Screen: Latin America

Our channel “Screen: Latin America” presents a diverse selection of films from Latin America. From gripping dramas to moving stories, these works highlight the rich culture, social challenges and unique environments of Latin America. Experience the passion and creativity of Latin American filmmakers who capture the diversity and depth of this fascinating region with their unique storytelling and visual styles. Immerse yourself in the historical epics, romantic adventures and authentic portraits of daily life that express the beauty and complexity of Latin America. Be enchanted by the magic and enchantment of Latin America and discover the stories that reflect the soul of this vibrant and dynamic region.
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  • Natural Selection

    Natural Selection

    Queer, Thriller

    2017

    16+

    The murder of the transsexual artist Madorilyn Crawford reveals the dark schemes of Colombian politics.


  • Luchadoras

    Luchadoras

    Documentary, Independent

    2021

    1h.32min

    12 FSK

    In Ciudad Juárez, a city notorious for its violence against women, courageous women are rising up against oppression and violence.


  • A Monster with a Thousand Heads

    A Monster with a Thousand Heads

    Drama, Thriller

    2016

    1h.15min

    16+

    A taut supremely crafted social thriller about a woman seeking retribution from members of a corrupt pharmaceutical industry.


  • Zahorí

    Zahorí

    Drama

    2022

    1h.45min

    16+

    In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.


  • Wolf and Dog

    Wolf and Dog

    Drama, Queer

    2023

    1h.51min

    16+

    In a traditional Azorean island, Ana's journey of self-discovery and queer friendship challenges the confines of her world.


  • Fogaréu

    Fogaréu

    Drama, Queer

    2022

    1h.40min

    16+

    In her surreal and fantastic debut, Flávia Neves masterfully combines the search for her own origins with Brazil's colonial past.


  • Naked

    Naked

    Love & Sex

    2018

    16+

    An ode to the multifaceted beauty of self-determined female pleasure - beyond the male gaze.


  • Divine Love

    Divine Love

    Drama, Romance

    2019

    1h.41min

    16+

    Brazil, 2027: Joana is deeply religious. At work, she encourages divorcing couples to reconsider their breakup.


  • Summer White

    Summer White

    Drama

    2020

    1h.25min

    16+

    13-year-old Rodrigo's entire world revolves around his mother, but it all begins to fall apart when she brings home a new boyfriend.


  • Initials S.G.

    Initials S.G.

    Drama, Comedy

    2019

    1h.33min

    16+

    Down on his luck, an aging Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles with his acting career, an affair he doesn't want, and a crime he didn't mean to commit.


  • My Friend from the Park

    My Friend from the Park

    Comedy, Drama

    2015

    1h.24min

    16+

    A lonely stay-at-home mom, gets sucked into a world of stolen cars, unstable sisters, and paranoia when she makes friends with a woman at the park.


  • Cenizas

    Cenizas

    Drama

    2018

    1h.20min

    16+

    Under the eerie penumbra of ash an spewing volcano Cotopaxi, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts.


  • We Are Mari Pepa

    We Are Mari Pepa

    Drama, Comedy

    2013

    1h.35min

    16+

    Schools out for ever! 4 teenagers from Guadalajara are about to enter adult life, as they live through a summer that will change their lives forever.


  • Castanha

    Castanha

    Drama, Queer

    2014

    1h.35min

    16+

    João Carlos Castanha. 52 years old. Actor. Gay. Son. Crossdresser. Capable of doing anything for those he loves. Or hates.


  • The Leading Actor

    The Leading Actor

    Independent, Comedy

    2019

    1h.15min

    16+

    When Luis travels to the Berlinale for the premiere of his film, he is dismayed that Latin American films are considered nothing but misery porn.


  • The Conquest Of The Ruins

    The Conquest Of The Ruins

    Documentary, Independent

    2020

    1h.28min

    16+

    Day laborers, paleontologists and indigenous people give us a glimpse into their lives; social structures intertwine like the epochs of history.


  • Enigma

    Enigma

    Drama, Queer

    2018

    1h.20min

    16+

    A mother wants justice for her dead daughter and takes part in a True Crime TV show – an action which will change her life and those of her family.


  • Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

    Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.45min

    16+

    The future and the present intermingle in this visually stunning docu-fiction, to create a mystical universe in the middle of the French Amazon forest


  • Açúcar

    Açúcar

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2017

    1h.30min

    16+

    The estate of a wealthy family in Brazils costal region becomes a microcosm that represents the ethnic, social and cultural divide in the country.


  • Neon Bull

    Neon Bull

    Drama

    2015

    1h.43min

    16+

    A brazilian bull wrangler discovering his wish to become a tailor and making fashionable clothing for women in this poetic drama.


  • Madalena

    Madalena

    Crime, Drama

    2021

    1h.25min

    16+

    The body of a trans woman discovered in a soybean field is the start of a storytelling triptych that explores the darker side of Brazilian society.


