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LATIN ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IN 2025

If last year's celebration of Latin music was anything to go off it’s safe to say our favourite artists will once again be at the forefront of everyone’s attention, not just Reggaeton lovers. The year has already started…

THE FEBRUARY REGGAETON RECAP

In the month of love, Anitta professes her love for Romeo Santos while ROA and Hades66 name drop Rosalía. A power duo brag about how hypnotising their ‘culos' are while a rising rapper gets hypnotised by the eyes of someone…

‘In her Place’ (El Lugar de la Otra) Dir. Maite Alberdi

Chilean director Maite Alberdi, nominated for two Oscars, with 28 wins and no fewer than 39 nominations under her belt, has released her first feature film ‘IN HER PLACE’. Emanating from the celebrated Fábula Productions stable…

O silencio das Ostras (The Silence of the Oysters) 2024 by Brazilian director Marcos Pimental

Screening at the Berlinale 2025 is a powerful debut fiction feature by documentarist Marcos Pimental. Based in a ghostly mining village, it relates the subsequent devastation of toxic sludge caused by the bursting of a dam in…

Santo Domingo Blues: Los Tigueres de la Bachata (2004) by Alex Wolfe.

A genre once ignored and disrespected by the Latin American elite as no more than bawdy ghetto music, bachata has risen to stand beside the best of salsa and merengue, and arguably outstrip both in popularity around the world, to…

El Mensaje (The Message 2025) by Argentine director Iván Fund

Nominated for the Golden Bear Best Film at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, this gentle thoughtful film had its world premiere in Berlin, with powerful and understated performances by all three leads, Anika Bootz,…

THE GOOD SISTER (Schwesterherz -2025) by Sarah Miró Fischer at the Berlinale

“I craft films driven by their characters—layered, dynamic, and deeply human. No matter how fantastical, the stories I tell reflect and engage with the world around us. They’re made to provoke thought, emotion, and connection”.

THE JANUARY REGGAETON RECAP

It’s the first Reggaeton Recap of the year and the artists certainly know it as they’re pulling out more stops than ever before! There’s a cross-continental collaboration that shows some very promising prospects and a collision…

Maria (2024) by multi-award-winning Chilean director Pablo Larraín.

“I’m in a mood for adulation” Pablo Larraín explores the last years in the life of coloratura soprano María Callas once the applause had faded, as she lives, almost unknown and forgotten in a sumptuous apartment in Paris, France…

‘El Visitante’ (The Visitor- 2022) by director Martín Boulocq.

This film has been awarded 3 wins and 3 nominations for Best Film and Best Screenplay, but surprisingly. none for Enrique Aráoz's excellent debut performance.

CHACO (2020) by Bolivian director Diego Mondaca.

'CHACO' is being screened in the " Echoes & Horizons of Contemporary Bolivian Cinema' at the Garden Cinema., bringing a story set during the 'War of Thirst'.

EMILIA PÉREZ (2024) directed by Jacques Audiard is sweeping the boards at the festivals.

A Mexican drug cartel gangsta musical fantasy about Juan “Manitas” Del Monte, a married drug warlord and father of two, hires Rita (Zoë Saldaña) an unappreciated defence lawyer, to help him fake his death and emerge transformed…

LATINO LIFE'S ULTIMATE REGGAETON RECAP 2024

Reggaeton has had its fair share of the spotlight this year thanks to some of the hottest acts' songs catapulting into the mainstream music world. Stars have used their already large fanbases to their advantage whether that’…

The Lost Children, 2024, by Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton and Jorge Durán.

“Until we find them” – This gripping documentary reveals the extraordinary trials of 3 young children and a baby, the sole survivors of a small plane crash in the remotest Colombian Amazon, seen from the point of view of their…

THE DECEMBER REGGAETON RECAP

This month is all about gift giving and these artists must’ve read our Christmas lists because they know exactly what tracks we’ve wished for. Everyone's favourite musical acts have been busy wrapping not just presents but…

CRASHING THE BALL: Meet the UK Latina Actors Taking the Stage

What happens when you bring thirteen Latina actors together to take part in the first ever magazine cover dedicated to Latin American film and theatre makers in the UK? LatinoLife shared a special moment with Díana Bermudez,…

El Cenote: Mexican Food Done Incredibly Well

Calling all Mexican food enthuisaists! Think deliciously fresh guacamole paired perfectly with the crunchiest nachos. Enchiladas stuffed with perfectly stringy cheese and chorizo, seasoned just-so. El Cenote brings the classic…

Meow! (2024) by Mexican Ariel de la Garza and Czech Michal Vojtech.

