Latin film in NYC is at parks, drive-ins, theaters, presenters and festivals. Drive-Ins are popular during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Hollywood wastes its creative energy on shoot-em-ups and superheroes. Independent filmmakers produce much more interesting films. The Latin world is more connected with family and community, and Latin films reflect that. The Latin world is also more diverse and Latin movies reflect that too.
“Hamilton” the Original Broadway Cast Film is Streaming
DISNEY PLUS | Friday, July 3, 2020
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There are more films below, but first let’s break the film category down into festivals, presenters, awards and more.
Film Festivals
The Tribeca Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Havana Film Festival and more.
Film Presenters
Film at Lincoln Center, MoMA Film, Cinema Tropical and more.
Movie Theaters
Angelika Film Center, Film Forum, IFC Center, Drive-Ins and more.
Film Awards
The Oscars, Golden Globes, Cinema Tropical Awards and more.
More Latin Film
Paloma Suau Makes “El Accidente Feliz” with Puerto Rican Artist Antonio Martorell
PREGONES/PRTT Concourse, The Bronx | Wednesday, February 5, 2020 🇵🇷
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Scorsese’s “The Irishman” May Be the Last Mob Film
NETFLIX | Wednesday, November 27, 2019 🇮🇹
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Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria)
October 4, 2019 – February 25, 2020
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Antonio Banderas won Best Actor at Cannes starring in Pedro Almodóvar’s loosely autobiographical triptych about the life of an aging movie director. Penélope Cruz plays the young filmmaker’s mom. Nominated for Best Actor and Best International Feature Film Oscars.
Yuli
Sunday, July 14, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC ~ This inspiring movie tells the life story of Cuban ballet dance legend Carlos Acosta (Royal Ballet, Acosta Danza)
The Silence of Others asks What Happens When Crimes Against Humanity Go Unpunished
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇪🇸 May 8 – June 6, 2019
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Nona
TV ON DEMAND; Tue, Mar 19, 2019; Honduran movies ~ Nona (Sulem Calderon) trusts Hecho (Jesy MCKinney) to take her to her mother in America, but gets trafficked instead. The film launched first-time actress Calderon on the road to stardom, and it’s more than a movie. It’s a story that needs to be told and needs to be heard. This is real. By Michael Polish (2018).
“I am Cuba” is a Classic Soviet Film of Cuba in 1964
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇨🇺 February 15 – April 4, 2019
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“Birds of Passage” Made the 2019 Oscar Shortlist
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇨🇴🎞 February 14 – April 11, 2019
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Who will write our history
GREENWICH VILLAGE through Thu, Jan 31, 2019 ~ This unprecedented screening of the award-winning documentary at 350 venues in 55 countries and Facebook Live marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Not Jewish? It’s even more important to watch. Jewish documentary movie.
Que León
TIMES SQUARE & MORE, opened Jan 25, 2019, Dominican Puerto Rican movies in Spanish ~ This family romantic comedy with two Latin stars is a big hit in the Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico
The Image Book
LINCOLN CENTER, daily Jan 24 to Feb 7, 2019, French movies ~ A jaw-dropping kaleidoscope of sound and imagery from the 87-year old French New Wave master filmmaker.
“The Heiresses” is a Paraguayan Coming of Age Tale for a 60-Year Old Woman
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC
🇵🇾🎞 January 16-29, 2019
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“Boom for Real” Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sunday, December 22, 2019
“BOOM FOR REAL”
A documentary about Basquiat’s early years and the City that formed the landmark Haitian-Puerto Rican artist from Brooklyn
Roma
In theaters November 21, 2018 to March 21, 2019
NETFLIX
“Best director”
“Best Foreign Language Film”
Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón made the best film of 2018 in any language
Green Book
Nov 16, 2018 to Mar 28, 2019; Italian African movies Oscar winners ~ Oscar Best Picture, Golden Globes Best Musical or Comedy. When people who might seem different, actually live and work together, we discover our common humanity.
A Star is Born
Oct 5, 2018 – Apr 4, 2019
Lady Gaga follows Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland in one of the great love stories. “Shallow” won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Original Song.
CIELO Lights the Heavens Over Chile’s Atacama Desert
FILM FORUM, Hudson Square, NYC 🇨🇱🎞 August 15-21, 2018
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BlacKkKlansman
August 10 – October 11, 2018 ~ The Brooklyn director is at his best in this true story of a Black cop who infiltrated the KKK with the help of a Jewish cop.
OSCAR NOMINATIONS Best Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing & Original Score
CANNES Grand Prix
# african jewish movie
Wild Style
Celebrate the first Hip-Hop movie’s 35th Anniversary with original cast members and special guests where the movie’s climax was filmed.
SUMMERSTAGE
East River Park Bandshell
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Cocote
Winner of “Best Film” at Switzerland’s 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.
IFC Center
West Village, Manhattan
August 3 – 9, 2018
Brimstone & Glory
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
Prospect Park Bandshell
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Disobedience
The latest by the Academy Award-winning Argentine – Chilean director of ‘A Fantastic Woman’ and ‘Gloria.’
April 27 – July 12, 2018
‘Zama’ is Lucrecia Martel’s colonial Argentine story about waiting
Lucrecia Martel is one of the great Argentine directors. Argentina’s 2017 Oscars entry for “Best Foreign-Language Film” opened at Venice, then did well at Toronto and The New York Film Festival.
April 13 – June 24, 2018
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FANIA All Stars Live in Africa
Museum of the City of New York
East Harlem, Manhattan
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Netflix
Latin films on Netflix
Scorsese’s “The Irishman” May Be the Last Mob Film
NETFLIX | Wednesday, November 27, 2019 🇮🇹
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Roma
In theaters November 21, 2018 to March 21, 2019
NETFLIX
“Best director”
“Best Foreign Language Film”
Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón made the best film of 2018 in any language
John Leguizamo
NETFLIX, Oct 25, 2018 ~ Leguizamo makes it funny, but our ignorance of our own culture is no joke. We have a lot to be proud of – in our own culture and in our contributions to American culture.
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Latin Actors
John Leguizamo
NETFLIX, Oct 25, 2018 ~ Leguizamo makes it funny, but our ignorance of our own culture is no joke. We have a lot to be proud of – in our own culture and in our contributions to American culture.
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Modesto Lacen
The Puerto Rican actor best known for his role as Pedro Knight, the husband of Celia Cruz in the telenovela “Celia.”
Zoe Saldana
Dominican-Puerto Rican star
Opened citywide May 5
Now playing
Friday, June 9, 2017
Sofia Vergara
Forbes reports Sofia Vergara, the Colombian-American star of “Modern Family” is the highest paid actor in television
Rodrigo Santoro
An interview with Rodrigo Santoro on his latest film, Heleno, a powerful human drama about the passion, decadence and destruction of Heleno de Freitas.
The Types of Films a Country Makes Reveal the State of the Nation
As filmmaking gear has gotten better and cheaper, filmmakers across the Latin world have been energized.
The types of films a country makes, say a lot about that country. Countries that are very violent make Hollywood style shoot-em-up films (yes, we are Hollywood). Countries that have been taken over by narcotics traffickers make drug films. Countries that have gone through civil wars, make war movies.
But when countries begin to heal from whatever troubles they have, they begin to make films about reconciliation, diversity and so on.