Guayaba Information

Guayaba is now a non-profit association based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, dedicated to the production, distribution, programming, and exhibition of Latin American cinema and culture. It is composed of critics, programmers, artists, and filmmakers from various regions of Latin America and Switzerland. Its members have premiered films at festivals such as Rotterdam, Fantastic Fest, BAFICI, Tallinn Black Nights, and Palm Springs. They have also edited film criticism books presented at venues including the Sitges and Mar del Plata Film Festivals, Festifreak, and MALBA, and they teach courses at institutions such as the Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires), FAMU (Prague), and ECPV (Bilbao). From 2022 to 2024, Guayaba functioned as a streaming platform for Latin American cinema, programming more than 200 films by filmmakers such as Margot Benacerraf, Marta Rodríguez, Lita Stantic, Tatiana Huezo, Andrés Duque, Kiro Russo, Dominga Sotomayor, El Pampero Cine, Affonso Uchoa, Laura Huertas Millán, Ignacio Agüero, Cristián Sánchez, Raúl Perrone, Carolina Adriazola and José Luis Sepúlveda.