Before We Forget Hits Theaters This July

What happens when your first love never quite leaves you? Before We Forget, the debut feature from Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés Pepe Estrada, follows Matias, a filmmaker who decides to revisit the unfinished story of a close teenage friendship that shaped him. Back in 1997, Matias met Alexander, a Swedish classmate at boarding school, and their brief but powerful connection has stayed with him ever since.

Now, 25 years later, Matias searches for closure by reconnecting with Alexander. Blending flashbacks with present-day drama, the film moves between memory and reality to explore how first love lingers. Executive produced by the late Norman Lear, the film stars Di Pace (Fuller House, Mamma Mia!) alongside a talented international cast.

Before We Forget opens July 11 in New York and July 18 in Los Angeles, with more cities to follow on July 25.

📅 See confirmed dates and grab tickets here: beforeweforgetmovie.com/theatrical.php

🎬 Watch the trailer below.

Kill the Jockey Gallops Into Theaters July 2

Get ready for a wild, stylish ride. Kill the Jockey, the latest from Argentine director Luis Ortega, opens in theaters Wednesday, July 2. This surreal tragicomedy follows Remo, a down-and-out jockey caught in a spiral of self-destruction, shady gangsters, and personal crisis. But just when things hit rock bottom, Remo reemerges as someone entirely new—Dolores, a glamorous figure draped in mink and carrying a chic handbag.

With a retro look, a soundtrack full of Latin pop and disco, and a stunning lead performance by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (BPM), Kill the Jockey is equal parts absurd, emotional, and unforgettable. Critics have called it “audacious,” “lawless,” and “a glorious ride.”

🎟️ Tickets are now on sale. See showtimes and grab yours here:
👉my.filmforum.org/events/kill-the-jockey

Presented in Spanish with English subtitles. Distributed by Music Box Films.

PONYBOI Hits Theaters This June

The feature debut of writer and star River Gallo, PONYBOI is heading to theaters nationwide. The Theatrical On Demand premiere takes place June 25, followed by openings in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Palm Springs on June 27. More cities will be announced soon.

Set in New Jersey on Valentine’s Day, the film follows a young intersex sex worker who spends his days at a laundromat with his pregnant best friend, Angel, and his nights with Vinnie, his secret lover and pimp who also happens to be the father of Angel’s baby. When a drug deal goes wrong, he is forced to go on the run from the mob.

Directed by Esteban Arango and based on Gallo’s 2019 short film, PONYBOI stars Gallo alongside Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Murray Bartlett and Indya Moore.

For more details, check showtimes in your city at https://www.ponyboithefilm.com/

Three standout films from Latin America bring bold characters and raw emotion to this year’s Out Film CT.

In Perfect Endings (Brazil), João is picking up the pieces after a breakup. As he tries to reinvent himself and his career, he stumbles into directing amateur erotic films and dating every type of guy imaginable. It’s funny, messy, and totally relatable.

Baby (Brazil, France, Netherlands) follows Wellington, a young man trying to start over after juvenile detention. Alone in São Paulo, he forms a complicated bond with an older man that shifts from mentorship to something more intense. Gritty and tender, this drama explores love, power, and survival.

And in Rains Over Babel (Colombia), the dance floor becomes purgatory in a fantastical tale where queer souls gamble with fate at a mythical nightclub. With wild visuals and a punk-meets-tropical vibe, this debut feature is packed with energy, music, and queer magic.

Catch them all in Hartford this June.

Frameline49 returns to the Bay Area this June 18 to 28 with a lineup that puts the bold, brilliant, and beautifully queer visions of Latin American filmmakers front and center. From surreal pigeon races in Uruguay to queer teen diaries in Mexico, this year’s slate of films from the region is as fearless as it is unforgettable.

