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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.
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.
Like a huntress, the director began capturing moments of light during blackouts in her hometown of Maracaibo, seeking out elusive chances in the half-light.
The story of the mythical figure Luis Ortuzar, aka El Chincol, one of the most important players of poetry singing in Chile.
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."
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.
Núria and Joan have been companions since they were 15 years old. The traditional roles within their marriage have given them 30 years of routine stability. The opening of a family business and the discovery of dance effect a radical transformation in Núria. At 56, Núria looks back reflecting on her past… and she decides to reinvent herself. Joan, sensitive and introverted, feels more and more distant from the Nuri of his youth, and misses her. She is not willing to go back to how things were. This documentary project, wrenched from the heart, gives us the inevitable reflection on the harsh human condition.
Abraham Bojórquez - Ukamau Y Ké - developed hop hop in the Aymara language and with his rebellious lyrics, shook up Latin American society in the early 21st century. At the cusp of his musical career he died violently the same day he finished recording his second record. Years later, his friend, the rapper and documentarian, Andrés Ramírez returns to Bolivia to uncover the reasons for his death and to find him among the Andean circular temporality. In this surreal journey, Ukamau y Ké is revived through archival footage, testimonials and in dreams.
After the death of his father, a middle aged filmmaker returns to his hometown to visit the friends he grew up with.
Blásida, 80 years old, travels accompanied by her grandson Felipe, 11 years old, looking for the remains of her husband who disappeared during the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, hires Pablino, a farmer who claims to know the place where he was buried; he guides them to "Kurusu Rebelde" (the cross of the rebel), he must leave when he receives sad news, Blásida and Felipe will have to continue the search alone.
Narrated by Dominicans, Después de Trujillo tells the story of the violent dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo through the marks it left on the landscape. A mix of interviews, archival materials, and new footage, tracks the regime’s quests to tame the nation, and surveys sites where past trauma lives on. Myriad voices—from historians and architects, to activists and torture victims—guide this journey through monuments, memory gardens, and contemporary ruins, moving from the cyclone that devastated Santo Domingo as Trujillo came to power through to the modern architecture erected to consolidate his rule, and the testimonies of resistance that led to his demise. Amid the remanents of dictatorship that live on after Trujillo, questions arise as to how Dominicans manage this violent legacy. Can built environments and natural ecologies attest to the experience of dictatorship? Or, do they help it to be forgotten instead?
Ebony Boombox is the black-latina-robocop that the 70's never had. Visiting the USA, she'll look for "The Zebra-Man", a psycho that is back on the move - and she will have the help of Alexander Cooper, an autistic teenager.
Documentary that explores the 25-year underground life of the fanzine 2000 Maniacos.
She and him are two workers in an inhospitable Ice Cream parlor. Something brings them together. Something watches them.
Gabriela returns to Bogota after a long trip. She meets with an old friend, Javier, who routes her to Felipe, Gabriela's past lover. Felipe now lives with his son and a new girlfriend. Gabriela has returned determined to get what she wants.
Three years of filming documenting all the way and going through the entire history of the Argentine punk rock band Cadena Perpetua, from its beginnings to that unforgettable night of November 5, 2015 at Luna Park, where the walls of the mythical stadium were shaken by the roar of some 5,000 spectators.
Caracas ... for years, has been one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Violence has seriously hampered all aspects of the daily life of citizens and of democracy in general. This is the story of Miguel Castillo Bracho, the 50th victim of the repression, who fell on May 10, 2017 in Las Mercedes.
An Uber driver rides a strange customer in his car. On his journey through the streets of a post-María Santurce, the client confesses to the driver something he has just discovered about human nature.
A philosophy professor travels giving lectures through the interior of Paraguay. His journey takes him to Nueva Germania, a rural community founded in the late nineteenth century by the sister of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nine knots, a prayer for each one, and then, nine wishes for the soul that no longer inhabits the earth. María knew about the cult thanks to her mother and knew how to tie them thanks to her father. But now she and her brother José are alone
Documentary featuring the Argentinian indie band Valle de Muñecas.
On December 11, 1987, ETA carried out an attack on the barracks in Zaragoza, killing 11 people and injuring 88.
I filmed for several weeks the small ritual of opening and closing the window shutters, the result is a sequence of shots that open and close each other.
In a poem, one line may hide another line, as at a crossing, one train may hide another train. That is, if you are waiting to cross the tracks, wait to do it for one moment at least after the first train is gone. And so when you read, wait until you have read the next line— (Kenneth Koch)
Liam, the main character of this short film, is a child with distinct motivations. In a place where nobody is interested by the art or literature, he knows that his own world is the only thing can save him.
Documentary about the Madrid neighborhood of Prosperidad.
David accompanies Martí to find locations for his new short film. Little by little, the plot hidden by the script written by David will be revealed.
The documentary presents two families of waste sorters living in Montevideo, who are trying to get ahead after having lost their working tools: their horses. While Daniel and Matías try, with the help of their union, to get their recently seized horse back, Marcelo and Alicia are trying to get a vehicle of their own so they can return the workhorse they have borrowed. Having been cast out to the outskirts of Montevideo, we get to meet these endearing people in the privacy of their own homes and through their daily struggles. They gracefully get through bearing a very unfavorable reality, with great optimism and perseverance.
Filmed by the Pacific Ocean, sent to Santiago, Chile. For Fernando Orrego. The bichromate rubber exposed in the ocean leaves no residuals.
In a distant town, a birdman whispers the story of a madman: Horse Dude, a weirdo.