Latin America

Travel to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and beyond with MIFF’s selection of Latin American films, including two accounts of Indigenous resistance and the latest from Lisandro Alonso and Amat Escalante.

The Buriti Flower

Directors João Salaviza , Renée Nader Messora

This Cannes-winning blend of documentary and fiction is an intoxicating portrait of the Indigenous Krahô people and their unwavering resistance.

Charcoal

Director Carolina Markowicz

A Brazilian family caring for their ailing patriarch make a diabolical deal to shelter a drug don in this tense, darkly comic thriller.

The Delinquents

Director Rodrigo Moreno

In this gently surreal, formally bold Argentinian take on the heist film, two bumbling bandits try to buy their liberty.

Eureka

Director Lisandro Alonso

Slow cinema auteur Lisandro Alonso and actor Viggo Mortensen reunite for a free-flowing triptych of meditations on colonialism past and present.

The Face of the Jellyfish

Director Melisa Liebenthal

In this Kafkaesque comedy for the selfie age, a woman must confront just what makes her identity her own after her face abruptly changes overnight.

Sorcery

Director Christopher Murray

Witchcraft, revenge and Indigenous rancour swell in this atmospheric, anti-colonial bildungsroman set in 19th-century Chile.

Trenque Lauquen

Director Laura Citarella

This dazzling rabbit hole of a film, which evokes cinephile Everest La Flor (MIFF 2019), sketches the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a woman’s disappearance.