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New York Latin Film Festivals Archive

The New York Latin Film Festivals Archive contains New York Latin Culture Magazine's feature coverage of film festivals in New York City and around the world since 2013.

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Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 2020

Pedro Lemebel in "Lemebel" (Joanna Reposi Garibaldi/Film at Lincoln Center)

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.

Doc Fortnight 2020

MoMA Doc Fortnight, "La Mami" by Laura Herrero Garvin (Dogwoof)

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.

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

Watch the Venice Film Festival for future Oscar winners

76th Venice Film Festival opens. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia.

Aug 28 – Sep 7, 2019
VENICE, Italy ~ The Truth (France), The Laundromat (Panama), Joker (Puerto Rico), Wasp Network (Cuba, Spain, Venezuela, Mexico) and The King (France) are big movies with Latin connections

Dominican Film Festival New York 2019

July 23-28, 2019
NEW YORK CITY
See the best new movies made in the Dominican Republic and by the Dominican diaspora, and network and party with Dominican filmmakers

Dance on Camera Festival 2019

A still from "Play Serious." Courtesy T.M. Rives.

Fri-Mon, July 12-15, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC ~ The world’s longest-running dance film festival is screening Cuban, Disability, French and Spanish dance films

May Sumak Film Festival 2019

May Sumak Film Festival (Courtesy MSFF)

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

Havana Film Festival New York still from the Carlos Acosta documentary 'Yuli' (The Match Factory/HFFNY)

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

Oscars 2019, 91st Academy Award Winners

HOLLYWOOD & ABC; Sun, Feb 24, 2019; Movie awards ~ Green Book, Roma, BlackKklansman, Black Panther, A Star is Born

New York International Children’s Film Festival 2019

Tepulpai & Naïra in 'Pachamama.' Courtesy Juan Antin.

MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN & QUEENS, Weekends, Feb 22 – Mar 17, 2019 ~ Children’s movies from Andorra, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Portugal and Spain

Neighboring Scenes 2019

Gonzalo Delgado

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

A still from 'The Offering' screening at Doc Fortnight 2019. Courtesy Guille Isa and Bill Silva.

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

A scene from 'Los Silencios' (2018). Courtesy Pyramide Distribution.

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

Oscar Nominations for African, Indigenous, Italian & Mexican movies

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, Tue, Jan 22, 2019 ~ Roma, Green Book, A Star is Born, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Hale County, This Morning, This Evening, and Mother are recognized.
# awards african indigenous italian mexican spanish

Oscar Shortlist 2019

HOLLYWOOD, Dec 17, 2018
“Roma” (Mexico)
“Birds of Passage” (Colombia)
“The Silence of Others” (Spain)
“Crime + Punishment” (Black & Latino)
“Los Comandos” (El Salvador)
# colombian mexican salvadoran spanish movies

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the big North American film festivalr

Courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, French, Israeli, Italian, Mexican, Filipino, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Romanian, Spanish, Uruguayan and Venezuelan films.
~
Toronto, Canada
September 6 – 16, 2018

Venice Film Festival 2018 launches award-winning films

Venice Film Festival 2018. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

One of the big 3 European film festivals is known for launching films that win Academy Awards.
Lido di Venezia in Venice, Italy
August 29-September 8, 2018

Dominican Film Festival 2018

FESTIVAL
Multiple venues
Tuesday – Sunday
July 24 – 29, 2018

CLOSING NIGHT
‘Hermanos’
AMC Empire 25
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Sunday, July 29, 2018

Dance on Camera Festival 2018

A still of Marcelo Gomes (Brazilian) in 'Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer.' Courtesy of David Barba & James Pellerito / Film Society of Lincoln Center.

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER, Fri-Tue, July 20 – 24, 2018 ~ The world’s oldest dance film festival dances on

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2018

Still from 'The Silence of Others' at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2018.

Filipino, French, Spanish & Venezuelan films.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
June 14 – 21, 2018

Art of the Real 2018

Mexican director Nicolás Pereda. Courtesy of the artist / Film Society.

FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | April 26 – May 6, 2018 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇷🇴

Havana Film Festival New York 2018 new Latin American cinema

19th Havana Film Festival 2018

Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Mexican, Paraguayan and Venezuelan films plus tributes to Senel Paz (Cuban), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Cuban), and Fernando Birri (Argentine).
AMC Loews 34th St in Chelsea, and other venues in Manhattan, Queens & The Bronx
OPENING NIGHT
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
FESTIVAL April 6 – 17, 2018

New Directors/New Films 2018

A still from 'Azougue Nazare.' Courtesy of Tiago Melo / Film Society of Lincoln Center / MoMA.

