Entre Telones Y Pantallas
An Argentine crime drama directed by Juan José Campanella that explores an unsolved murder case spanning decades. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2010 Oscars.
What is El Secreto de Sus Ojos?
This Maya city in the Yucatán Peninsula is famous for its pyramids and astronomical alignments.
What is Chichén Itzá?
This Mexican author’s 1955 novel, Pedro Páramo, is considered a foundational 'proto-Boom' work. It was adapted into a 2024 film directed by Rodrigo Prieto.
Who is Juan Rulfo?
Unique in South America, this country has coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, giving it access to two major marine ecosystems.
What is Colombia?
This coming-of-age celebration, widely embraced across the U.S. and Latin America, marks a girl's 15th birthday and often involves a formal court and a choreographed waltz, symbolizing the transition from childhood to young adulthood.
What is a Quinceañera?
This 1987 biographical film, directed by Luis Valdez, became the first all-Latino-billed movie to surpass $100 million at the global box office.
What is La Bamba?
This writing system, developed by the Maya, was one of the most sophisticated in the ancient Americas.
What is Maya scipt or Maya hieroglyphs?
This 1944 masterpiece and short story collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges explores themes such as time, literature, fate, and imagination
What is Ficciones?
Located in Venezuela within the Guiana Highlands, this natural wonder is the world’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall, dropping nearly a kilometer.
What is Angel Falls?
Often mistaken in the U.S. as Mexico's Independence Day, this holiday commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla and has evolved into a celebration of Mexican-American culture.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
A Uruguayan tragicomedy film by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll that uses minimalist storytelling to depict loneliness and emotional disconnection in modern urban life, which helped put Uruguayan cinema on the global map by winning the Prix Regard Original and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
What is Whisky?
This system of expansion required conquered city-states to pay tribute in goods, labor, and resources rather than being fully absorbed politically.
What is the Aztec tribute system?
This 17th-century Mexican nun and polymath defended a woman’s right to education in her defiant title, Respuesta a Sor Filotea.
Who is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?
This nation’s flag is the only one in the world that includes an open Bible as part of its central coat of arms, symbolizing its constitutional and historical identity.
What is the Dominican Republic?
During this Bolivian festival in La Paz, devotees seek the blessing of Ekeko, the god of abundance, by purchasing miniature versions of items they hope to possess or achieve in the coming year.
What is La Feria de las Alasitas?
A Salvadoran film directed by Luis Mandoki, based on the childhood experiences of its writer Óscar Torres during the Salvadoran Civil War, set in a rural Salvadoran village during the conflict. It follows a young boy whose daily life is disrupted by military violence and displacement, focusing on the loss of innocence and survival amid war.
What is Voces Inocentes?
The Aztec capital was destroyed following this Spanish-led military campaign in 1521.
What is the Fall of Tenochtitlán?
An 1872 epic poem that established the "Gaucho" genre as a foundational element of Argentine national identity.
What is Martín Fierro?
This nation shares the island of Hispaniola and contains the Caribbean’s highest peak, Pico Duarte, which rises over 10,000 feet above sea level in the Cordillera Central mountain range.
What is the Dominican Republic?
Celebrated across Latin America and by many Latino families in the United States, this Christmas Eve tradition is marked by a feast and family gatherings that usher in Christmas Day.
What is Nochebuena?
A Chilean survival drama inspired by the 2010 Copiapó mining disaster, depicting the real-life rescue of 33 miners trapped for 69 days underground in the San José Mine. Based on testimony from the actual miners, it portrays the internationally broadcast rescue operation that used the “Fénix” capsule to bring them safely to the surface after more than two months.
What is The 33?
Meaning “the one and only,” this title distinguished the Inca ruler from all others, reinforcing both political supremacy and divine lineage within the empire.
What is Sapa Inca?
This Haitian author wrote the 1859 novel, Stella. It is widely cited as his first novel, focusing on the drive for national liberty during the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Emeric Bergeaud?
This remote rainforest in Panama bridges two continents and contains one of the most biologically diverse and least traversed rainforest regions on Earth
What is Darién Gap?
In the Ecuadorian highlands, this traditional Andean New Year ritual involves the burning of brush for symbolic cleansing of the past and the welcoming of the coming year.
What are Chamiza bonfires?