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Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 2020

Friday-Tuesday, February 14-18, 2020
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Upper West Side, NYC
Cinema Tropical co-produces one of New York City’s most important Latin film festivals. This year’s films are Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Indigenous, LGBT, Mexican and Peruvian.

Oscars 2020 Academy Awards

Sunday, February 9, 2020
ABC, DOLBY THEATRE
Hollywood, California
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“Parasite” makes history as the first non-English language film to win Best Picture. Puerto Rico-born Joaquin Phoenix wins Best Actor.
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Latin connections to this year’s nominees are Argentine, Brazilian, Creole, Cuban, French, Italian, Jewish, Malian, Mexican, Nigerian, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Spanish and Trinidadian.

Doc Fortnight 2020

February 5-19, 2020
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art
Midtown, NYC
MoMA Film’s documentary festival screens new African, Brazilian, Filipino, French, Ghanan, Italian and Lesothon films.

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.

Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2019

Wed-Sun, Nov 13-17, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE & LOWER EAST SIDE ~ Films by and of the Puerto Rican diaspora at Teatro Círculo, Cantor Film Center NYU, King Juan Carlos Center at NYU and Teatro SEA

May Sumak Film Festival 2019

June 14-16, 2019
Friday-Sunday
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador

Havana Film Festival New York 2019

MANHATTAN, BRONX, QUEENS; PREFEST Apr 5-8, FEST Apr 9-16, 2019; Latin American film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, Peruvian & Spanish movies, red carpet & parties, plus Cuban ballet legend CARLOS ACOSTA

New Directors/New Films 2019

LINCOLN CENTER & MIDTOWN; daily, Mar 27 – April 7, 2019; Film festival ~ New Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, French & Mexican filmmakers curated by NYC’s most respected film presenters

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).

Neighboring Scenes 2019

LINCOLN CENTER, Feb 22-26, 2019, Latin American film festival ~ Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Mexican, Peruvian and Uruguayan movies. Co-presented by Cinema Tropical.

Doc Fortnight 2019

MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections

Film Comment Selects 2019

LINCOLN CENTER, Wed-Sun, Feb 6-10, 2019, Film festival with Brazilian, Chilean, French & Spanish movies curated by Film Comment magazine editors.

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.