Hello Latin America Documentaries
My favourite foreign language documentaries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador and Venezuela, from terrorists and vloggers to politics and nature.
DOCUMENTARIES
#1 The Edge of Democracy (Brazil 2019 - Dir Petra Costa)
#2 The Eternal Memory (Chile 2023 - Dir Maite Alberdi)
#3 The Salt of the Earth (Brazil by Germany 2014 – Dir Wim Wenders)
#4 Nostalgia for the Light (Chile 2010 - Dir Patricio Guzmán)
#5 Elena (Brazil 2012- Dir Petra Costa)
#6 The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo (Mexico 2020 – Dir Carlos Pérez Osorio)
#7 Wild Life (Argentina by USA - Dirs Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
#8 The Photographer - Murder in Pinamar (Argentina 2022 - Dir Alejandro Hartmann)
#9 My Imaginary Country (Chile 2022 - Dir Patricio Guzmán)
#10 Bus 174 (Brazil 2002 - Dirs José Padilha & Felipe Lacerda)
#11 Mariner of the Mountains (Brazil set Algeria doccie 2021)
#12 Arica, A Toxic Waste Scandal (Chile by Sweden 2022)
#13 Unforgivable a.k.a. Imperdonable (El Salvador 2020 – Dir Marlén Viñayo)
#14 The Territory (Brazil by USA 2022 - Dir Alex Pritz)
#15 Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (Venezuela 2020 – Dir Anabel Rodriguez Rios)
#16 Buena Vista Social Club (Cuba 2010 - Dir Wim Wenders)
#17 A Cop Movie (Mexico quasi doccie 2021 - Dir Alonso Ruizpalacios)
#18 Gaucho - The Last Cowboys of Patagonia (Argentina 2017 - Dirs Josh Bullock & Tom Martienssen)
I’m sure that once I’ve seen ‘The Pearl Button’ and ‘The Lady of Silence’ they’ll be added to the list.
BONUS
‘Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World’ is one of the best docuseries you’ll see. In a world flooded with nature movies, this is exceptional.
VLOGGERS
Travelling the harsh migrant route through Latin America to the USA
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Benjamin Rich a.k.a. Bald & Bankrupt (UK) and Timmy Karter (Greece) became extreme YouTubers to show us the pain of parents and their toddlers daring to dream of the U.S.A. From Venezuela and Colombia, through The Darien Gap in Panama’s jungle, to catch the The Beast train through Mexico (where Timmy ‘donates’ his gallbladder).
Latin America! What a lovely place, my dad was a Panamanian, and I am the first born in the USA. I'm looking forward to enjoying these clips you sent
Spanish is a beautiful language, unfortunately ,my spelling is just as bad as in English.
Oh well. Nobody is perfect 👌
These are all excellent film recommendations from Latin America, most of which I have seen, but a few which I will definitely have to check out. Mike, I am so glad you included "Nostalgia for the Light" (directed by Patricio Guzmán), a beautiful film tying together the astronomer, archaeologist, and women with spades all searching for clues of the past. May I recommend the collection "Five Films by Patricio Guzmán: "The Battle for Chile" (in three parts), "The Pinochet Case", "Obstinate Memory", "Salvador Allende", and the aforementioned "Nostalgia for the Light"? Kudos, also, for including films from Brazilian directors, but that is an entire additional topic. :)