Narciso and The River Train
Ashes
(Ceniza en la boca)
(Country: Mexico, Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Diego Luna; Writer: Diego Luna, Abia Castillo, Diego Rabasa; Stars: Anna Díaz, Adriana Paz, Luisa Huertas, Guillermo Ríos, Sergio Bautista, Benny Emmanuel, Teresa Lozano, Adriana Jácome, Irene Escolar)
Searching for a better life, Lucila leaves Mexico for Madrid with her brother Diego to join their mother who has been working there illegally. When they finally arrive, the reality that awaits them proves far harsher than they had imagined.
Five Years, Four Months
(Country: Colombia, US; Year: 2026; Director: Esteban Hoyos García, Juan Miguel Gelacio; Stars: Jenny Navarrete, Carmiña Martínez, Carolina Vivas)
Not only did Martha lose her oldest son, but to this day she doesn’t know what happened to him or his remains. After years of searching in vain, she meets Sandra, who offers her one more possibility.
Flies
(Moscas)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Vanesa Garnica; Stars: Teresa Sánchez, Bastián Escobar, Hugo Ramirez)
Olga rents out a room to a man whose wife has been admitted to a hospital nearby. However, the man has a nine-year-old son he has been sneaking into the room, which leads to Olga’s carefully controlled world shifting as their lives become intertwined.
Forever Your Maternal Animal
(Siempre soy tu animal materno)
(Country: Costa Rica, Belgium, France, Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Valentina Maurel; Writer: Valentina Maurel; Stars: Daniela Marín Navarro, Marina de Tavira, Mariangel Villegas, Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez)
After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home, growing increasingly distant and reclusive, as if slipping into a world of her own. Their parents, meanwhile, are absorbed in their own lives.
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The French Teacher
(Country: Brazil, France, Portugal; Year: 2026; Director: Ricardo Alves Jr; Writer: Germano Melo; Stars: Grace Passô, Pedro Goifman, Jehnny Beth, Bárbara Colen, Rômulo Braga, Rodger Rogério, Elisa Lucinda, Babi Amaral, Ítalo Laureano)
Mexico City, early 90s. On the day of his 11th birthday, Bruno falls in love with his best friend Vladimir. That night his father receives an HIV-positive diagnosis that will change family life.
The Illusion Of An Everlasting Summer
(La ilusión de un verano sin fin)
(Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2026; Director: Alessandra Sanguinetti; Stars: Guillermina Aranciaga, Belinda Stutz, Juana Falconet)
Filmed over 25 years, this intimate documentary traces the lives of two inseparable cousins in the rural Argentine Pampas.
The Meltdown
(Country: Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Spain, France, US; Year: 2026; Director: Manuela Martelli; Writer: Manuela Martelli; Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Jakub Gierszał, Paulina Urrutia, Mauricio Pesutic, Roberto Farías, Maia Domagala, Maya O’Rourke)
A young woman in early 90s Chile befriends a skier staying at her grandparents resort. But then the European goes missing...
Narciso
(Country: Paraguay, Germany, Brazil, Spain, France, Portugal, Uruguay; Year: 2026; Director: Marcelo Martinessi; Writer: Marcelo Martinessi; Stars: Diro Romero, Manuel Cuenca, Arturo Fleitas, Aníbal Ortíz, Natalia Cálcena, Margarita Irún, Belén Vierci, Alberto Sánchez, Liz Fernández Casabianca, Florencia Boccia, Macarena Candia, Cecilia Torres, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Mona Martínez)
Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military regime, he becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom. But then, after his final show, he is found dead…
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La Perra
(Country: Chile, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Dominga Sotomayor; Writer: Inés Bortagaray; Stars: Manuela Oyarzún, Selton Mello, Paula Luchsinger, Giannina Fruttero, Paula Dinamarca, David Gaete)
On a remote southern Chilean island, Silvia, a solitary middle-aged woman with a painful past, rescues an abandoned puppy and names him for the daughter she never had. As their bond deepens, Silvia pours all of herself into trying to set right a destiny she long believed beyond repair.
The River Train
(El Tren Fluvial)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: Lorenzo Ferro, Lucas A Vignale; Writer: Lorenzo Ferro, Lucas A Vignale; Stars: Milo Barria, Rita Pauls, Mariano Barria, Lucrecia Pazos, Mailen Barria, Diego Puente, Pehuén Pedre, Fabián Casas)
Nine-year-old Milo lives in a remote Argentinian village where he studies the Malambo, a folk dance full of bravura. He is an excellent dancer, but Milo’s only desire is to escape the countryside on a train for the Buenos Aires of his dreams.
Sad Girlz
(Chicas Tristas)
(Country: Mexico, Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Fernanda Tovar; Writer: Fernanda Tovar; Stars: Rocío Guzmán, Darana Álvarez, Tatsumi Milori, Tomás García Agraz, Mónica del Carmen, Raúl Villegas, Lucio Lemus, Luisa Almaguer, Andrea Jiménez Camacho, Áyax, Óscar Lever, Mario Flores, Héctor Kuri Hernández, Daniel Aranzubia)
La Maestra and Paula are the best swimmers in their team and best friends, until an incident at a party changes everything. La Maestra, intense and unstoppable, realises that something in her best friend has changed, making her sad. When the truth comes to light, the two are faced with an impossible decision: Paula wants to keep quiet about it, while La Maestra wants revenge.
Six Months In A Pink And Blue Building
(Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul)
(Country: Mexico, Brazil, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Bruno Santamaría Razo; Writer: Bruno Santamaría Razo)
Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.
