With unprecedented access and footage, and an uncanny resonance with the recent political upheaval in Chile, Joanna Reposi Garibaldi’s documentary about writer and visual artist Pedro Lemebel is an intimate and poetic journey through the controversial artist’s risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights.

Moving freely between documentary and scripted drama, Argentine novelist, actor, and playwright Romina Paula’s debut feature is a rich and surprising personal work exploring the poignant emotional landscape of motherhood. Screening with Daniela Delgado Viteri’s Shortcuts.

Winner of the top prize for Best Medium-Length Film at Visions du Réel, the second film by Bolivian director Miguel Hilari (The Corral and the Wind) is a lyrical and mystical documentary about the migration of an indigenous community to the city. Screening with Hilari’s Bocamina.

Inspired by a line of poetry by Cesare Pavese, Chilean filmmaker José Luis Torres Leiva’s latest feature is an intensely felt tone poem about mortality and selfless love, starring Amparo Noguera (A Fantastic Woman) and Julieta Figueroa.

In his latest film since the 2016 double bill of Neruda and Jackie, Pablo Larraín returns to present-day Chile to tell this incendiary portrait of a young woman in rebellion, brilliantly acted by Mariana Di Girolamo. A Music Box Films release.

Director Salomón Pérez’s debut feature, set in the Peruvian city of Trujillo, depicts the world through the eyes of teenager Renzo, a skater with no clear idea about his future, and Zoe, a girl obsessed with drawing the city’s maze of antennae and cables.

Brazilian filmmaker Maíra Bühler’s documentary is a powerful and delicate portrait of the Dom Pedro hostel and its inhabitants who fight for life in solidarity. Screening with Pablo Mazzolo’s Green Ash.

In Federico Atehortúa’s film essay, a family accident leads to the director discovering the uncanny relationship between his mother, the origins of Colombian cinema, and recent events in the country’s prolonged armed conflict.

Winner of Best Mexican Film at the 2019 FICUNAM International Cinema Festival, Clemente Castor’s debut feature is a format-shifting hangout film distinguished by its young director’s visionary, oddball perspective. Screening with Alejandro Alonso’s Home.

In his latest documentary, Argentinean filmmaker Andrés Di Tella uses photos and love letters from his late parents—his father, Torcuato, born in Argentina; and mother, Kamala, from India—to create an intimate portrait of a turbulent 20th-century love story.

Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Lucía Garibaldi’s assured and understated debut feature is an engaging and provocative coming-of-age tale centered on a 14-year-old girl living in a small beach resort rumored to be plagued by sharks.

Jo Serfarty’s spirited debut feature, set in Rio de Janeiro, follows four teenage high-schoolers from the favelas—Karol, Junior, Ronaldo, and Caio—as they plan their summer. Screening with Ulises Conti’s Persona 5.

The most recent film by acclaimed director Marcelo Gomes (Once Upon a Time Veronica) is an engaging documentary portrait of relentless capitalism, centered in the small Brazilian village of Toritama.

A poignant and astute meditation on class warfare, David Zonana’s acclaimed debut follows a construction worker who finally takes the law into his own hands after enduring a succession of abuses by the wealthy owner of a luxury house where his brother died in an accident.