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This documentary reveals the path taken by Mirna, a divorced woman with three children who decided to surrogate her belly and raise a baby for another family. It shows very closely the troubles she had to face due to the lack of regulation that exists in Mexico on the topic of surrogate gestation.
A group of women lives on an island subdued by black hands of stones. To free themselves they must break the heavy rocks that they carry on their backs and reveal themselves against the established regime.
After several years without writing anything that could aid him with his financial troubles, Gabriel Balaguer spends his nights in despair under the pressure of creating best-selling success, something as good as his first work. To accomplish freshness and originality, he will strife further than we are able to see.
La Otxoa, anti-Franco queer Symbol, voice of the working-class areas of Bilbao, invites us to his dressing room to evoke his choices.
Rivero is a cemetery nightguard being held in a tiny room by the ghosts which inhabit it. He is writing a letter about his months of horror. Tonight will be decisive for him. Based on the story 'A la luz de una vela' by writer Raúl O. Etchegaray.
In a greenhouse in the Lima desert, Mr. Takehara has been perfecting a bonsai oasis for 20 years. A Doc Fortnight/Cinema Tropical collaboration.
2048. It is not the story of a woman from distant times. It is the story of a woman of the times that do not change. The story of the last days of his life.
In 2014, Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina was shot and killed in his car by two men dressed as soldiers. For years he had written about corruption and deforestation in the border region with Brazil. Guided by a safety manual developed for journalists after Medina’s murder, this film takes viewers on a journey through the border region, where Medina’s father lives, to the trial in the capital.
Adela, a solitary sixty-year-old woman, is the treasurer of a local club. Practically, she lives in the club spending her mornings and afternoons with her only friend Noemi. Christmas comes and with it memories of teenage times.
'The Forces' document the learning of a group of jockeys. Under a school logic, with methods and evaluations, the matter to be modeled is the body. A body that complements itself with another, a small body that should not grow, of a latent fragility, always about to break.
Two zombies, one fate.
The story of the mythical figure Luis Ortuzar, aka El Chincol, one of the most important players of poetry singing in Chile.
Mexican feature film
One of the greatest cultural and social revolutions in 20th century Europe took place in a tiny village on the Spanish seaside. In the 50's, a batch of American Marines build a huge military base on farming land bringing dollars, Marlboros, Cadillacs, night clubs and rock n´roll music into post-civil war Spain, an impoverished country ruled by a fascist dictator. Welcome to Rota, "The South European Las Vegas."
Narrates the story of Diego, an 11 years old shoe shiner. It portrays his struggle to survive and the loss of his innocence.
The experiences of a journey across South America are developing differents thoughts, ideas, concepts, preconcepts, memories and impressions of how, what for, and why people set off on a journey. Just like the trip is built in the memory, it is also built from emotion and perception.
This short film tells the story of a young Spanish transgender man through candid vlogs about testosterone, dating, mastectomies and more.
Enrique and Raul start the search for their friend Troncón towards Argentina, Raul seems to hide something very important from his friend Enrique.
Araucanía Herida, is the portrait of the repression that was unleashed in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, after the coup d'état in 1973 by the armed forces, together with numerous civilians from different towns and cities of Araucanía. The documentary is a journey from mountain range to sea, passing through different locations where people who lived the facts, tell us what happened in each of those places and what they lived. Not only being a case, but several in a geographical territory, one after another each testimony, we unveiled a coordinated and ruthless strategy of repression, not portrayed before in any region of Chile.
The story of Mariela Munoz, born Leonardo in the Argentina of 1943, who will fight for her rights as a male-to-female transgender and above all for her 17 adopted children.
Palenque is a rhythmic portrait of San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.
The egalitarian marriage law was approved in 2010 in Argentina and Maximiliano has some new questions. Does he want to marry his boyfriend, now that he can?
A mystical place, an enchanted story: A group of knights, imported directly from the Middle Ages, go ashore on the banks of the Río de la Plata. They are searching for a grave where they wish to perform a ritual. As they pass through the jungle, things happen that cause them to land in the present day. They have sex, find a car, enjoy a sunset with beers in their hands. Then an announcement comes over the radio that makes everything appear in a different light, and there’s no going back.
Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".
A girl meets a girl, they cross their glance and everything changes. Suddenly you are dazzled, you are full of the other, you feel with intensity of every single second that is vanishing. From the uncertainty, being vulnerable, you seek persistently every trace of reality. Mònica, a thirty-something filmmaker, tries to share what emerges in the attempt of seeing her first (female) lover, Sarai, while she is trying to find the mystery of the eyes that fascinated her.
A variation on one of the cinematic gestures of French filmmaker Jean-Claude Rousseau.
Childhood is coming to an end: twelve-year-old Lina is growing up and her body is changing. She must start making decisions about her identity which will go against her mother’s wishes and the traditional common sense. She looks and behaves in a masculine way and she plays football with the neighbourhood boys, who accept her as she is. Her mother Claudia, however, does not, and constantly criticizes her looks. She forces Lina to wear a dress to a party at the club. Ashamed, Lina runs away from the party and heads towards the swimming pool. She jumps in and frees herself from the dress and her mother’s authority.
What starts as a conversation of complicity between father and daughter, ends up exposing uncomfortable truths.
"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
Leandro, a guy who does not believe in love, is pressured by his family to get married. Along with his two best friends, they decide to propose to their girlfriends the same day, unleashing a series of humorous adventures, all to achieve the yes of their loved ones. Will Leandro and his friends get the yes from their girlfriends?
Every family has its quarrels, but after confronting each other in "Una loca navidad catracha", the Barro family has finally reconciled and is ready to take a vacation together. They visit La Ceiba, a stunning port city on the coast of Honduras, where there will be snorkeling, dancing, a little trouble, and lots of laughter.
Documentary about community art in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
In this allegorical film, a surrealist magician seamlessly performs a coin trick but doesn't seem to be fully in control of the ultimate trick under his sleeve.
A deaf boy moves to a new town and tries to connect with his older sister.