SOUTH AMERICA

ALL SOUTH AMERICAN TERRITORIES

Argentina	Chile	Guyana	Suriname
Aruba	Colombia	Paraguay	Trinidad and Tobago
Bolivia	Ecuador	Peru	Uruguay
Brazil	French Guiana	Rapa Nui	Venezuela

The Complex, Bittersweet Melodies of Return to the Andean Culture—Los Kjarkas, ‘Canto a la Mujer de Mi Pueblo,’ 1981

November 12th, 2020|Country: Bolivia|

From writing one of the world’s most recognizable dance hits to welcoming the exiled leader Evo Morales back home: the music of Los Kjarkas is the ultimate soundtrack to Bolivian RenaissanceFrom writing one of the world’s most recognizable dance hits to welcoming the exiled leader Evo Morales back home: the music of Los Kjarkas is the ultimate soundtrack to Bolivian Renaissance

The Songs and Sorrows of São Paulo’s ‘Crack Land’—‘Let It Burn’, dir. Maíra Bühler, 2019

July 30th, 2020|Country: Brazil|

Tender documentary set in a recovery project for homeless crack users shows that longing, loneliness and lack of perspectives are just as hard to overcome as substance dependence

Disaffected Youth, Colonization and the Spirit-Ridden Forrests of the Amazon—‘The Dead and the Others’, dir. João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora, 2018

July 26th, 2020|Country: Brazil, Ge people, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Kraho people, Portugal|

A coming-of-age story set in a Krahô people reservation shows the double bind of alienation that an indigenous young man has to grapple with as he becomes the man of the house

Trans Body as a Weapon: The Personal and the Political In Gender Insurgency—‘Bixa Travesty/Tranny Fag’, dir. Claudia Priscilla & Kiko Goifman, 2018

July 2nd, 2020|Country: Brazil|

A riveting showcase of Linn da Quebrada, an Afro-Brazilian trans rap star from the favela, who dismantles racism, the binary and the patriarchy with her militant music, performances, and life

Brilliance, Blackness, and Brutality of Brazilian Revolutionary Hero—The ‘Marighella,’ dir. Wagner Moura, 2019

June 5th, 2020|Country: Brazil|

A powerful portrait of a man who tried to take down the Brazilian Military Dictatorship is necessary viewing on the question of violent resistance

A Shy Girl, Her Shy Dad, and the Tempests That Rage Within— ‘Alba’, dir. Ana Cristina Barragán, 2016

May 25th, 2020|Country: Ecuador, Greece, Mexico|

A debut feature offers an incomparable exploration of the growing pains of femininity in a searing story about a pre-adolescent girl who is sent to live with her estranged—and very strange father

Mother, Media, Memory, and Material Truth—‘Mute Fire’, dir. Federico Atehortúa Arteaga, 2019

May 17th, 2020|Country: Colombia|

As young Colombian director was making a film on his homeland's visual history, his mother stopped speaking. His film became an exploration of the power of narratives to shape collective perception

The Bard of Simplicity Travels the Americas—Juan Wauters, ‘La Onda de Juan Pablo,’ 2019

April 28th, 2020|Country: Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, USA|

Montevideo-born Queens-based artist takes his incomparable aesthetic for a spin in his native region, creating an album of enlightened simplicity with musicians scouted in Central & South America

Progress Flailing Under the Stronghold of Capital—’The Edge of Democracy,’ dir. Petra Costa, 2019

April 21st, 2020|Country: Brazil|

An intimate yet sprawling account of Brazil's journey from Lula to Dilma to Bolsonaro that dissects the tumor of "Operation Car Wash" and studies its underlying causes

A Guyanese Artist, His Communist Wife, Their Marvellous Lives, Wine Bar and Activism—Patrick Barrington

April 6th, 2020|Country: Guyana, United Kingdom|

How an art enthusiast helped us uncover a tremendous love story behind a striking self-portrait from Georgetown’s National Gallery of Art

Through a Dog’s Eyes, Humanity—‘Los Reyes’, dir. Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut, 2018

