Movies: Juan Manuel Castillo Martel

Moving between classrooms – static interiors and roaring, raucous exteriors – Leagues explores the subject of academic exclusion in native communities. Named after an archaic unit of measurement, Martel's postcolonial film depicts how education, thou...

In a desert town in the Puna, something dark emerges from the earth. Only old Cora, her daughter Antonia and her granddaughter Serafina remain. The mother leaves for Buenos Aires, leaving the girl in the care of her grandmother, who warns her not to ...