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The Accordion Rebel investigates the rise of Sonideros (sound systems) and the establishment of Colombian cumbia in La Indepe, the barrio bravo where was born in Monterrey; the first one who plays that catchy and danceable music in family celebrations. Then, the uprising career of fusion music, awesome rhythms that made everybody dance, including Nobel Prize Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Aldo is 55 years old and lives with Pablo, his older brother. From their home, they conduct a religious practice invented by their father and whose congregation meets mainly online. Aldo is tired of being a preacher, but doesn’t know how to say it.
A hot day in the Retiro. Romantic love, fidelity, relationships and sexual identity are some of the themes discussed with various young people and adolescents, in a series of conversations in which each protagonist, each physiognomy, opinion and expression is a discovery that adds layers of emotion and significance to the whole. And so the day slips by, calmly and with observational acuity, in a clarifying and surprising investigation into the future of love.
Martin and Daniel are inseparable friends. One is a bureaucrat who seeks to overcome every day, even though deep down he knows he will never leave his office desk. The other is a womanizer unstable without goals, but with a mathematical gift.
Employees at a local pizzeria are being stalked by a former coworker, who was fired years ago.
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is a film that celebrates the everyday life of a group of Indigenous people, exiles from Canadian reserves, who, over a fleeting summer, hang out in a contested park in Vancouver. Through direct participation in the filmmaking process, the day to day becomes a ceremonial space in the ongoing confrontation against law and order.
I'm Lone. That's my name, I mean. I haven't left the house for the last 2 years, 232 days and 18 hours....
While working as a cupid in a mall, a man suddenly meets a friend whom he had not seen for a long time.
An alcoholic man in abstinence product of the emotional distance with his son and his own demons
Mattia is a boy who has gone blind following an accident. One day at the port he meets Henry, younger than him and of a noble family. Day after day their friendship will turn into love but ... The short, with strong themes, tries to make known the "Barriers" of modern life, from those that still discriminate and undermine the love between two people of the same sex to those that still exist between the various social classes.
Over the last two decades, Medellin has gone from being globally known as a drug traffic and extreme violence destination to becoming a thriving cosmopolitan city. Progress and peace have resulted in an exponential increase of tourism, but have also caused unexpected collateral damage: the rise in sex tourism in this Colombian city. Many of the illegal networks run by foreigners in the United States and Europe, offer Medellin guided tours that include underage prostitutes in their packages available for online purchase.
It is February when the almost 60 women that make up the 40/90 Ballet get together to start working. 8 months of hard rehearsals await you. The group is made up of housewives, employees, psychologists, teachers, merchants. There are married, single, widowed and divorced. The youngest is 47 years old, the oldest 81, and except for one, none of them has ever danced professionally. With 87 years in tow, Elsa, the director of the Ballet, arrives. This great and hyperactive woman with white hair and a cane is responsible for thinking the choreographies, adapting the music, designing the costumes and lighting among many other things.
After retrieving their grandfather's map, Allan and Gilbert must find the ancient treasure of Cleopatra. They cannot imagine how much danger and adventures they are about to be part of.
Short documentary about the peruvian punk feminist icon Maria T-ta. "A transgressor among transgressors".
While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker.
As part of the Bicentennial celebrations, the initiative and perseverance of Diego and Muriel, two young idealists, manage to transform into an unprecedented project: the creation of a choir of 1,800 school children of all faiths (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, evangelists, secularists), different communities (Armenian, Turkish, Galician, Basque) and all social classes.
Emma, a girl just out of college is ousted from home by her parents, who consider her irresponsible. Andres is an unsuccessful musician who, being part of a powerful family, has trouble getting his father's approval. Both are a little lost and not knowing what to expect from life, but they know exactly what they do not want: let go of social expectations and never find their own way and identity.
In a world where the LGBT community is not a minority, we seek in to three stories about a group of undecided friends. Marina and Lia are together, Sergio and Pablo too and they want to have kids together but they don't quite know how to start. On the other hand, David has to tell his friends that he thinks he's straight but they don't know how to respond to that. And finally, Laura and Carla have to find out if they like their friend Irene, while she's very sure about that.
Sebastián Acosta is an investigator who becomes entangled in a series of crimes related to the death of his girlfriend. But some things stray far from the ordinary.
Despite having legalized gay marriage, Mexico ranks second worldwide in the murder rate committed against the LGBT population. Although activists have risked their lives denouncing this fact, impunity surrounds these hate crimes.
Ramiro is a teacher from the south of Chile that does not expect much of life. His relationship with his wife Irma has been out of a passion for years. Unexpectedly Irma decides to abandon him. The surrounding events take out the worst of Ramiro while he becomes an obscure person. A story of transformation, when the darkness within rises.
During the Franco regime, the prisons are filled with thousands of people with artistic ideals.
Danger! mutant giant duck attacks the city!
Luisa and Antonio surrender to the game of keeping tricks up their sleeves, of disagreements and reconciliations. Luisa follows with curiosity the thread of the words while Antonio imagines a movie inhabited by Elsa and Miguel: some fictional characters blurred in the middle of a deep sentimental crisis; a he and a she confused and lost in the rainy labyrinth that sometimes we call love.
