38th Miami Film Festival 2021

1991: Guatemala is at war, but this is not an issue for Daniel and his friends. All they want to do is have fun. They travel around with baseball bats, but their goal is not to play a game, they are on the hunt.

How far one is willing to go for the sake of one's political commitment.

Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.

Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.

Suffering from mutism has kept Marcus quiet his entire life. After years of home-schooling Marcus faces his biggest challenge yet - real school. But soon everyone will discover the incredible gift Marcus has been hiding from the world.

A long-hidden secret flips generational hierarchies upside down at a huge birthday celebration.

An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."

A few days after he moved in with his girlfriend, Jorge receives the visit of his future self who traveled through time to warn him that she is going to leave him for another guy, and proposes him a plan to avoid it.

Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin prepares for his 2019 homecoming concert amid intense political turmoil, in Matthew Heineman's latest documentary.

A Latina high school valedictorian grapples with her fate and identity as graduation day approaches, all while her mother veers too close to a ghost from the past and her younger sister swears she's found the answer to it all: winning the lottery.

In a mansion in the Costa Brava, a young domestic worker has to serve two rich kids while they enjoy their summer. Amongst cocktails, drugs and dishwashers, she will look for her own way to have fun.

The life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.

Hagen develops disturbing nightmares and soon can no longer distinguish between dream and reality.

Cuban Food Stories is a documentary that follows the various culinary delights made in Cuba, often showing how they're made.

From illustrating for Sesame Street to exposing the New World Order, this is the story of the controversial David Dees, unofficial artist of conspiracy theory culture. What sent him down the rabbit hole, and is there a path out?

Sebastián, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

After a 75 year-old mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life. As she struggles to find work, he documents a journey that uncovers the betrayals plaguing her past and the economic insecurity soon to shape not only her future, but that of an entire generation.

Inspired by the Madrigal Ten, a group of women who were ten of many Latinas sterilized without consent while giving birth at Los Angeles County USC Medical Center during the 1970s. This story follows Eva, a fictional mother, who after being informed of her sterilization, is faced with the life altering decision of joining Jessica, a 26 year old fierce Chicana attorney, and nine other women in a lawsuit against the hospital despite the shame she might receive from her community and family.

Shaq, a young man grappling with depression, returns to his New Jersey hometown, where his exploration of grief and brotherhood transforms into the imagining of an inner life.

Working as a mortician at his father's funeral parlor, Junior cycles through an unsatisfying life routine. A night out with friends forces him to see the world as it truly is.

Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy.

The lives of prostitutes at a brothel in the Dominican Republic take a dramatic turn when the U.S troops invade during the 1965 war.

A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.

After an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.

Top Latin American artists unite for a reading of excerpts from Gabriel García Marquéz's "100 Years of Solitude", which tell the story of a town that succumbs to a highly contagious plague of sleeplessness and amnesia. The narration is accompanied by apt and current real-world images, drawing parallels between the magical realism of García Marquéz's novel and the surreal circumstances we live in.