Step into the world of Spanish-language cinema and experience storytelling through a global lens. This immersive course invites students to explore powerful and influential films from across the Spanish-speaking world, using cinema as a gateway to history, culture, and social change. Through stories rooted in Europe, Central America, and North and South America, students will examine how film reflects identity, memory, and lived experience across diverse societies. Class discussions and analysis take place primarily in Spanish, strengthening language proficiency while engaging with a wide range of accents, perspectives, and cultural contexts. Students will move beyond simply watching films to interpreting cinematic techniques, themes, and messages, developing the tools to think critically about film as both art and cultural expression. From intimate personal narratives to films that grapple with collective history, this course offers a front-row seat to the voices and visions shaping the Spanish-speaking world.

Students taking this course for Advanced credit must complete an extra project.