A MI MANERA (MY WAY) – Short Film Programme – Edinburgh – Cinemaattic specialises in pop-up film screenings, underground events and retrospectives on iberian & latin american cinema.

A MI MANERA (MY WAY) – Short Film Programme – Edinburgh

Latin Connections short film programme brings you six films about what people build when the world wasn’t built for them. A boat. A sculpture. A safe. A beauty salon. Architecture, clothing, the body, discarded objects. Nothing here is without meaning and in the hands of these protagonists, nothing stays as it was.

Join us for a night with friends great food, short films, and maybe even a surprise performance!

📅 Saturday 30th May
🕢 Doors open at 7:30 pm, screening starts at 8pm
📍 St Peter’s Church, Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE

This venue is wheelchair accessible.

The Programme:

THE CANON I 2024 I Martin Seeger I Fiction I Chile

Jean, a Haitian migrant in Chili, is admired everywhere he goes. His body represents all the classical values of the academy. However, in the anonymity of his existence, he is also a canon of marginality.

GALUS GALUS I 2013 I Clarissa Duque I Animation I Venezuela

Traces the itinerant rhythms of a man living on the margins of Caracas, whose daily gestures of collecting and assembling discarded materials begin to reconfigure the space around him. Through an unexpected interspecies encounter, the film opens a subtle shift from survival to relation, where waste becomes matter-in-transformation and companionship unsettles urban invisibility. Moving between the precarious and the poetic, Galus Galus reflects on how marginalised lives negotiate visibility, agency, and the material conditions imposed upon them.

THE EUCALYPTUS I 2023 I Ignacio Ragone & Nicolas Suarez I Documentary I Argentina

A home movie in the ruins of modernity. From modernist architecture to tarot reading, from film history to noise pollution, and from treasure hunting to domestic furniture. Like a cinematic domino, The Eucalyptus flows as a stream of consciousness in which the very mention of a place, event, object or small adventure can roll out a universe. And this one, in turn, another. And so on…

ESTÉTICA UNISEX I 2022 I Alvaro Acosta I Documentary I Peru

The lives of three trans women converge through Mishell’s memories. From the city of Huancayo to the Atta alley in Puno, Peru, the memory comes with music, dance and also death.

THE MOON WILL CONTAIN US I 2023 I Kim Torres I Experimental I Costa Rica

As a magical moon creeps in the twilight, different timelines entwine in the town of Manzanillo, located in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The youth and the elderly unite and collide in a tale where the town is able to exist as it is: both beautiful and abandoned, mysterious and monotonous. As if in a dream or a memory, mixing a documentary style and science fiction, this story is a search for the complexities of what it means to grow up in a place like Manzanillo.