A daring work, with references to Luis Buñuel and Federico Fellini and based on the Italian cult comic book by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti. STIGMATA follows Bruno as he struggles to understand why blood pours from his hands.. "A richly suggestive, chilly fable about a lonely, gentle giant struggling to deal with the consequences of blood literally pouring from his hands, Adan Aliaga's audacious, haunting debut Stigmata reps a distinctive calling card." - Jonathan Holland, Variety

Nicaragua's first full-length feature in 20 years, LA YUMA tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer. The film provides a glimpse of life in a country where gender and class inequality are an everyday challenge.. Winner of Best First Film at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

This award-winning Brazilian drama tells the story of Junior, a young player for Bacaxa A.C., an amateur football team from the city of Saquarema, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. He has to deal with the unexpected pregnancy of his girlfriend Karine, while his childhood best friend, Bento, signs a contract with a professional team. HOPEFULS follows Junior's growing jealousy as it reaches dangerous proportions.. Winner, Best Film and Best Director, Rio International Film Festival

Through her diary entries, eight-year-old Nieve reveals intimate details of a turbulent family life, which create an authentic portrait of the social and political unrest in Cuba under the rule of Castro. A celebration of freedom and a confrontation with the authoritarian Cuban regime of the 1980s, which led to one of the country's worst economic crises.. Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival.. "The film offers a window into desperate circumstances that defined the Cuban revolution, and delivers with it impeccable prose by an internationally celebrated author." - Nicole Martinez, Miami New Times

In this touching drama, fisherman Atilio travels with his granddaughter Lara to Buenos Aires. His great desire is to have a grandson to transmit the Guaraní culture. When he discovers that Lara's mother, Helena, is pregnant, he decides to go on a long journey with the aim to convince Helena to give birth in the Guarani land.... Winner of the European Vision Award at the Ventana Sur Film Festival. Nominated for the Nueva Vision Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.. "The film fascinates with a lifelike plot and beautiful cinematography...Guaraní is a heartfelt story you should certainly look at. " - Marleen Roosna, Postimees. "A journey of self discovery and reconciliation through the scenic Paraguayan countryside." - Leo Barraclough, Variety

A delightful life-changing journey back to Costa Rica. After living 10 years in New York, 30-year-old Antonio returns to San José, where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away from. A perspective of a middle-class family dealing with loss, insecurities, and identity in multiple forms.. Winner of Best International Feature at the New York Latino Film Festival.

Directed by the award-winning filmmaker Pablo Larrain ("Jackie"), this Golden Globe-nominated film features international star Gael García Bernal as a policeman chasing Pablo Neruda, perhaps the most important poet of the 20th century and a hugely influential political figure.. Blending visual grandeur and literary wit, NERUDA is a beguiling reinvention of the 'standard' cinematic biography. Playfully confounding expectations at every turn, the film offers a startling rumination on the split between the person and persona, the man and the artist.. Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language. Winner of Best Actor and the Cine Latino Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.. "Sweeping, poignant, bizarre, funny and unique." - Nicholas Barber, Newsweek

Blending documentary and fiction, the film follows a poor transgender woman in Chile who hears about a plastic surgery TV competition. She decides to try out, to pursue her gender reassignment surgery. There, she meets an enigmatic woman who hopes to emulate fashion icon Naomi Campbell. The film gains gravitas through its unforced look at class, race and gender.. Official Selection at Outfest and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.

In the '40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlist in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition, which has a mission to tame the Central Brazil. The Villas Boas brothers: Orlando, 27, Claudius, 25, and Leonardo, 23, engage in a fantastic and incredible saga. Soon start to lead the expedition that opens new paths 1,500 km, navigates over 1,000 miles of unspoilt rivers, opens 19 airfields for airplanes Army, gives rise to the creation of 43 towns and 14 make contact with wild Indian tribes, unknown, as the Xavante, courageous and feared warriors, no casualties on both sides. This adventure allows the Villas Boas brothers the creation of the Xingu National Park, the first major Amerindian reservation in Brazil, the size of Belgium, transforming them into true contemporary heroes ..

Class, family, and mental illness are among the themes explored in LA PAZ. The story opens with man named Liso leaving a psychiatric hospital to meet his indulgent parents at their comfortable home. After the confines of the institution, he struggles to re-adapt to his middle class life, though slowly, things begin to change. As Liso searches for a new balance, the discomforting aspects of his privileged life slowly emerge.. This affecting and intimate portrait of a one man's recovery amidst a dysfunctional family, LA PAZ has been screened internationally, and was named Best Argentinian Film at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and was featured at the Berlin International Film Festival.. "Powerful!" - Hollywood Reporter

Argentina, 1952: The death of Eva Peron sparks a 25-year clash between opposing military coups over the burial of her embalmed corpse, now a beloved and hated political symbol. Evita's posthumous legacy is told through a series of isolated incidents featuring the expert doctor obsessively carrying out her embalming, an army colonel's secret mission to transport the body back to Argentina, and the kidnapping of a military dictator who is forced to reveal the corpse's location.

Pablo, a 70-year-old retired professor, has shut himself away in his apartment since the day his wife was killed in a terrorist attack 20 years earlier. His son confronts the world with fear and hopelessness, as he struggles to get by without a job. Meanwhile, the world itself waits for its own end.