Icarus Films | Latin American Studies

Flower in Otomi

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:01:45 GMT

Tells the story of Dení Prieto Stock, a 19-year-old woman killed by the Mexican army in a 1973 raid on the Fuerzas de Liberación Nacional.

10th Parallel

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:16:01 GMT

A voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.

The Tiniest Place

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:12:25 GMT

The story of a small village in El Salvador, destroyed during the country's civil war, and its remarkable rebirth today.

Silvestre Pantaleón

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:46:57 GMT

The story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Mexico.

108 Cuchillo de Palo

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:32 GMT

In her powerful and mysterious debut feature, Paraguayan director Renate Costa Perdomo investigates a gay man's persecution and murder.

PRESUMED GUILTY Nabs Emmy Award

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:12:36 GMT

The Mexican documentary feature Presunto Culpable / Presumed Guilty by Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith was awarded the News and Documentary Emmy as Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form in the 32nd annual edition of the awards ceremony that took place at Lincoln Center in New York. The film was nominated for three awards that are given by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

A Better Life

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:04:19 GMT

Returning to Todos Santos after 30 years, a look at the profound economic and social changes that have transformed this Guatemalan Mayan village.

El Sicario

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:03:44 GMT

The story of a hitman for the drug cartels, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

El Velador

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:03:05 GMT

From dusk to dawn Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords.

Guañape Sur

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:02:31 GMT

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. Every eleven years hundreds of men come here, to dig up guano, the shit the birds leave behind.

Impunity

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:01:54 GMT

What is the cost of truth for families damaged by Colombia's violent past?

The Siege

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:01:29 GMT

The story of the siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, Colombia in 1985. 35 armed guerrillas take hundreds hostage. Almost the entire Supreme Court ends up dead.

NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT at IFC Center, NYC

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:25:11 GMT

Tickets for NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT are on sale now online, including for the Friday & Saturday 8:10pm shows featuring a Q&A with Patricio Guzman — book now!

Nostalgia for the Light

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:48:39 GMT

Director Patricio Guzmán travels to Chile’s Atacama Desert where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.

Three Icarus Films titles win LASA awards

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:24:09 GMT

Three titles distributed by Icarus Films have won a 2010 Award of Merit in Film from the Latin American Studies Association:

Awakening from Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:30:01 GMT

Documents the power to transform pain into action and to lift the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young people orphaned by Argentina's 'Dirty War.'

Open Sky

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:29:33 GMT

When an open-pit silver mine comes to an isolated, desert community in Argentina, corporate and government interests clash with those of the local population.

Presumed Guilty

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:28:32 GMT

A searing examination of the Mexican criminal justice system through the case of one man, wrongly accused of murder.

Stolen Land

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:27:39 GMT

Illustrates the decades-long often violent resistance movement of the indigenous Nasa people of Colombia over rights to their native land.

4 Icarus Films at the American Anthropological Association conference

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:29:43 GMT

The 108th AAA annual meeting is taking place in Philadelphia from December 2 to 6. Four of our films will be presented:

For more information, please visit the AAA website here

Montaña de Luz

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:07:31 GMT

The children of the Montaña de Luz orphanage in Honduras are HIV positive, and a living testament to the beauty and innocence of childhood. This is a stirring portrait of a loving community.

Agustín's Newspaper

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:42:44 GMT

Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.

The Inheritors

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:42:15 GMT

At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. This is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival.

The World's Next Supermodel

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:41:48 GMT

Asia, Brazil or Western Europe - which will be the world's next economic superstar?

Lucanamarca

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:18:39 GMT

High in the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconstruction Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.

Oblivion

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:10:45 GMT

Heddy Honigmann's latest film focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing the contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis and corruption.

Rapayan

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:16:53 GMT

High in the Andes mountains of Peru, above a small village that scarcely seemed to notice, archaeologists have found the ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Incas.

Sacred Soil

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:22:58 GMT

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year in order to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

A Mayan Trilogy: Life, Death & Migration

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:19:58 GMT

Now on one DVD, Olivia Carrescia's three films on the Mayan Indians of Guatemala preserve a record, and provide an acute observation on how the indigenous culture has been affected by, yet survived, that country's tumultuous history.

Killer's Paradise

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:23:58 GMT

Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala. Yet law enforcement and government turn a blind eye.

Tracing Aleida

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:23:22 GMT

Thirty years after being separated when their parents "disappeared" during Mexico's "Dirty War" in the '70s, Aleida searches to uncover the truth, and to find her brother.