To celebrate this week’s release of the exhilarating Midnight Family, about a private ambulance team in Mexico City, we’re looking back at our previous films about Latin America, including Sheffield Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Winner America, Academy Award® nominee Cartel Land, Oliver Stone’s South of the Border, the suspenseful Bananas!*, and Berlinale’s Audience Award Winner Even the Rain.
Check out the trailers below, and watch them at home.
AMÉRICA
A film by Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside
Three brothers confront the chasm between adolescent yearning and adult responsibilities when brought together to care for their charismatic ninety-three year old grandmother. Read more…
CARTEL LAND
A film by Matthew Heineman
With unprecedented access, Cartel Land is a harrowing look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels. Read more…
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
A film by Oliver Stone
Filmmaker Oliver Stone interviews Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Brazil's Lula da Silva and other leaders, in an examination of social and political movements in South America. Read more…
BANANAS!*
A film by Fredrik Gertten
Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Read more…
EVEN THE RAIN
A film by Iciar Bollain
Gael Garcia Bernal stars in this film about the Bolivian Water War, based on a screenplay by Paul Laverty. Read more…