Baptism of Blood
Brazil, 2006, 110 min.
In the late 1960s, faithful to the gospel of the poor, and deeply touched by social inequality, a group of young Dominican friars in Sao Paolo become involved in the resistance against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Their loyalties and faith are put to the test in this rigorous account based on the... more

The Best of Me
Spain, 2007, 83 min.
Award-winning actress Marian Alvares portrays a young woman who must decide whether or not to serve as an organ donor for her new lover in this emotionally honest melodrama.... more

Boystown
Spain, 2007, 93 min.
A real estate agent is murdering elderly women in the gay Chueca district of Madrid so as to acquire their apartments and sell them to upwardly mobile gay couples. Juan Flahn’s delicious black comedy combines hilarity and violence to startling effect.... more

Burn the Bridges
Mexico, 2007, 105 min.
Winner of the Audience Award at the recent Morelia Film Festival, Francisco Franco Alba's drama circles around teenage brother and sister living in a decaying colonial mansion, who must deal with the upsetting erotic intrusion of a lower-class tough.... more

Chaotic Ana
Spain, 2007, 116 min.
Nubile young Ana takes a journey of personal transformation through art, love and sex. Finding that she has lived many past lives, she travels back through hypnosis and finds the horrific links to the chaos in her present day existence.... more

Charm School
Mexico, 2007, 103 min.
Fernando Sariñana’s comedy about youthful rebellion and adult intolerance focuses on the willful Adela (Martha Higareda) who, after being sent to a strict school for girls in order to have her wild ways tamed, refuses to crack…... more

Christopher Columbus, the Enigma
Portugal, 2007, 77 min.
Cinematic master Manoel de Oliveira, who turned 99 in December, shows he is still in peak form with this quiet drama about one doctor’s quest to prove that Christopher Columbus was Portuguese. Featuring Oliveira and his wife Maria Isabel in prominent roles.... more

City of Men
Brazil, 2007, 106 min.
From the team behind companion piece City of God comes this less razzle-dazzle but more emotionally affecting story of the friendship between two 18-year-olds in the slums of Rio and the effects on their relationship caused by a burgeoning gang war.... more

City in Heat
Argentina, 2006, 100 min.
Much like an Argentine The Big Chill, this warm ensemble film follows the entangled relationships of three thirty-something friends who gather at a jazzy Buenos Aires pub after the suicide of a loved one.... more

In the City of Sylvia
Spain, 2007, 90 min.
A young man’s return to Strasbourg, France, in search of the woman that he loved six years earlier sets the stage for the lyrical new work by Jose Luis Guerín, an homage to cinema, painting, love, and women. This luminous tale of forlorn love is a treat for romantics and people-watchers.... more

Kill Them All
Uruguay, 2007, 97 min.
In this political thriller, Julia, a Uruguayan prosecutor, investigates the disappearance of a Chilean chemist with ties to Pinochet’s regime, revealing an international conspiracy. Julia must face her greatest fears and dig deep into her own past if she holds any hope of discovering the truth.... more

Mataharis
Spain, 2007, 93 min.
This tense and skillfully scripted drama by award-winning actor-director Icíar Bollaín tells the story of three private detectives: Eva, Inés, and Carmen.They often have to cross the thin line separating their professional and private lives which has devastating consequences when the two worlds coll... more

Me
Spain, 2007, 101 min.
An intriguing, beautifully made film, Rafa Cortés’s debut concerns a German handyman named Hans who arrives in a seemingly deserted village on the island of Mallorca to take up a new job formerly held by—guess who?—a missing German handyman named Hans…... more

Oxen's Eye
Brazil, 2007, 72 min.
Director Hermano Penna’s film explores jealousy, sorrow, and love in this timeless tragedy. Against the backdrop of Brazil’s desert landscapes, two peasants set out in the dead of night seeking retribution for a familial betrayal. As they await the object of their revenge, sinister truths emerge.... more

Possible Lives
Argentina, 2007, 80 min.
With echoes of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique and François Ozon’s Under the Sand, Possible Lives tells the story of a supposedly happy couple who are anything but. The husband vanishes, the wife investigates, there’s silence and there’s wind.... more

Santa Fe Street
Chile, 2007, 163 min.
Calle Santa Fé in the suburbs of Santiago de Chile on 5th October 1974. Carmen Castillo survives her partner, Miguel Enríquez, leader of the Revolutionary Left-Wing Movement (MIR) and of the Resistance against the Pinochet dictatorship, killed in combat. Calle Santa Fe is the story of this wo... more

Solitary Fragments
Spain, 2007, 128 min.
This 2nd film of Jaime Rosales remarkably captures the rhythms of daily life and conversation in telling the story of two women Adela and Antonia who live in contemporary Madrid. The life of the first, a single mother, will be shattered by a terrorist attack, while Antonia will watch her family tear... more