Cinema Tropical, the non-profit media arts organization that is leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the United States, is proud to announce its annual list of Best Latin American Films of the Year, comprised of 25 Latin American titles from eight different countries, plus seven US Latinx productions, that the New York-based organization has selected as the best of the year.
Featuring productions from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States, the films selected in this list will compete for the 14th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards.
The winners for Best Film, Best Director, Best First Film, Best Documentary, and Best U.S. Latinx Film, will be announced in an in-person event on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City.
A jury composed of Mónica Castillo, Senior Film Programer Curator at the Jacob Burns Film Center; Mara Fortes, Senior Curator at the Telluride Film Festival; María Paula Lorgia, Artistic Director of the San Diego Latino Film Festival; Marian Luntz, Film Curator at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Manuel Santini, Senior Manager, Programming at Film at Lincoln Center; will choose the winners of the 14th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards in the Latin American cinema category.
Scholar Arlene Dávila, Founding Director of the Latinx Project at New York University; Marángeli Mejia-Rabell, Director of the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival (PHLAFF); and film programmer Ernie Quiroz, will select the winner in the U.S. Latinx category.
Please note that all the films under consideration had a minimum of 60 minutes in length and premiered between May 1, 2022, and April 30, 2023.
Cinema Tropical’s List of Best Latin American Films of 2023:
(Listed alphabetically by title)
- Anhell69 by Theo Montoya, Colombia/Romania/France/Germany
- Argentina, 1985 by Santiago Mitre, Argentina/USA
- Blanquita by Fernando Guzzoni, Chile/Mexico/Luxembourg/France/Poland
- Calls from Moscow / Llamadas desde Moscú by Luis Alejandro Yero, Cuba/Germany/Norway
- Chile ‘76 / 1976 by Manuela Martelli, Chile/Argentina/Qatar
- The Castle / El castillo by Martín Benchimol, Argentina/France
- The Echo / El eco by Tatiana Huezo, Mexico/Germany
- The Eternal Memory / La memoria infinita by Maite Alberdi, Chile
- The Face of Jellyfish / El rostro de la medusa by Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina
- Herbaria by Leandro Listorti, Argentina/Germany
- Home Is Somewhere Else by Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos, Mexico/USA
- Huesera: The Bone Woman / Huesera by Michelle Garza Cervera, Mexico/Peru
- I Have Electric Dreams / Tengo sueños eléctricos by Valentina Maurel, Costa Rica/Belgium/France
- The Kings of The World / Los reyes del mundo by Laura Mora, Colombia/Norway/Luxembourg/Mexico/France
- The Klezmer Project / Adentro mío estoy bailando by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann, Argentina/Austria
- My Imaginary Country / Mi país imaginario by Patricio Guzmán, Chile/France
- Notes for a Film / Notas para una película by Ignacio Agüero, Chile/France
- Our Movie / Nuestra película by Diana Bustamante, Colombia/France
- The Punishment / El castigo by Matías Bize, Chile/Argentina
- Ramona by Victoria Linares Villegas by Dominican Republic
- Rule 34 / Regra 34 by Júlia Murat, Brazil/France
- Silent Witnesses / Mudos testigos by Luis Ospina and Jerónimo Aterhortúa, Colombia
- Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella, Argentina
- The Trial / El juicio by Ulises de la Orden, Argentina/Italy/France/Norway.
- Tótem by Lila Avilés, Mexico/Denmark/France
Cinema Tropical’s List of Best US Latinx Films of 2023:
(Listed alphabetically by title)
- El Equipo by Bernardo Ruiz
- Going Varsity in Mariachi by Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn
- Hummingbirds by Silvia del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras
- Mutt by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
- Sansón and Me by Rodrigo Reyes
- Story Ave by Aristotle Torres
- You Were My First Boyfriend by Cecilia Aldarondo
For more information visit: www.cinematropical.com/awards14
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