About the festival
About the festival
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Dear Film Enthusiasts,
We are thrilled to invite you to the Latin American Online Film Festival, set to take place from March 11 th to May 18 th 2025 on the Pragda Online Streaming Platform. This exciting event aims to celebrate the rich and diverse cinematic traditions of Latin America by showcasing five powerful films that reflect the culture, stories, and realities of the region.
Featured Films:
The Spirit of The Ancestors (Te Kuhane o te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros)
Directed by Leonardo Pakarati | Chile | 2015 | 63 minCerro Rico, Tierra Rica
Directed by Juan Vallejo | Bolivia, Colombia, United States | 2012 | 87 minPersistent Woman (Mujer perseverante)
Directed by Soledad San Julián | Argentina | 2022 | 68 minAmazon Mirror (O Reflexo do Lago)
Directed by Fernando Segtowick | Brazil | 2020 | 78 minYvy Maraey, Land Without Evil (Yvy Maraey, Tierra Sin Mal)
Directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia | Bolivia | 2014 | 105 min
Why This Festival is Important:
The Latin American Online Film Festival serves as a vital platform for promoting the voices and visions of Latin American filmmakers, fostering a deeper understanding of the social and ecocultural issues that resonate within their communities. Each selected film offers a unique glimpse into the narratives and experiences that shape life in Latin America, ranging from historical reflections to contemporary struggles.
By participating in this festival, you not only support artistic expression but also contribute to the visibility of Latin American cinema on a global scale. Through these films, we hope to engage audiences in meaningful discussions, inspire empathy, and highlight the importance of storytelling in unifying diverse cultures.
Join us in this celebration of film, culture, and community!
We look forward to sharing these incredible films with you!
Warm regards,
The Latin American Online Film Festival Team
How to watch the movies?
How to watch the movies?
1. This is a free online film festival open to everybody. You can find the calendar below.
2. Each movie has a different link. It will be available for two (2) weeks for online screening.
3. You will complete your registration in this link . You will register for each of the movies.
4. After submitting your registration, you will get the link to the screening room and an access code.
5. Questions or Comments: ana.llurba@rutgers.edu
The Spirit of Ancestors
The Spirit of Ancestors
(Te Kuhane O Te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros)
(Te Kuhane O Te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros)
Leonardo Pakarati / Chile / 2015 / 63 min
Streaming Access:
Watch this film between March 11, 2025 and March 23, 2025.
Access to the film will be available during this time period only. A "Watch Film" button will appear at that time.
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The Spirit of Ancestors tells the powerful story of Moai Hoa Haka Nana’ia, one of Rapa Nui’s (Easter Island) sacred spirits, known on the island as the Stolen Friend. Taken by colonizers over a century ago, this massive, iconic carving now sits in a museum, one of countless living objects displaced from their homelands.
For the Rapa Nui, the Moai is imbued with Mana—the life force essential to their well-being. His absence from the island, where he once stood watch alongside his kin, threatens the delicate bond between spirit and people. Over time, this fracture endangers not only their cultural heritage but also the connection of younger generations to their ancestors.
This documentary follows three generations of the Pakarati family as they travel to Europe to try to reclaim the Stolen Friend, bring his spirit home and ensure a strong future for those to come.
https://pragda.com/film/the-spirit-of-the-ancestors/
Trailer Te Kuhane o te tupuna, el espíritu de los ancestros
Cerro rico, tierra rica
Cerro rico, tierra rica
Juan Vallejo / Bolivia, Colombia, United States / 2012 / 87 min
Streaming Access:
Watch this film between March 24, 2025 and April 5, 2025.
Access to the film will be available during this time period only. A "Watch Film" button will appear at that time.
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Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles
The daily rituals of two mining communities are observed in this strikingly visual and unsparing portrait of life and work in Bolivia’s altiplano, at an altitude of fourteen thousand feet. More than ten thousand miners still excavate the slopes and tunnels of the richest silver field in mining history, Cerro Rico (Rich Hill), an enormous conical mountain in the Andes that towers over the city of Potosí. The miners’ lives offer a strong denunciation of the hardships and alienation inherent in industrial work inside the mines, underscoring the historical impact on the native population created by global demands for earth’s wealth. Shot in iconic Potosí and Cerro Rico and, as a counterpart, in the Arctic-looking plains of Salar de Uyuni, where salt is extracted daily and where half of the world’s lithium reserves remain untapped.
Persistent Woman
Persistent Woman
(Mujer perseverante)
(Mujer perseverante)
Soledad San Julián / Argentina / 2022 / 68 min
Streaming Access:
Watch this film between April 6, 2025 and April 20, 2025.
Access to the film will be available during this time period only. A "Watch Film" button will appear at that time.
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Spanish with English subtitles
With Rosario Quispe, Warmis
How can one create a future when there is none? That’s the question Nobel Peace Prize nominee Rosario Quispe, a Kolla woman, asked herself in 1994 when the mines were closing, and the people of Northern Argentina were left without work, forcing them to migrate to the south. This impactful documentary pays tribute to Rosario, who, through a micro-credit system that was later recognized by Harvard University, established an enterprise in Abra Pampa that supports thousands of families from the aboriginal communities of the region.
Together, in alliance with national entrepreneurs, they market 95% of the llama wool fiber produced in Puna, Argentina, to Europe and Latin America. Today, Warmi Sayasungo supports more than 6,000 families from 80 native communities.
https://pragda.com/film/persistent-woman/
'Mujer perseverante', de Soledad San Julián - Trailer
Amazon Mirror
Amazon Mirror
(O Reflexo Do Lago)
(O Reflexo Do Lago)
Fernando Segtowick / Brazil / 2020 / 78 min
Co-organized with the I Andean-Amazon Symposium that will take place on April 25
Streaming Access:
Watch this film between April 21, 2025 and May 4, 2025.
Access to the film will be available during this time period only. A "Watch Film" button will appear at that time.
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Portuguese with English subtitles
In the 1980s, the military dictatorship in Brazil built the largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon in the city of Tucuruí in the state of Pará. Residents of the Caraipé River within the plant’s lake have remained without electricity in their homes since then. A filmmaker and crew explore their decision to stay for 40 years despite the hardships, aiming to uncover their perspectives.
Yvy Maraey, Land Without Evil
Yvy Maraey, Land Without Evil
(Yvy Maraey, Tierra sin mal)
(Yvy Maraey, Tierra sin mal)
Juan Carlos Valdivia / Bolivia / 2014 / 105 min
Streaming Access:
Watch this film between May 5, 2025 and May 18, 2025.
Access to the film will be available during this time period only. A "Watch Film" button will appear at that time.
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Spanish and Guaraní with English Subtitles
With Juan Carlos Valdivia, Elio Ortíz, Felipe Romá
A Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the Guaraní people. The starting point is a 1911 film by Swedish explorer Erland Nordenskiöld. But today’s reality turns out to be much more intense than the nostalgia for a lost world. In Yvy Maraey, the white man (the director) and the Indian create and interpret their own characters, walking the thin line between documentary, fiction, and performance. Far from observing another culture, we are watched and questioned about our identity in a country undergoing enormous social, political, and historical change as it struggles to create an intercultural society. Yvy Maraey is a quest for the knowledge within, seen through the eyes of the other. Here learning comes from another form of seeing—listening. The film combines reality with the epic tale of a heroic indigenous nation.
https://pragda.com/film/yvy-maraey-land-without-evil/
Yvy Maraey, Land without evil, A film by Juan Carlos Valdivia
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