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In one of the most inspiring expeditions of the 20th century, Alfredo Barragan sets out to prove that primitive men could traveled from Africa to America long before Columbus' trip. He creates a raft with the same materials these primitive men could have arranged and together with four brave friends he sets out to sail the Atlantic Ocean - and the adventure begins. He didn't only want to prove this hypothesis but he also wanted to prove that a men, with determination and enough planning, can achieve what seems impossible. "Let men know that men can!". Don't miss this amazing and inspiring story that will make you believe again in yourself and in mankind.
Atlantis Expedition
Elena Francis, la primera influencer
Fragmentos
Documentary about Abdul Karim, the most famous porter of the Karakoram, born in Hushé, a small village in northern Pakistan where the only way to earn money to survive the harsh winters is to work as a mountain porter with the expeditions on the highest peaks in the country. He climbed with the greatest mountaineers: Messner, Kukuczka, Boivin, Bonington... But his last, most ambitious and revolutionary project of all was to create the first women's mountaineering team in Baltistan.
Karim's Footsteps
Canal+: Chavela Vargas
San Ildefonso Experience
The chronicle of a Land Art action that lit up 131 peaks of Montserrat to claim the referendum on self-determination of Catalonia, which took place in 2017.
Llum i Llibertat
Sumercé follows veteran activist Don Eduardo, rising political leader César Pachón and agricultural educator Rosita as they fight their government’s decision to allow companies to carve up the campesinos birthright in rural Colombia and the country's access to fresh water.
Sumercé
After being named Best Young European Chef 2022, Pau Sintes returns to his native Menorca, where he questions the island's culinary future. Pau is the heir to family recipes that date back generations, influenced by his own language, culture, and the produce of his land.
Sa cuina des records
The first film produced by ICAIC on the position of women within the framework of the revolution. The lives of an aspiring actress and her reluctant mother, of an army lieutenant, and of former prostitutes in process of rehabilitation are explored.
Ella
Smara is the city of dust, kingdom of sirocco, a surviving ruin of a suffocating region… Thousands of Sahrawis who fled Western Sahara after the war against Morocco (36 years ago) live in this refugee camp, located in the Sahara’s inhospitable north, in the middle of the Algerian hamada. They live here, under poor human conditions, thanks to international help. A small film cooperative fights, with barely any means, to elevate the voices of young Saharawis. It is one of the many Nollywoods (Hollywood of emptiness) found in Africa.
Nollywood, Smara
The compelling story of a group of young Argentine musicians racing against time to learn and preserve the elegant and nuanced music played by the legendary Golden Age tango orchestras of Buenos Aires in the 40's and 50's.
Si Sos Brujo: A Tango Story
There are people who spend their entire lives in the same house, their childhood home where their family history rests. Benigno, at eighty-eight years old, still sleeps, eats, and dreams in the home where he was born, the home that is rooted in the earth to reach for the sky. The house stands alone, alongside Benigno and his tortoise Totó, adrift in the limbo of memories, the ritual of daily life, and the anticipation of the final day. Adjacent to the house is his vegetable garden, which he visits daily to tend to his chickens and work the soil with the seeds inherited from his ancestors, which he ceremoniously catalogs and preserves.
Benigno
Documentary about an emblematic institution of the Spanish Arts, Madrid's Teatro Real, or Royal Theatre, released to celebrate it's 2nd centenary anniversary.
El corazón del Teatro Real
A hazy, intimate journey through Santiago de Compostela, told through memories, correspondences and the quiet poetry of travel.
After the Cities
Alejandro Egido returns to his paternal family’s village, a place on the Castilian plateau that, for years, he has only visited to bury relatives. There, he spends a few days with Carmen and Tomasa, his grandfather’s sisters, who share a daily life shaped by routine and absence. Through an intimate narrative, Hasta mañana si Dios quiere draws a subtle parallel between the fragility of human life and that of a village on the verge of disappearing.