March 29th, 2020|Country: Chile, Germany|

Two stray canines living at a Chilean skatepark are portrayed in their uninhibited dignity: an arresting film that dismantles the complexity of human institutes by throwing them to the dogs

Penciled In for Greatness: The World’s Foremost Micro Sculptors and Their Extreme Graphite Skills, Part 1

March 17th, 2020|Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, United Kingdom, USA|

The art of carving pencil tips produces tiny works with a myriad of complexities, from potent minimalism to the lush wilderness, from pop-culture references to Dali and Banksy

Brazilian Students Narrate Their Struggle Against Austerity and Neoconservatism—‘Your Turn’, dir. Eliza Capai, 2019

January 15th, 2020|Country: Brazil|

Three Brazilian student activists present a multidimensional, inclusive account of their fight for the right to education over the past decade in an electrifying, award-winning documentary

Exploring Alternate Realities Through Gay Romance—‘End of the Century’, dir. Lucio Castro, 2019

January 7th, 2020|Country: Argentina, Spain|

Two men hook up and recognize each other from a brief encounter twenty years ago. What could have been if they had acted differently back then? A highly imaginative Argentine feature debut

Pain Is Stronger Than Homophobia—‘Tu Me Manques’, dir. Rodrigo Bellott, 2019

December 19th, 2019|Country: Bolivia, USA|

A father seeks to get to know his dead gay son, as the son's ex creates a play that will change the country in a nesting doll of autobiographical narrative and fiction from Bolivia's leading director

Poet, Artist, Two-Spirit, Immigrant, Sex Worker, Human—‘The Journey of Monalisa’, dir. Nicole Costa, 2019

December 10th, 2019|Country: Chile, USA|

Filmmaker tracks down her college friend from Chile in New York and creates a portrait of life full of integrity and dignity in circumstances which are not usually considered conventional

Film: Fabulous, dir. Audrey Jean-Baptiste, 2019

December 3rd, 2019|Country: France, French Guiana|

A transwoman who's made strides in New York and Paris returns to her home country to teach voguing to the locals in a fascinating study of gender and sexuality in French Guiana

Film: Before It’s Too Late, dir. Leandro Goddinho, 2019

November 21st, 2019|Country: Brazil|

Staying tender while standing ground: teenage pop idols are drawn to each other at the advent of Bolsonaro's regime and decide to reinvent themselves against his homophobic agenda

Film: The Orphan, dir. Carolina Markowicz, 2018

November 20th, 2019|Country: Brazil|

A sparkly Brazilian child finds he’s better off at an orphanage than with small-minded families in a searing, necessary study of the trauma that adoption can wreak on queer kids

The Fantastic Worlds Hiding in the Jungle: the Works of Surinamese Artist John Lie A Fo

November 19th, 2019|Country: French Guiana, Netherlands, Suriname|

An artist whose body of work is as magnificent and as manifold as the demographics and biodiversity of Suriname itself: living proof that curiosity and restlessness are vital to creative fulfillment

Art: The Twisted Socio-Political Oil Paintings of Fidel Fernández

November 6th, 2019|Country: Paraguay|

A young self-taught artist creates grotesque, elaborate paintings depicting rural life in Paraguay, rich in biting observations, sharp political commentary, and invigorating humor

Film: Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die, dir. Leonard Cortana, 2019

November 4th, 2019|Country: Brazil, USA|

An incendiary documentary about the events on the anniversary of Marielle Franco's death—a black queer feminist activist from a favela, she was murdered by ex-policemen with ties to Jair Bolsonaro

Film: Queen of Lapa, dir. Theodore Collatos and Carolina Monnerat, 2019

October 22nd, 2019|Country: Brazil|

Veteran transgender sex-worker Luana Muniz helps younger women like her find self-determination: a brilliant portrait of a community matriarch and Rio's vibrant neighborhood of Lapa

Brazilian Modern, The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx at New York Botanical Garden, 2019

September 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil|

The work of a visionary modernist landscape designer and pioneer of rainforest preservation recreated in New York City by his student: plantlife that's as politically relevant as it is beautiful

Film: Initials S.G., dir. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, 2019

