Hugo Perez

An uplifting, entertaining profile of the grande dame of Cuban music, Omara Portuondo, the internationally beloved chanteuse best known in the States as a member of the famed Buena Vista Social Club. The filmmakers follow octogenarian Omara—feisty, charming, with a naughty sense of humor, and still in possession of her fantastic voice—on her third “final” world tour as she sings to and with those she’s inspired around the globe, demonstrating her impressive range and continued relevance as an artist.

A science-fiction drama set in farm country, where—after a decade of famine and food riots—the Mendelian Corporation feeds (and controls) the world through its genetically modified seeds, pitting family members against one another.

This film tells the riveting story of Miklos Radnoti, a Hungarian poet who perished in the Holocaust. Throughout his forced travels from the Bor copper mine in Serbia to a remote work camp and finally to a mass grave in a Hungarian village, Radnoti was determined to keep writing and to find a way to preserve his poems. The film is at once a love story, an examination of Radnoti’s patriotism, and a sobering view of the Hungarian holocaust. Radnoti’s startlingly original poems are read in translation and, most movingly, in Hungarian.

A portrait of 100-year-old Gregorio Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway’s boat captain in Cuba.

Betty La Flaca follows the character of ‘skinny’ Betty, who decides she needs to enhance her figure through homegrown plastic surgery.

An uplifting, entertaining profile of the grande dame of Cuban music, Omara Portuondo, the internationally beloved chanteuse best known in the States as a member of the famed Buena Vista Social Club. The filmmakers follow octogenarian Omara—feisty, charming, with a naughty sense of humor, and still in possession of her fantastic voice—on her third “final” world tour as she sings to and with those she’s inspired around the globe, demonstrating her impressive range and continued relevance as an artist.

A science-fiction drama set in farm country, where—after a decade of famine and food riots—the Mendelian Corporation feeds (and controls) the world through its genetically modified seeds, pitting family members against one another.

This film tells the riveting story of Miklos Radnoti, a Hungarian poet who perished in the Holocaust. Throughout his forced travels from the Bor copper mine in Serbia to a remote work camp and finally to a mass grave in a Hungarian village, Radnoti was determined to keep writing and to find a way to preserve his poems. The film is at once a love story, an examination of Radnoti’s patriotism, and a sobering view of the Hungarian holocaust. Radnoti’s startlingly original poems are read in translation and, most movingly, in Hungarian.

A portrait of 100-year-old Gregorio Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway’s boat captain in Cuba.

Betty La Flaca follows the character of ‘skinny’ Betty, who decides she needs to enhance her figure through homegrown plastic surgery.