Cine Las Americas International Film Festival Turns 20

Viva cine!

"...Programming a film festival that covers the entire Spanish- and Portuguese-language world..."

April 28, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Review: 7th Annual Femme Frontera Filmmakers Showcase

Short films selection looks at border life through multiple lenses

"...For the past 25 years, the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival has brought work by..."

June 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Cine Las Americas 2022 Review: Husek

Mystically-tinged docudrama set within Argentina's Wichí

"...Fittingly, the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival's screening of Daniela Seggiaro’s..."

June 13, 2022 Screens Post by Valeria Valdez

Cine Las Americas Announces Full Lineup

Exec. dir. Eugenio del Bosque Gómez walks us through the CLAIFF17 slate

"...A local institution with an international reach, Cine Las Americas may be embarking on its..."

April 10, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, the annual Austin celebration..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Canceled for 2020

Festival working on alternate plans to give films exposure

"...Another blow to the Austin film scene today as Cine Las Americas has just announced..."

March 30, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Eugenio del Bosque Departs Cine las Americas

Longtime executive director hangs up his hat

"...The Cine las Americas International Film Festival announced today that Executive..."

Oct. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas Announces Opening and Closing Night Films

Full lineup still to come

"...was infectious? Just two weeks shy of its 2014 festival, Cine Las Americas still hasn’t announced its complete lineup..."

April 7, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas on the Horizon

Festival announces opening and closing night films

"...then start gearing up for this weekend's Austin Jewish Film Festival. Pause for brief siesta, then it's time to..."

March 22, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas 2023 Review: Amor y matemáticas (Love and Mathematics)

Mexican satire pokes at suburban life after boy band fame

"...In Cine Las Americas selection Amor y matemáticas Billy Lozano (Roberto..."

June 27, 2023 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Five Films at Cine Las Americas

The best movies from the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora and Indigenous peoples at the annual film festival

"...the screen ablaze at this year's South by Southwest Film and Television Festival, recounting the story of how Frito-Lay..."

June 2, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

On the Scene With Cine Las Americas

The festival director talks about finding international emerging voices and programming in the age of piracy

"...As the Cine Las Americas Film Festival enters its 16th year, it's..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Cine Las Americas Review: River Silence

Brazilian documentary eulogizes a river and its people

"...an ominous, swelling string soundtrack. But the closer the film gets to its human protagonists, it begins to transform..."

June 15, 2021 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Cine Las Americas Review: La Fortaleza

Gold, demons and dads in this Venezuelan docu-fiction

"...A car crash kicks off La Fortaleza, a meandering film that retains that sense of unease through a semi-fictional..."

June 15, 2021 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Cine Las Americas 2022 Review: El Buen Patrón (The Good Boss)

Workplace comedy is more Succession than The Office

"...things become unbalanced in Fernando León de Aranoa's Oscar-selected film...."

June 23, 2022 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Cine las Americas

Passionate documentaries, visually poetic features, work by young directors and marginalized voices are all part of this year's Sixth Annual International Film Festival of the Americas.

"...voices are all part of this year's sixth annual International Film Festival of the Americas. Organized by the Cine..."

April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Inside the 2019 Cine Las Americas Schedule

Talking different kinds of borders with Executive Director Jean Anne Lauer

"...It's been a year of change at Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. Long­time booker Jean Anne..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chile's 'Machuca' Opens Eighth Cine Las Americas

Wednesday, April 20, 7pm

"...midst of a golden age of access to global cinema, then Austinites are, as is so often the case,..."

April 15, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Five Films to Watch at Cine Las Americas

Oscar contenders, Austin stories, and global tales from the Latinx, Portugeuse, and Indigenous communities

"...Latinx cinema is global cinema. That's the remit and message of..."

June 10, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

On Watching Cine las Americas' La Hora Fria and John Huston's 'Under the Volcano'

While getting ready to go

"...When I dropped by the Cine las Americas International Film Festival office last week, Jacqueline..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Eighth Cine las Americas

Through Sunday, April 24

"...What follows are the Chronicle's recommended Cine las Americas screenings, based on the pool of films..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature

Cine Las Americas Review: El Vigilante

Clasutrophobic Mexican crime drama finds enigma in shadows

"...Mexican First-time filmmaker Diego Ros has set a high bar with El..."

May 7, 2018 Screens Post by Austin Sanders

Cine las Americas Gets a Headstart

Even the Rain advance screening this Wednesday

"...Cine las Americas will present a special screening of the..."

April 5, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas Review: Niñas Araña

Life in Chile's slums, close enough to wealth to touch it

"...girls long for the lives that belong to the “upper-class” Chileans living in Santiago – a city that looms..."

May 7, 2018 Screens Post by Austin Sanders

Cine Las Americas Review: Arábia

Tales from the workforce, drowning

"...That instead is left to Andre (Murilo Caliari), a working-class kid in a one-factory community on the outskirts of..."

May 7, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Review: Vigilia

Julieta Ledesma cloaks emotional violence in magical realism

"...set in, Vigilia is inarguably an artful piece of cinema. Blurring the lines between reality and the supernatural, it..."

May 7, 2018 Screens Post by Mae Hamilton

Cine las Americas Signs Out

Cine las Americas announces jury and audience award winners

"...The 11th Annual Cine las Americas International Film Festival (my, that's a mouthful)..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Cine Las Americas 2022: Cadejo Blanco

Real Guatemalan street crime gets an understanding narrative life

"...The film’s script was heavily inspired by numerous interviews with people..."

June 13, 2022 Screens Post by Ali Juell

Cine Las Americas 2022 Review: Wildhood

Canadian drama is an act of self-discovery for a young Miꞌkmaw

"...24) writer/director Bretten Hannam swimmingly blends genres in their film as they fuse various storylines that help Lincoln find..."

June 13, 2022 Screens Post by Valeria Valdez

Cine Las Americas 2022 Review: Hazlo Por Mi (Do It For Me)

Spanish drama finds innocence in a warm, unlikely friendship

"...Instead, there is a warmth ever present throughout the film even when the characters let one another down. It..."

June 23, 2022 Screens Post by Valeria Valdez

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