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.
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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.
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.
Manuel lives day by day. He is a day laborer, a worker. However, he lives from art because he breathes art. While a couple of filmmakers are filming a documentary about their days. Manuel is imagining his own film.
A 5-year investigation which includes archive and press images, traces the tragedy of Antuco (2005), where 45 soldiers died due to hypothermia. Our protagonists tell us their consequences from their voluntary entry to the ranks of the army until its present 10 years later. In the middle of these stories we will see an experimental short that gives us the information of the physiological process of hypothermia.
The bond, the repetition, the simultaneity and the love. The invisible forces that unite the components that would otherwise be dispersed.
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.
The life-cycle in the coastal desert, represented by the daily life of María and Lidia and their relationship with the territory; this cycle is threatened by the progress and inherent finitud of their lives.
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.
Palestine. A body is trapped at a checkpoint; an essential mechanism of the Israeli occupation. The body is pierced by structural and physical violence, which is aggressive and arbitrary and prevents and attacks its free movement and existence.
A gory dark comedy about an architect named Carlota who must save her ex-girlfriend, Barbara, from a band of misfit kidnappers.
During the Cold War, while the great powers fight for nuclear supremacy, a uranium mine is opened in Albalá, in the Spanish province of Cáceres, as well as a movie theater, a symbol of the prosperity of the village from then until its closure in 1975.
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.
A new look at the Spanish Civil War, from the 'graffiti' drawn in the dungeons of Cangas del Narcea by political prisoners sentenced to death.
Documentary that tells the story of how several of the most prestigious ballet companies and academies in Puerto Rico, with much love, effort and work, manage to carry their majestic productions to the theatre. The film portrays the journey from the first steps in the classroom until the big day on the stage of the theatre.
A couple of young indigenous people are going to be parents. This news arouses their concern about the identity with which they will educate and raise their son or daughter.
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
A documentary short movie that sends us to Cabaret times in Colima viewed through the eyes of those who lived the era, it's also a portrait of femminity and carnal pleasures from the exotic dances, wherre the colors, sensuality and character production gives the public an authentic cabaret show in Colima
Maia and Devi, two women who are part of the machinery of a system that is responsible for defining what is good and what is not. Eugene: born to do good. Its mission is as clear as it is implacable: to clean society, purify it, make the world a better place, eliminate from the streets any inappropriate, unproductive or useless individual: sick, disabled, murderers ... the list is long and the only possible justice is the one they impart with their own hands.
The documentary "Las Huellas Del Cerrejón" compiles the experiences of some people who live next to the largest coal mine in the world: Cerrejón. The "responsible mining" as the extraction of coal that is carried out here is called has dried up the waters of the department and has led its inhabitants to deep sadness and despair, however, they remain strong and united in the fight to defend the land where they were born.
Reflection on the discrimination and repression suffered by non-heterosexual people during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina. A documentary look at resistance and survival, told through people who testify to what they lived through in those years.
Public toilets. Men. Sex. Alejandro Modarelli and Pablo Castro Videla share their stories about the meaning of "teapots" during the Argentine military dictatorship.
Oscar returns to the city that banished him, now as a woman. His father is dying and his younger brother full of resentment. Oscar will have to overcome his own pain to heal the wounds left when he parted.
Sivia is a 17 year old girl whose mother have just decided to hire a tutor for her, Irene. She's the one who will show her the way to understand herself and decide who she is going to be, avoiding prejudices and stereotypes.
Feliciano Centurión: abrazo íntimo/al natural explores the life of Feliciano Centurión, a Paraguayan artist who developed his career in Buenos Aires during the 1980s and 1990s. The film serves as an affective exercise with valuable archival material, as Feliciano, his work and his time are revisited through the memories of his Paraguayan and Argentine friends.
A film that moves with sensitivity through the pilgrimage a young boy must take after his father's death.
When Dani García, one of Spain's top haute cuisine chefs, finds himself without a restaurant, he struggles to develop his own venue, concept and menu.
Ulysses must get involved in a clandestine boxing match after losing a poker game to Ramiro Cortez, a low-life criminal…
Truncated Utopia tells the story of Luisa Rendón Martell, a republican activist who was retaliated against in the province of Cádiz during the civil war and Franco's regime.
Cease for each defeated part / what is true in this old house, / more fragile than memory and more complex / and more, more and more land and more of nothing.
A Mayan boy is late for school because he is distracted by a fish. Though contemporary and indigenous cultures are crossing paths, the fight to understanding one another is still an ongoing process.
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.
In this universal, moving fable, a parent and child forced into exile embark on an odyssey that leaves them changed forever.
In this film, Alvarado uses collage, paint, and ceramics as a means to build a possible territory to be inhabited from the diaspora and from a constant questioning of identity and roots.
Javi and his father arguing on a soccer field.