Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat, Dominican Republic, 2024, 81 min

Olivia, haunted by a past love that lives under her bed, trades flowers with it for comforting rain clouds. Barbara, rejected by Mauricio, escapes reality through fantastical stories. Mauricio, full of regrets, is swallowed by the earth. Ramon, smitten by Olivia, witnesses the growth of a strange plant mirroring her. The film surreally explores the enduring power of love's memory.

Lorena Alvarado, Venezuela, 2024, 67 mins

When a letter nestled deep inside her father’s library details the writing of an unknown author, the young, ambitious bibliophile Ena sets off to find his work. Is the fabled book real? Did the author even exist? Where most movies might use this to kick off a treasure hunt, Lost Chapters opens a door to Venezuela’s rich cultural history and troubled present. A master class in composition and sound design that leaves no detail to chance, Lorena Alvarado’s feature debut recalls the intellectual obsessiveness of Roberto Bolaño while achieving a remarkable sense of equanimity and emotional warmth from her real-life sister, father, and grandmother, whose on-screen naturalism never once lapses into mannerism. 

Alejo Moguillansky, Argentina, 2025, 106 min

A little girl and a blind man staring at a lake that blurs the limits of space. Two actors coming together as lovers to rehearse an old play in a southern country. Two old men living inside a rubbish bin in front of the Congress of that same southern country. A son in perpetual farewell with his aging mother, a blind pianist condemned to play Beethoven’s Moonlight, because it is the only piece she still remembers by heart. Two filmmakers, perhaps responsible for all of the above, shooting trains, moons, and devoting their time to an activity that no one knows if it still exists: cinema.

David Bim, Cuba/Spain, 2025, 74 min

Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his wife and son behind for days on end. Amid social unrest and a global pandemic, To the West, in Zapata follows this loving family as they go to extreme lengths to survive, in a constant cycle of reunion and separation.

Joel Alfonso Vargas, 2025, USA, 101 min

Rico belongs to a tight-knit Dominican-American community in the Bronx. He is hustling his way through a carefree summer, selling bootleg “nutcracker” cocktails and chasing girls on the beach. But when circumstances arise that force his girlfriend Destiny to move in with his family, the small apartment becomes the stage for their messy, complicated love life. It is only a matter of time before they must face a sobering reality: they are growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his debut feature film. Teaming up with talent cast on the streets, he and his two leading actors deliver an authentic, slice-of-life portrait of the Bronx. With grit and humour, he paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban living as well as the ups and downs of youthful abandon when life takes an unexpected turn.

Francisco Martins & José Antonio Garcia, Brazil, 1983, 103 min

Women’s football was banned in Brazil until 1979, and women were only able to form teams in 1983, the year ONDA NOVA was produced. Banned by the Brazilian dictatorship before its release and recently restored in 4K, the film brings together stories about the young players of the newly formed Gayvotas Football Club. With the support of players from the 80’s who were well-known for their political stances as well as their football, this erotic and anarchic comedy features cameos from Casagrande and others involved in the Brazilian struggle for democracy. Facing the many prejudices of a conservative society while navigating personal, romantic, and family dynamics, the team prepares for a symbolic international match.

Yamel Thompson, 2025, Mexico/Argentina 62 min

Yamel, a Mexican cinema student in Cuba, is randomly filming a stormy afternoon in Havana when Jans, an 18-year-old fisherman, walks across her frame and captures her attention. From that first recorded encounter, she, her camera and him become intertwined. As real emotions emerge, ethical questions appear. Why can’t she stop filming him?

Diego Soto, 2025, Chile, 78 min

Nieves runs a small recreational pool with her son. One summer, a biker falls in love with her, but the romance seems doomed. Everything changes with the arrival of a filmmaker, who decides to include both of them in her new movie. As they become film actors, the boundaries between fiction and their emotions will begin to blur.

Milagros Mumenthaler, 2025, Switzerland/Argentina, 104 mins

While on a work trip in Switzerland, where she’s being fêted for her storied fashion career, designer Lina (Isabel Aimé González Sola) plunges herself, without warning, into an icy winter lake. After surviving the shocking ordeal, Lina returns to her hometown of Buenos Aires, yet a transformation has taken place within her, and she finds it impossible to readjust to her former life as a wife, mother, and artist, distancing herself from her husband (Esteban Bigliardi) and career. Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler (Back to Stay) has constructed a compelling existential puzzle, a work of psychological interiority that, with its oblique narrative and complexly layered soundscape evoking a woman’s enigmatic dissociation, recalls the work of Lucrecia Martel and Todd Haynes, yet with its own singular emotional perspective and aesthetic sophistication.

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René Cardona, 1968, Mexico, 80 min

When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investigate. But when her mission leaves the scientist horrifically scarred, he seeks revenge.