South by Southwest Conference & Festivals is the first destination for experimentation to foster both artistic and professional development. The festival offers workshops, presentations, screenings, exhibits and numerous networking opportunities for international professionals. SXSW demonstrates that only when different topics and people come together, the most surprising discoveries happen.

Here is a list of the up and coming 12 must-see latino and latin american movies this SXSW 2020:

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1. Charm City Kings

Angel Manuel Soto is the director of Charm City Kings and was produced in  the year 2019. It is a 14-year-old boy who badly wants to be a part of the Midnight Clique, a notorious Baltimore dirt-bike group that runs on the summer streets. Until his tragic death, his elderly brother was their leading rider, a tragedy that affects him much as his biking desire. In order for the boy to reach his maximum potential, his mother and his police mentor work extra hours to help him. However when the chief of the Midnight Clique takes the boy under his wing, he's skinned by the temptation of revving his own bike to the wrong path.

2. Hood River

Hood River was released in 2019 and is a film directed by Steven Cantor and Jonathan Field. The film is about a football team from high school trying to overcome social and racial divisions in a search for individual and team success. Whilst the one contends with his father's deportation to Mexico and the other discovers painfully how to be a leader and gain the respect of his Mexican-American teammates, their coach tries to keep the team together in midst of educational and athletic strain. This new-age narrative documentary reflects on three characters ' relationship and maturity and has been set in the background of a divided American city. 

3. Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking, influenced by John Leguizamo's exceptional role as Mr Matinez, and backed by a spectacular ensemble of highly successful actors, marks the film birth of both unique and the innovative actor-director. Widespread poverty, dysfunctional families and a culture of stereotypes drive underprivileged young people to the margins of society. Nevertheless, there is a relief for a magnetic group of teens. It is a game of chess where it's about how you play and not about where you came from. Martinez, chess activist and passionate coach, takes them into a totally unknown battlefield: the Chess Championship. Martinez and his team can't simply march right into the competition with just a poorly funded school district. They are bound to fight for it.

4. La Mami

Laura Herrero Garvín is the director of the 2019 film La Mami. This intimate movie lies in a large part of Mami's four corners, that has become a safe haven in a slowly changing nocturnal environment. Women dance and drink with men who can afford them at the Barba Azul Cabaret in Mexico City. Mami takes care of them at the very beginning and end of their shifts in the little toilet upstairs. She's still ready to take care of the bag and to make sure there is enough toilet paper, so long as Mami gets her tip.

5. Us Kids

After a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claims 17 lives, a number of students rally themselves around the tragedy as an opportunity to speak out against the national gun-violence epidemic. As their adrenaline propels a dive into full-on activism, their movement catalyzes, and students impacted by gun violence nationwide join in, giving voice to a generation of traumatized but determined youth. Director Kim A. Snyder carefully chronicles 18 pivotal months in the development of the March For Our Lives movement through a deeply personal lens.