When Mexican director Guillermo del Toro won the Academy Award for best picture, director and animated feature for Pinocchio (2023), it came as no surprise given the explosive trajectory and growing visibility of contemporary Latin American filmmakers. This exciting course explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America and Spain since 2,000. In fact, the cinema of Latin America and Spain has become increasingly globalized, and all of the films we study have achieved important commercial and critical success internationally; this begs the question, why...