In this genre-bending spin on the Western, Bacurau, a fictional small town in the Brazilian sertão, is beset by strange happenings following the death of its matriarch that force the townspeople to band together to protect themselves from villainous outsiders and maintain their community.
In late-1980s Peru, Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman, gives birth to a baby in a clinic in Lima. The baby is whisked away and never returned. Stonewalled by the legal system, Georgina tells her story to a journalist who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions abetted by deep-seated corruption in Peruvian society.
Alicia, who is grieving the loss of her young son, lives in the old quarter of Panama City, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by the city’s poorest neighborhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart boy who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps […]
Please join LACLS for the first screening of our fall 2023 Film Series, featuring Los lobos. Lucía and her sons Max and Leo have just crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in search of a better life. And they share a dream as well: to visit Disneyland one day. But it is not […]
Please join LACLS for the second event of the fall 2023 film series, featuring Infancia clandestina! After years of exile, Juan and his family return to Argentina under fake identities. Juan’s parents are members of the Montoneros Organization, which is fighting against the Military Junta that rules the country. Because of their political activities, the […]
Please join LACLS for the third event in our fall 2023 Film Series, featuring Voces inocentes! A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him. […]
The first film screening in our spring 2024 series! Snacks will be served, and space may be limited. This documentary tells the story of an indigenous child from Paraguay who, after surviving the massacre of her family by white settlers, was kidnapped and subjected to inhumane and objectifying study in the name of early-20th-century scientific […]
The second film screening in our spring 2024 series. Snacks will be served, and space may be limited. The protagonists of this documentary are the descendants of the indigenous peoples who were subjected to the Argentine state’s campaign of forced eviction and extermination during the 19th century. By portraying their attempt to reconstruct their identity […]
The third film screening in our spring 2024 series. Snacks will be served, and space may be limited. Hoping to put to rest year of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín Espósito begins writing a novel based on an unsolved murder mystery. With the help of a former colleague, he attempts to […]
The final event in our spring 2024 film series. Refreshments will be served, and space may be limited. This tense historical legal drama follows the trial of the members of the military government that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 and sanctioned torture, extrajudicial murder, and forced disappearance of civilians. The film closely follows the […]