May 9th, 2019|Country: Argentina, Lebanon, USA|

A very dark comedy about an Argintinean Serge Gainsbourg wannabe from a filmmaker couple

Book: Armonia Somers, The Naked Woman, 1950

April 17th, 2019|Country: Ecuador|

Rediscovered feminist magical realism gem from 1950s Ecuador

Music: Yma Sumac, Mambo!, 1954

April 9th, 2019|Country: Peru|

Peruvian goddess sings: four and a half octaves and a whole lot of mambo

Film: Sol Negro, dir. Laura Huertas Millan, 2016

April 7th, 2019|Country: Colombia|

A gentle portrait of a Colombian opera singer who struggles with addiction and mental health issues

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Afghanistan	Costa Rica	Iran	Nicaragua	Sri Lanka
Albania	Côte d’Ivoire	Iraq	Niger	Sudan
Algeria	Croatia	Ireland	Nigeria	Suriname
Andorra	Cuba	Israel	Niue	Sweden
Angola	Cyprus	Italy	North Korea	Switzerland
Antigua-and-Barbuda	Czech Republic	Iwaidja People	North Ossetia	Syria
Argentina	Dagestan	Jamaica	Norway	Taiwan
Armenia	Denmark	Japan	Oman	Tajikistan
Arrernte	Dominica	Jordan	Pakistan	Tamil Nadu
Aruba	Dominican Republic	Kanak People	Palestine	Tanzania
Australia	DR Congo	Karelia	Panama	Tatarstan
Austria	Dunghutti People	Kashmir	Papua New Guinea	Thailand
Azerbaijan	Ecuador	Kazakhstan	Paraguay	Tibet
Bahamas	Eelam Tamil	Kenya	Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians	Timor-Leste
Bahrain	Egypt	Kosovo	Peru	Tiwi Islands
Balochistan	El Salvador	Kurdistan	Philippines	Togo
Bangladesh	Estonia	Kyrgyzstan	Poland	Tonga
Barbados	Eswatini	Laos	Portugal	Torres Strait Islands
Bashkortostan	Ethiopia	Latvia	Puerto Rico	Transnistria
Belarus	Faroe Islands	Lebanon	Qatar	Trinidad and Tobago
Belgium	Fiji	Liberia	Rapa Nui	Tunisia
Belize	Finland	Libya	Reunion	Turkey
Benin	France	Lithuania	Roma	Turkmenistan
Bermuda	French Guiana	Luxembourg	Romania	Tuvalu
Bhutan	Gabon	Macedonia	Russia	Uganda
Biripi People	Gambia	Madagascar	Rwanda	Ukraine
Bolivia	Garifuna Nation	Malak Malak People	Saint Kitts and Nevis	United Kingdom
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Garrwa People	Malawi	Saint Lucia	Uruguay
Botswana	Georgia	Malaysia	Saint Vincent and The Grenadines	USA
Brazil	Germany	Mali	Samoa	Uyghur Nation
Brunei	Ghana	Malta	San Marino	Uzbekistan
Bulgaria	Golan Heights	Māori	Sao Tome and Principe	Vanuatu
Burkina Faso	Greece	Martinique	Saudi Arabia	Venezuela
Burundi	Greenland	Mauritania	Scotland	Vietnam
Buryatia	Grenada	Mauritius	Senegal	Wales
Cabo Verde	Guatemala	Mexico	Serbia	Wallis and Futuna
Cambodia	Guinea	Moldova	Sierra Leone	Water
Cameroon	Guyana	Monaco	Singapore	Yemen
Canada	Haida Gwaii	Morocco	Slovakia	Yöruk People
Central African Republic	Haiti	Mozambique	Slovenia	Zambia
Chad	Ho-Chunk Nation	Myanmar	Solomon Islands	Zimbabwe
Chile	Honduras	Namibia	Somalia
China	Hong Kong	Native American Tribes	South Africa
Chinook Nation	Hungary	Nepal	South Korea
Colombia	Iceland	Netherlands	South Ossetia
Comoros	India	New Caledonia	South Sudan

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