The Latin American Studies Collection
The Latin American Studies Collection collection includes the following titles:
La BodaHannah Weyer’s La Boda offers an intimate look at migrant life along the U.S.-Mexican border through 22-year-old Elizabeth Luis’s journey to marriage.
M20 MatamorosA group of men from the slums of Matamoros, Mexico create a dance that beats the ground, that contradicts and breaks the stereotypes of their lives and what is expected of them.
Through the EarthBlanca and Patzi, Bolivian women who migrate to Buenos Aires, carry with them ancient stories, Aymara dreams, adobe homes, moonlit memories, and harvests.
Relentless MemoryA Mapuche researcher embarks on the same journey her ancestors made when they were expelled from their lands during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.
Under the Flags, the SunThrough rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay—one of history's longest-running regimes.
The Age of WaterWhen three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a scientist to investigate their water supply.
A Question of Conscience: The Murder of the Jesuit Priests in El SalvadorExamines the November 16, 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador by uniformed soldiers. The film offers a chilling warning of how easily ordinary men can be turned into mass murderers.
100 Children Waiting for a TrainFilmmaker Ignacio Aguero poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.
108 (Cuchillo de Palo)An investigation into the shadowy circumstances of the death of Rodolfo Costa's, a persecuted gay man; and Paraguay's terrifying "108" homosexual blacklists that ruined lives, careers, and families.
10th ParallelA voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.
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