In Keep Coming Back, Uruguay’s Sergio de León debuts with a queer coming-of-age story that is feathered in magical realism and irreverent charm. From Brazil and Chile comes The Nature of Invisible Things, Rafaela Camelo’s poetic tale of childhood connection and healing in a hospital ward. Mexico and Germany team up for Niñxs, a boundary-pushing documentary that lets its charismatic trans teen subject take the lead. Brazil’s Daniel Nolasco returns to Frameline with Only Good Things, a decades-spanning, genre-defying gay romance that is sensual, strange, and steeped in longing. Rounding out the list is Thesis on a Domestication, an Argentine and Mexican drama starring Camila Sosa Villada as a trans woman redefining what it means to want love, sex, and family all at once.

With expected guests including directors, actors, and producers from across the continent, this is your chance to experience the pulse of contemporary queer Latin American cinema on the big screen. Don’t miss it.

The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY) Returns

Now in its 12th year, The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY) is back with a dynamic lineup that showcases the diverse voices and stories from across the Americas. Running from June 12 to 20, this free festival offers a rich selection of nine feature films and over 35 short films, spanning genres from gripping drama to poetic documentary and magical realism.

The festival kicks off on June 12 with the New York premiere of Becoming Vera, an uplifting story about an 18-year-old piano prodigy in Miami who finds her voice through Latin Jazz after aging out of the foster care system. Director Sergio Vizuete will be present for a post-screening Q&A.

Other highlights include:

• Alemania (Argentina-Spain), a moving coming-of-age film about a teenage girl navigating family turmoil while dreaming of a semester abroad.

• No Nos Moverán / We Shall Not Be Moved (Mexico), a powerful fiction film about a determined woman’s search for justice decades after the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.

• Gracias y Hasta Siempre ¡Gardel Está Vivo! (Colombia), a documentary celebrating the legacy of tango icon Carlos Gardel and his lasting presence in Medellín.

Screenings will take place at various venues around New York City including Instituto Cervantes, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Colombian Consulate. All events are free and open to the public. Don’t miss this celebration of cinema from across the Americas.

In the heart of the Amazon, Indigenous leaders Marçal Guajajara and Puyr Tembé risk everything to defend their ancestral lands from illegal invasions and deforestation. This powerful documentary offers an intimate look at their fight to protect the forest—a vital lifeline for future generations.

Directors: Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman

85 minutes | 2025 | English, Portuguese, and Tupi with English Subtitles

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival (June 4–15) brings a powerful lineup of U.S. Latino and Latin American films spanning fiction, documentary, and music. From Indigenous resistance in the Brazilian Amazon in Yanuni (Closing Night Gala), to Puerto Rican class tensions in Esta Isla, to poetic Chilean and Mexican coming-of-age tales (Cuerpo Celeste, Twelve Moons), these stories pulse with political urgency and emotional depth. Sci-fi meets social commentary in Uruguay’s A Bright Future and the gritty redemption drama Kites set in Rio’s favelas. U.S. Latino directors spotlight untold stories—from racetrack laborers in Backside, to language preservation in Runa Simi, to Kalief Browder’s legacy in For Venida, for Kalief. Music takes center stage too, with intimate portraits of Depeche Mode, Becky G, and competitive a cappella in Just Sing. Tribeca 2025 shows Latino cinema in all its complexity: bold, personal, and boundary-pushing.

The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), taking place May 28 – June 1, 2025, is a vibrant celebration of Latino stories told through film, television, animation, and music. Now an Academy Award® Qualifying Festival for Best U.S. Latino Live Action and Animated Shorts, LALIFF continues to elevate diverse voices on a global stage. This year, the festival debuts LALIFF Eastside, a new spotlight on L.A.-based filmmakers sharing powerful, crowd-pleasing stories. With the LALIFF Industry Forum offering networking and career-building opportunities, and the LALIFF Film Market connecting U.S. Latino films with buyers and distributors, this is more than a festival—it’s a launchpad for talent and a must-attend event for film lovers.

The 2025 festival will present 21 feature films from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, the United States, and Venezuela. These films are part of the main feature lineup, in addition to the Opening and Closing Night selections. Among them are four world premieres, including Brownsville Bred and Papa Melissa, both developed through the Works in Progress finishing fund. 

