Dir. René Cardona; 1968; Mexico; 81min
Wrestlers are found dead at the coast of scenic Acapulco. Gloria, to all evil-doers of the world known only as Batwoman, starts to investigate...
Dir. Milagros Mumenthaler; 2025; Argentina/Switzerland; 104min; Texas Premiere
At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremony in Switzerland. Back in Buenos Aires, she says nothing, but something in her has shifted - quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.
Dir. Yamel Thompson; 2025; Mexico; 62min; North American Premiere
Yamel, a Mexican cinema student in Cuba, is randomly filming a stormy afternoon in Havana when Jans, an 18-year-old fisherman, walks across her frame and captures her attention. From that first recorded encounter, she, her camera and him become intertwined.
Dir. Diego Soto; 2025; Chile; 78min; North American Premiere
Nieves runs a small recreational pool with her son. One summer, a biker falls in love with her, but the romance seems doomed. Everything changes with the arrival of a filmmaker, who decides to include both of them in her new movie. As they become film actors, the boundaries between fiction and their emotions will begin to blur.
Dir. Lorena Alvarado; 2024; Venezuela; 67min; Texas Premiere
After years spent abroad, Ena returns to Caracas, where she finds her grandmother losing her grasp on memory and her father searching for rare Venezuelan books..
Dir. Joel Alfonso Vargas; 2025; USA; 99min; DFW Premiere
Rico’s summer is a wild mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it’s only a matter of time before his rowdy, carefree days come spiraling down.
Dir. Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat; 2024; Dominican Republic; 81min; DFW Premiere
Olivia, haunted by a past love that lives under her bed, trades flowers with it for comforting rain clouds. Barbara, rejected by Mauricio, escapes reality through fantastical stories. Mauricio, full of regrets, is swallowed by the earth. Ramon, smitten by Olivia, witnesses the growth of a strange plant mirroring her.
Dir. Francisco C. Martins, José Antonio Garcia; 1983; Brazil; 103min
Women's football was banned in Brazil until 1983, the year Onda Nova was produced. This erotic and anarchist dramatic comedy brings together stories about the female players of a newly formed football team, who are forced to deal with the prejudices of a conservative society that reviles them, as well as grapple with their own personal problems.
Dir. Alejo Moguillansky; 2025; Argentina; 106min; Texas Premiere
A little girl and a blind man staring at a lake that blurs the limits of space. Two actors coming together as lovers to rehearse an old play in a southern country. Two old men living inside a rubbish bin in front of the Congress of that same southern country. A son in perpetual farewell with his aging mother, a blind pianist condemned to play Beethoven’s Moonlight, because it is the only piece she still remembers by heart. Two filmmakers, perhaps responsible for all of the above, shooting trains, moons, and devoting their time to an activity that no one knows if it still exists: cinema.
Dir. David Bim; 2025; Cuba; 74min; Texas Premiere
Landi and Mercedes live in Cuba’s Zapata swamp, a biosphere reserve. To feed their sick child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, leaving his wife and son behind for days on end. Amid social unrest and a global pandemic, To the West, in Zapata follows this loving family as they go to extreme lengths to survive, in a constant cycle of reunion and separation.