Unfinished Spaces captures a golden moment in the Cuban revolution, when visionary architects were recruited to build “the best art schools in the world”. Featuring never-before-seen footage of Castro, this is as much a story about politics, dreams and human nature as it is about architecture. Continue Reading

Meet Patricio Guzmán (Battle For Chile, Salvador Allende, The Pinochet Case), one of the legends of documentary following this London premiere screening. This visionary masterpiece for our time is set in Chile’s Atacama Desert. There, people search the past to understand the present: while women comb through the sands for remains of loved ones “disappeared” by the Pinochet regime, astronomers peer into the cosmos to solve the riddle of beginning of life. Continue Reading

Continuing a regular night at Rich Mix, Movimientos presents a fresh programme of exceptional documentary film and unparalleled live music. On this occasion joining forces with Sounds and Colours to present an official UK screening of Esperando El Tsunami an epic new visual and musical documentary from Colombia. Continue Reading

The first feature film from Argentine director Pablo Giorgelli has been a huge success. Las Acacias won the Caméra d’Or (Best First Film) at the 2011 Cannes Festival, the New Horizons Prize at San Sebastian and the Sutherland Award for Best Debut Feature at the London Film Festival recently. Continue Reading

This is a rare opportunity to see the cult, low-budget hit that has taken cinemas in Bolivia by storm. Battlefield – directed by Amancay Tapia – is the story of five women trapped in a beauty salon in La Paz during a social uprising of the coca leaf growers of the country. Continue Reading

Movimientos will be celebrating the release of Our Latin Thing on DVD by joining forces with Shook magazine and Strut records to screen this salsa classic at Notting Hill Arts Club, where it will be followed by the normal Movimientos mix of live Latin music and DJs. Continue Reading

Our Latin Thing is the definitive document of Latino life in New York in the early 70s. Directed by Leon Gast (When We Were Kings), the film focuses on a live performance by Fania All Stars – including the likes of Ray Barreto, Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon – at the Cheetah night club, but also steps onto the streets giving a unique insight into the meeting of New York and Puerto Rican cultures at this time. Continue Reading

Screening of Cocaine Unwrapped, a new documentary about cocaine. The film follows the trail of the drug through the coca farmers in Bolivia and Colombia, the drugs mules in Ecuadorian prisons, and the street dealers in Mexico, to the consumers in the USA and UK. Continue Reading

Rio Film School are hosting the Brazilian night of the London World Film Festival, which means a screening of City of God as well as a Q+A with Leandro Firmino (aka Lil Ze from City of God) and a few other Brazilian short films too. Continue Reading