Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
New Latin American Cinema
This was less a single style than a continental project: filmmakers set out to show their countries' poverty and colonial history rather than copy Hollywood.
In Brazil, Cinema Novo worked with "a camera in the hand and an idea in the head", and Glauber Rocha's 1965 manifesto An Aesthetic of Hunger turned scarcity into a style. Meanwhile, Cuba founded its film institute, ICAIC, in 1959, and in Argentina Solanas and Getino called for a militant Third Cinema (1969).
- Cinema Novo
- Aesthetic of Hunger
- Third Cinema
- ICAIC, Cuba
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01
Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1963
Vidas Secas
Barren Lives
A family of migrants crosses the drought-stricken sertão, adapted from Graciliano Ramos's novel.
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02
Glauber Rocha 1964
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
Black God, White Devil
A cowherd follows a messianic preacher and then a bandit through the sertão. Feverish, operatic, essential.
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03
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1968
Memorias del subdesarrollo
Memories of Underdevelopment
Start hereA bourgeois intellectual stays in Havana after the revolution, watching the city from his balcony up to the missile crisis.
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04
Fernando Solanas, Octavio Getino 1968
La hora de los hornos
The Hour of the Furnaces
A militant essay documentary of over four hours on neocolonialism in Argentina, first shown in clandestine screenings.
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05
Humberto Solás 1968
Lucía
Lucía
Three women named Lucía, in three moments of Cuban history, each told in a different visual style.
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06
Jorge Sanjinés 1969
Yawar Mallku
Blood of the Condor
A Quechua community discovers that a foreign aid clinic is sterilising its women, in Quechua and Spanish.