  • The Sun Will Rise

    The Sun Will Rise

    Documentary

    2017

    51min

    16+

    Comedian and director Gessica Généus (FREDA) explores the connection between voodoo beliefs, Christianity and the treatment of mental illness in Haiti


  • Freda

    Freda

    Drama

    2021

    1h.33min

    16+

    Haitian anthropology student FREDA must navigate the tensions between family expectations, postcolonial structures, Christianity, and voodoo.


  • On the Third Day

    On the Third Day

    Horror

    2020

    1h.25min

    16 FSK

    In this atmospheric, retro-styled horror film, Cecilia must find her son, who has disappeared after a car accident with a mysterious priest.


  • To Kill the Beast

    To Kill the Beast

    Love & Sex, Queer

    2022

    1h.20min

    16+

    Queer meets Gothic meets Fantasy. On her journey to sexual awakening, Emilia must confront her past in order to slay a beast.


  • The Fall of the Queens

    The Fall of the Queens

    Drama

    2021

    1h.23min

    16+

    When their cousin comes to live at their remote beekeeping farm, sisters Juana and Mara become trapped in a vortex of seduction and jealousy.


  • Devil’s Freedom

    Devil’s Freedom

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.14min

    16+

    In one of the most dangerous countries in the world, a life is not worth much. Victims and perpetrators of the Mexican drug war tell their stories.


  • Buy Me a Gun

    Buy Me a Gun

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2018

    1h.24min

    16+

    In a dystopian Mexico, a drug-addicted father tries to survive, as a groundskeeper at a baseball field, with his young daughter Huck.


  • The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis

    The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis

    Drama

    2017

    1h.16min

    16+

    Argentine 1977: Francisco, a former communist, is given the chance to save two dissidents from the hounds of the military junta.


  • The Cage

    The Cage

    Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2017

    1h.23min

    16+

    After humananity has been nearly wiped out by aliens, it seems that only two people are left on the planet. Until a third person enters their lives.


  • Casa Grande

    Casa Grande

    Drama, Independent

    2014

    1h.54min

    16+

    The son of a bourgeois family in Rio, a teenager, Jean, must learn to escape the grip of his economically bankrupt parents.


  • The Sharks

    The Sharks

    Drama, Independent

    2019

    1h.20min

    16+

    As reports of shark sightings create panic in a small beach town, 14-year-old Rosina begins to circle her own prey.


  • Los Reyes

    Los Reyes

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.15min

    6 FSK

    The real kings of LOS REYES ("The Kings"), the oldest skate park in the Chilean capital Santiago, are the two stray dogs Futbol and Chola.


  • Our Mothers

    Our Mothers

    Drama

    2019

    1h.16min

    16+

    Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war.


  • 30 Years Blues

    30 Years Blues

    Independent, Love & Sex

    2019

    1h.31min

    16+

    An intimate portrayal of Brazil's upper-class and their relationships in midlife crisis.


  • No Kings

    No Kings

    Documentary

    2020

    1h.24min

    16+

    Until a few years ago, the descendants of the indigenous Tupinambá and escaped slaves lived in isolation in Caiçara, not far from Rio de Janeiro.


  • Clean Hands

    Clean Hands

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.41min

    16+

    A penniless family living on a rubbish dump is offered a house. The condition is that they send their children to school. Is this a fairy tale?


  • Afternoon Woman

    Afternoon Woman

    Drama, Icons & Media Art

    2012

    59min

    16+

    With camera angles reminiscent of paintings, up-and-coming star from Brazil Afonso Uchôa explores the beauty of everyday gestures and moments.


  • The Hidden Tiger

    The Hidden Tiger

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.35min

    16+

    They skate, smoke, rap and compare their bullet scars. A surreal portrait of Brazil's fallen youth.


  • Araby

    Araby

    Drama

    2018

    1h.36min

    16+

    With his at once contemporary and timeless drama, Affonso Uchôa confirms his reputation as one of the most promising talents in Brazilian cinema.


  • Seven Years in May

    Seven Years in May

    Drama, Independent

    2019

    42min

    16+

    A young man tells his story and gives testimony of the collective fate of a nation oppressed by poverty, police repression, and corruption.


  • Tlatelolco

    Tlatelolco

    Documentary, Independent

    2011

    1h.15min

    16+

    A look at the history of Mexico City through the architecture of a housing complex.


  • The Dreamer

    The Dreamer

    Crime, Romance

    2017

    1h.20min

    16+

    Sebastian is immersed in a life of petty crime. He has a talent for picking locks, and that’s the only reason his supposed friends put up with him.


  • A Yellow Animal

    A Yellow Animal

    Drama

    2020

    1h.56min

    16+

    A bankrupt Brazilian filmmaker, with a colonial family history, is haunted by the ghost of a mysterious Mozambican.


  • Cielo

    Cielo

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.18min

    0

    Be amazed at the crazy beauty of the night sky in the Atacama Desert, Chile, the best place in the world to contemplate the splendor of our planet.


  • The Longest Night

    The Longest Night

    Crime, Thriller

    2019

    1h.34min

    16+

    This Ecuadorian thriller takes on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and the opioid crisis in a unique visual style.


