Month: April 2025

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...