Abstract
The contemporary cinematographic fiction in Latin America strongly questions the creation processes at work in the international film festival circuit. The dynamics of production and circulation of these films outline a complex intercultural situation that is impacted by a principle of cultural diversity defense, which can be perceived in the different discourses of the film festival organizers, the public institutions and the film producers. Drawing on the relationship between two places of enunciation – Latin America and Europe –, we aim to comprehend the complexity of an experience that is based on the interconnectedness between, on the one hand, a project of promotion of cultural diversity in Europe and, on the other hand, the opportunity, for Latin-American filmmakers, to make the distance between the two spaces – local and transnational – productive. This perspective is based on the premise that the plural experiences of these films transcend individual cases so as to fall within a broader cultural movement that goes way beyond local and national frontiers, while reporting a reconfiguration of North-South geopolitical relationships.