Alberto Pizango, indigenous leader of Peru’s Amazonian people, vs. Alan Garcia, President of Peru (2006-2011), backed by the multinational corporations intent on exploiting the Amazon’s rich natural resources.

Don’t Breathe was elected by critics as one of the best Genre movies of the year.

Terra em Transe is a masterpiece directed by Glauber Rocha (1938-1981).

Filmmaking team Bettina Perut and Ivan Osnovikoff present to the viewer the otherworldly landscape of the Salar de Surire, a salt flat located 4,300 meters above sea level in the Chilean Andes. Along with views of the unique geology (hot springs, now being tapped for a geothermal energy project) and wildlife (which include pink flamingoes), the film presents plenty of dryly comic moments shared by the people who live in this seemingly inhospitable land, who are descended from the Aymara tribe.

Humans have significantly altered the natural world in a way that no other species has. In Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada’s film, an award-winner at the 2016 IDFA Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, we witness one of the more obvious modes of this change: the creation of an artificial beach on a Caribbean resort.

Adapted from Humberto Costantini’s novel, this view of Argentina’s Dirty War is told from the perspective of the country’s silent majority. When an old girlfriend contacts him about republishing a communist-themed poem he wrote years earlier, Francisco is more preoccupied with whether or not he will receive a promotion at work.

Based on the novel by Argentine poet Juan José Saer, Gustavo Fontán’s beautiful film observes, over the course of a single day, three interrelated families who live around the Paraná River.

A powerful allegory about the violence of Colombia’s 50-plus-year civil war, Felipe Guerrero’s harrowing film literally denies its protagonists a voice.

In this exquisitely staged deadpan comedy in the vein of Jacques Tatí’s Mon oncle, a maid sent to work inside a gated community slowly becomes radicalized by a nudist resort next door.

Dos jugadores de capoeira emprenden un viaje alrededor del mundo para conocer el movimiento en otros países. Mientras Itapuã hace las demostraciones, Ella filma cada etapa de su aventura con la cámara. Sin embargo, el contacto con diferentes culturas despierta en ella el deseo de convertirse también en maestra del deporte. Al tiempo que Ella considera la idea de no seguir detrás de la cámara, la relación con su maestro experimenta importantes transformaciones.