Teenage commandos perform military training exercises by day and indulge in youthful hedonism by night, an unconventional family bound together under a shadowy force known only as The Organization. After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle, both the mission and the intricate bonds between the group begin to disintegrate.

This is a story of reverse migration. It is a story about the dream of return. A story of a mother, a dispersed family, a longing, and a striving for agency, for home.

This is a story about a fierce confrontation between townspeople of Bacurau, who are determined to protect and maintain their remote community and the villainous outsiders.

Join us for a screening of "Guillermina," and a discussion with the filmmaker Aida Esther Bueno-Sarduy.

The movie reveals the depths and personal impact of institutionalized oppression.

This panel urges Duke and surrounding campuses to reinvest in regional histories that provide the architecture for understanding the U.S. South as we know it today. More specifically, this moderated conversation is one that will consider histories of anti-Blackness, precarity, labor, and assimilation that have brought and continue to bring various groups of "Latinxs" to the South.

Dir. Xavi Sala. Mexico. 2019. 119 minutes. Zapotec and Spanish with English subtitles

In a star-making performance, Sótera Cruz brings razor-sharp intensity to her portrayal of Guie'dani, a Zapotec girl determined to fight for her dignity...

Dir. Wagner Moura. Brazil. 2019. 155 min. Portuguese with English subtitles

The debut feature by acclaimed actor Wagner Moura (Narcos, Tropa de Elite) is a searing and energized portrait of one of Brazil's most divisive historical figures...

The movie is about a a magnificent couple of septuagenarians who, as they hurtle towards the sunset of their lives, rediscover mutual love, and even a touch of passion.

"Negra" shows the director in her search of exploring what it means to inhabit Mexico as a black woman. It tells the story of five afro-descendant women from southern Mexico, exposing racism, resistance and processes of self-acceptance, strategies for transcending stereotypes, and the celebration of their identity.