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In the Anorí region, Antioquia, the eyes of scientists and ex-combatants from the FARC-EP converge to rediscover the territory that sheltered them during the war years. Biodiversity is now the symbol of peace and reconciliation.
Mei Li spends her time between her house and her hair salon in the neighborhood where she was born and has lived all her life, Lomas de Zamora, Argentina. There are as many genders as there are identities, and, therefore, as many gender identities. Endless possibilities. Playing at being someone, Mei Li is a shout of freedom, resonating in silence.
María emigrated from Ecuador and for the last ten years has lived in a town in La Mancha, keeping house and caring for Rosita, the filmmaker’s grandmother. Andrómedas observes them as they go about life, focusing on their everyday interactions, while other women pop in with the latest gossip to share around the kitchen table strewn with saffron flowers. The flavours rising from the pots on the stove waft outside to the cats in the courtyard as the sounds of the outside world drift in and the trees look on. However, this delicately balanced world is about to be upset when María asks for a fortnight off.
Based on "The Ghost of Pinochet" by Armando Uribe. Through archive footage this essay documentary propose the thesis that Augusto Pinochet embodies a political fantasy that traverses the entire history of Chile.
Alan dreams with one day working in a film, but when nobody gives him a shot, he decides to make his own project. While looking for actors, he meets Ramiro, who agrees to help in exchange for a favor.
A Ghoul follows her dreams out a friend filled swamp into emotional outer space.
In a mosaic of testimonies, observations, video clips and some experimentation, this film goes into 10 days of paralysis and union struggle in October 2018 by a conflict dragged down for years between public transport workers due to the lack of restrooms and appropriate working conditions.
The movie tells the story of flm director Poli, who lives in Buenos Aires. Her son decides to take his Bar Mitzvah, in spite of the fact that Poli has no religious traditions, though she does know her mother is of Jewish origin. From Wannsee to Argentina and back, Poli Martínez Kaplun goes in search of her Jewish family’s roots. The director recounts over one and a half centuries of Jewish history and stumbles across family and other secrets.
In the late 90s, a teenage Juan Sáenz Valiente videotapes moments on TV that excite him, so he can masturbate to them. As time goes by, the tape is forgotten… Until now.
An ironic and touching moment between a mother and son shot in this short film by Mahdi Baraghithi
The recipe of a traditional Valencian dish, paella, is the perfect excuse for meeting Amparo, a 96-year-old woman who explains, between ingredients, the secret of her life: optimism, happiness and enthusiasm. With the pretext of making a paella, and accompanied by her 8-year-old great-grandson, Amparo looks back at memories of her childhood, of her life, while making sure that our gastronomy is passed on to the younger generations.
Clodette sleeps under a picture of Christ and next to her rosary. In the middle of the night, strange nightmares submerge she into her darkest side.
François Daireaux has the demanding nature of someone receptive to the world, and the infinite patience required by a gentle form of empathy, a powerful but tender gaze at our crazy world. The central character of this film is Isidro. In simple, clear speech, he broaches every question shaking our contemporary world: the scandalous, toxic supremacy of globalized multinationals and financialization, the cultural catastrophe of religious proselytism, the danger of climate change and displacement, the vicious cynicism of overfishing, the folly or ignorance of discrimination on the grounds of gender, race or ethnic origin, pollution, overconsumption and of course the terrifying throes of nature, with its angry storms, floods and earthquakes.
Noah and Lola share with us how they experience their identity as artists and activists. The problems of the trans community run through all of us as a society since every day they kill, persecute, mistreat and repress our transvestite and transgender companions.
A documentary about polyamorous and non-monogamous relationships. Experts and professionals explain how these relationships are lived and the tools they use to deal with jealousy, time and sex. Their testimonies will help us to better understand the myth of romantic love, monogamy and the role women’s play in love.
"Your path is determined by everything you do, because there are rules: this is right and this is wrong, and you will be judged. But we have to realize that every person is truly different from each other. You cannot box them in. Not at all. We are much more than that". With this premise, the documentary goes through the life of Alba, a 20-year-old girl who has been living against social structures since she came of age. The conversations with her family, the spontaneous dialogue between her and the director and her day-to-day problems will tell her story by themselves.
Rosa is a young girl who loses his father and has to live with his stepmother Isabel; as if she was a cinderella, from that moment on you they have a very tortuous relationship in their home. A relationship of love-hatred will be born between the two women, which, like two nations interaction, will have consequences that neither could anticipate, though inevitable.
Marcos spends Christmas eve with MR MAN, a mysterious, broken and lonely man. He will soon discover that there’s someone else on that date…
Young Yeison lives all on his own in a simple country dwelling. He is so isolated from the rest of humanity he must hunt to survive. One day a man turns up and Yeison hides. Finding no one home, the man takes up residence. But what is Yeison afraid of? Why does he live alone? When the ghosts are made of flesh and blood, there is reason to doubt and flee from other humans.
Three houseplants in an intimate play about solidarity and living together.
A job interview can make you get not only a job, it can help you tidy up your personal life. Isabel and Rosa take advantage of these position to solve professional and personal differences.
The director explores the potential stories and different layers behind the characters in her old film pictures while planning how to place them on her bedroom wall.
A short story about relationships, friendships, hope and disappointments. A small sample of the daily deception to which we are exposed without realizing it. A magical illusion.
What are aluxes? Where do they live? Do they really exist? The Aluxes are not imaginary beings that only exist in the minds of people, writers or by the superstition of the indigenous people and that have been transmitted orally from generation to generation.
Two people meet in a cafe, a normal day for both of them, but he falls in love with her, observes her, admires her, likes her and wants to talk to her, but many things stop him, sorrows, situations. This short talks about communication, how we can break down barriers to talk, get to know each other, start conversations.
Eva, one of the 500,000 young Spanish migrants away from Spain, spends her New Year's Eve looking for the reasons why she is where she is. During the course of the night, Eva will confront herself with different situations and encounters that will show her the way to becoming the person that she wants to be.
The story of an American artist who comes to Buenos Aires, lives the intense gay night in the city, suffers an illness and a marriage that ends in a scam: life is art.
In the labyrinth of love a game of contradictions takes place: two women fight a duel with their feelings; one is reason and the other is the heart… but the labyrinth proliferates until it culminates in the ritual of disorderly blood and overexcited viscera.
Elena runs in the middle of the night. Patricia tries to reach her friend but her asthma prevents her from doing so. When Patricia finds Elena’s cell phone on the grass, an incoming phone call confirms her suspicions. Patricia’s attempts to help her friend expose her more than necessary. From the tension to the stillness of the night you can tell something has changed.
An Afro Colombiana spirals through a storm of self-destruction and the end of an idyllic relationship.
A film that honors 82-year-old Juan Medellín's legacy as a founding company member of Mexico City's prestigious Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández. An intimate portrait of a life richly lived and a testament to the power and the force of art, the film uses colorful hand-drawn animation to illustrate cherished memories from Medellin's childhood and introduction to dance to his heyday with the Ballet during its golden era in the 1960s and 1970s.
Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish implied by its recovery. The author's approach to his twelve-year-old self is articulated through a mosaic of vacation videos found in an old family camera. These memories form a touching, nostalgic, self-parody warp, the digital remnants of a new generational sensibility.