* “Crónicas” is director Sebastián Cordero’s debut, about a dishonest tabloid TV reporter in search of fame and a scandalous story.

* “Between” is director David Ocaña’s debut. Shot in Tijuana, the metaphysical thriller deals with a woman’s search for her missing sister.

* “How the García Girls Spent their Summer” is Georgina Garcia Riedel’s first feature film. It explores three generations of Mexican American women from Arizona as they deal with romantic droughts.

* “El Inmortal” is a lush documentary by Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez about the effects of the Nicaraguan civil war on one family.

* “Lackawanna Blues” is director George C. Wolfe’s debut feature. It tackles the popular Obie-award winning play of the same name by actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

* “Love and Laundry,” shot in Cuba by Barbara Alvarez, is a documentary exploring the sixty-year marriage of her aunt and uncle.

* “Nine Lives,” directed by Julie Lynn and produced by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, boasts a stellar cast in a series of vignettes about women dealing with past and present relationships.

* “Palermo Hollywood,” directed by Eduardo Pinto, is a gripping high-speed urban drama that takes us into the

Argentinean underworld of two petty thieves whose kidnapping plan goes awry.