Focus on Latin America

This year, the Carthage Film Festival honors the free and untamed force of Latin American cinema, presenting a selection of works that tell the story of a land shaped by memory, struggle, and imagination.

From the Andes to the Chilean coast, from cities in tension to indigenous communities, these films portray a vibrant continent where the universal and the intimate are constantly intertwined.

With *The Noise of Recife*, *The Falling Sky*, *The Blood of the Condor*, *Utama*, *The Summer of Flying Fish*, *My Imaginary Country*, and *The 12-Year Wedding*, this section pays tribute to filmmakers who, generation after generation, have shaped a cinema of resistance—at the crossroads of social inquiry, magical realism, and popular struggles.

Through these works, the JCC reaffirm their historic commitment to a cinema that remains largely unseen on screens, despite its power, and to peoples fighting for their land and their dignity.

Since its founding, the JCC have held a simple conviction: cinema is not only an art form, but also a space for voice, memory, and emancipation.

These brave and sensitive Latin American films embody that same will—to film in order to understand, to film in order to resist, to film in order not to disappear.

Here, the JCC celebrate a cinema that illuminates peoples and stands alongside their struggles, offering us a cinematic journey woven with revolt, poetry, and hope, where every image speaks to the battles of yesterday and today.