This documentary explores the development and survival of a small, yet highly active, metal scene in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Heavy metal music seems completely out of place in this setting when examined in the context of the island’s culture and history. Still, a local metal scene has existed during the past 30 years despite the challenges faced, and continues to thrive. How have they done it? That is what the film explores by focusing on the role of their strong communal ties that help them critically assess questions related to national identity, language, colonial politics, religion, gender, social transgression, and survival. You will never see the Caribbean in the same way...
OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a place full of life.
A twenty-four-year-old former college student decides to wander the city streets after he's left homeless by his father, his only close relative. There he struggles to find a new home through random people he runs into and old acquaintances while suffering from the torments from his past and a strange disease that seems to be damaging his health quickly.
A single mother struggles to raise her children on the poor outskirts of Santo Domingo. Tired of hustling in the streets, she decides to leave it all behind and illegally immigrate to Puerto Rico on an overcrowded wooden vessel.
The world as seen through the eyes of a plastic bag.
Sometimes, silence is the worst lie. Miguel de Unamuno.
Tracklist: 01. Omnia & Ira - The Fusion (Armin van Buuren's Intro Edit) 02. Cosmic Gate & Emma Hewitt - Be Your Sound 03. Armin van Buuren vs. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Not Giving Up On Love (Dash Berlin 4AM Mix) 04. The Killers - Mr Brightside (Marco V Treatment) 05. W&W - Impact (MaRLo Remix) 06. Gaia - J'ai Envie De Toi 07. Armin van Buuren & Orjan Nilsen - Belter 08. Ferry Corsten vs. Armin van Buuren - Brute (Armin's Illegal Drum Edit) 09. Gareth Emery feat. Christina Novelli - Concrete Angel (John O'Callaghan Remix) 10. Dakota vs. Marcel Woods – Advanced Sleepwalkers (Armin van Buuren Mashup) 11. John O'Callaghan - Stresstest (John Askew Remix) (AvB Edit) 12. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel vs. John O'Callaghan - In & Out Of A Raw Deal (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
Voyage along the tightrope of overseas horizons, a night journey towards the depth of solitude, a trip along a sea which is way but also arrival, which is shelter but also flight.
This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a master's degree in energy efficiency at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has designed a type of shelter made with plastic bottles filled with sand. This innovative circular shelter aims to improve the harsh living conditions experienced in the desert in Tindouf, reducing internal temperature and offering a better resistance to sandstorm, while having an eco-friendly purpose by reusing plastic bottles.
Lu and Jose, two lesbians f riends, get caught on an endless adventure just the night before Lu holds her last college exam.
The documentary was born from the censorship trial against the documentary Awka Liwen, initiated by the grandchildren of the civil chief of the last dictatorship in Argentina, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz. To try to explain this legal aberration, the work narrates and analyzes the economic history of the country through the counterpoint between what the Martínez de Hoz brothers tell in the censorship trial and the true historical facts.
An old man tries to return to the homeland of his childhood torn away by war. A young man tries to reach the Moon. Both impossible routes intertwine to remind us that the journey has no end. Where are we when we travel? Time does not exist.
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.
Thus short film tells the story of three friends spending a weekend in the woods where true feelings start to arise. Being away from home and surrounded by nature and themselves, makes their true desires possible. In the woods, alcohol, sexual encounters, fights, jealousy and love are part of the same universe.
Una película de gente que mira películas takes place in a video store in Buenos Aires, where a group of clientes shoots a film, so they can quit being spectators and became filmmakers. In the voices of this seven characters, the film explores the different possibilities of the seventh art in order to reflect in visual terms and stands as a symbolic construction of reality.
Gay Rights is an issue heard around the world, including Cuba. Free Havana paints a vivid picture of what it has been like to be gay in Cuba through the candid stories of six gay and lesbian individuals. From the Batista era to the Revolution to the Mariel Boatlift to present-day Cuba, Free Havana exposes the evolution of gay life from a time when homosexuality was considered a punishable crime to current efforts to promote a greater acceptance of freedom of sexual orientation. Honest in approach and poignant in content, the stories of the six Cubans will inform and inspire as they touch your heart.
"A dialogue, in Guarani and Spanish, between two brothers trying to decide how to survive the war waged by Stroessner's troops in their isolated land. With a stunning soundtrack and a visual language that defies narrative, the film confronts us with the fundamental question of whether survival is to be found in migration or armed opposition." - From MoMA
A short film by acclaimed Colombian film maker William Vega
A character living in an aseptic environment finds himself forced to renew his relationship with the earth. Throughout a profound dance, the Earth envelops him and then he undergoes metamorphosis.
On the night of September 26, 2014, a group of 43 young rural students went missing. Their whereabouts remain unknown. Their parents hope to see them alive again and uphold their demand for the truth. These are the stories of the broken hearts and hopeful eyes of parents who continue dreaming and longing for the return of their children.\r This heartbreaking short film accounts for the pain of the families of the 43 students murdered in 2014, their stories and frustration at their absence, only the memory.
