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 [...]

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 [...]

Jordan Ressler First Feature Director Romina Tamburello and Producer Santiago King will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. 17-year-old Vera divides her days between volleyball, school, and a secret hobby: she rents out an empty apartment to teenagers looking for a place to have sex. She steals the keys from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Your Content Goes Here Special Presentation The screening will be preceded by the short film Objects of Desire (Objetos de Deseo), directed by Alejandro Renteria Director Danny Pino 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 [...]

Remastered shorts from the pionerring Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián, including the world premiere of the remastered Inside Downtown.   This screening is a part of the Spotlight on Cuba at Miami Film Festival, made possible with support of ArtesMiami.  En un barrio viejo (1963) (6 minutes) Los del baile (1965) (9 minutes) Ociel del [...]

Documentary Achievement Award Director Ernesto Daranas Serrano and Screenwriter Ania Molina are expected to 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.  Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most pioneering Cuban filmmakers [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]