"Latin Noir" Will Have Its World Premiere at the 2021 Edition of the Miami Film Festival

 Source: Cinema Tropical Press Release 

Image: Luis Sepúlveda, photographed by Daniel Mordzinski; credit: Anemon Production

"Latin Noir" will have its World Premiere at the 2021 Edition of the Miami International Film Festival. The festival is set to run in-person and online from March 5 to 14.

Directed by Greek filmmaker Andreas Apostolidis, and a crime novelist himself, Latin Noir travels to five Latin American countries meeting leading crime novelists of the region along the way. Through the stories and heroes of Leonardo Padura (Cuba), the late Luis Sepúlveda (Chile), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico), Santiago Roncagliolo (Peru), and Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina), Apostolidis’ presents a panorama of recent Latin American political history and a portrait of a generation of emboldened novelists that emerged from the student movements of the late 1960s to comment on the societies they found themselves in through a new, and highly effective, literary genre: noir. 

Andreas Apostolidis is a filmmaker and one of Greece’s leading crime novelists. His most recent feature documentary, "Citizen Europe" (ARTE, ERT, CNC, Screen Ireland, RTE, RTP, MRKTV. BTV, CYBC, ORF, Bulgarian National Film Center) explores the impact of the Erasmus program, set against the current European crisis. 

He has written eight crime novels and short story collections and has translated more than 30 works of crime fiction including Hammett, Chandler, Ambler, Highsmith, and Ellroy. 

Below is an official trailer: