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New York Latin Film Archive

The New York Latin Film Archive contains New York Latin Culture Magazine's feature coverage of Latin film in New York City.

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The 61st New York Film Festival Screens the Heartbeat of New World Cinema

61st New York Film Festival 2023 (Pictures of Ghosts/Grasshopper Film)

The New York Film Festival 2023 is the 61st edition of one of the longest-running and most respected film festivals in the United States. New York is a film city. The American film industry began here. New York is also closer to Europe than a lot of the US, so the festival leans European as well. But it also shows great Latin films, and seems close to the small, but vibrant … [Read more...] about The 61st New York Film Festival Screens the Heartbeat of New World Cinema

Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to NYC

Brasil Summerfest 2023 (Viacheslav Dubrovin/Dreamstime)

Brasil Summerfest 2023 brings the latest currents of Brazilian music, film and dance to New York City. Brasil Summerfest 2023 Lineup SUMMERSTAGEMarisa Monte sings MPB (Brazilian Pop Music), with openers Joana Amodeira & Fred Martins singing Brazilian fado (Portuguese folk music), and New York's own Music From the Sole showing off tap dance's relationship to … [Read more...] about Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to NYC

Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture

Tribeca Film Festival 2023 (Jon Bilous/Adobe)

The Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is screening several Latin films that give unique perspectives on Latin culture and other international points of view, in Tribeca and around town; June 7-18, 2023. Tribeca Film Festival 2023 Boca Chica "Boca Chica," by Gabriella Moses, is the story of twelve-year old Desi who sings in the local choir, but dreams of becoming a … [Read more...] about Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture

Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 Screens Stories About Life & Those Who Live It

Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 (Philipimage/Adobe)

The Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 is an international film festival with an independent focus. It's Brooklyn! 26th Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 This year's festival focuses on stories about life and those who live it, or more succinctly "human times." Pretty much everyone walking around Brooklyn qualifies for that. Manhattan is dead. Long live Brooklyn! And Brooklynites … [Read more...] about Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 Screens Stories About Life & Those Who Live It

Open Roads New Italian Cinema is a Window on Italian Culture

Open Roads New Italian Cinema 2023 (Princess/Roberto de Paolis)

The Open Roads New Italian Cinema 2023 film festival brings Italian movie legends and emerging filmmakers to Lincoln Center screens. Italians have a particular sense of style and humor, so there are many interesting films to choose from. Open Roads New Italian Cinema 2023 The opening-night film is Francesca Archibugi's "The Hummingbird," an adaptation of Sandro Veronesi's … [Read more...] about Open Roads New Italian Cinema is a Window on Italian Culture

Human Rights Watch Film Festival Brings Global Problems into Focus

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023 (We Are Guardians/Fernanda Luna)

The 34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2023 is at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center in the West Village, May 31 - June 11, 2023. $15. 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇺🇬 The festival's cast of filmmakers, film subjects, journalists, activists and academics lift the conversation about what's really happening in the world today. We have a lot of problems that we can only solve together. … [Read more...] about Human Rights Watch Film Festival Brings Global Problems into Focus

The Little Mermaid 2023 Looks Like Me

"The Little Mermaid" 2023 (Walt Disney Pictures)

Disney's "The Little Mermaid" opens citywide on Friday, May 26, 2023. This isn't a Latin film, but it will have a broad impact across the Latin world because it gives many little girls around the world a chance to see someone like themselves in a great starring role. The Little Mermaid Disney's "The Little Mermaid" is based on the the Hans Christian Andersen fairy … [Read more...] about The Little Mermaid 2023 Looks Like Me

Harlem International Film Festival 2023 Brings the Spotlight Uptown

Harlem International Film Festival 2023 (serhiilbobyk/Dreamstime)

The 18th Harlem International Film Festival 2023 opens with the New York premiere of Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton's "Blow Up My Life" at the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 Theatre; on Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 6:30pm. The Friday night red carpet gala has many filmmakers in attendance with two spotlight presentations. There is the world premiere of two episodes of STARZ' … [Read more...] about Harlem International Film Festival 2023 Brings the Spotlight Uptown

The New York African Film Festival 2023 Free Forms into Film Africa

New York African Film Festival 2023 (Xalé/SetBestSet, Les Films du Continent)

The New York African Film Festival 2023 celebrates its 30th Anniversary of "free forms" at Film at Lincoln Center and Maysles Center. The festival wraps up as Film Africa at Brooklyn Academy of Music: BAM. We are at the beginning of a global renaissance of African and African Diaspora culture. This time it includes the voices and creative power of women, the very guardians … [Read more...] about The New York African Film Festival 2023 Free Forms into Film Africa

Colombian Film Festival NY 2023 Brings the Best of Colombian Cinema to New York City

Colombian Film Festival NY 2023 (Ryan Deberardinis/Dreamstime)

The Colombian Film Festival NY 2023 brings the best of Colombian cinema to Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, from May 4-7, 2023. colfilmny.com 🇨🇴 10th Colombian Film Festival NY 2023 The festival opens with Carlos Ospina's 2022 documentary "Viva Edy!" It's the story of Edy Martinez, who was not only one of Colombia's most important jazz pianists, but also an … [Read more...] about Colombian Film Festival NY 2023 Brings the Best of Colombian Cinema to New York City

