2026 Program

The Batwoman

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...

The Currents

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.

Jankee

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.

La corazonada

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.

Lost Chapters

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..

Mad Bills to Pay

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.

Olivia and the Clouds

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.

Onda Nova

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.

Pin de fartie

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.

To the West, in Zapata

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.

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