Immigrants just released from detention centers spend their first night in Oakland at a motel, paid for by one of the workers. For one night of respite, they rest, reflect and prepare for the next phase of their journey.

USA, 2018
Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz, Director
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
12 min

Youth Award Winner

L@s Chav@los
Big Picture Alliance & Art of Solidarity, Nicaragua
16:53 min

Honorable Mentions

A Second Chance
Justin Toledo
15:00 min

The Puerto Rican Philly Girl
Who Survived Hurricane Maria
Yuleidy T Cordero
6:00 min

The Corner Store
Eluid Santana
5:54 min

Super Signs
WHYY Media Labs/ LINC
Teacher: Lisa Wilk
2:00 min

#SRL Youth Vote
Dariana Garcia, Hannah Woodruff, Bwe Ku and Ana Kundu
5:23 min

Lost Kids of Corona
Jesus Villalba
11:00 min

La Vida es Energía
CCATE
2:41 min

The Zombies Want the Bronx
USA, 2018
Leo Curbelo, Director
Narrative
English
3 min

The zombies have overran Brooklyn and taken over Queens. And now they want The Bronx!

Joy
USA, 2017
Lorena Lourenco, Director
Narrative
English
3 min

Joy is an experimental film that juxtaposes the distresses of being an immigrant woman in America, against the courteousness one feels obliged to present.

Pueblito Paisa
United Kingdom, 2019
Nathalie Kantaris Díaz, Director
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
16 min

A documentary about London's Latin Village and the often difficult migratory journeys of its vibrant characters. In particular, the film focuses on Marta Hinestroza's inspiring but often traumatic story: a human rights lawyer who was persecuted in Colombia and forced to flee, after defending poor farmers against land grabs by multinationals.

The Skin of Yesterday
Puerto Rico, 2019
Andrew Garcia, Director
Narrative
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
21 min

A young widower struggles to support his grandmother and his daughter after the devastation Hurricane Maria has caused them. He sets out to find clean water to help his family survive.

Throughout a four-year observational process, Landless approaches the struggle for land reform in the state of Goiás in which Landless workers’ presence fissures the agribusiness framed landscape creating refuge spots of agro-ecological growing, deep political reflection, and personal shift. Stuck between the dethroned leftist government, which has not made structural changes in the agrarian question, and a conservative anti-poor power led by big landowners, the movement cleaves their path through the political impasse the country has been submerged in by reinventing peasantry and pointing at the origins of Brazilian fundamental deadlocks.

Brazil, 2019
Camila Freitas, Director
Documentary
Portuguese (with English Subtitles)
111 min

What does “Está Rico” by Marc Anthony, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with “Made For Now” by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both high-jacked AfroBeats and did not give the genre’s origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite, following DJ Jigüe on a journey to his hometown of Santiago de Cuba as he explores Cuba’s manifestation of the global AfroBeats hype, “bakosó”, to discover where the roots of the genre come from. We know there is deep-rooted African influence in Cuba, but bakosó itself is beautiful proof that the exchange did not end with the Transatlantic slave trade.

Cuba, 2019
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Director
DJ Jigüe, Protagonist
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
49 min

Ay, Ay, I

Separate scenes of an elegant and stoic womyn and man tug at something and are in turn pulled back by a force.

Dominican Republic, 2018
Alina Maria Rancier, Director
Narrative
English
3 min

Mr. Zoot Suit

After putting his dreams on hold, a university housekeeping supervisor follows his passion for dancing and educating others about the history of the zoot suit.

USA, 2018
ChanCellor Makanjuola, Director
Documentary
English
16 min

Labor

Divided between his passion for music and his role at the head of a family-owned factory, Fábio works hard as he projects his dreams into a kind of parallel world.

Brazil, 2017
Thiago Moulin, Director
Narrative
15 min

Nowhere Bastard

Tells the story of three Mexican rappers in their journey as independent artists and explores the harsh life conditions and cultural baggage that have led them to find a catharsis in hip-hop and a way to represent their communities.

Mexico, 2018
Mario González Jiménez, Director
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
11 min

La Mujer Maravilla Sobre Ruedas, el documental sobre cómo una mujer joven con perlesía cerebral nos enseña en su búsqueda de independencia, que la limitación más grande que tenemos solo existe en nuestras mentes.

Puerto Rico, 2016
Omar Camilo, Director
Documentary
Spanish (with english subtitles)
54 min

The US-Mexican War is the war Mexicans never forget and Americans never remember. An unusual trophy from the war is the prosthetic leg of General Santa Anna, now on display in Springfield, IL, home to Abe Lincoln who challenged the war’s justification as a young Congressman. Twenty-five history students from San Antonio take a 2,000-mile trip on a bus to honor Lincoln's support by building a Day of the Dead altar at the foot of the State Capitol. They attended a tense meeting with reluctant curators at the Military Museum to ask for repatriation of the leg to Mexico. With humor, humility, and a few animated history lessons, these students raise questions of identity, national borders, and collective memory.

