Featuring powerful documentaries, award-winning films, and compelling narratives from across the Spanish-speaking world and beyond, this collection highlights voices that have shaped art, activism, and identity. Watch for free at kanopy.com/category/65202.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the magical road to self-discovery.
In this Puerto Rican coming-of-age story, Carmín’s dream of moving to the city with her mother vanishes when she instead moves to the US with her new husband. Carmín moves to Barranquitas, a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico, with her grandmother, a tough and conservative woman. Now Carmín must learn to live amidst absence, desire and love.
Single mom Juana can slice and dice anything with great speed and precision. After working at a fruit-vending cart for years, she decides to take a job at a local Japanese restaurant. Intrigued by the food, she learns to make a multitude of sushi on her own. Eventually she attempts to become a sushi chef, but is unable to because she is the ‘wrong’ race and gender. Against all odds, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, determined to not let anyone stop her from achieving her dream.
A self-styled teenage Romeo from Manhattan’s Lower East Side is bent on seducing a girl who appears to be well beyond his reach. However, his reputation for seduction, along with the fact that he lives with his grandmother and bothersome brother in a tiny tenement, complicate his plans.
Three grown sisters, Maribel, Leticia and Carmen try to cope and live with the fact that their father Martin, a veteran chef, is slowly losing his sense of taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman sets her sights on Martin’s affections.
