The 41st edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) has announced the official selection for the Ibero-American Documentary Feature Film category, which features films produced in Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal.
The awards in this category consist of a Mayahuel statuette and 200,000 pesos (Mexican pesos), awarded to the majority production company for Best Ibero-American Documentary; as well as Mayahuel statuettes for the winners of Best Director and Best Cinematography.
In addition, the Ibero-American Documentary Feature Film category is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States, meaning that the winning films are eligible for Oscar nominations.
The Fabulous Time Machine (2026)
Eliza Capai
Brazil
In the remote and arid Brazilian hinterland, young girls navigate the gap between their mothers’ difficult pasts and their own fantastical dreams of the future. There, where men still loom large over women, they embark on the journey from childhood to adolescence.
Amílcar (2025)
Miguel Eek
Spain | Portugal | France | Sweden | Cape Verde
Amilcar Cabral: agronomist, poet, utopian thinker, and leader of the anti-colonial movement against Portugal in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, until his assassination in 1973. A documentary thriller about utopias, interracial love, ambition, war, and betrayal.
Here, you can hear the silence (2026)
Gabriela Pena, Picho García
Chile | Spain
Gabriela returns to the family home in Chile, which had been abandoned after their exile. Caught between her grandparents’ tenderness and her mother’s emotional distance, she tries to understand how love endures when it has been torn apart by fear, absence, and silence.
Cuba Street (2026)
Vanessa Batista
Chile | Cuba | Mexico
In Old Havana, Calle Cuba brings together the lives of four women who embody the resilience and fragility of an island in crisis. Anabel, a young actress, is torn between continuing her career in Cuba and emigrating to Europe to work as a cleaner. Dayana, 30, dreams of traveling to Russia and transforming herself physically to become the woman she has always felt inside. Mailén, a mother of three, carries the scars of a childhood and a relationship marked by violence, while she struggles to support her family with optimism. Elvira, 74, survives the shortages by caring for her sick husband.
Flowers for Antonio (2025)
Elena Molina, Isaki Lacuesta
Spain
More than a biographical documentary, it is a heartfelt love letter to all those who have felt the absence and enduring strength of those who are no longer with us.
LS83 (2025)
Herman Szwarcbart
Argentina | Germany
Writer Martín Kohan’s childhood memories are interwoven with the unpublished archive of Canal 9’s news broadcasts from 1973 to 1980. Through this collection, a pivotal period in Argentine history is reconstructed, exploring the relationship between personal memory and the public discourse of the time.
Mailin (2025)
María Silvia Esteve
Argentina | France | Romania
As she tells her daughter a bedtime story, Mailin pieces together her memories. What could have been a fairy tale turns out to be the story of a young woman who was abused by a priest for 15 years. It is a long road to healing and justice, but also an opportunity to give her daughter the childhood she never had.
Scarlet Girls (2026)
Paula Cury
Dominican Republic | Mexico | Germany
Through intimate stories and evocative images, women from across the Dominican Republic reflect on their experiences with forced motherhood and clandestine abortion. What does it mean to be a woman in a country where abortion remains criminalized without exception?
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