These Are the Latino & Latin American Movies Playing New York Film Festival
Courtesy of TIFF
“The festival is critical to bringing awareness to cinema from around the world.” That’s director Martin Scorsese talking about the New York Film Festival, whose 57th edition will be premiering his latest feature The Irishman. Joining him are a number of thrilling global titles. The Big Apple fest can always be counted on to have one or two Latin American films and this year is no exception. Moreover, with a spy thriller about Cubans and Cuban Americans in Miami, a documentary about theater programs in Calipatria State maximum-security facility and an Italian doc tracing the history of post-Allende Chilean exiles, there is no shortage of U.S. Latino and Latin American fare coming from directors as varied as Olivier Assayas, Tim Robbins, and Nanni Moretti.
If you’re planning what to watch at this year’s festival, take a look at our exhaustive (if decidedly short) list of all things Latino and Latin American taking over the Upper West Side in the coming weeks.
New York Film Festival runs September 27 – October 11, 2019.
