2019 San Diego Latino Film Festival

Twelve-year-old Itan's promising life in San Francisco is turned upside down when she comes home from school, with her younger brother, to find her mother missing. Suddenly she must rely on her estranged uncle, a big rig truck driver.

We plunge right into the epicenter of the current crisis in Venezuela through the voices of its true protagonists. "The Broken Country" is five intertwined stories showing how the citizens are making their way through the remains of a run-down government.

A man tries to cope with the death of his sister, but cannot because he must continue working with the illegal business of bringing undocumented immigrants from Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico.

Shot over the course of seven years Clean Hands documents the human drama, personal struggle, innocence, and salvation of one family in Nicaragua surviving against the backdrop of Central America's largest garbage dump, La Chureca.

A Mexican family battles the Mother's cancer using ancient knowledge.

A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.

Tomás has lost it all: his work, his home, and his girlfriend. In order to forget he decides to drink at a bar. There he meets Michel Dax, his greatest music Idol who invites him to stay with him. At his place, Michel confesses that inspiration has eluded him for years and that he fears that he will never write music again. As a joke, Tomás suggests that they should release his music as if it were Dax's. What started as a joke turns into a big success when they hit the top of the charts. Now Tomás and Michel will have to decide if they let the world continue thinking that Michel is a genius and Tomás is a failure, or if they reveal the truth.

Latin American icon Ruben Blades was at the center of the New York Salsa revolution in the 1970's. His socially charged lyrics and explosive rhythms brought Salsa music to an international audience. Blades has won 17 Grammys, acted in Hollywood, earned a law degree from Harvard and even ran for President of his native Panama. He lives in New York, where he shares his life at home and on tour with the camera. Critically acclaimed director Abner Benaim takes us on a journey through Ruben's 50 year career, revealing that Ruben might still have both musical and political ambitions. The film is a celebration of this living legend and his struggle to come to terms with his legacy.

Sometimes when all seems hopeless, love is the only answer.

In Mexico, families have passed down the tradition of distilling agave for generations. Discover how this delicate plant has carried the weight of a nation and the people trying to protect it.

Skateboards are considered contraband in Cuba. Despite this, a renegade group out of Miami, smuggles skateboards into the communist country and has hopes to build a skate park for the youth of Havana.

Explore the life of Chicano activist Carlos Almaraz, sexual outlaw and visionary painter of some of the most unforgettable images of Southern California.

In the depths of the Sierra of Guerrero in Mexico, after the disappearance of the 43 students, we find the reaction of wounded civil society to seek an answer to the situation of abuse of authority mixed with poverty.

Eduardo Chavez, grandson to civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, embarks on a journey to connect with his grandfathers legacy. He begins work as a farm-worker, picking grapes in the field, like his father and grandfather before him, and learns first hand the kind of work that goes into putting fruits and vegetables on peoples plates. Through his personal journey, as he reconnects with his families legacy, we learn about Ceasar Chavez's plight to create equality for farm-workers as well as the current conditions that they face in the fields and back at home.

A couple of young indigenous people are going to be parents. This news arouses their concern about the identity with which they will educate and raise their son or daughter.

Passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world's environmental threats.

Lillian LaSalle's documentary explores what public education meant to South Bronx Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana, and what he, in turn, meant to public education.

Sparked by a neo-Nazi march, a fearless group of activists organize the community to build a free clinic for undocumented immigrants, breaking the cycle of oppression perpetuated by healthcare disparities.

Maya is a mild Luddite when it comes to both technology and love. Unable to move on from the end of her long term relationship, Maya is coaxed into trying the popular new dating app CHRMD by her friends. Over the course of 8 episodes, Maya experiences the ups and downs of online dating as she ventures headfirst into the world of swiping, ghosting, catfishing, and dick pics.

Tania and Daniela exchange husbands during a wedding just for fun, but a fatal accident will create new, strange relationships.

When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.

A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horse-breaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.

A married couple sick of each other's behavior swap rolls to test the others duties.