Video essay on the representation of war in cinema.
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Video essay on the representation of war in cinema.
Sahara is the last Spanish province and must be decolonized, but this has been a very long and painful process for a nation that doesn’t exceeds one million inhabitants
Tuizza is the story of the Sahrawi women, who through their effort, have made one of the most inhospitable places in the planet, habitable.
A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountains of León, is a mining complex full of significant architectural attributes, and also the imposing and ruinous remnant of a painful past that passed the ideas of freedom, literally, through the stone, turned into a great mass grave. Now, when the sun goes down, the souls that inhabit it rise up, refusing to forget.
The documentary analyses the relationship between producers and chefs based on their own testimonies. It touches on subjects such as the importance of the produce in the kitchen, sustainability, the generational takeover and promotion of the rural world.
Manuel lives and works in a small car body shop in Tijuana. By day he fixes cars, by night he turns into one of the most fearless and extreme wrestler of Mexico: Juventud Dosmil, "El Loco de Tulancingo".
Documentary about the Russian Revolution that tells not only the story of the two 1917's revolutions (february and october), but also the 1905's revolution.
In the Youth Prison of Catalonia live around around 300 youngsters between the ages of 18 and 23. Five of them picked up a camera for a year to tell how is life behind the walls of a prison. One year to talk about darkness, the passage of time, death and freedom. Particularly freedom.
The life of General Victoriano Lorenzo, of indigenous descent, guerrilla fighter from the One Thousand Day War, shot by a firing squad of the oligarchy before the birth of Panama as a Republic and the building of the Canal by the North Americans in 1903, is reconstructed through several characters who know his history, life and myth. An indigenous painter, an indigenous chief, a peasant, a violinist, a singer of rhymes and a former guerrilla fighter talk to us about the life of our Transparent Hero, as we delve into their worlds of daily struggle in a country that is proud of its economic growth and gradually seeks to eliminate the memory of its people. These are stories that are weaved to highlight the figure of Victoriano Lorenzo through the imagination that creates time in the self-image of Panamanians amidst memories, versions and contradictions.
Documentary that chronicles the events of July 25, 1978, when two activists were killed by police officers in Cierro Maravilla, Puerto Rico.
Heart of Uganda. Mulajje, a jungle-surrounded town, receives the visit of foreigners from distant countries. Local community is exposed to AIDS, malaria and poverty. The documentary explores the siblinghood among human beings.
Writer Mariana Enriquez embarks on a journey along the Costa Brava to explore its most enigmatic corners and write a paranormal guide, confronting ghost stories, myths, and superstitions while revealing, with humor and intimacy, her own obsession with fear and the unknown.
The film is a reflection on the medieval folk tradition of "benandanti" ("good walkers"), who believed they had special powers to fight witches, ogres and demons threatening harvests and children. Who are the "benandanti" of today and who are the witches and ogres of our times? Can these assigned roles be put into question? The film analyses three stories, trying to recover the sense of truth and the truth of the sense, starting from the relations between individuals and the respect that every statement of the human race deserves.
Recovered fragments from two documentaries about the Fallas festival in Valencia (Spain) from 1928 and 1929. It includes images of the main and award-winning fallas monuments, some festivities, and views of the streets and squares of downtown Valencia.
In a dense interrelation between intimate diary, cinema essay and anthropologic film, this film connects past and present, European policies for the management of migration flows to the history of the last colonialism campaign in Northern Africa, setting its point of view with an urgency that is opposed to any emergency rhetoric. Written words, voices, images are saved from the waters of oblivion, and linked together building a story that is incredibly short and, at the same time, tragically deep.
Movie-album by the band Cenicero.
In the barren Argentinian province of Salta, Alejandro Soriano's existence is a tale of ancestors, land and family. In everyday life and poetry, he searches for ways to connect tradition and future.
At the Ca la Dona Documentation Center, a self-managed bi-lesbo-feminist archive, one of the archivists becomes obsessed with a photograph. Looking at it over and over again, touching it again and again, she creates a bond with it and discovers the mark of a kiss on the face of "Lupita." On the back, written by hand, are two enigmatic words: "I have you." A sensory and emotional journey where memory comes to life through the construction of a personal and political map.
Set against the backdrop of Chile’s social uprising and the pandemic, this video essay delves into how pornography becomes both a site of resistance and a target of censorship in times of crisis. Through a public BDSM performance, it reflects on the ethical implications of mass image circulation and explores the death drive as a creative force within pornography.
Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is like in the Sahrawi refugee camps and, more importantly, how important the friendship between these two kids is.
Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews, examines the reality of these people who have been condemned to silence in exile. This is a direct and concise documentary that gives the refugees the opportunity to express themselves, as well as hearing from other people implicated in the conflict.
The film follows, in the style of a camera diary, the adventures of a young man in pursuit of his dream: to travel to Japan. A moving testimony to human solidarity and dreams.
In this documentary, explore the Canary Islands' astonishing ecosystems, where new opportunities arose for species when rocks engulfed by flames emerged from the ocean.
Ana Alarcón in her struggle to climb a rock face, facing loss and self-discovery on a journey of self-improvement.
A film diary of materials reaching me from matters of ethnic nationalism: the migration issue, the anti-European crusade, the warmongering references to a glorious past, and the defence of traditional values.
Who were the videotapes that my parents recorded in the early 2000s meant for? On both sides of the ocean, before and after emigrating from Buenos Aires to Barcelona, a collection of forgotten messages and wishes draws us to reflect on how identity is shaped by uprooting, the different ways of adapting to a new life, and the role of memories.
The disintegration of the Balkans began and ended in Kosovo. The Kosovo War (1999) left the region, which is now under the protection of the United Nation, with lasting scars. The Kosovar Albanians wish to form an independent nation with or without Serbia's consent. Serbia is not willing to shift its borders and lose what it considers to be the "cradle" of the Serbian nation. NOESTAMODEPASO PRODUCTIONS exams the present and the future of this Balkan region that has the highest rates of unemployment and illiteracy in all of Europe. Furthermore, over half of the population is under 20 years of age. Gaps and inconsistencies in the law have turned Kosovo into a chaotic mess with few guaranteed fundamental rights. There is no freedom of movement, houses remain occupied and children are assigned to schools based on their ethnicity. Everybody wants to look towards the future; however, the pain of the past is still very present, making Kosovo the last scar of the Balkans.
Bruno travels to America in search of a better future for himself and for the family he leaves behind in the Basque Country. His mother impatiently awaits his letters. He misses home.
Gonzalo, who in his youth participated in the founding of the LGTB+ collective Lambda Valencia, was a Catholic priest and shows us his life experience. He also shows us how, at 73 years old, he faces his old age.
A hand becomes the protagonist in a piece that outlines, from a macro viewpoint, a city seen as a tactile scenario, with different women working on artisan crafts.