I’ve written about each edition of Festival Márgenes since 2014, usually in the form of an overview but sometimes going into a bit of detail about films I’ve particularly liked (click on the year for the relevant post: 2014, 2015, 2016). The festival focuses on films without distribution, made on the margins (or outside) of existing film industries in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and Ibero-America (Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries). Standouts from previous editions include África 815 (Pilar Monsell, 2014), El gran vuelo (Carolina Astudillo, 2014), La sombra (Javier Olivera, 2015), No Cow on the Ice (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2015), and Pasaia bitartean (Irati Gorostidi, 2016).

The films included in the 2017 edition (links take you to the relevant streaming page – you need to register with the site to get started):

• 25 CINES/seg (Luis Macías, Spain, 2017 – 40 min)
• EXPO Lío’92 (María Cañas, Spain, 2017 – 63 min)
• I vetri tremano (Alessandro Focareta, Cuba/Italy, 2016 – 72 min)
• La siesta del tigre (Maximiliano Schonfeld, Argentina, 2016 – 66 min)
• La tierra aún se mueve (Pablo Chavarría, Mexico, 2017 – 69 min)
• Las calles (María Aparicio, Argentina, 2016 – 81 min)
• Los mutantes (Gabriel Azorín, Spain, 2016 – 62 min)
• Omar y Gloria (Jimmy Cohen, Mexico, 2017 – 84 min)
• Ruinas tu reino (Pablo Escoto, Mexico, 2016 – 66 min)
• Tierra sola (Tiziana Panizza, Chile, 2017 – 107 min)

The Luis Ospina retrospective includes 20 films (shorts and features), also free to view. No indication is given about subtitles, but generally those films not in Spanish have (Castillian) Spanish subtitles and often a lot of the Spanish-language films have English subtitles – but as I’ve said in relation to previous editions, they’re all free to view, so it won’t cost you anything to just click on one and see if subtitles appear.

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I’m intending to watch the films by Gabriel Azorín, María Cañas, and Luis Macías as a starting point. But my experience of Festival Márgenes is that they always have a really strong line-up – I usually only manage to watch a handful of films from a given edition but I’ve never watched a dud – so although some of the films might not be your kind of thing, you should be able to find something interesting that you would not otherwise get the chance to see.