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In a powerful transition from beloved television actor to compelling filmmaker, Joe Miñoso has made an impressive directorial debut with his short film “Paper Flower,” recently crowned with the Audience Choice Award for Best Short at the 41st Chicago Latino...
- May 2, 2025
- 4 Min Read
Hey film friends! 👋 Looking for something beyond the usual blockbuster experience this summer? The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago is serving up major cultural immersion with their Reel Film Club Summer Lineup, and it’s giving everything a true...
- April 30, 2025
- 5 Min Read
The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago announces the winners and runner-ups of the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival’s Audience Choice Awards. The Audience Choice Award for Best Fiction Feature went to Dear Gentlemen, actor and novelist Patricia Castañeda’s directorial...
- April 22, 2025
- 8 Min Read
Cuadrilátero (Quadrilateral), Daniel Rodríguez Risco’s sixth feature film, is perhaps the most unique, sui generis, out there film of this year’s Festival. It’s darkly humorous, visually inventive, and even perturbing. It’s about power and control and survival of the fittest....
- April 10, 2025
- 7 Min Read
With a long-running Festival like ours, it is inevitable that you will run into some familiar faces and names. Many Latin American, Spanish, Portuguese and U.S. Latino filmmakers have trusted their first, second and third films with us with the...
- April 9, 2025
- 6 Min Read
The first time we see Linda, the title character of Mariana Wainstein’s feature film debut, her back is towards the camera; we only see her earpods and the croissant she is eating in her right hand. The camera cuts to...
- April 3, 2025
- 7 Min Read
From film noir (A State of Madness, 2020) to comedies (Juanita, 2018), from straightforward dramas (Love Child, 2011) to a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (Cristo Rey, 2013), Dominican director Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s filmography as a director, writer and...
- April 1, 2025
- 7 Min Read
Beginning today and during the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, our communications manager and film critic Alejandro Riera will be posting a series of interviews with a select number of filmmakers whose films will screen during our eleven-day event. Through...
- March 27, 2025
- 6 Min Read
The 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, April 3rd-14th, will serve as host to more than 50 filmmakers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and the United States (including Chicago). ...
- March 25, 2025
- 3 Min Read
When we launched our annual poster contest for the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, we were looking for something special – an image that would capture not just the essence of Latino cinema, but the pure joy and creative spirit...
- January 24, 2025
- 4 Min Read
Our Multidisciplinary Programming at ILCC
Choose one of the programs below to learn more about it
Chicago Latino Film Festival
Over 100 films (feature and shorts) from all over Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and the United States are featured in one of the oldest Latino film festivals in the country.
Music Series
This series offers a broad overview of Latino music, from the Spanish Medieval period to the music being written today in all genres and styles (classical, folk, Afro-Latino, Latin Jazz, etc.)
The Reel Film Club
Every last Tuesday of the month through November, watch a themed film night at Instituto Cervantes, preceded by a networking reception and followed by a post-screening conversation with a film critic.
Films in the Park
The series runs throughout the summer, and features family-friendly films in Spanish with English subtitles projected on large screens in various citywide parks for free.
Now in its Second Edition: Celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of Latino dance culture in Chicago with three unforgettable evenings of performances.
Chicago Latino Theatre Performances
Just like our Film, Music and Dance events, the ILCC is proud to present Theatre as part of our ongoing Latino cultural event series.