The New York-based festival ended in May but a special edition is headed to Elizabeth, New Jersey at the Ritz Theater. Stay tuned for more details at colfilmny.com

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival features a handful or American Latino and Latin American movies and series.

• Boca Chica by Gabriella A. Moses from the Dominican Republic

• A Strange Path (Estranho Caminho) by Guto Parente from Brazil

• Richelieu by Pier-Philippe Chevigny is a Guatemalan-Canadian-French co-production

• De La Calle is a docuseries from Nick Barili

This year’s festival includes the option to stream films from home June 19 - July 2.

The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) is a premiere international event dedicated to showcasing the entirety of human experience from the Latino perspective, whether through film, television, digital, music, art, or any other vehicle, regardless of platform.

Two Chileans films playing at San Diego’s Digital Gym through June 8.

Chile ’76

Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Chile ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. 

Director: Manuela Martelli

Run Time: 95 min.

Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles

Starring: Alejandro Goic, Aline Küppenheim, Antonia Zegers, Hugo Medina, Nicolás Sepúlveda

The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría’s poignant and stunning debut feature. 

Director: Francisca Alegría

Run Time: 99 min.

Language: Spanish

Starring: Alfredo Castro, Leonor Varela, Luis Dubó, Marcial Tagle, Mía Maestro

The nation's longest-running Latino film festival returns for its 41st edition, called Frontera In Focus. It will present local and international films, including the Femme Frontera and Texas Filmmakers Showcases.

San Antonio: July 11 - 14. Full details here.

Hola Mexico will bring contemporary Mexican cinema to Los Angeles for the 11th year this spring.

Los Angeles: May 31 - June 8. Full details here.

The Philadelphia Latino Film Festival (PHLAFF) was established in 2012 and has become the Greater Philadelphia region’s only festival showcasing the extraordinary and innovative work of emerging and established Latin American and Latino filmmakers. Each year, the Festival includes screenings of ground-breaking works from all genres. Festival programs attract a diverse audience, developing a new space in the Philadelphia region where filmmakers, actors, and producers can meet with other artists, engage with audiences and present and discuss innovative work.

Philadelphia: May 30 - June 2. Full details here.

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents the 14th edition of its Latin Wave festival, featuring contemporary cinema from across Latin America.

Houston: May 2- 5. Full details here.

The 22nd Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival presents world-class narrative and documentary feature and short films and videos, as well as experimental, animation, and music video selections, in competitive and non-competitive sections.

The festival showcases contemporary films and videos from Latin America (North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean) and the Iberian Peninsula. Films and videos made by or about Latinxs in the U.S. and the rest of the world, as well as films and videos by or about Indigenous groups of the Americas are also invited to participate.

Austin, TX: May 1 - 5. Full details here.

HFFNY celebrates its 20th year with a selection of Latino films from the U.S. and abroad, with a special focus on Cuba.

New York: April 9 - 16. Full details here.

One of the nation’s largest and most prestigious Latino film festivals celebrates its 35th birthday in 2019! The Festival promotes Latino culture in the United States by presenting the best and most recent films from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. The Festival is non-competitive. However, the most popular feature narrative, documentary and short are given the Audience Choice Award.

Chicago: March 28 - April 11. More info here.

The Houston Latino Film Festival will be presented on March 28th - 31st, 2019 at Talento Bilingue de Houston and The MATCH. Join us for a weekend to celebrate and enjoy compelling films from the brightest and emerging filmmakers from the U.S., Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Houston: March 28 - 31. More info here.

Always boasting a broad selection of Latin American films, the Miami Film Fest returns for its 36th edition this March.

Miami: March 1 - 10. Full lineup and details here.

In 1970s Colombia, a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera” pulls an indigenous Wayuu family into the fray as they enter the booming business of selling marijuana to Americans. Led by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayuu way of life. The strong and impulsive women and men must fight to maintain their livelihoods, culture, and traditions.

To be released February 2019.

Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.

Nationwide: Opens Feb. 1. More information here.