Special Presentation It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after […]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Award Director Tamara Segura will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  In her feature documentary Seguridad, Newfoundland-based filmmaker Tamara Segura—once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia publicity […]

Marimbas Award Think an ordinary existential midlife crisis is hard? Try having one as an aging philosophy professor! Such is the burden Marcelo (Marcelo Subiotto) must carry in Puan when, after a lifetime of teaching philosophy at the Public University of Buenos Aires, his mentor dies unexpectedly. Though Marcelo believes his ascension to department chair […]

Special Presentation You can’t always om your way out of life. Such is the lesson of this funny, philosophical film from Argentinian writer/director Martín Rejtman about a man named Gustavo (Esteban Bigliardi) who has devoted his life to zen, but is nonetheless served up chaos by the universe and its human minions: His wife and […]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Award Director Tommaso Santambrogio will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  Italian-born director Tommaso Santambrogio opens a poignant new window into the allure, tragedy, hope, and human cost […]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Director Alán González and Actress Lola Amores will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This film will be preceded by a screening of Blue Pandora, a short film also directed by Alán González This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made […]

Documentary Achievement Award Director Fabien Pisani will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  Today, reggaeton is the most popular genre of music among Latinos in Latin America and the United States. Sixty […]

Made in MIA Feature Award Directors Chris Rodriguez & Grant Rosado will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. You’ve heard of moms who gain the superhuman strength necessary in a crisis to lift cars off their trapped children? Puffing Iron is sort of like that, only with stoners and making rent. Set […]

Made in MIA Feature Award Directors Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. How would you react if your partner confessed to hooking up with your idol? Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo ingeniously navigate this unexpected scenario in their captivating debut, a charming romantic comedy […]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Award After becoming pregnant from a one-night stand, Eden leans on her married best friend and mother of two, Dawn, to guide her through gestation and beyond, in Pamela Adlon’s feature directorial debut. Adlon is best known for creating and staring in the long-running FX show Better Things. Starring and co-written […]

Special Presentation Director Patricia Juarez will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  Antihero is a spirited documentary about the life and works of José Manuel Domínguez, and the world of people with […]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Award Director Rodrigo García Sáiz will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. Rain (Lluvia) tells six stories of interrelated characters who transit around Mexico City by a never-ending rain, drowned in misery by the hopelessness of life. Each character comes across an unexpected encounter that makes them glimpse […]

Made in MIA Feature Award Directors Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. How would you react if your partner confessed to hooking up with your idol? Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo ingeniously navigate this unexpected scenario in their captivating debut, a charming romantic comedy […]