With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
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With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
An imminent flood in the Ecuadorian Andes in March 1993, led Walter Suárez to find a way to save his home. Hundreds of homes were submerged and thousands of people were displaced. Walter cleverly set out to float his house. Through archive footage and Walter's memories, the short revisit the spaces, people and houses that existed more than 20 years ago.
At the end of the 90's, when unconventional musical proposals were lost in the “underground”, “Punk Union” arose by chance. The collective of teenage bands brought together many young people from different social strata in countless concerts for more than 10 years. Through the eyes of its protagonists and promoters, the documentary tells how the movement managed to become one of the most important independent music producers in Guayaquil.
A pilgrimage of fishermen ply the Gulf of Mexico under the sky of historic patina. Ruins your realm is a dual journey -land and sea, men and women, language and metalanguage- through hetero-topic spaces.
Black and white argentinian movie from 1901.
Camera in hand, Lalo walks and talks, as in his literary texts and in his visual art, about the city that looks at us and the city we look at, emphasizing the invisible places, the deterioration, and details of the urban environment that serve as a metaphor for narrating our Caribbean reality.
The documentary is about the destruction of the republican educational model. It narrates the cleansing that Spanish teachers underwent during and after the Civil War.
For the first time, the tennis world championship would be held for just one week and in a city: Madrid. Eighteen teams strove to win the prized “salad bowl” trophy. Lead by Rafa Nadal, the Spanish team were this year’s favourite until they suffered a serious setback.
The life and career of Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli, also known as The King of Tenors and The Tenor of Kings.
This short film brings light to the reality of transsexuality during childhood and aims to emphasize the importance of the role of grandparents.
Anita Mikkonen, a Finnish brigadista in Nicaragua's literacy campaign, returns to the highlands of San Andres, where she meets again the men, women and children who shared their homes, their food and their history with her.
Virikuta is an astonishing documentary where we will have the opportunity to accompany a group of Huichol Indians in their annual pilgrimage to Virukuta hunting ritual peyote cactus that ingestion causes hallucinogenic effects. Before our eyes see a millennial pilgrimage, will accompany men, women and children in a community in its journey. The Huichol are a traditional people, who have a mature relationship with the natural elements that lead to ecstasy. This is a touching ritual, one of the live testimony deeper meaning in indigenous Mexican tradition
The Formula 1 2021 season will be remember forever. The F1 drivers protagonist: Max Verstappen, driving for Red Bull Racing Honda, and Lewis Hamilton, driving for Mercedes F1 AMG Petronas will be involved in one of the most intense, epic and dramatic championship battles of the history of the sport Max Verstappen is fighting to come true his child dream: To be Formula one World Champion. Lewis Hamilton is fighting for the greatest record in Formula 1: To achieve the eighth Formula 1 World Championship trophy, becoming in the best driver of all times in case he could do it Toto Wolff (Mercedes team principal) and Christian Horner (Red Bull team principal) will play an important role in this battle, which will determinate the consecration of a golden era, dominated by mercedes since 2014, or the end of it, breaking the domination of the german team by the austrian team, Red Bull Racing and his japanese engine supplier, Honda. For all of that: This is The Eighth And One.
This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest landscape of the world, life. They are the Sahrawi women. 40 years ago, they were forced into exile; the men of this region, marched to war and the women created “temporary cities”: The Refugee Camps. They invented a new day to day life which made possible a sustainable existence and a hope, of one day returning home. Coría every night dreams of the sea; the majestic image of its water, the sound of its waves, are the echoes that join the people with their homeland. The will beats in the hearts of the Sahrawi women who maintain their unbreakable spirit, ever moving forward.
Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the director's personal archive, as if what is truly cinematographic was found among bits that were never made for the screen.
Six men burn like a medieval torch in the plaza of Ivirgarzama, the coca leaf producing capital and center of drug trafficking in Bolivia. Hundreds of neighbors beat them with sticks before pouring gasoline on them and setting them on fire, accusing them of having stolen a truck from the last century. Bolivia holds the macabre ranking of lynchings at the hands of civilians. It is a state where justice and citizen security are assumed on their own and by force of the herd.
After finding some videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she herself has left on the Internet. A search that looks into all that things that won't never die and that, especially, thinks about the way we look at ourselves.
An intimate look at Enriquelo, the queer owner of a flea market, devout Catholic, and street artist.
One more year is the particular portrait of the painter Paco Bernal, decided in spite of the adversities that are presented and their different abilities, to celebrate his 54th birthday party. Paco Bernal has one more chromosome in PAR 21 that makes him a unique individual, with a unique appearance, personality and abilities. And the film proposes to analyze: what makes us different? Our qualities or our physical trait?