See You Tomorrow, God Willing
Motxila 21: Historia de una banda de rock
España ante el mundo
Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, her lover between 1935 and 1943, with whom she maintained a chaotic, even violent, relationship. Fortunately, she survived Picasso's abusive behavior and its sequels to find a new path, the best one, the one that is worth to be told, in spite of Picasso.
Dora Maar in Spite of Picasso
The documentary tells the story of a group of students from the National High School of Buenos Aires, who in the early 1970s led and formed the Union of Secondary Students. They were between the ages of 15 and 19. They lived through days marked by love, activism, clandestinity, and danger, until state terrorism violently interrupted their adolescence. Today, many of them are missing. Others have returned from exile. The previously unseen images of those days are fragments of memories, woven together by the survivors' accounts as a testimony for new generations.
El futuro es nuestro
A strange, albeit elaborate, and entertaining piece, intimately recounting some mysterious events that took place in Cerbère not long ago, when a young man arrived in the village with the idea of making a few films.
A Spell
La Bicicleta de Pepita Compte
Sexting
Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to the unique biodiversity of the Amazon Jungle. Peru isn't only Machu Picchu. It's much more.
Contrasts of Peru
A rockumentary that portrays a very particular moment in the life of the rock group Banda de Turistas from within, in such an intimate way that it will make us enter that beautiful chaos that is rock and roll.
Poner al rock de moda
Deprisa, deprisa
For thousands of centuries and in different cultures, flying fish have been understood as symbols of searching, freedom, and achievement. They are unique animals that swim and fly, that delve deep into the waters and pass through the air, reflecting the possibility of hope. Their transit has been understood as an observational journey through nature, but little by little the impact of human beings and technology is increasing, transforming and altering the environment…
Flying Fish
Five years have passed since the death of his brother and Felipe has just decided to uncover Pandora's box. Thus begins this intimate tale of a completely disenchanted man who lives locked up in a garage, between gloomy memories and the ghost of guilt. Although his paralysis is much older: it is related to his film career, with the bankruptcy of his film company, with his political disillusionment, with the failure of his generation to stop violence in the country and with his sexual orientation.
We Are All Stars
Peron Perón, el general de derecha a izquierda
El jardín de los poetas
After the latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, once the bombings cease, the reality of the conflict disappears from the media. The documentary is a trip to Gaza, where through various characters we know the violation of human rights they suffer daily and the post-war blockade and situation that the Palestinian population is trying to survive in the Gaza Strip. A journey through their cities, their people and also, somehow, their history under the occupation of Israel.
Gaza
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty years. Today his advanced age and health are reason for concern regarding the continuity of the show.
Timoteo's Fabulous Ragged Circus
A sample of the most relevant and characteristic aspects of traditional Navarran culture: carnivals, pilgrimages, crafts involving farm implements and tools, agricultural work, patron saint festivals, and other manifestations of rural society and folklore unfold over 150 minutes at the pace set by the seasons. The film is a reference document of prime importance on traditional Navarrese society, which was beginning to disappear in the years when the film was shot due to the rapid transformation of the region into an industrialized society. More than thirty years later, this process has been almost completely accomplished, giving the film a unique added historical value.
Navarra, las cuatro estaciones
Short fictional film made by the anarcho-syndicalist labour union, the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), about the development of the social revolution in Spain.
Into the Breach
Guernica: El último exiliado
Objetivo Braila, un mundo de ilusiones
The wind, the birds, the sweat, the hands, the wheelbarrow, the drought and the burial. Could it be possible to disappear in the desert? Totoral is a village that fades away behind its hills. A village that emerged and learned from the land and its animals, and from staying safe. The desert is constantly changing, the trees dry up, and they, the men, with their animals, wipe away their footsteps and their presence as time goes by.
