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THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Volveréis-2024) by award-winning Spanish director Jonás Trueba

“It’s like a wedding but the other way around.” Here is a couple who are convinced they want to separate and determined to celebrate the event as well. They are so cool, that it’s hard to see a “Will they?” “Won’t they?” that…

Music
THE JUNE REGGAETON RECAP

Karol G surprised everyone by announcing a new album while the second half of this reggaeton power couple, Feid, also decided to drop a new project. Two stars joined forces to re-learn everything they thought they knew about the…

Film & Theatre
THE ROAD TO PATAGONIA Dir. Matty Hannon

This is a document of 16 years of ecologist Matty Hannon’s life, as he follows his dream to travel and be at one with nature, while falling in love and surfing some of the wildest waves on the planet travelling down America'…

Food
Food as Memory: an evening with Enrique Olvera

El Pastor in Battersea hosted the second evening of its EP + Amigos series, where guest chefs are asked not only to cook but to share something of themselves. This time, it was Enrique Olvera, the chef behind Mexico City's…

Film & Theatre
ABDUCTED FILES (2025) by Brazilian writer/director Filippo Capuzzi Lapietra

Celebrating its premiere at the 33rd Raindance Film Festival, this highly entertaining mockumentary, set in 2024, explores the legacy of a film shot earlier, in 2016, that had set out to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the “…

Film & Theatre
‘CORINA’ Dir. Úrzula Barba Hopfner

20 -year-old agoraphobic Corina, works for a publishing house. She has lived for years within a tightly-confined area of the town. Trying to be courageous leads her to make a massive mistake and to fix it, she is forced to leave…

Film & Theatre
COMPARSA (2025) written and directed by Doug Anderson and Vickie Curtis.

Well-received at the 2025 Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, this is a moving feature-length documentary that explores how a group of women from Peronia, in Guatemala are challenging the authorities over the woeful lack of…

Food
Bodegón meets fine-dining at Amina, Buenos Aires

Amaranta Wright visits the happy love-child of two Argentina chefs with complimentary inspirations. Presenting classic bodegón dishes, reinterpretted and elevated, the result is a reflection of their passion for traditional…

Film & Theatre
CIELO (2025)an intriguing fable, set in Bolivia, written and directed by Alberto Sciamma.

Little Santa is determined to reach for the stars and get to Heaven. What ensues is the dark and yet heart-warming tale of Santa who changes all those that come into contact with her.

Music
THE MAY REGGAETON RECAP

This current heatwave is throwing off my natural calendar, from taking one glance outside you might think this was ‘The August Reggaeton Recap’ but instead it’s May’s – I promise. Unlike the weather, a lot of these newly…

Film & Theatre
'The Penguin Lessons' Dir. Peter Cattaneo

“He was short, only 2 ft tall, he smelt bad and he shat everywhere, but real friendship is about seeing beyond that superficial stuff” A cynical English teacher, who goes to work in a posh British school in Buenos Aires,…

Music
APRIL REGGAETON RECAP

Latin women are dominating the documentary industry in the past four weeks. Whether it was Anitta's game-changing 'Larissa' dropping at the end of March or Karol G's 'Mañana fue muy bonito' and now…

Film & Theatre
'HAMLET' by Peruvian company Teatro La Plaza, at The Barbican Theatre

This captivating piece of theatre is Hamlet as we have never seen it before, in a fresh perspective from the first Peruvian company to perform at The Barbican. Inspired by how Shakespeare’s timeless play about the search for self…

Film & Theatre
'UNDERCOVER' (La Infilfrada) Dir. Arantxa Echevarría

Based on real events, ‘Undercover’ (La Infiltrada) tells the story of young police officer Arantxa Berradre, who, living undercover in San Sebastian, becomes the only police officer to infiltrate the inner circles of the…

Music
The Fabulous Fattoruso Brothers

The Uruguayan Fattoruso brothers, Hugo on piano and accordion and “Osvaldo” on drums, were massively influential on the New York Jazz scene in the late 60s with their mix jazz, rock, Brazilian music and Uruguay’s unique Candombe…

Music
La Casa del Ritmo: A film about ‘Los Amigos Invisibles’- a biopic by Javier Andrade.

This documentary has the story of the band woven into a key live performance shot at the Highline Ballroom in New York City in March 2011, created with the backing of the group’s own label, Gozadera Records. The film screens on…

Music
THE MARCH REGGAETON RECAP

The five songs below are just as unpredictable as the weather (in the best way possible). Whether you’re feeling like a club anthem or hearing some sounds that transport you back to the 2010’s, the past four weeks of music have…

Film & Theatre
Los Amantes Astronautas (The Astronaut Lovers-2024) by Argentine Marco Berger

Prolific Filmmaker Marco Berger (Absent 2011/ Young Hunter (2019) & Horseplay (2022) has developed a reputation for dealing with gender issues in his own distinctive style.

Film & Theatre
‘The Silence of my Hands’ (2024) by Mexican documentary film maker Manuel Acuña.

Screening at the 2025 BFI Flare LGBTQAI+ Film Festival, ‘The Silence of my Hands’ follows the travails of two deaf Mexican women who struggle to keep their relationship alive despite separations, the short spells when they are…

Film & Theatre
I’m still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui - 2024) by Brazilian director Walter Salles

Picking up the Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film, ‘I’M STILL HERE’ is a stirring thriller/ family drama set in 1971 during the most agonizing period of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship. Based on…

Music
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…

Music
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…

Film & Theatre
‘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…

Film & Theatre
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…

Music
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…

Film & Theatre
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,…

Film & Theatre
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”.

Music
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…

Film & Theatre
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…

Film & Theatre
‘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.

Film & Theatre
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'.

Film & Theatre
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…

Music
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’…

Film & Theatre
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…

Music
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…

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