Three Beautiful New Latin American Documentaries Paint Portraits with Sound

Surire, Site of Sites, and Black Sun are highlights of this year’s Neighboring Scenes showcase.

Salt flats are truly bizarre ecosystems, fields of mineral deposits under vast expanses of sky. The Salar de Surire is no different, a vast white desert in the shadow of the Arintica volcano and its flanking glaciers. It sits in Northern Chile, but in Iván Osn…