Chicago Latino Film Festival

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...

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...

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...

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). ...

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...

After more than ten years at Instituto Cervantes, the International Latino Cultural Center’s (ILCC) monthly Reel Film Club series moves to Facets, 1517 West Fullerton Avenue, the original home of the Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held on the last Tuesday...