Miami International Film Festival 2010

North American Premiere. Set in Bogotá, this stunning debut from Colombian director Jorge Navas highlights encounters between a vengeful taxi driver and a reckless drifter, and among gangs of killers willing to do anything for cash, white powder, obsessive love, vengeance or solitude. Winner of Best International Film at the 2009 Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

U.S. Premiere. Director Oscar Ruíz Navia's feature debut offers a rare glimpse into life among the isolated and ignored black communities along Colombia's Pacific coast. Tensions mount when two white outsiders enter this tranquil world: a mysterious stranger fleeing his past and an opportunistic

North American Premiere. Derived from Argentine writer-director Julia Solomonoff's childhood experiences, this gentle coming-of-age tale involves two sisters in conflict and their bubbleshaped family camping trailer, "La Boyita." During a summer trip to a rural Pampas farm, the youngest confronts her

North American Premiere. This first feature-length fiction film made in Nicaragua in more than twenty years finds a poor woman in a ganginfested Managua neighborhood who dreams of becoming a boxer. She meets a young journalist and their shared desires to accomplish their dreams and fall in love encourage a growing attraction between them.

U.S. Premiere. The sexual identity and dysfunctions of a good-looking Montevideo student in his mid-20s are casually explored in this easygoing and often comical drama that seems to suggest that accepting one's own homosexuality can still be something of a big deal in staunchly Catholic Uruguay - even in its cosmopolitan capital.

North American Premiere. Vision, or lack thereof, is at the heart of Chilean director Cristián Jiménez’s first film. A charmingly quirky narrative set during winter in southern Chile which explores society's neuroses over appearances, surveillance and communication, this film focuses on three main characters: a once-blind skier terrorized by the world he now sees; a mall security guard smitten with a beautiful thief spotted over security cameras; and a loyal über -employee unceremoniously transferred to a dead-end job and trained by his company on how to behave like an unemployed person. All three men face the world mired in desires and circumstances they barely understand, where everything feels somewhat unreal, a lotlike an optical illusion. Sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholy, their stories are all essentially about dreams, wishes, and disappointments. As a child, Jiménez could not decide if he wanted to be a sociologist or a stand-up comedian and both perspectives on the absurdities of life are clearly included here.

North American Premiere. Effectively chronicling the significant toll that violence incurs on their bonds of friendship, Peruvian director Héctor Gálvez's debut feature depicts the frustrations, trials and aspirations

East Coast Premiere. A weirdly hilarious peek into the misadventures of a slackerish Mexico City moving truck driver who still lives with his nagging mother. This third feature from Mexican director Nicolás

North American Premiere. This understated, nuanced film wryly observes the mechanics of friendship as evinced through Marcos and Martín, two old school friends who've recently reconnected. A thoughtful contemplation of masculine communication and the possibilities offered by moving on from a past that should never be allowed to overwhelm the present.