In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh habitat, the least of the problem one might face is the environmental crisis.
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In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh habitat, the least of the problem one might face is the environmental crisis.
Rosario is a wandering teenager who believes that her mother, does not really love her and she's apparently right. The young woman has found refuge in the dance and in her friend Jonathan, a young street vendor who helps raise money for the wedding of his sister Jenny: Rosario's silent and platonic love. On the day of the party the revelry and excesses revealing Rosario can't leaver her family's fate behind.
A science non-fiction film exploring the territory of Navarre. Desolate landscapes from which humans have disappeared, leaving only their trace behind them. Radio waves float in the ether. Radio amateurs talk to each other while looking at the sky.
Throughout a physical and temporal journey through Spanish lands, Footnotes is based on personal and family memory, which very soon becomes integrated into collective memory, to compile all types of voices, looks and gestures that speak of the Civil War. , Francoism, the transition and the present, in an attempt to discover the complex universe that revolves around the Spanish historical memory of the 20th century.
After retrieving their grandfather's map, Allan and Gilbert must find the ancient treasure of Cleopatra. They cannot imagine how much danger and adventures they are about to be part of.
On a morning like any other, Lisa recalls a memory.
An inner strength makes itself listened within Amanda, the last daughter from a particular family.
A tree is like a man is an attempt to touch the otherworld through its edges. Shot on 16 mm in the Colombian Amazon, the film serves as personal witness to shaman Don William's lifetime relationship to Ayahuasca and other plant medicines that are native to the jungle. With the rainforest a rich labyrinthine background, this portrait is at once intimate and spare, opening up to alternate realities as dense as the jungle itself, with kaleidoscopic multiplicities in both the natural and the spiritual realms.
Two circular landscapes that come from a trip difficult to remember. A forest and a snowy landscape that obstruct the possibility of understanding distances. An inward journey in which directions are diluted. Memory of a past that hurts to assimilate or define. We walk backwards and forwards simultaneously.
An unexpected accident leaves Henrique unconscious, his mother takes him from the emergency room to the hospital. However, he will soon discover that the Fusilao game could become a metaphor for what is lived day to day in the corridors of a hospital in Venezuela.
A film about Karla Ojeda and Maira Ramírez, two transvestites going through adoption, and Gabriela Mansilla, mother of a trans girl. Their stories are intertwined with songs and poems by Susy Shock, a trans artist, poet and writer.
As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s death, Julia, an old countryside teacher is invited to share her historical story with the world: Giving a bowl of soup to the captured guerrilla in her classroom, while he recited a poem about flowers to her a few hours before his death. The invitation is withdrawn soon after, as other women step forward claiming the story of “the soup and the flower” as their own.
The poet Ali Sarandibi takes us to an experimental journey in to his work place in The Grand Hall of Books in Enghelab street in Tehran,best known for its bookshops and Tehran University.The sound bites from the shopkeepers tell the story of the arcade and how their work condition has changed lately.
A commuter train leaves a lonely and dark station at night. A series of events that occur across the landscape can be seen through the window.
In the Argentinian slum Hidden City a group of youngsters are dreaming with their dead loved ones, while a ghostly presence haunts the streets of the neighbourhood.
Moriya is a small city of Japan surrounded by the immense Tokyo and other important cities, but its humility hides its great beautyness. Chris Jiménez visit the downtown apart from its rivers, sanctuaries, parks and beautiful landscapes.
A family breaks up. On the day that Marcos and his little brother have to choose one of their parents, Marcos tries to convince Sergio to go live with his father. However, Sergio does not want to get away from his mother. The adult dispute will become yours: a divorce does not destroy just a marriage, but an entire family.
Portrait of a small dairy town
A man that lives during the night, without origin, home or name, longs for a reason to live in a violent and frivolous world. The appearance of a young woman will make him take a dramatic decision.
