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From inside his yurt deep within the heart of the Taiga, Bayandalai an elder of the Dukhas tribe muses about the significance of life and death in the largest forest on Earth. He is the last of the great reindeer herders of the Taiga.
"My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of them both, must decide between his wife and his son." So begins Mijael Bustos Gutiérrez's remarkable documentary about a family caught between love and duty.
In Managua, Nicaragua, teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Based in a city park and part of a larger group of youngsters, mother and baby struggle to reach the little one's first birthday. Beautifully told and full of hope, Karla's Arrival offers an intense personal story about second generation street children.
Vamp and Vlad, two vampires in love, escape from the destruction of their home planet, traveling through the galaxy to an abandoned planet, but - what will they do when the blood reserves run out?
Buenos Aires Ciudad Sonora is a documentary film about the independent music scene in the city of Buenos Aires. Filmed and edited entirely by Lucas Garcia Monfort between 2013 and 2015. Although this audiovisual piece shows the development of a scene rather oriented towards experimentation in terms of electronic genres from different angles; And of course there are countless other artists to stand out in the Buenos Aires musical scene, "Buenos Aires Ciudad Sonora" is a valuable approach to the Buenos Aires art scene, fully recommended for those who are curious about how an independent scene is built and what have to say those who dedicate themselves to it on a daily basis.
Generación Anti Todo establishes a dialogue between the generations raised in the 1980s and those that have done so in the 2000s, with the Basque punk group Eskorbuto as the connecting link. Generación Anti Todo departs from the usual documentary format to explore new questions from new perspectives: just as we idealize the memory of the dead, has Eskorbuto been mythologized? Has it become a capitalist product? What about the phenomenon in Latin America? Is punk dead?
Something down a deep dark well in a coastal forest calls forth an unsuspecting young man.
A black and white ballad through Tolima's green mountains, talking to its inhabitants. The eye sees the surface of things, but it seems that hidden behind the visible, something could reshape this whole world.
In 1881 a group of Kawéskar natives from Tierra del Fuego were exhibited in human zoos across Europe, organized by the merchant of wild animals Carl Hagenbeck from Hamburg.
The action of a firefighter in the port, by refusing to participate in a shipment to massacre the Yemeni population, initiates a movement that will reveal the interests of this trade.
It is a collaborative project that was developed from the documentation collected in an extensive travel through four Latin American cities: Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina), La Paz (Bolivia) and Lima (Peru). The result is a new journey constructed with sound and animation of Buenos Aires. This reconstruction was made from the memories of the journey, from the interaction with each city and with epistolary communication.
From the re-shooting of a small piece of found footage, the film explores the mechanisms that stimulate visual perception of rhythm. Shot repetition, internal cyclic movement, or transit between figurative and abstract, cause a harmonious cadence that is amplified by the original soundtrack.
Concert by the Punk Rock / Ska band Carmina Burana, recorded at the Vorterix Theater in Rosario in 2015.
Miguel kills his days by dressing up as a stuffed animal at a menial amusement park. Since the family separated, as a result of his psychiatric instability, Amanda his daughter, is torn between loving him and being afraid of him. But the same illness that has devastated his life may be the key to recovering it. Miguel will be able to do the funniest and most illegal madness of his life to win back the heart of his little daughter.
A group of people from the world of cinema and LGBTIQ + activists analyze the representation of the community in Chilean fiction cinema in recent years and explain the importance of responsible representation.
What happened to painter Beatriz González, who made us laugh with the irony of her works, to get to the point of making a self-portrait that shows her crying naked? The path of the artist is intimately linked with the history of Colombia during the past fifty years.
Approach to the life and achievements of George Bonsor, pioneer of Archaeology who settled in Andalusia, South Spain, in early 20th century and played a key role in the development of such a new and fashionable science.
Inspired by the short stories of Julio Cortázar, Lynne Sachs creates an experimental narrative about a group of girls on the verge of adolescence. While their lives are blissful and full of play, the political and social unrest of contemporary Argentina begins to invade their idyllic existence. Sachs’ brilliant mixture of film formats complements the shifts in mood from innocent amusement to protest
Roberto E. Olivera (67) has spent his life working the fields of Ventura County. As a boy, he survived poverty and a brutal stepfather. This film follows Roberto, now an old man, for one day, as he tours the fields where he used to work and recounts the lesson his late mother taught him — that everything in life is temporary.
Even though the government expelled them from their lands in the name of ecologic preservation 40 years ago, a group of panners keep searching the rivers for gold, deep in Costa Rica’s jungle. Their living as modern pariahs shows their fight for survivance, and questions the country’s conservationist fame.
From archival photographs that testify to years of political violence in Peru, the film builds an analytical narrative that combines the artist’s memory and that of José Pablo Baraybar, head of the Peruvian team of forensic medicine.
A love story that begins when its lead characters, Antonio and Felisa, have been together for over 60 years and their delicate health means they can no longer care for one another. The prospect of having to move into a home for the elderly looms menacingly on the horizon. Felisa, 82, wanders the cold, empty spaces of the hospital to which her 84 year old husband Antonio was admitted days ago. Felisa is worried, because she knows her husband has asked for a place in a home and she's afraid her life will change.
María goes to her grandmother's house to say goodbye.
Olga, a middle-aged woman, hires the services of a rent boy, David. It is the first time for both of them and neither knows very well what to do or how to behave. They soon discover that they both share a past of abuse. The way in which David resolved that situation makes Olga end up seeing him as the solution to all her problems.
The dark era of the Spanish postwar period where, through violence, repression and murder, part of the Spanish population was subjugated.
Fernando is a star journalist who is used to always winning, but his personal life collapses as his wife cheats on him with his best friend. He is addicted to power and cannot bear to lose and hatches a plan in which he himself will end up being his main victim.
“The possibility of writing letters must have brought to the world a terrible disturbance of souls. Because it is a relationship with ghosts - and not only with the ghost of the recipient, but also with his own. Who is allowed to allow people to have correspondence relationships! ”Letter from Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1920.
Agustin, who is terminally ill, decides not to initiate a new treatment and start living again following his own motivations.
A computer and a woman fall in love only to be torn apart because of their inappropriate feelings for each other.
Puerto Rican coffee farmers fight a plague of beetles and other menaces with homegrown biological warfare, good humor, and strong coffee.
The Tagus creates a natural border between Spain and Portugal — but instead of dividing the two countries, the river brings them together at its banks.
Music Video for 'El Texu de Bermiego', song included in Montañas LP.
Eduardo Souto de Moura, the acclaimed architect and Pritzker Prize winner, reflects on his unique work and his perspective on architecture.