Living There Is Not Hell, It Is the Fire of the Desert. The Plenitude of Life That Stayed There Like a Tree
Perro and his grandmother fear for their homeland in southern Nicaragua, an area which is threatened by the planned construction of the 300-km-long "El Gran Canal". The documentary accompanies the silent and nature-loving boy amidst the inevitable farewell to his old life in the jungle and his new beginnings in the city.
Perro
The debate within a family from the Panamanian elite on a referendum for expanding the Panama Channel is illustrated through a poetic journey along a river, a coastline and an inter-oceanic channel. On this journey, the documentary inquires as to whether our understanding of development is at the service of man or if, on the contrary, man is used for the benefit of variables stemming from the notion of development.
Familia
Erhal - Ves-te'n- Diari de la plaça Tahrir
The film chronicles the lives of four humble families from the interior of Paraguay and their communion with the land.
Red Earth
Arraunketa !!
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European Collective
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires, there is a neighborhood built around two cemeteries. Amidst virgins and pagan offerings, the elders recite memories and forget ghosts. Children invent their childhoods with graves and hammocks. Oblivion is a territory where these creatures glide, feeling the passage of time, even though they are no longer part of it. Fears wander among the shadows of the disappeared; there is silence where voices should have been, and the everyday becomes ritual.
El ritual del alcaucil
The sectors studied are the Yumbo industrial complex (the rainbow of pollution), which threatens to create a fence of smoke and pestilence around the city of Cali. The Mamonal complex (Bahía de Cartagena) and the garbage of the big cities. The film, depending on its geographical direction, is divided into five chapters, namely: air, water, garbage, noise and lack of trees.
Contamination is...
Language and landscape as a gate into a new life. A young Galician filmmaker emigrates to Sweden, where he performs different part-time jobs. His learning of a new language and fascination for the Swedish landscape become a driving force against the difficult life conditions. As he learns about the culture, society and lifestyle, he develops a new identity.
No Cow on the Ice
Alicia D'Amico was one of the best-known photographers of her time. She worked from the late 50's to 2001, when she died in Buenos Aires. Her best known work are portraits (writers and artists). And her most unknown photographs are dedicated to feminism, made during the last Argentine dictatorship until the end of her life.
The Body of the Woman Without Shadow
Reconstruction of the life and work of Jacinto Esteva, architect, painter and adventurer, through the experiences of his daughter and friends. His words and memories also allow a panoramic view of the Barcelona of the sixties. But it is above all Daría, her daughter, who is in charge of recovering her father's memory.
The hunter's commission
Pope Francis In His Own Words
Beto a beekeeper is the guide in this poetic documentary on a Western Sierra Madre village in Mexico: where elders tend to animals while youth are in school, some of them rehearsing for a production of Romeo and Juliet.
In Praise of Love
The film narrates the process in which two female forensic doctors, responsible for the Office of Identification of Legal Medical Institute of Santiago, fail to determine the identity of bodies that presumed are prisoners, detained and disappeared during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973- 1990).
Fernando has Returned
La memoria del arpón
Highlights the importance of integrating the arts into school curriculum, and particularly raises the question: what is the impact of musical theatre in Puerto Rican youth?
¡Qué suba el telón!
Geluk is als glas
Florecerás, Nicaragua
A documentary about the ghosts of Joan Perucho, which wants to be an immersive experience in the author's universe, in his literature, in his landscapes, his fears and obsessions, his experiences, war, cinema, vampires, the fantasy genre and pop culture.
Sang i salsa (de tomàquet)
El viticultor y la tierra
Written and directed by the filmmaker Jesús Almendros, 'Miradas' recreates the geographical, social and cultural environment of Vicente Ameztoy at a very early stage of his artistic career. It was filmed in San Sebastian and in the painter's family home in Villabona (Gipuzkoa), with the collaboration of several of his friends, including the painter Juan Luis Goenaga.
Miradas
The world is increasingly divided by walls. There are human beings on either side of them. Brilliant editing connects people living and working on different sides of decisive walls between Mexico/U.S., Spain/Morocco, Israel/Palestine and South Africa/Zimbabwe.