A clever and emotionally layered debut performance from Gonzalo Delgado is the heart of this portrait of an artist in crisis from Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Veiroj (The Apostate, ND/NF 2016).

Gorgeously shot by Diego García, the latest from Mexican director Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, Post Tenebras Lux) is a bold and heartfelt exploration of marriage and intimacy.

Absurdist, macabre, and exhilarating, Buy Me a Gun is like a cross between The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Mad Max as told through Hernández Cordón’s lo-fi futurist visual style.

Winner of Un Certain Regard’s special jury prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s hybrid is a dramatically intriguing, richly textured portrait of grief and the threats facing ancient traditions by modern society.

Ignacio Juricic Merillán’s assured and understated debut feature follows a 54-year-old neighborhood hairdresser who is asked to appear on a TV show about the violent death of her lesbian daughter years earlier. Screening with José Luis Torres Leiva’s Sobre cosas que me han pasado.

In Óscar Catacora’s acclaimed debut feature—the first Peruvian movie shot entirely in the Aymara language—an elderly couple living in a remote part of the Andes faces the challenges of daily life with courage and determination. Screening with Lina Rodriguez’s Before My Eyes.

In Alejandro Fadel’s genre-bending and offbeat philosophical horror movie, rural police officer Cruz investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman’s body found in a remote region of the Andes.

At 66, Nona lives alone and is recuperating from cataract surgery, while a mysterious fire ravages acres of forest in southern Chile and generates unrest in her otherwise sleepy town. Screening with Benjamín Naishtat’s A Local Kind of God.

A beguiling and enigmatic nocturnal experience, set in the peripheral and desolate spaces of the Brazilian city Belo Horizonte, Ewerton Belico and Samuel Marotta’s debut feature gradually wanders into the dreamlike territory of a trance film.

Incorporating archival footage recorded during Alfredo Ovando Candia’s military de facto government, home movies, and interviews with relatives, Bolivian filmmaker Mauricio Alfredo Ovando’s debut feature juxtaposes his family’s memories of his grandfather with the official history. Screening with Luis Arnías’s Punky Eye.

A remarkable ensemble of young nonprofessional actors carries Argentine director Iván Fund’s lyrical film—an oneiric vision of the apocalypse in which a strange incident has left the adults of a working-class neighborhood in an everlasting slumber. Screening with Luis Alejandro Yero’s The Cemetery Lightens.

Winner of Best Mexican Feature Documentary at the Morelia Film Festival, the third feature film by Spanish-born director Nuria Ibáñez (The Tightrope, The Naked Room) follows Chilo and Omar, who seem to be the only two men on earth. Screening with Paola Buontempo’s The Forces.

For this edition of Neighboring Scenes, we are pleased to present a selection of Williams’s short films and celebrate the young auteur as he continues to realize his bold, singular vision—featuring the North American premiere of his latest film, Parsi (in collaboration with Mariano Blatt).