Latin American Showcase

Among the 24 films selected for this year's Latin American Showcase, the programming can be observed from the point of view of corporeality: head, hands, feet, skin, heart – each program proposes a journey through the territories of the body's senses through creative, daring and surprising films in their themes and authorial views.

The primitive male universe, the childhood memory that reconstructs a blurred father figure, the duality of the spiritual world are themes that feed narratives where past, present and future cross and consume each other. In another take, the body explodes in small, unusual journeys: the intimacy of a hand, the furniture inside a head, the psychedelia of a vulva.

These stories, from places as different as an oil field in Patagonia, the misty landscape of a Cuban road or a lonely indigenous house under the starry sky of northern Colombia, reveal the great creative potential of Latin American cinema, and point to the future paths of the continent's audiovisual scenario.