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 is a World Full of Music & Soul

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 (Susana Baca "Memoria Viva"/Mark Dixon)

The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2o23 is a Harlem-based film festival about the experience of people of color around the world. African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 digs into the theme of "Music & Soul in the African Diaspora" as a force for social change. It's screening American, … [Read more...] about African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 is a World Full of Music & Soul

Dry Ground Burning Moves Real Brazilian Women on the Edge to the Front and Center

"Dry Ground Burning" (Grasshopper Films)

Dry Ground Burning "Dry Ground Burning," the Brazilian docudrama by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós, is Cinema Tropical's "Best Latin American Film of the Year." A Real Story The entire world has entered a period of change, and it is starting to get uncomfortable. The post-colonial system of exploitation is on the ropes. The climate is breaking faster than we can … [Read more...] about Dry Ground Burning Moves Real Brazilian Women on the Edge to the Front and Center

NYICFF 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival is Live Again With Great Latin Films

NYCIFF 2023 New York International Childrens Film Festival (Iakov Filimonov/Dreamstime)

The NYICFF 2023 New York International Children's Film Festival screens Oscar-qualifying children's films for a variety of ages. Many of these films are simply entertaining, but there is more going on at the NYICFF. Growing up seems harder today than it used to be, because children are exposed to so much, so fast now. Our culture makes unhealthy choices seem exciting, so it … [Read more...] about NYICFF 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival is Live Again With Great Latin Films

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2023 Screens the Diversity of Modern France at Film at Lincoln Center

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2023 (Nene Superstar/Eva Duriez, Ramzi Ben Sliman)

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2023 is a showcase of contemporary French film co-produced by Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center. The country that invented cinema and whose culture led the world before New York, is working on redefining itself as a nation with a diversity of faces. The progress is uneven because France has some rather rigid social structures, and we are all … [Read more...] about Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2023 Screens the Diversity of Modern France at Film at Lincoln Center

Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present

Doc Fortnight 2023 (Llamadas desde Moscú/Luis Alejandro Yero)

MoMA Doc Fortnight 2023 is the Museum of Modern Art's festival of new international documentary film. It's an important festival because the Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world's great film collections. Art follows the times, and occasionally leads it. This film festival gives a bird's eye view into what's happening in the world. 22nd MoMA Doc Fortnight … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present

Dance on Camera Festival 2023 Brings Dance to the Big Screen at Film at Lincoln Center

Dance On Camera Festival 2023 (Ghostly Labor/John Jota Leaños and Vanessa Sanchez)

The Dance on Camera Festival 2023 is a film festival of dance films co-produced by the Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center. The world's longest-running dance film festival brings dance storytelling to the big screen, and connects dancers and dance companies with audiences they might not reach otherwise. 51st Dance on Camera Festival 2023 The 51st … [Read more...] about Dance on Camera Festival 2023 Brings Dance to the Big Screen at Film at Lincoln Center

“Saint Omer,” France’s Oscar Entry, is at Film at Lincoln Center

A still from "Saint Omer" by Alice Diop. Courtesy Laurent Le Crabe.

"Saint Omer" is Alice Diop's 2022 film about a pregnant French journalist who becomes absorbed in the trial of a Senegalese woman who admits killing her baby daughter, blaming it on sorcery. In traditional cultures, that might be a valid reason. The experience triggers the journalist's own memories of her mother, and worries about her own coming motherhood. Diop is a French … [Read more...] about “Saint Omer,” France’s Oscar Entry, is at Film at Lincoln Center

New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 Screens the World at Film at Lincoln Center

New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 (America: Ofir Raul Graizer)

The 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 screens the Jewish experience from around the world. 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 The 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023, coproduced with the Jewish Museum, screens 29 Jewish films from around the world; at Film at Lincoln Center in the Walter Reade Theater; from January 12-23, 2023. 🇺🇸 🇬🇹 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇿🇦 | 🇮🇱 … [Read more...] about New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 Screens the World at Film at Lincoln Center

Alcarràs, Spain’s Oscar Entry, Screens at Film at Lincoln Center

A still from "Alcarràs," courtesy Carla Simón.

“Alcarràs” is Carla Simón’s 2022 film about a Catalan family facing the possibility that the land they farm will be turned into a solar farm. How do you plan for a future that doesn't include you and your family? Alcarràs Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s 2022 film about a Catalan family facing a future where the land they farm will be turned into a solar farm, won the Golden Bear … [Read more...] about Alcarràs, Spain’s Oscar Entry, Screens at Film at Lincoln Center

Remember Chadwick Boseman “Black Panther”

Chadwick Boseman "Black Panther" (David Pillow/Dreamstime)

Chadwick Boseman was an award-winning American actor who is most famous as the star of "The Black Panther." He actually starred in many great roles including: Jackie Robinson in "42" (2013), James Brown in "Get on Up" (2014), Thurgood Marshall in "Marshall" (2017). His last film was "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," an August Wilson Jazz story about how Black creativity keeps … [Read more...] about Remember Chadwick Boseman “Black Panther”

Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 Brings Contemporary Mexican Culture to NYC

Celebrate Mexico Now (Lukas/Adobe)

Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 is New York City's festival of contemporary Mexican culture. The festival is produced by CN Management, one of NYC's top Mexican American programmers. It has presented over 300 Mexican artists in NYC's leading cultural venues. Mexico has such great historic traditions that it is easy to miss what is happening there now. Many have reported … [Read more...] about Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 Brings Contemporary Mexican Culture to NYC

International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is at El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival (alexlmx/Adobe)

The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is a community film festival that develops filmmaking opportunities for Puerto Ricans on the island and across the Diaspora. International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is at El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, and Julia de … [Read more...] about International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is at El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

DOC NYC 2022

DOC NYC (Guruxox/Dreamstime)

DOC NYC 2022 is America's biggest documentary film festival, and considered one of the best in the world. 13th DOC NYC 2022 DOC NYC 2022, America's largest documentary film festival, is at IFC Center in Manhattan's West Village, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea, Wednesday, November 9-17, 2022. It continues online to November 27. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 ✡️ 🇻🇪 🇺🇸 The … [Read more...] about DOC NYC 2022

Dominican Film Festival New York 2022

Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 (Valentin Valkov/Adobe)

The Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is a showcase of movies made in the Dominican Republic or by the Dominican Diaspora. The festival is growing and changing this year. It's now the Dominican Film Festival New York, AND the Dominican Film Festival New Jersey. Congratulations to the team for building one of the fastest-growing Latin film festivals in the United States. … [Read more...] about Dominican Film Festival New York 2022

The Queens World Film Festival 2022 is at Five Venues in Queens

Queens World Film Festival (Evan Spiler/Dreamstime)

The Queens World Film Festival 2022 brings independent cinema to the people of Queens, NYC. 12th Queens World Film Festival 2022 The 12th Queens World Film Festival 2022 brings 157 films from 27 countries to the Queens Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Kaufman Astoria Studios and The Local, in Queens, Tuesday-Sunday, November 1-6, 2022. From $15. … [Read more...] about The Queens World Film Festival 2022 is at Five Venues in Queens

Havana Film Festival New York 2022

The Havana Film Festival New York mother festival is at the Payet Theater in Havana, Cuba. (Maisna/Dreamstime)

The Havana Film Festival New York 2022 screens Latin American films you won't see anywhere else in NYC. These are not Hollywood blockbusters. They are the exact opposite. Havana Film Festival selections have great storytelling and emotional depth that is beyond the comprehension of most Hollywood filmmakers. Non-English films are screened with subtitles. There are usually … [Read more...] about Havana Film Festival New York 2022

Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World

Bushwick Film Festival 2022 (Mantoniuk/Dreamstime)

The Bushwick Film Festival 2022 was founded by Liberia-born, NYU Steinhardt graduate, Kweighbaye Kotee in 2007 to provide opportunities to Brooklyn filmmakers of color. There are feature narrative and documentary films, plus many shorts. It's like other film festivals with actors and directors, premieres, networking and Q&As. But it also has a strong community … [Read more...] about Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World

New York Film Festival 2022 Main Slate Features 32 Movies From 18 Countries at Film at Lincoln Center

New York Film Festival 2022 (Trenque Lauque/Laura Citarella)

The New York Film Festival 2022 is the 60th edition of NYC's grand film festival. One of the main reasons to attend a film festival is to learn and network with the industry. There are many world, U.S. and New York premieres. Some of the biggest names in the film industry will be here. Many filmmakers and actors are present for red carpets and Q&As. 60th New York … [Read more...] about New York Film Festival 2022 Main Slate Features 32 Movies From 18 Countries at Film at Lincoln Center

Harlem Week 2022 is a Great Black Arts Festival

Harlem Week 2022 (Rick/Adobe)

Harlem Week 2022 is a celebration of the culture and people of Harlem, Manhattan, one of NYC's most important cultural forges. Harlem Week 2022 Harlem Week 2022 is a Black Arts festival in and around Harlem from August 12-21, 2022. Ticketed and Free events. Highlights Great Jazz on the Great Hill is a Jazz concert on the Great Hill in Central Park on Saturday, … [Read more...] about Harlem Week 2022 is a Great Black Arts Festival

Arte Pa’ Mi Gente 2022 Children’s Arts Festival is at The Clemente

Arte Pa' Mi Gente (Pixelbox/Adobe)

Arte Pa' Mi Gente 2022 is a multidisciplinary children's arts festival produced by Teatro SEA at The Clemente. The title means "Art for my people" written with a Caribbean accent. The title recalls Hector Lavoe's anthem "Mi Gente." "¿Mi Gente? Ustedes." Arte Pa' Mi Gente 2022 The Arte Pa' Mi Gente 2022 children's arts festival celebrates the theme "Archipelago of … [Read more...] about Arte Pa’ Mi Gente 2022 Children’s Arts Festival is at The Clemente

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