Cine Latino Opening Night Film | Wednesday, October 11 at 7:30 PM

Radical is an honest, playful, and powerfully inspiring story about a teacher (Mexican actor/comedian Eugenio Derbez) who takes a radical approach with overlooked, apathetic kids to trigger their curiosity and discover the joy of learning. Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival this year, it shines a light on the incredible potential children can manifest when an innovative teacher empowers them to think for themselves.

Thursday, October 12 at 5:00 PM

Sneak Preview A young volleyball player discovers an unwanted pregnancy just as she's offered an international career and beginning a promising relationship with one of her teammates. In search of a solution, she becomes the target of the conservative community around her. This ignites an even more powerful force, one of solidarity and sisterhood from her teammates and coach in this luminous debut feature of writer/director Lillah Halla, winner of this year’s FIPRESCI Award at the Cannes Critics' Week.

Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 PM

Los Angeles, 1974. Tom Jobim, one of the creators of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, Brazil's most popular singer at the time, meet to record what would become the most iconic album in the history of Brazilian music. Through rare and never-before-seen images, this documentary reveals the conflict and joy of this unique meeting, revealing the intimacy –– and often, the difficulties –– of the creative process. Winner of the Critics' Award for Best Brazilian Film at the 2022 Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo.

Friday, October 13 at 5:00 PM | US Premiere

Twenty years ago, three friends in the flower of their youth met to take up a challenge: to build on the beach of a small Uruguayan village a beach restaurant like the ones that used to exist in the 50s. Pure simplicity and honesty. La Huella is much more than a restaurant on the beach, it is a small paradise, an ecosystem that is as much a way of life as it is a place for good food.

Friday, October 13 at 7:30 PM | Director Cynthia Newport and Producer Boris Ivan Crespo Attending!

Amid the love and conflicted passions that mark the difficult journey toward identity for individuals and nations, dance cuba tells personal stories of exile and return, loss and redemption, tradition and innovation, and features Carlos Acosta, Septime Webre, Alicia Alonso and others, with music by Chucho Valdés. Produced and directed by Cynthia Newport, this documentary intertwines riveting tales that are as powerful in romance, tragedy and drama as the great ballets performed.

Cine Latino Cinema Club Screening: October 14 at 11:00 AM | The Main Cinema

Two star-studded short films by legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. Strange Way of Life stars Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal. The Human Voice stars Tilda Swinton.

Saturday, October 14 at 1:30 PM | Director David Lasso and Producer Estefanía Luna Attending! | US Premiere

In 2007, two teenagers Paul and Cristian were approached by the police in a neighborhood in Quito. The next day Paul's lifeless body was found in a ravine. Brave and pertinent as ever, Guañuna directed by David Lasso, portrays the tireless struggle of a father, thousands of young people, and a wounded community to expose racism, authoritarianism, and the entrenched impunity that persists in Ecuadorian society.

Saturday, October 14 at 4:00 PM | Filmmaker Daniela Quiroz Attending!

In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of Coach Abel Acuña, the teenage captains of Edinburg North High School’s acclaimed team must turn a shoestring budget and diverse crew of inexperienced musicians into state champions. Spurred by the beauty and resilience in the music, the musicians of this band embody the spirit, vivacity, and future of mariachi.

Saturday, October 14 at 7:30 PM

Alejandro, an airline pilot, hides a secret that puts his career in jeopardy. When agents of the Intelligence Service discover him and begin to blackmail him, Alejandro will enter a world of intrigue and corruption with constant twists, multiple derivations and unpredictable consequences.

Midnight Mayhem | Saturday, October 14 - Double Feature Starts at 10:00 PM

This special Cine Latino edition of Midnight Mayhem brings you Guillermo del Toro's modern classic Pan's Labyrinth followed by the 1982 underground Spanish-made, Boston-set slasher, Pieces (Mil gritos tiene la noche).

Sunday, October 15 at 12:00 PM

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave. The ensuing claustrophobia causes social conventions to be erased and the darker side of people to emerge. Masterfully shot by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and one of the emblematic works of the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, The Exterminating Angel embodies many of the director’s obsessions: surrealism, sex, death and the cruelty of the superiority of the bourgeois class that even over the years offers an extraordinary original and mighty story.

Sunday, October 15 at 2:15 PM

In a village nestled deep in the hills of Puebla, three rural families find hope and struggle within the unyielding demands of nature and community in this tender and visually stunning new documentary from acclaimed director Tatiana Huezo.

Sunday, October 15 at 4:30 PM

Carlos and Margarita were the most famous and recognized tango couple of their time but when Carlos gets an urgent message that Margarita has passed, an unexpected road trip is set in motion, old resentments surface, decades-old secrets are revealed and old flames are rekindled in this heartwarming new comedy from writer/director Marina Seresesky winner of the Audience Award at the 2023 Málaga Film Festival.

Cine Latino Closing Night Film | Sunday, October 15 at 7:30 PM

Cocó, eight years old, does not fit the expectations of the rest and does not understand why. She spends a summer in the country with their family’s widowed matriarch, where tending to the beehives leads to illuminating and deeply personal revelations. Winner of Best Performance Award for Sofía Otero at the Berlinale 2023 and Best Film at the 2023 Málaga Film Festival.