Meow! a comedy short film that has just premiered at the Norwich Film Festival, is an intriguing, quirky and amusing run through the Gothic shadows of the city of Prague, as a toilet attendant searches for her lost cat, trying to…

THE NOVEMBER REGGAETON RECAP

As our noses turn red and our cheeks turn rosy, artists are still showing up and showing out to help music lovers find their next music obsession. November has been a month of accolades and celebrations for lots of Latin…

Gabriela (2023) Oscar-qualifying short film by Guatemalan-American director Evelyn Lorena

Gabriela, a young Guatemalan undocumented immigrant struggles to fulfill her dreams of becoming a competitive swimmer for a local Country Club in North Carolina.

MAGDALENA, TE AMO (2024) by Andrea Calao

‘Magdalena, Te Amo’ (2024) is a moving short film about student sex workers in New York. Premiered at the New York Latino Film Festival, it has also been longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.

Power Alley (Levante- 2023) by Brazilian director Lillah Halla

Lillah Halla is emerging as the new kid on the block in Brazil with her opera prima, Levante (Power Alley) that questions Brazilian politics and feminist freedoms and has already garnered no fewer than 8 wins and 8 nominations at…

THE OCTOBER REGGAETON RECAP

It’s hard to tell what’s dropping faster, the leaves from the trees or the singles and albums from these reggaeton stars. This month is all about the opposites as a formidable new duo discuss the ultimate love while another…

We Love Omar Geles

Omar Geles was one of Colombia's most important Vallenato singers and musicians and the most prolific composer of his generation. His band Los Diablitos, which he formed with Miguel Morales, produced a string of hits in the…

Memories of a Burning Body (2024) by Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss

The Costa Rican submission to the 97th Academy Awards for ‘Best International Feature’ is Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’s moving fictional documentary ‘Memories of a Burning Body’, which will be screened at the BFI London Film…

SUJO (2024) by creative Mexican duo Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez

With ‘SUJO,’ a cartel drama, award-winning writer/directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez bring a new slant to the ‘shadow of violence’ that haunts Mexico to the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.

OLIVIA AND THE CLOUDS (2024) visually exciting animated feature by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat.

“Like they don’t see something is pulling them apart.” In ‘Olivia and the Clouds’, relationships flounder, steeped in memories and hopes as animator, film maker, professor and artist from the Dominican Republic, Pichardo-…

MAGDALENA, TE AMO (2024) by Andrea Calao

‘Magdalena, Te Amo’ (2024) is a moving short film about student sex workers in New York. Premiered at the New York Latino Film Festival, it has also been longlisted for the 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.

DRAGONKEEPER (2024) fantasy animation adventure directed by Salvador Simó and Yianping Li.

“There are questions that should not be answered because the answers should be found!” Based on Carole Wilkinson’s book, ‘Dragonkeeper’ is an exciting animated feature being released on September 27th in the UK,

THE SEPTEMBER REGGAETON RECAP

September brings a temperature drop but the artists’ this month are still making some fire records. From a bossa nova song performed in Portuñol to a track with six artists taking their turns to show off their fast and sharp flow…

BBC’s STORYVILLE has found a quiet gem with ‘INHERITING THE CASTLE (2023)’ by Argentine director Martin Benchimol.

Inheriting the Castle (2023) is the moving and gentle tale of 60- year-old Justina and her 20-year-old- drum- mad daughter Alexia, who inherit a mansion, deep in the Argentine pampas.

We Love Sergio Mendes

Sergio Mendes may not have been the main originator of bossa nova - one of the most innovative musical movement of the 20th Century - he may not have been the most talented musician to come out of Brazil, but he became the most…

LOS TALLOS AMARGOS (1956) by Argentine Fernando Ayala

“There are fools in Germany, fools in France and fools in Argentina.” Cine Lumière screens a classic cult film noir from the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, 'Los Tallos Amargos' (1956) directed by Fernando Ayala.

EL AFFAIRE DE MIU MIU (2024) by Laura Citarella.

The Giornate Deglo Autori’s world première of ‘EL AFFAIRE MIU MIU’ (2024) by fêted Argentine director Laura Citarella, at the 2024 Venice Film Festival on August 31st, has added a thrilling mystery tale to the compelling female…

Spanish Chef Masterclass: Omar Allibhoy Makes Spanish Food Look Easy

Join me as I uncover the secrets of traditional Spanish cuisine from Omar Allibhoy: the Madrid-born chef who has been trying to convince Brits to cook tapas for over fifteen years, and had a shot at teaching me how to make paella…

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