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The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

Morocco doesn’t want you to know what’s happening in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara. The Saharawi people live under constant threat. They can’t mention either the Western Sahara or “referendum”. The situation is known as “The Problem”. Foreign journalists who attempt to take pictures or shoot with a video camera in the Western Sahara are immediately expelled from this former Spanish colony. For Saharawis it means harsh repression from the Moroccan police, who intend to silence the Saharawi population. Welcome to the last colony in Africa. We visited this place. We spent four years compiling material and gathering testimonies from journalists and other professionals who know what’s really happening in the Western Sahara. All of it undocumented until now.

The Problem: Testimony of the Sahrawi people

NR 2009
The closed eyes of Latin America

The closed eyes is a tour of Latin America subject to looting and contamination by multinationals. From Mexico to Colombia and from Guatemala to Uruguay and Argentina, the documentary begins by quoting Eduardo Galeano: “…the conquistadors appear in their caravels and, nearby, the technocrats in their jets, Hernán Cortés and the marines, the corregidors of the kingdom and the missions of the international monetary fund, the dividends of the slave traders and the profits of General Motors.¨ Made by Miguel Mirra with the collaboration of filmmakers from across the continent, THE CLOSED EYES OF LATIN AMERICA addresses the issue of open pit mining, soy, monocultures and the depredation of soils and forests, dams, devastation fish farming and the production of cellulose pulp, highlighting the close relationship between the plundering of natural resources, environmental pollution and the exploitation model that multinationals apply in Latin America.

The closed eyes of Latin America

NR 2009
Quito

Carla is about to travel to Quito to adopt a child, but once at the airport her husband informs her that he has cancelled the tickets and the adoption proceedings. Carla decides to leave her husband behind and embark on her journey to become a mother, something she is encouraged to do by a painter she meets at the airport who gives her a painting as a gift. However, once in Quito, Carla discovers that she has been deceived, as the painting is a stolen piece that the police immediately demand.

Quito

7.0 2004
De Salamanca a ninguna parte

Human portrait of a generation of filmmakers, born as a result of the Salamanca Conversations (1955), who tried to show throughout the 60s the social reality of our country. Beyond the review of some times, or a description of the facts, we have tried to approach the looks, the memories, the silences, the desires and the struggle of its protagonists. Because in those years Patino, Borau, Camus, Picazo, Summers and Saura set out to do something that no one had asked them to do: a different, critical, innovative and personal cinema, values that we miss today. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

De Salamanca a ninguna parte

7.5 2002
The young honduran revolution

In the Honduran coup of June 28, 2009, where the Constitutional President was kidnapped, a popular movement was born without precedent because of its national character. The students, members of the popular resistance, explain their reasons and their vision in the middle of this conflict that received continental uproar. Filmed in August 2009 while the president is still in involuntary exile. Filmed days after the coup, this documentary shows impressions, opinions and positions of the Central American people in their struggle for democracy and the restitution of the Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya. In the voice of the students and other Honduran protagonists.

The young honduran revolution

5.0 2009
Far Away From Here

Daniela would like to live far away from here in the future. Here, is a poor part of town in Montevideo, where Daniela lives in a small house with her son, husband, mother, sister and brother-in-law. They are better off than most of the people living in that neighborhood. They all work and the father provides them with whatever they need. He is one of the millions of emigrants from Latin America whose salaries are essential to the survival of their families. The movie carefully approaches Daniela’s world, tells her story, a girl immersed in daydreaming, who is also a down-to-earth mother, beloved daughter and young wife – and about the pain of emigration.

Far Away From Here

NR 2008
El deseo de ser piel roja

Martín wanders through Tangier, unsure of what to do with his life. There he meets another eccentric man twice his age: Abel, a cheerful, adventurous bon vivant. And, on a wild night, they decide to blow up a nuclear power plant: doing so will be the only light in their bleak future. But only when Ana, Abel's young lover, joins them on their journey (along the coast and into the interior of the country) is their destiny confirmed. She will be the catalyst for their love, their conflicts, their ideals, and their inevitable, enormous final explosion.

El deseo de ser piel roja

6.7 2002
Arde Madrid

A documentary, of incalculable power, that reflects the abrupt interruption of childhood through thirteen survivors who at the time of 1936 were between six and twenty-two years old. The film narrates his experiences during the conflict, his fears, his hunger, which became more acute after 1937 when Madrid was isolated by Franco's troops. The memories of the protagonists are interwoven with archival images and with the testimony of Eduardo Haro Tecglen and several other people, respecting the silences and pauses in which the interviewees relax the emotions that these memories stir up in them. A cinematic beast's blow where life becomes death: the story of a childhood lost in the midst of embers, hunger and blood.

Arde Madrid

NR 2006
Around the World for Free

Banana has found a free flight to London on the internet... Free! That's the magic word of the 21st century! But to the leader of the gang, Bildotso, it will seem like nothing. If he wanted to, he would even go to China for free. What's more, he would even travel around the world for free in 80 days. It would have been even more arrogant if Kebab hadn't made a bet. And once the bet was made... he had to take the whole gang with him and go on a trip: one wanted to take a romantic trip, the other an erotic one, but they ended up with a comic-dramatic-sperm... I could tell you who would win the bet... but it's not what you think... it's not what you think, but Bildotso himself will explain it better... In the movies, of course.

Around the World for Free

NR 2009
Noticias de una guerra

January 1, 1936, general elections in Spain. Is the second time that women can vote. The electoral campaign shows clearly the differences between left and right. February 1, the 72% of the census has voted. Narrowly wins "Frente Popular". Since that moment, differences between right and left quickly pass from words to deeds. Soon, a militar conspiracy led by general Mola starts, and get the collaboration of chiefs that the Government of the Republic has shifted to peripheral locations: including Franco. Calvo Sotelo and Lieutenant Castillo are killed. The 'Dragon Rapide' flies from London to pick up Franco. The North African troops raise and the war becomes unstoppable.

Noticias de una guerra

6.5 2006