BABEL, Singularly Enthralling Retro-Futuristic Queer Fantasy
In the retro-futuristic, pop-punk imagination of Spanish Columbian writer-director Gala del Sol (Natalia Hermida) and her unmissable, queer-coded feature-length debut, Rains Over Babel (Llueve Sobre Babel), Cali, Colombia exists in a sublime liminal space, at the crossroads between the real...
Rotterdam 2025 Reviews: THE TREE OF AUTHENTICITY And THE GREAT HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, From Congo And Mexico
The IFFR Tiger Competition has a long tradition of narrative and also more experimental films. The following two films belong to the latter category. The Congolese film The Tree of Authenticity (L'Arbre de l'authenticité) from 2025 and the Mexican The...
EFM 2025: Indigenous Cinema Alliance Marks 10-Year Milestone
The Indigenous Cinema Alliance will celebrate its tenth year as "... a coalition of international Indigenous partners, including film festivals, commissions, and institutes. Our mission is to promote Indigenous cinema globally, create culturally safe spaces for Indigenous professionals, and develop...