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One of the first babies born in captivity during the military dictatorship within the School of Mechanics of the Navy was Victoria Donda Pérez. The young woman discovers 30 years later that she was appropriated by a military man from the E.S.M.A. and that her parents are missing. Determined to know her true story, she builds a documentary portrait of her family where victims and repressors coexist to this day.
Juanjo Franco Zabalegi died in San Sebastian on 19 June 2008. This documentary aims to show what his life was like and the keys to his creative processes. Family, friends, students, leisure and work colleagues focus on his memories to show us different aspects, in many cases unknown, of his wide-ranging activity as a filmmaker, painter, teacher...
Sofia, a preschool teacher, returns home from her job to find a recording on her voicemail from her husband, Miguel, telling her that he has left and is not coming back. She stays at home depressed for a couple of weeks, before having the idea to take the recording and rearrange it to make Miguel say what she wants him to. After having him tell her he needs to come home and he loves her and other similar things, Sofia smiles and tells him, simply, "No."
Documentary about the figure of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta on the occasion of the centenary of his death.
years ago. letter to a friend filmed at Pere-Lachaise. about Antonio Drove, about submarines, about pending projects...
A woman entrusts her belongings to a stranger while she goes into the sea to take a swim. But when she comes out again, the stranger has disappeared, taking everything with him, including the keys to her house.
A smart poor girl and a inmature rich boy get their life twisted when they accidently have a baby.
A documentary which follows the 2004 Catalan expedition that made the second ascent of the ‘Magic Line’ on K2. After the inevitable lengthy battles with weather and adverse conditions, one team member reaches the summit and safely descends the Abruzzi Spur, but for the rest of the team, the retreat back down the Magic Line is a nightmare that ends in tragedy.
In the mid-1980s, peace initiatives between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group, FARC, led the latter to disband after two decades of fighting and establish a legal-political party, the Union Patriótica (Patriotic Union). As the UP met with some successs in local elections, it became a target of right-wing death squads and paramilitaries. So far, 3,000 UP members have been murdered or have disappeared, making it a case of political genocide unparalleled in the world. The documentary "The Red Dance" views, through the memories of survivors and relatives of victims, this period of terror and assassination. While FARC has reverted to war, a petition is pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) regarding human rights violations by the State of Colombia.
Seven days to travel the path of perfection. Seven stairs that lead to the origin of Art. Seven circles of hell that Dante must cross. Seven days for Luisa before the Rimbaud Award deadline. Seven infernal days to seek her doubts, her struggles, her price, her dreams, her madness, Art itself. Seven days to write a poem forged from fragments of her own misery, blood of her own blood. Seven steps along the road from Hell to thus take wing and reach the crown of creation.
Love story during the Spanish civil war in a psychiatric hospital.
Diego is a young Photojournalist in the conflict between idealism and his wish for success. During a story on the landing of African Refugees on the Canary Islands he has to learn that the right decision is not always easy to see.
The different inhabitants of a town prepare, each in their own way, for a great event.
Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006.
The magical friendship between a deaf girl and a dragon turtle that helps her overcome her limitations and gain the community’s and other children’s acceptance. It is based on the novel "La sirenita sin voz" (The Mermaid Without A Voice) by Kalman Barsy.
Armando is a suave radio disc jockey trying to hide his sexy secretary from his jealous wife. He is caught between his stubborn mother and his opinionated mother-in-law. Stirring the already spicy pot is his son, who plans to marry the daughter of an unusual couple.
Victor and Gloria entry workers form a relatively stable marriage. But one day Victor loses a leg due to an accident, granting him permanent disability. Consequently, his life changes and, among other things, the relationship with his wife deteriorates progressively.
In this magnificently presented DVD CD, Niña Pastori performs the 12 songs on the album accompanied by her musicians, shot with five cameras by director Juan Estelrich with enormous sensitivity and quality. Setlist: 1.Principio 2.Espinas 3.Imposible 4.El Loco Del Barrio 5.En Tres Minutos 6.Puede Ser 7.La Cuna 8.Santo Romero 9.La Tata 10.En Los Rincones De Mi Casa 11.Como Me Duele 12.Final
A bold experiment in space goes very, very wrong, leaving our nameless hero in a curious predicament, far from home, in the wrong time, and in a world which is far different from his own.
The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle of whose life has precedence.
It's Christmas, Eve and Scruff have some dishes that are not shared with anyone. But after meeting the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, understand the true meaning of the holiday, friendship and charity.
The porn industry has grown from a product purchased on the sly, to be sold on newsstands in the daily press. "La piel vendida" aims to open a window to this film. His actors, actresses, directors, producers ... tell us their profession from the lights and shadows of a cinema by dint of being explicit in its imagery and themes, is hidden in their motivations: the viewer and their protagonists.
A man enters the most dangerous prison in Santo Domingo in search of revenge against the man who killed his son.
Disinterested and disoriented characters in a world that is real, where the absurd is consistent and daily violence, try to relate to each other, reacting only by inertia to situations that do not concern them.
The story develops with the character of the grandmother, who visits one of her daughters to celebrate Christmas Eve. It is precisely in that place where she sits on the couch and starts recounting stories to her granddaughters.
