Fifteen years ago, CinemaAttic set out to promote independent film from Ibero-America, programming pop-up screenings and events across the central belt. This year the season will end with the Latin Connections Film Festival, designed to encourage cultural exchange and illustrate the links between Scotland and Latin America. In particular, CinemaAttic hope the festival will be a space for the Latin American diaspora in Scotland to come together and connect.
The festival incorporates films from across Latin America and Europe, but it also looks further afield with its screening of Himno, a Chilean film that charts the journey of the song ‘El Pueblo Unido’ to becoming a worldwide anthem of popular struggle. In keeping with the spirit of Himno, all proceeds from box-office sales go to Medical Aid For Palestine.

A series of three shorts by Brazilian director Eunice Gutman, Hoje Eu Sou Eu (Today I Am Myself), continues the festival’s focus on social issues. The collection aims to shine a light on the hidden side of 80s and 90s Rio. Shown in collaboration with the Invisible Women collective, the shorts take a feminist perspective, covering everything from education to sex workers’ rights. The festival will close with Submerged Memories, a double bill featuring a live score by Chilean musician José Rojas, and consisting of the silent film El Peñol, and the recent short Memories Of The Last To Leave. Together, they tell the story of the Peñol-Guatapé Reservoir in Colombia and the loss that accompanied its creation.
Latin Connections Film Festival is at various venues, Edinburgh, until Sunday 16 June.