Movies by new Brazilian, Dominican, Filipino, French, and Portuguese directors.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
Upper West Side, Manhattan

MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art
Midtown, Manhattan

March 28 – April 8, 2018

ReelAbilities Film Festival NY 2018

Courtesy of ReelAbilities Film Festival NY

MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN, UPPER WEST SIDE, Thu-Wed, March 8-14, 2018 ~ Inspiring movies about Brazilian, Colombian, Italian, & Catalan-Spanish people with different abilities
#JEWISH #DISABILITIES #FILMFESTIVAL

Neighboring Scenes 2018

Adriana Alvarez & Natalia Arias in 'Lightning Falls Behind.' Courtesy of Julio Hernández Cordón / Film Society.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
Wednesday – Sunday
February 28 – March 4, 2018

New York International Children’s Film Festival 2018

"March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step." Courtesy of The Next Step: Creative Artists Agency.

Be the first to see the next generation of children’s cinema.
Cinépolis Chelsea, IFC Center, Scandinavia House, SVA Theatre in Manhattan
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Downtown Brooklyn
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, Queens
Weekends, February 23 – March 18, 2018
Saturday – Sunday
ENDING
March 17 – 18, 2018

Film Comment Selects 2018

'Life and Nothing More.' Courtesy of Antonio Mendez Esparza / Film Comment.

‘Film Comment’ Magazine’s annual festival of distinctive premieres and revivals.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
February 23 – 27, 2018

Doc Fortnight 2018

'Híbridos, Spirits of Brazil.' 2017. Courtesy of Vincent Moon / MoMA.

MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art
Midtown, Manhattan
Daily February 15 – 26, 2018

A Fantastic Woman

Daniela Vega in 'A Fantastic Woman.' Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.

Marina, a waitress and singer, faces rejection while mourning the death of her boyfriend. By Argentine – Chilean director Sebastián Lelio.
February 2 – May 17, 2018

27th New York Jewish Film Festival (2018)

Josef Hader as Stefan Zweig

Film Society of Lincoln Center
144 West 65th St
between Amsterdam & Columbus
Lincoln Center
January 10 – 23, 2018

Corto Circuito 2017 Latino Shorts Film Festival New York

SVA Theatre & La Nacional
Chelsea, Manhattan
Colombian Consulate & Instituto Cervantes
Midtown East, Manhattan
Monday – Thursday
November 13 – 16, 2017

Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2017 screens Mexico and Puppets

Teatro Sea, Lower East Side
Mount Sinai, Upper East Side
NYU Cantor Film Center, Greenwich Village
Cinépolis, Chelsea
Wednesday – Sunday
November 8 – 12, 2017

Venice International Film Festival 2017

Golden Lion | courtesy of the Venice International Film Festival

Palazzo del Cinema
Lido island, Venice, Italy
August 30-September 9, 2017

Lincoln Center at the Movies

Central Park SummerStage
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Dominican Film Festival in New York 2017

United Palace
Washington Heights
and other venues
July 25-30, 2017

Havana Film Festival New York 2017

At the Directors Guild Theatre and other venues Mar 30 – Apr 7, 2017

New Directors/New Films 2017

New Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, & Mexican directors
MoMA, Midtown
Film Society of Lincoln Center
March 15-26, 2017

Cinema Tropical Festival

A still from "Tempestad" at the Cinema Tropical Festival

Award-winning Argentine, Brazilian, Dominican, and Mexican films at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, Feb 24-26, 2017

Dance on Camera Festival 2017

La Medea by Yara Travieso at the Dance on Camera Film Festival

The world’s longest-running dance film festival screens Cuban, Brazilian, and Venezuelan filmmakers at Film Society of Lincoln Center Feb 3-7, 2017

Neighboring Scenes 2017

Still from "Surire" part of Neighboring Scenes 2017

Film Society of Lincoln Center
January 26 – 31, 2017

CINEFEST 2016

CINEFEST 2016 Bajari Gypsy Barcelona

A showcase of recent films from across the Spanish-speaking world curated by the The New School’s Foreign Languages department
The New School
Friday, April 15 from 4-10pm
Friday, April 22 from 4-10pm

Neighboring Scenes 2016

Ixcanul ~ Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema

Contemporary Latin American cinema showcase
Film Society of Lincoln Center
January 7 – 10, 2016

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