Francisco Sanchez: Paco de Lucia, is the definitive documentary on the myth of the flamenco guitar. It not only provides information about his life and musical art, but it also offers a previously unknown intimate portrait of the artist than makes us 'feel' and understand the human being beneath the world wide known genius. Retired in the Mexican jungle, Paco de Lucía shows in this program his creative doubts, the reasons for his silence and other secrets of his genius. It is the first time that the 'master' invites a television team to share with him a world tour and allows it to record his daily life in Mexico and his meetings with other artists, like Chick Corea.
Silvia (Cuca Escribano) is local police in a village close to a luxury development. She lives with her husband, her young daughter and brother Camilo, with Down syndrome. One day a girl disappears from a nomadic village that had settled around the village. Everything seems to point to Camilo as guilty. Shortly afterwards disappears again another girl the same age. Unexpectedly, Camilo is accidentally hit by a car and dies. Convinced of the innocence of his deceased brother, Silvia not stop until you find the real culprit of the crimes.
A short documentary about the person behind the personality. For the first time, through a regular casting session, we witness the daily reality of actors, full of hope, dreams, humour, drama and tears. As if in a psychiatrist's practice, we become part of the daily struggle required to get a role. In less than 15 minutes, 35 actors are capable of impressing us with stories about their lives in theatre, film, and including their lives as a waiters and waitresses.
Visiting american journalist Johnson finds more in Guatemala than he's bargained for. His reporter contact is missing and nobody's looking for him; his first assignment is to meet with priest Pupo, so fevered with the advent of Satan that he clobbers an altar boy he fears is possessed; but there's also love, in the form of nurse Arloa Reston but who is she meeting in the jungle? Cosmic discussions of good and evil, with Pupo and a nihilistic colleague, turn into a battle for survival with the still-lurking forces of repression.
On a night like any other, a homeless person listens to a presidential speech offering housing to those who need it. The next day he wakes up in a strange and radiant city. During the afternoon, a builder raises the facade of his long-awaited house. Only the facade.
Just 10 minutes from the center of Madrid (but also from Rome, Paris, London ...), hundreds of hungry men meet in a fortuitous and secret way. Some are looking for quick and easy sex, others are trying to escape loneliness, most are looking for themselves ...
A thriller about the dark and dangerous secrets shared by a 12 year old boy, his new teacher and the school principal, a catholic priest. Months after the death of his father, Simon (12) discovers the affair his Mother (Sarah) is having with a charming but enigmatic new teacher (Mario). The boy discovers the teacher's intentions and his dark secrets, but with his mother in love, it seems there is nothing he can do to show her that their lives are in danger.
Jack is a farmer turned gunfighter for the murder of his wife at the hands of Douglas Fox, a ruthless outlaw. He lives obsessed with revenge and after 5 years, the villain returns to his old ways. Jack goes on the hunt with his best friend and a local bounty hunter. In a confrontation with Fox in a cave, they resurrect an ancient cult evil that lay dormant.
The story of Lupe & Bruno, she is in love and he doesn't seem interested. The story unfolds at the public transport stop as they grow up.
Documentary - Short Film
Eduardo is a young upper-class Colombian who is kidnapped by a guerrilla group, and becomes trapped in the middle of the crossfire between the military, paramilitary and guerrilla groups. His outlook on life and his own country, will change radically after the traumatic experience that lives along several months, in which he risks his life in multilple transfers to different camps, as well as armed clashes, along with the extreme loneliness that puts him on the brink of madness.
During the 1920's, Augusto San Miguel (1905-1937) directed, produced and starred in the first feature films made in Ecuador. Unfortunately, San Miguel's films -like many episodes of his life- disappeared in time. The only remains are the movie ads on old newspapers and a mysterious legend, by which San Miguel was buried with his films.
A single mother decides to go on a trip from Santiago to the north of Chile with her only son. They are going to meet up with the child's father, a Chilean coalminer, after ten years of separation. The trip is plagued by silence, as the uneasy relationship between mother and son evolves and secrets of the past are brought to the surface, in this poignant tale of broken family ties, where what is left unsaid may carry more meaning than anything spoken.
DSK produced three surprising publicity videos carried by the very personal e-store platform Codeco.org for three highly peculiar products: Bin2pdf software, the antivirus Codeco aT, and Codeco T-shirts. Bin2pdf ad (analogue backup). 2008, 1 min. Codeco aT ad (analogue backup). 2008, 1 min. Codeco T-shirt ad. 2008, 1 min.
An epic home made movie by Jess Franco. It was only shown at the Cinematheque Francaise, Paris in 2008 . Four years later the movie was recut and extended with some scenes by Jess Franco and his new producer, splittet in two parts and re-released as "Crypt of the Condemned" Part I and Part II.
Gastón Fernández has arrived at 34 without too much to show or brag about. He has no money, job, girlfriend, friends or life plan. He's a composer that doesn't compose. The one-time "most likely to succeed" at Santiago's Musical Conservatory has passed from promise to failure. He feels he is beginning to wander alone. Isolated and detached. Gastón feels that everyone judges him and see the word loser tattooed on his forehead. At the same time, an alter-ego, a sort of doppelgänger, haunts him.
Two people dance in Barcelona to the rhythm of the city’s skyscrapers. The 9/11 2011 events introduced us to the real twenty-first century.
Two bank employees decide to steal the money of a dead client, a bold thief finds out about their plan and decides to impersonate as the nephew of the deceased
A trip with President Chavez over the largest oil reserve in the world, situated beneath the Orinoco river, becomes the occasion in which to enter into the lives of Venezuelans, nine years after the beginning of the Bolivarian revolution.Venezuela en route to socialism: is this still possible in our post-ideological times?