USA, 2018
Ellen Brodsky, Director
Documentary
English
34 min

José (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala City - a typical lower-class existence in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. She never had a husband, and José is her youngest and favorite child. Her life is her church, and selling sandwiches at a bus stop. José spends his days on cramped buses and fighting traffic as he runs food to waiting drivers. Aloof and resigned to things as they are, he fills his free moments playing with his phone and random sex arranged on street corners and dating apps. When he meets Luis, a migrant from the rural Caribbean coast, they pursue an unexpected relationship and José is thrust into passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.

Guatemala, 2018
Cheng Li, Director
Narrative
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
86 min

Ariel is a young religious dressmaker who, after a failed sexual encounter, discovers a secret her family has tried to hide all of her life: she was born intersex but, after corrective surgery, raised as a girl.

Colombia & Venezuela, 2018
Patricia Ortega, Director
Narrative
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
86 min

In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble. While insidious government policies caused the devastation, Black and Puerto Rican residents bore the blame.

USA, 2018
Vivian Vazquez & Gretchen Hildebran, Directors
Documentary
English (with English Subtitles)
76 min

Mariposa

Mariposa is a poetic exploration on single motherhood through the words of contemporary poet Rachel Inez Marshall. The story explores the emotional gaps between generations of Latinx Woman. We see how the day to day lives of mothers and daughters flash between love & loss. The film is shot in Spanish Harlem and Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico, 2019
Kristian Mercado Figueroa, Director
Narrative
English
7 min

We are going to Paris (Nos vamos pa' París)

An old married couple try to rob a bank with the purpose of saving their house which has a foreclosure on it, but the couple receive a tremendous surprise when they enter the bank. The real reason for the robbery is later revealed.

Puerto Rico, 2018
David Norris, Director
Narrative
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
9 min

Alejandro Busca Ayuda

In the middle of an emotional crisis, Alejandro loses confidence in his psychologist and decides to find answers in the company of a clown.

Panama, 2019
Rafa Leonard, Director
Narrative
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
5 min

The Woodland
(El Monte)

In Sierra Maestra, Cuba, José Manuel explains to his granddaughter Malena his world view through deep knowledge of natures' mysteries. Plants and people have great resemblances and must respect each other. José Manuel hopes that Malena inherits the knowledge that he obtained from the father and she becomes a great mountain tree.

Cuba, 2017
Claudia Claremi, Director
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
13 min

White Noise

In need of extra cash, Dolores, a young black waitress, participates in a psychological study.

USA, 2018
Frida Perez, Director
Narrative
English
6 min

Amor de Madre

During a game of basketball with friends, Anthony, a young man trying to spread his wings, is invited to hang out. Feeling the pressures of his teenage years, he confronts his overbearing and protective mother, although she might have other thoughts about his newfound independence.

USA, 2018
Wesley Castillo, Director
Narrative
English
6 min

In this man vs. nature 1950s style b-movie thriller, a soon to be dad, stuck in the desert in the middle of the night, fights for his life against a giant scorpion that wants to eat him.   Filmed in glorious black and white, but with a healthy mix of modernity added in.

USA, 2019 
Les Rivera, Director
Fiction 
English/Spanish
90 Min 

Waking Dream is a six-episode series showing the resilience, innovation, and persistence of six undocumented young people. Their stories cut beyond politics to reveal the reality of undocumented people working tenaciously for a brighter future for themselves and their families.

USA, 2018
Theo Rigby, Director
Documentary
English
52 min

Politicians aren’t often full-time hotel housekeepers, union members, grandmothers, and immigrants working service jobs. But Carmen Castillo changes that when she wins a seat on the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island. Carmen Castillo is a Dominican City Councilwoman who maintains her job cleaning hotel rooms, as she takes on her new role in politics. She faces skeptics who say she doesn’t have the education to govern, the power of corporate interests who take a stand against her fight for a $15/hourly wage in the City, and a tough re-election against two contenders—all of this while balancing the challenges of managing a full-time job cleaning hotel rooms, and a personal relationship. It’s a journey behind the scenes of politics after the victory.

US, 2018 
Margo Guernsey, Director
Documentary
Spanish/English
57 min

Felipe has come to a crossroads. After 16 years in Brooklyn, working three low-paying jobs and collecting bottles on the street in his spare time and sending the bulk of his earnings home to his family in Mexico, he's decided to return to his wife and the children he hasn't seen in almost two decades. But when he informs his family of his homecoming, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the US, continuing to earn.

USA, 2018
Lindsey Cordero & Armando Croda, Directors
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
76 min

For her powerful voice and incomparable interpretive talent, Lucecita Benítez is considered Puerto Rico’s National Voice. Simultaneously marked as a controversial artist, for her queer identity and her political expression for the independence of Puerto Rico, resulted in a national veto in radio and television. In spite of this, her fanatics follow her passionately, buy her music and travel to her concerts. They narrate this documentary through anecdotes, preserved newspaper and magazines clippings, which demonstrates the magnitude of their admiration for her. Lucecita is fundamental in their lives, and they are willing to put their love to the test for the only Puerto Rican singer that can have the title of iconess.

Puerto Rico, 2018
Gisela Rosario Ramos, Director
Documentary
Spanish (with English Subtitles)
54 min