Fresh Voices
program description
Thanks to the democratization of production resources and digital communication channels, new voices are contributing to a cinema in Latin America that challenges hegemonic structures, criticizes the colonizing eye, and yields new narratives proposed by female, indigenous, black, mixed, queer, diasporic people, and others. Despite the vastness of the films’ contents, a deep humanity can be found within the resilience of these nations.
In this collection, we give prominence to new voices that express themselves freely and become the subject of their own images, while exploring different ways of thinking about Latin American experiences. Dreams and intimacies often collide with violence, abandonment, or impositions, but share the unwavering desire for a better future.
about the curators
La Subterránea is a panamanian film distribution collective that aims to contribute to the diversification of audiovisual media in commercial local theaters. La Subterránea brings Latin American cinema closer to communities outside the city through alternative screenings.
Peru, 2017, 1h 28m
An elderly couple lives in a remote part of the Andes.
Peru, 2023, 15m
After showing herself as she is, Luisa, who’s dedicated to crest traditional Andean textiles, is rejected by her nephew and her whole town.
Mexico, 2019, 1h 35m
Together with their mother Lucia, the brothers Max and Leo have just crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in search of a better life. But it is not easy for them to gain a foothold in their new home.
Venezuela, Colombia, 2016, 1h 38m
At the end of the 80’s, by the creeks of the Arauca River, near the Colombian - Venezuelan border, two men survived the brutality of a shooting in which 14 of their mates were killed.
Panama, 2021, 11m
Ibegwa is a short film that tells the story of Guani, an albino Gunadule boy who lives with constant discrimination for being different.
Costa Rica / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama, 2019, 1h 28m
During five days a solar storm hits Central America. People In each of these countries will have to face life in its more basic terms, disconnected from the technology they normally depend on.
