Ibero-American Cinema
Ibero-American cinema is nurtured by diversity, unique histories, and a rich tradition of storytelling. Allow the powerful documentaries and works of fiction in this program to ignite your emotions and expand your imagination.
Balandrau, Where the Fierce Wind Blew
Spain | 2026 | 116 min. | Fernando Trullols
On December 30, 2000, friends climbing Mount Balandrau get caught in a sudden blizzard. Visibility vanishes, winds roar, and survival becomes a fight against the mountain’s deadliest storms.
The Condor Daughter
Bolivia | 2025 | 109 min. | Alvaro Olmos Torrico (Quechua)
Clara, a young Quechua midwife blessed with sacred songs, dreams of becoming a singer. When she leaves her Andean village, the balance of life begins to falter, and Clara must decide between following her dreams or embracing her ancestral duty.
Fifteen
Mexico | 2026 | 99 min. | Jack Zagha, Yossy Zagha
Growing up is terrifying enough, but for two best friends planning the ultimate quinceañera the real horror is what's growing inside one of them.
The Garden We Dreamed
Mexico | 2026 | 100 min. | Joaquín del Paso
A Haitian family migrating through Mexico becomes entangled in illegal logging. Amid fleeting stability and the forest’s quiet beauty, they confront violence, survival, and destruction, testing their hope for a place to call home.
Gaua
Spain | 2025 | 96 min. | Paul Urkijo
Fleeing her husband, Kattalin encounters three old women exchanging idle gossip that soon transmutes into sinister supernatural stories. As each tale is told, Kattalin finds herself becoming intimately entangled within their dark events.
It Would Be Night in Caracas
Mexico | 2025 | 97 min. | Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás
Set in Caracas during the 2017 protests, this gripping thriller follows a woman trapped in a city consumed by repression and chaos. When loyalists seize her apartment, she goes into hiding and begins a desperate plan to escape.
Iván & Hadoum
Spain | 2026 | 103 min. | Ian de la Rosa
Amid the sprawling greenhouses of Almeria, trans man Ivan and migrant Hadoum share an unexpected, electric connection. But when Ivan rises to become her boss, passion collides with power and prejudice, revealing the fragile boundaries between love, identity, and class.
Jaripeo
Mexico | 2026 | 71 min. | Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
Set amid Michoacan’s electrifying bull-riding celebrations, Jaripeo uncovers queer desire within a fiercely hypermasculine world—blending music, dance, and intimate stories into a vibrant celebration of sensuality, joy, and living openly.
Maspalomas
Spain | 2025 | 115 min. | Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga
After a stroke while vacationing in Maspalomas, Vicente—played by 2026 Goya Award winner Jose Ramon Soroiz—is placed in a nursing home where he’s forced back into the closet, confronting a fight for freedom he thought he’d already won.
One of Our Own: A Tribute to Joan Roca
Spain | 2025 | 70 min. | Jorge Fernández Mayoral, Virginia Jönas Urigüen
Catalan chef Joan Roca, hailed as the “Messi of the kitchen,” is a revolutionary force in gastronomy. Twenty of Spain’s top chefs, together holding 70 Michelin stars, unite to craft an extraordinary banquet celebrating Roca’s generosity, vision, and pioneering culinary genius.
Prisoners of the Earth
Argentina | 1939 | 86 min. | Mario Soffici
The most acclaimed film by one of classic Argentine cinema’s foremost directors is a gut-punching work of social realism: a group of desperate men are conscripted to labor on a treacherous plantation—a situation that boils over in an explosive act of rebellion.
The Red Hangar
Chile | 2026 | 81 min. | Juan Pablo Sallato
In the aftermath of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, an Air Force logistics officer is ordered to convert a hangar into a detention and torture center. As repression tightens, he is forced to confront obedience, loyalty, and the moral cost of a nation descending into dictatorship.
Strange River
Spain | 2025 | 105 min. | Jaume Claret Muxart
Sixteen-year-old Didac spends a summer cycling along the Danube with his family. When a mysterious boy appears, new emotions stir, subtly shifting family dynamics and guiding Didac through a transformative journey of first love and self-discovery.
Sundays
Spain | 2025 | 117 min. | Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
At 17, Ainara faces a life-changing choice: after high school, she considers becoming a nun. Her decision unsettles her family, especially her aunt, who fears it means losing freedom. This Goya Award standout explores the fragile balance between faith and skepticism.