A refreshing and youthful recount of an unexpected romance that unfolds amidst the luscious Costa Rican forest.

Lucho is a young Puerto Rican boy. He is overweight and rides a bicycle—the picture of innocence. No one in his barrio suspects that he is a drug mule. Fausto, a former boxer, tirelessly trains his son Santito to become a fearsome fighter, monetizing his skills in the underground fighting scene so to pay off a hefty gambling debt. Ingrid works as a nurse, helping drug-addicted women give birth, but her dream is to have a child of her own.

Lucho’s sister’s addict boyfriend gets a crazy proposal: his dealer wants to have sex with his girlfriend and her friends in exchange for a year’s supply of drugs. This sordid agreement will set into motion a series of dramatic events, merging these otherwise discreet narratives and propelling The Farm toward its chilling climax.

Akin in structure and tenor to Alejandro González Iñarritu’s now-classic debut Amores Perros, Angel Manuel Soto’s feature debut is an electrifying portrayal of the hardships and hopelessness of life in modern Puerto Rico, a place where economic woes, perilous drugs and crude social dynamics coalesce, creating a tense environment that these characters will have to work hard to survive. – Andres Castillo

A group of teens spend their days amidst parties, sex, and any adventure that brings a jolt of excitement. Their lifestyle brings to light the fissures in the perfect world they believe they live in.

The unexpected death of their boss sends a group of employees into a whirlwind of emotions, leading to the unleashing of their darkest secrets.

When Enzo borrows a car from the parking garage he works at and the car’s owner fi nds out, his fun night out soon becomes a living nightmare.

Look, don’t touch. Caution permeates this subtle and unlikely romance between a middle-aged loner and a young street tough.

On a torrentially rainy morning in Valencia, six men enter a bank shortly after it opens and commence a hold-up. They don plastic masks that do not completely obscure their faces yet strip them of all distinguishing characteristics, giving the proceedings a frightening twist of perversity. These thieves are clearly human, yet they are acting monstrously.

This monstrousness creates anxiety and strife even amongst the thieves themselves. The leader of the pack, known only as El Uruguayo (played with smarmy charisma by Motorcycle Diaries’ Rodrigo de la Serna), does not possess the same baseline moral integrity as does El Gallego (the always magnetic Luis Tosar), and as their carefully laid plans begin to unravel, sundry betrayals erode any hope for escape from the thorny mess. Who exactly will emerge with “one hundred years of forgiveness” from it is a question that will not be settled until the final shot.

Daniel Calparsoro, whose Invasor exuded such moral and visceral power, is at the top of his game with Cien años de perdón, a superior heist thriller that never lets up in terms of pace, tension or atmosphere. – Jaie Laplante

São Paulo best friends Julia, Micaela and Diego enter their thirties entirely unprepared for the considerations of adult maturity. Julia has chosen to remain blind to the obvious signs that her current boyfriend is a two-timing cad, but her eyes are forced wide-open when she discovers that she is pregnant with his child. Diego (played by pop-rock star Thiago Pethit in his big-screen debut) is a party boy with daddy issues who can’t stay faithful to his sweet, dependable boyfriend. Micaela, meanwhile, is wasting her time chasing a bisexual actress who won’t even acknowledge their shared intimacy in private. As these three charismatic but troubled friends keep spinning their wheels, even their own chosen-family bonds get stress-tested to their breaking point.

Writer-director Vera Egito, who shares her characters’ age and background, delivers the sort of insightful, exacting generational portrait that could only come from a clear-eyed and tough-minded young artist. She masterfully creates vibrant, fully realized characters that speak to a world extending far beyond the limits of São Paulo, touching on anxieties and aspirations that are truly universal. – Jaie Laplante

Turco is a salt-of-the-earth Afro-Colombian fisherman forced from his coastal home by Colombia’s ongoing civil war. Like so many others,…

This film is also a part of the Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Competition.   This film is preceded by the…

When her husband Gustavo (Daniel Hendler) goes to the south of Chile to shoot a documentary, young mother Liz (Julieta…

In mid-1990s Buenos Aires, 16-year-old Cielo Latini (Eugenia Suárez) turns to the alluring novelty of the internet as a relief…

Two men, one woman, a love triangle, and a desire stronger than the wild desert terrain they live in. Leonardo, the bride, and the groom have been inseparable friends since childhood. But the day before the wedding, an unexpected turn of events shifts their destiny.

Two teenage buddies are determined to beat their circumstances of broken homes and petty theft in this a high-energy, feel-good movie with a good dose of humor and grit. Nothing in Exchange won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Málaga Film Festival.

Magallanes (Damián Alcázar) works as a taxi driver in the streets of Lima. But he has another job chauffeuring a…

It seems simple: an egg + sperm = one embryo. But if your sperms are “few, vague and abnormal” and your woman is almost menopausal at age 37, things start to get complicated.

Already heartbroken over her husband’s having abandoned her to vacation with another, younger woman, Magda suddenly learns she has breast cancer and must undertake both painful radiation treatments and a mastectomy. Armed with formidable resolve, Magda goes directly from receiving her devastating diagnosis to her son’s soccer practice—where she encounters Arturo, a scout for Spanish giants Real Madrid, perched nearby on the bleachers. Within minutes of their meeting, Arturo receives a phone call with the terrible news that his wife and daughter have been in a grave accident. Magda helps Arturo to the hospital where his wife lays in a coma. In the grueling hours and days that follow Magda and Arturo will forge a bond that will fortify their capacity for love and endurance as they face the hardest times of their lives.

Suave secret agent Anacleto lives a life of international intrigue and constant danger—unbeknownst to his son, Adolfo, who works dull shifts as a security guard.  But when a criminal mastermind seeks revenge on Anacleto, their father-son relationship is shifted into in delirious overdrive, in this giddy romp of a spy movie parody.

How do you reconcile the fact that the woman of your dreams does not want kids with the fact that you adore your daughter?