Classic Latin American Cinema

For over a hundred years, Latin American cinema has drawn inspiration from the region’s literature, music, and visual arts, creating timeless masterpieces that continue to captivate generations of film lovers.

We invite you to discover eight groundbreaking films from Brazil and Mexico – two of Latin America’s most influential film industries. The selection includes three films by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the visionary artist and filmmaker (Fando and Lis, The Mole, The Holy Mountain), as well as Central Station, the first international hit by Walter Salles, this year’s Academy Award-winning Brazilian director. We take a journey through cinematic history, beginning in the 1940s, when Emilio Fernández’s The Pearl brought Mexican cinema to the global stage. Half a century later, the debut films of Guillermo del Toro (Cronos) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros) ushered in a new edad dorada – a golden era for Mexican filmmaking. Our selection also includes The Guns by Ruy Guerra, a landmark of cinema novo, the revolutionary Brazilian movement that reshaped Latin American cinema.

Piotr Kobus

The section is curated by Piotr Kobus.