The two faces of the coin, ambiented in Madrid, is the story of Lucas an arabian drugdealer, and Francesco a italian poker player, who have completly opposite points of view about life, opposite objectives, opposite mentality and opposite ways, but the two will meet in the streets of Madrid between prostitutes, drugs, gambling and hoolligans. ---MADE WITH LESS THAN 1000€---
We are facing a nuclear disaster. Some penitents walk naked on a road waiting for the fall of the deadly bomb.
First-hand testimony of the situation that the majority of the inhabitants of Palestine live through, including Tamar, a young woman who fled from there to be able to tell her story and that of her country. The short film arises from the directors' inability to create a work about a story of a country they are unfamiliar with.
This lyrical journey into the Ganges, one of the most revered but also one of the most threatened rivers of the planet, offers an unique perspective to think about the first global environmental crisis provoked by men.
A swimmer is looking for her missing grandmother, who left without leaving any record of her existence. The swimmer reconstructs her in memories through the diluted memories of three older women: her two aunts and her mother.
The emergence of contemporary human, a struggle between memory, reason and conscience.
Local workers and tourists coexist along the entire coast and the historic center of the capital. All fulfill their mission, some discreetly serve while others consume territory and identity.
On March 12, 2019, the "Portrait of Ferdinand VII of Spain" painting, painted by Goya in 1814, arrives from Santander to the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias to remain in the same room for several months in front of another painting of his, "Portrait of Jovellanos, with the San Lorenzo arenal in the background" (1780-83).
As Hélène Cixous would say, we precisely live in this time when the conceptual basis of an age-old culture is being undermined by millions of moles of a species never seen before.
The story tells a love story, which can happen even in a matter of hours, the characters suddenly enter each other's life, it shows that the connection is achieved from even a chat or a simple meeting.
I thought the legend was marvellous and outrageous. But what meaning could we give it today? I publish an announcement offering to make a film based on that old story. Lili, Aña and Ekaitz reply with curiosity and an eagerness for cinema.
Every few months, Ana is sent to Yiwu to replenish the shelves of a 1$ store with plastic trinkets and toys. During one of these trips, disillusioned with her life, she starts to fantasize a way out.
The echoes of an island remain in space and memory, Voices resonate, alive. A moment and a place, the alive are shadows that walk across the faded landscape of the cove. The history settle in the present. History project its cry. Three women troubadours. A device that catches the voice. A painter that brings back color. "They are fortunate islands, they are lands without a place. Where the king lives waiting, but if we start to wake up, the voice shuts up and there is only the sea."
Mario, a windshield cleaner boy, is accused of stealing Fabiola's money; its his mother. This causes her to take her son's money from her friend Enrique from her; another cleans for breezes. Mario tries to get his friend's money back by confronting his stepfather; from who suspects theft. Faced with his failure, he decides to steal a cell phone and during the tour of his escape is hit by a car. Enrique's mother died in the hospital during she waits for Mario and Fabiola receives the news that her son has died in an accident.
mtDNA 1Ce hg is a landscape study, shot in northern Iceland at 16mm, approximately 400 feet long. This piece shows an environment stripped of the human figure, evoked only by its vestiges, apparently abandoned in the solitude of a barren terrain and an inclement climate. The title of the piece appeals an archaic link between who looks and the environment that crosses with a certain strangeness in capturing a small fragment of the history of the crossroads.
An intimate look at Enriquelo, the queer owner of a flea market, devout Catholic, and street artist.
"The Roads of Cuba" is a documentary that seeks to rescue the voice of some people who tell us the day to day of their country and the great transformation that has been carried out in Cuba for a few years. These characters open their history and allow us to participate in it, they speak of their passions, their loves, their sorrows. All of them with different histories and cultural backgrounds but all crossed by the revolutionary struggle and Cuba.
Though he first supported the Cuban revolution as a young man, Reinaldo Arenas spent much of his adult life on the island as a persona non grata because of his open homosexuality and politically dissident views.
Two kids, brothers, discover Triskipolis, the hidden city of elves, with the help of their uncle.
Carmelo thinks that with Franco it was better. He moves (against his will) to his daughter and son-in-law’s house. Carmelo will continually reflect on his frustrated situation, provoking a crazy and unsustainable situation.