Discover Movies

1,173 Matches Found

Walkers of time

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.

Walkers of time

7.0 2017
This Is Not an Olive Tree

A theoretical exercise can stem from a physical one: using the camera as if it was the vibrating device placed on the olive trees for the harvest of its fruit, the final result is a series of original and intriguing images. The camera shakes, gets in and out of focus, and we don’t exactly know what is happening. At first this is a strange disorientation, but then you get used to it through the cyclical mechanical noise that joins the images. The words of a peaceful female voice allows you to frame the film: a visual exercise after all can also be free.

This Is Not an Olive Tree

NR 2017
When the Guns Go Silent

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

When the Guns Go Silent

NR 2017
The Secret Of Beauty - Villages In Defense Of The Land

The man who exploits people and nature, the man who lives in capitalism and for capitalism. On the other hand, the indigenous communities in Chiapas, as in other places, organize themselves, resist and reject the interests of the multinationals. Two struggling communities, two territories in resistance, between valleys of a unique green and amazing landscapes, where earth and man are united by simplicity and harmony. They are people who reject those who do not want a future for this Planet, because they know the secret of its profound beauty.

The Secret Of Beauty - Villages In Defense Of The Land

NR 2017