  • You’ll Never Be Alone

    You’ll Never Be Alone

    Independent, Queer

    2016

    1h.21min

    16+

    In this harrowing drama, the father of a gay Chilean man tries to deal with the violent death of his son.


  • Elon Doesn't Believe in Death

    Elon Doesn't Believe in Death

    Drama, Independent

    2016

    1h.15min

    16+

    Gripping drama with film noir undertones about a man's delusional search for his allegedly missing wife.


  • Tranny Fag

    Tranny Fag

    Music, Dance, Theater, Queer

    2018

    1h.15min

    16+

    A portrait of POC transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances to fight sexism, homophobia and racism.


  • Thinking like a mountain

    Thinking like a mountain

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.31min

    16+

    The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the glacial ice of Colombia's highest mountain range - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.


  • The Daughters of Fire

    The Daughters of Fire

    Drama, Love & Sex

    2018

    1h.55min

    18 FSK

    Three women set out on a polyamorous journey, in search for new kinds of relationships at the end of the world, far from possession and pain.


  • A Decent Woman

    A Decent Woman

    Drama

    2017

    1h.40min

    16+

    A housemaid working at an exclusive gated community near Buenos Aires embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club.


  • Jeremy

    Jeremy

    Kids & Family

    2015

    1h.33min

    6 FSK

    El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity.


  • The Second Mother

    The Second Mother

    Comedy

    2015

    1h.52min

    0 FSK

    Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award and Panorama Audience Award at the 65th Berlinale for its subtle humour and outstanding performances.


  • It's All Good

    It's All Good

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.10min

    16+

    For years, Venezuela has been fighting the collapse of its public health system. How do you survive in a country that is in chaos?


  • Road to La Paz

    Road to La Paz

    Drama

    2015

    1h.32min

    0 FSK

    On the 3000 kilometers between Buenos Aires and La Paz, the two unlikely companions find each other despite their differences.


  • Los Ángeles

    Los Ángeles

    Crime, Drama

    2014

    1h.37min

    12 FSK

    17-year-old Mateo dreams of Los Angeles. He wants to work there and support his family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico. The only way ...


  • Piripkura

    Piripkura

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.21min

    6 FSK

    The last two members of the indigenous Piripkura people from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are fighting for the survival of their people.


  • Dance with the Devil

    Dance with the Devil

    Action & Adventure, Classics

    1997

    2h.6min

    18 FSK

    A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They ...


  • Hypnosis To Be Happy

    Hypnosis To Be Happy

    Love & Sex, Drama

    2018

    1h.15min

    16+

    On a trip Felipe shares his most intimate mantra with Pilar, which kept him afloat in existential crisis: a '70s cassette with hypnosis inducing talk.


  • Son of the Bride

    Son of the Bride

    Comedy

    2001

    2h.0min

    12 FSK

    At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother.


  • Polar Bear

    Polar Bear

    Drama

    2017

    1h.10min

    16+

    Meeting his old school "friends" reveals old wounds. But Heriberto has changed...


  • The Day I Was Not Born

    The Day I Was Not Born

    Drama

    2010

    1h.34min

    12 FSK

    Father and daughter grapple with a secret that goes back to the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970s. In fact she was adopted - and they begin a search ...


  • Nostalgia de la luz

    Nostalgia de la luz

    Documentary

    2010

    1h.29min

    12 FSK

    In the Atacama Desert, scientists are searching for light from the oldest prehistoric times in the universe.


  • Jeronimo

    Jeronimo

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.33min

    16+

    This documentary focuses on a lesser known part of Cuban history: the Korean Cuban community.


  • Baracoa

    Baracoa

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.26min

    16+

    Leonel (9) and Antuán (13) are best friends. But Antuán is moving from their village to Havana. Just like Cuban society, the two are at a crossroads.


  • The German Neighbour

    The German Neighbour

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.33min

    16+

    How could the nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann lead such an inconspicuous life in Argentina? A search for traces among his former Jewish neighbors.


  • Guillo

    Guillo

    Documentary

    2016

    40min

    12

    Guillo left his comfortable city life and went to live in the jungle, near the border to Panama. Lonely, without electricity and far from society.


  • Yasuní - Two Seconds of Life

    Yasuní - Two Seconds of Life

    Documentary, Independent

    2010

    1h.32min

    16+

    Instead of being exploited for its oil, the President of Ecuador suggests to leave the Yasuní national park untouched.


  • XXY

    XXY

    Drama, Queer

    2007

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    15 year old Alex has a secret – through a fluke of nature she is a hermaphrodite, both boy and girl. The first honest film about the topic.


  • Cerro Rico – The Silver Mountain

    Cerro Rico – The Silver Mountain

    Documentary

    2015

    31min

    16+

    This impressive short-doc explores the secret of Bolivia's silver mountain, the Cerro Rico.


  • Medianeras

    Medianeras

    Comedy

    2011

    1h.30min

    6 FSK

    Martín is a web developer and has a phobia. After being locked up in his house for years, he dares to go out again.