The film takes place on December 21, 2012, while the people of the town of Quillagua await the supposed "end of the world" that the Mayans predicted for that day.
A documentary that gives a voice to African women in Spain. Through their testimonies, they will tell us why they came here, what image they had of Spain, what they found and how they have managed to get ahead.
Catalan Francesca Llopis is a visual artist. She draws, paints, sews, folds, films, photographs. And she dates. One night at a wine-fuelled dinner, the vivacious – and single – grey-haired woman declares she longs to find a partner. Her friends protest, telling her she will find no better company than them. Still, she ends up downloading a dating app on her phone and starts setting up dates. Her beloved daughter has just flown the nest to explore the world and play music, so Francesca is left alone to deal with the new emptiness rumbling in her heart. She fills the gap with splashes of bright red paint as she calls her daughter and listens to her heavenly voice, which provides the beautiful soundtrack in a gloriously life-affirming tale about the art of staying young at heart.
Four women in a poor neighbourhood in the town of Las Piedras, in Uruguay, speak about their daily lives, economic problems and numerous children. Their menfolk don't help, quite the opposite. The documentary comes up against the same general questions, and then we move to the more intimate level of love, tenderness and sexuality.
Documentary about women who have lost their husbands 1 mile below the ground. Women living subject to constant anguish, chance, premonitions, family. Women with a particular sense of humor. The widows of miners. A social testimony about one of the most harsh, legendary and conflictive professions, perhaps condemned to disappear.
Documentary that chronicles the events of July 25, 1978, when two activists were killed by police officers in Cierro Maravilla, Puerto Rico.
Not so long ago there were monumental movie theaters in the streets and avenues of Madrid, the capital of Spain, authentic cathedrals erected during the golden age of film exhibition, now converted into 3D dinosaurs, whose remains speak of the past and somehow anticipate the future.
Follow five riders across different cycling disciplines and career stages. From the weight of early expectations to the uncertainty of beginnings, from the challenge of balance, to the pressure of winning and the obsession with results.
Short documentary capturing poetic images of the city of Porto.
A double story of music and companion; this documentary portraits two different and itinerant social bands.
Arrate lives in Larraul, Gipuzkoa, where she makes organic honey and its by products using techniques to protect and regenerate wild pollination ecosystems. Every day, in her hives, she takes care of the local black bee.
The story of how a humble Basque rural sport called zesta punta —or jai alai— was successfully exported from the Basque Country to nations as different as Egypt, China, the Philippines, Cuba, Mexico or the United States. In these places, the pelotaris were considered true artists at the fronton. But the splendour of the jai alai, the happy feast, could not last forever.
The year of the first quarantine for Barcelona and Vilnius residents passed like one day. They are happy and crying because they don’t know what awaits them next. Prehistoric residents and animals come to the cities through quarantine.
Andalusia. Summer. One of the world's worst places to fight a fire, where temperatures up to 45º meet with vast vegetation. To fight them, there is a special organization, an elite group, the tackles fires in a way that is unique in the world: direct attack. This group is called BRICA. A helicopter transports them to the front line of the fire and, armed only with chainsaws, axes courage, they fight flames that are 50 meters high. Through three of its members - Gustavo, the leader; Abarca, the veteran about to retire; and "Curiño", the rookie who has just joined the group- we see their day to day lives.
Andrea and Paula, homosexuals of 23 and 25 years, will show us, through their personal experience, the reality of young lesbians of their generation in Madrid, London and Berlin. Traveling through these three cities, we will meet different organized groups who will describe their proposals and attitudes towards their sexual orientation. With a riveting and edgy style, Born Naked (MLB) introduces us to individuals who refuse to be labeled by society. A generation who fights for their right to reinvent themselves.
This film goes beyond being a window that shows the natural and cultural heritage of Aralar (situated in the heart of the Basque Country), it also makes the viewer reflect. The testimonies of the experts and the journey through a dreamlike world, not only make the value of this mountain range known but also make a clear call to conserve it.
Atu is a 12-year-old Saharawi girl who comes to Valencia every summer to escape the suffocating desert summer in exile. Two opposing worlds between a conflict that has driven hundreds of thousands of people away from Western Sahara forcing them to live in southwestern Algeria. At her young age, with little resources and no homeland, she courageously faces the future.
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.
A film about cowboys in Sonora, a state in Northern Mexico. It is a world of deep-rooted and rancid traditions, in which, however, there is no shortage of gay and lesbian stories that have tried to move forward and lead a dignified life despite social rejection.