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Latin American Modern

2001–present·11 films

From Martel's sensory cinema to Franco's minimalist crises to Mendonça Filho's Brazilian resistance.

Stories Hollywood won't tell. Urgency Western cinema can't match.

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Filmography

La Ciénaga

2001

Martel

Argentine family rotting in summer heat. Sensory cinema.

City of God

2002

Meirelles

Rio favelas. One of the greatest crime films.

The Headless Woman

2008

Martel

May have hit someone. Class privilege as amnesia.

Wild Tales

2014

Szifron

Six revenge stories. Darkly hilarious.

The Clan

2015

Trapero

Family kidnapped people during dictatorship.

Aquarius

2016

Mendonça Filho

Woman vs developers. Sonia Braga vs capitalism.

Zama

2017

Martel

Colonial officer waiting forever. Most hypnotic of the decade.

Roma

2018

Cuarón

Domestic worker in 1970s Mexico. B&W. Oscar winner.

Bacurau

2019

Mendonça Filho

Village disappears from maps. Political fury.

New Order

2020

Franco

Class uprising becomes authoritarian nightmare.

Sundown

2021

Franco

Tim Roth refuses to go home. Minimalist crisis.

11 films in Latin American Modern