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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.
The days of Rosa pass in tranquility together with her husband and her son. But something in her is not good. One day Rosa decides to get her nails done in her neighbor Dalia's beauty salon, and a friendship flourishes between them. One night both women end up sleeping together. After this experience Rosa gives her everyday life a new meaning.
A visual essay on the female body as a socially constructed discourse, Infinite Galatea showcases the model for man's experiments in privilege and power through time. From Greek mythology to Victorian gynecology to current AI technology, this is how gender, sexuality and desire have been ideologically shaped to fit a male fantasy.
A man receives a phone call. There is to go immediately to a restaurant, Laura has to talk to him. It's a matter of life or death.
An intimate portrait of the dreams and aspirations of the last fishermen who fished in Newfoundland, their hardships and sufferings. A personal history that will show what life was like on board a trawler, while revealing what went wrong during those years, how and why.
Film about three relationships between men happening simultaneously in a country without any rights for LGBTI individuals. “First” tells the story of two teenage boys who don’t fit in their school and randomly meet at a birthday party. “True” is a comedy of errors, when Alejandro decides to attend the wedding of his ex-boyfriend and discovers that his future husband has a secret. “Last” is the tragic story of a seven-year long closeted relationship when individuals are not honest with each other and their families.
The Durangos question conventions such as femininity, misogyny and machismo, inspiring those who have suffered gender violence.
Concert by the Punk Rock / Ska band Carmina Burana, recorded at the Vorterix Theater in Rosario in 2015.
The camera sees the future.
Bullets come up from the flesh is a female voice, a poetic speech, a fable in reverse, about environmental protection, human rights and the unpredictable human nature.
A man paints. Immersed in his work, the environment around him evokes images from which he cannot separate himself.
Portrait of the director's father facing the end of his family business. Lack of money forces him to drive clients who destroy his vehicle to bachelor parties, but he is not prepared to lose his dignity.
Carmelo Bustos, founder of the Orchestra Huambaly and precursor in teaching jazz, yet teaches children lacking opportunities. At 90 years, he will enter his disciples to record with one of the most important studies of Latin America.
An homage to a new visual dialect that has become a symbol of the virtual forms of communication and at the same time — due to its fascination with the fundamentals of the moving image — a memento of the birth of cinema. The continuous flow of disperse images works as a glimpse into the unconscious of the visual consumer in the age of social media, while the use of film creates a dialogue between the digital and the analogue that crafts a new texture of the real.
Lorenza is about to be 80 and has just become a widow. She decides to return to her youth home, but her daughter does not agree. However her granddaughters, Sofia and Alba, decide to go with her. It’s a minimal story as simple as necessary.
María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.
In 1985, a fuzzy feature was perceived in the skies of Viña del Mar, Chile. The radio amateurs went crazy because the absent and ghostly figures promised to share the secret of the face hidden behind the fog. In some place, someone bleeds forever.
Stephy suffers a serious car accident from which she awakens disoriented. As time progresses, Stephy gradually begins to remember why she is there. The vulnerable mental state of her began to clarifies itself
A couple descends through a forest in the surroundings of Valparaíso. Suddenly, old ghosts begin to appear between them: the trees and the water begin to sing provoking the emergence of a dreadful element.
The main character of this story has been chosen to receive a one-way trip to Mars. He reflects on his big upcoming adventure before it takes place in ten years.
"Todo" (Everything) gathers the impressions of the filmmaker in her new surroundings, where she watches, classifies, and re-organizes everything that catches her eye. From a place of curiosity and amazement, she organizes an inventory of objects, characters, and situations. A tireless flow of images of the popular, the eccentric, the traditional, the new, the beautiful, and the ugly of the Matta Sur neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. An exercise of reflection on the destiny of images, their accumulation, classification, and order, modes of structuring the material, and the filmmaker's gaze.
After being widowed, Chela moves to a city where she doesn’t know anyone, to be closer to her daughter, but she ignores her. One day she meets her neighbor, Elena, who invites her to have a meal. Soon they will become great friends. What Chela doesn’t know is that Elena, in reality, is Jaime.
τεμενος¹: Holy precinct. Like the Acropolis of Athens. Fence, border that surrounds it. Structural Boundary. τεμενος²: Place-event near the village of Lyssarea, in Arcadia, chosen by Gregory Markopoulos for the projection of his ultimate opus Eniaios. Robert Beavers organizes the event every four years. τεμενος³: Documentation of the pilgrimage to τεμενος², from Barbança to Lyssarea and back. The times and places get mixed up when they share the same precinct, i.e. the screen. The limits of the screen as a border, as a τεμενος¹, as structural boundary of a square space where mental work can take place. The time of Eniaios becomes space in this film, the emptiness of space, space as time inside the frontiers of the frame. Five seconds, on the way out —deferred editing. 125 frames, on the way back —contiguous editing. Sometimes the movement in space breaks free from this strict time boundary.
Ana arrives at the city of Ourense to visit a woman she hasn't seen for many years.
A couple of people find a body at a party, which will lead them to some unpleasant situations.
Two enemies long at war with one another decide to sit down and talk. They have rejected and been mutually ignorant of one another for over five decades, meaning that the first thing they must find within themselves are the arguments, language and gestures needed to shift from violence to political negotiation. For four years journalist and filmmaker Natalia Orozco followed men and women on the path to becoming aware of the decisive role they were either forced to play or chose willingly... SYNOPSIS FICCI 57
Rafael lives an event that will mark him forever: his father dies crushed by a satellite. Twenty years later, Rafael works as a burial ground, and starts a rocambolesque vital journey in which he ends up realizing that his whole life has been orbiting in a busy direction.
In an ordinary town, a little girl transcends through her fragile life in spite of the petty relationship with the only person she knows, her mother. In that everyday journey where ignorance and innocence are mixed, she moves on by looking at the stars.
A documentary about the day to day struggles of teachers and students in remote villages in the north of Spain.
Two lone human beings in the city dream of the woods.
A fascinating journey of Colombian archaeologist and anthropologist Carlos Castaño, who returns to the place he accidentally discovered 30 years ago due to a forced detour on his way to the Amazon to the denominated the Sistine Chapel of Latin American archaeology.
A short film about farewells and searches.
This documentary chronicles the fight for justice after the Valencia metro derailment, involving a media blackout and silence from the government.
Two snuff-film directors face a problematic shoot: one goes through a creative crisis, and the other feels guilty. The only one who seems to face the shoot with optimism and good humor is the victim.
In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the poverty of the population and wealth of the subsoil remain irreconcilable, taking the lives of hundreds of miners. Did you know that your health also depends on your work?