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Carboncito, Río Bermejo. Salta, Argentina. A group of indigenous teachers develop an innovative teaching method, which produces a great integration of aboriginal children into the educational system. The work carried out by the teachers is remarkable, since they teach to read and write in the Wichí language, without forcing the children to acculturation.
This documentary takes us on a journey to Chile where the cultural diversity is as big as the country itself, made up by a number of aboriginal and ethnical groups. Many of these people possess a unique knowledge about nature, tilling of the land and the symbiosis between all living organisms surrounding them. At the same time Chile is a country with rising financial, ecological and climate related issues, and capitalism cannot find a solution. Rather it’s making it worse.
In the classroom of the first grade of the Mustafá Kemal Ataturk School located to the northeast of the city of Santiago, capital of Chile, about thirty children recite the numbers from one to ten in Mapudungun. Mapudungun is the language of the Mapuche ethnic group. The story is about the love, strength and endurance of these teachers in their tireless task of educating and transmitting the Mapuche language to the children at this school. This documentary shows the learning process of these children in their early school years, which transforms the classroom of the first grade into a special and magical place set in the middle of a peripheral village of the "big city", the capital of a country that is trying to pass a subject in which it has always failed.
Angel Nieto won 13 world titles as a motorcycle racer between 1969 and 1984, but always referred to them as 12+1 due to his widely publicized superstitious nature. The documentary covers his entire career and a wide array of competitors, cyclists inspired by him and reporters who covered his career contribute their opinions and impressions regarding his fight to achieve and sustain his goal of world champion.
A look at the effects of the American occupation of Iraq, told by various people living in Baghdad.
ONLY NOISE is a documentary that tries to rescue from oblivion a tale with Les Renards as protagonists, one of the many bands from the 60s that was a key witness and pioneer in the first big explosion of Uruguayan Rock. It might look like a tale from an ordinary band, but in 1968 this band managed to break a world record.
Documentary that involves a tribute to the life and work of Juan Filloy, the writer of the three centuries.
Still Life #02 is part of a broader investigation on our relationship with images and their immateriality. It emerges from the desire to touch the intangible: the digital image. It manages to embody the pixel and carve it with a chisel; to explore its physical nature through direct intervention.
During the Cold War, while the great powers fight for nuclear supremacy, a uranium mine is opened in Albalá, in the Spanish province of Cáceres, as well as a movie theater, a symbol of the prosperity of the village from then until its closure in 1975.
In 2018, a group of men and women took to the dance floor in Aita San Miguel Square on the most important day of the festivities. This broke with a tradition that had lasted for over 100 years. In 2019, for the first time, the mixed group will participate in the Urrijena. In Iurreta, as in other important squares in the Basque Country, men took center stage and played a more prominent role. Little by little, women have taken their place in the different squares.
Carlos José Cardona Tur arrived in the United States on May 21, 1920, aboard the motor-sailing ship *Challamba*. His dream: to make films. After spending a few years traveling through different cities, he reached Los Angeles and settled in Hollywood. Almost from the very first day, he began working as an extra in some films, but it was not until 1925 that he started dedicating himself to his true profession: special effects.
In the arid landscape of Meki, Ethiopia, a local team of doctors and nurses fight every day to save the lives of women and children in a maternity and children's hospital. A testament to the importance of medical care in rural communities in Ethiopia and the incredible resilience and determination of those who work there.
One spring day, amidst the incessant murmur of cars and birds, several neighbours meet on the banks of the Besòs - for years one of Europe's most polluted rivers - to share songs, dances and poems.
A soaked body float under the water pierced by a stone of messages and sensations, that are underneath a same word and a same concept: the eunf. Water. Source of life, hygiene, well-being and dignity, but is it like this for everyone?
She has a crooked back, strong hands, black nails. Gregoria lives bent down to the ground. Once a week she carries kilos of fruit and vegetables to feed the city. Her words echo the ancestral mischievousness of someone who needs very little: a piece of land, a few recycled plastic boxes and a friendly conversation at the end of the day. This film is for all the gregorias who manage to live as they please.
The road to the last great battle of the Spanish Civil War. A documentary film by Jordi Domènech, Toni Orensanz and Manel Vinuesa
In My Mother Resents Me, Victoria Linares Villegas wonders if her mother has always been a sad person, and works towards an understanding of her own relationship to her that draws on old photographs and new discoveries – an exploration that takes the artist back to the Dominican Republic’s former dictatorship, and the idea that anxiety, solitude and sorrow can persist through generations.
Explores the life and work of Frank Almánzar, a visionary Bauhaus-trained engraver, illustrator, and cultural animator who left an indelible mark in the cultural life of the country.
Excited by the illusion of political and historical change, three filmmakers join the protests of the Chilean social explosion of 2019. There they meet Ettiene, a 7 year old boy, who is more afraid of fire and protests than of the police. Surprised, they meet him again to understand how he lives apart from what is happening. The next morning and after all the euphoria, the city becomes hostile showing the deep cracks that separate the country.
Documentary based on the figure of Manuel Agujetas (Manuel de los Santos Pastor 1939-2015), mythical cantaor and one of the last representatives of the Flamenco de Jerez school. Essential figure of flamenco.
What happens when we listen to those who have never had a voice? Who saves us? is the encouragement revealed by the stories behind the stigma.
The subjects of this documentary are people diagnosed with a mental disorder who dedicate part of their time to social activism.
The young Soto rebuilds his childhood home. The leaking cement that needs to be smoothed awakens the memory of an absent father: Soto will never be like him. An intimate and hopeful documentary about the dream of a family nest.
Documentary that follows the life and impact of the actress and vedet Christa Leem in the Barcelona society of the 70s. In the mid-1970s, Christa Leem reinvented an art form. Before, many other artists had taken off their clothes and, in the throes of Franco's regime, other vedettes, actresses, singers, celebrities and aspirants jumped the repressive fence of national Catholicism and showed to the joy of the repressed citizenry the forbidden fruit. But Christa showed us her naked, white, light and premature body to discover us much more: a transparent and free soul.
The film revisits repurposed movie theaters through haunting images and sounds that trace the practices of belonging still embodied in the ruins.
Welcome to a fantastic land. "The Monsters" has as only geography Famatina, in La Rioja, Argentina. A town with a small population, isolated by mountains and close to the clouds. Still today, as in another places in the world people still believes in dwarfs or lake monsters, its inhabitants believe in the Mikilo.
The Casa de Campo is one of the largest public parks in the world, a real forest. In the images, its 2019: the green of the earth shining anew for us or the children's unexpected use of bridges and ponds. In the sounds, its 1936, the forest torn in two, the defence of Madrid: "buzzes and explosions, clattering of machine guns, dry crackling of rifles" or the words of those who invented a revolution and a taste for good life in the midst of that turmoil.
A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her own art and that of cinema.
The Marañón River is born in the highlands of Peru and it flows across large areas of the Peruvian territory and through the life of a peasant family that dwells upriver, over four thousand meters high. It runs into the warm lands of the Inter-Andean valley, where a 13-year-old girl exposes herself to risk by selling fruit to truck drivers, and through the Amazon rainforest, where indigenous Awajun children make competitions to prove their knowledge. It eventually arrives at the mouth, the workplace of a river merchant. The core theme of the four stories brought together in the documentary is the challenge of surviving amidst isolation in remote regions bathed by the waters of the Marañón River.
