A young director is commissioned with the task of doing a short film for a watch company.
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A young director is commissioned with the task of doing a short film for a watch company.
Three children disappear mysteriously from a peaceful town of Puerto Rico. Georgie's, Walter's, and Elenita's adventure takes them from the beautiful coast, through the mountains to the depths of the city. Only their innocence, the protective spirit of their father, and the kindness of the least able leads them back to the home they thought they would not see anymore.
Documentary about the life and work of don Juan E. Viguié Rodríguez.
Alex dreams of playing basketball as his idols.
Buenos Aires at the end of the millennium a young filmmaker hopeless about their future decides to film his last act.
Manolo is a worker shamelessly exploited by his boss. Tired of his situation, he finds a solution in the most unexpected way.
Graciadió will premiere in Ituzaingó and the show will reunite Violeta Naón and Gustavo Prone, its protagonists, who have not met again in the last eight years. Perrone takes the opportunity to make another film, Eight years later, the story of those two actors and their reunion. To preserve the truth of this new encounter between Violeta and Gustavo, Perrone filmed the entire film with unique shots, without repeating any. One of them a long flat-sequence of 25 minutes.
Reflecting the closeness of Puerto Ricans in New York with those on the island, three stories among couples are combined to cast emotions of passion, jealousy, doubt and infidelity. The couples are burned by sudden and unexpected feelings and are pushed to make the decision that will change their lives forever influenced by the events of September 11th.
Within the context of the uruguayan press, there's a group of people named "Perejiles". These attend launching parties, inaugurations and all other sorts of events within the uruguayan press with the purpose of free eating. Under a, supposedly, "journalistic patent", their appearance goes unnoticed by most attending these events, except for the press teams consisting of reporters, camera men and drivers or assistants who clearly recognize them and reject their presence.
In 2001, during the great Argentine crisis, when the desperate and depressed population imagined that the country, like Atlantis, was going to disappear under the waters, two young people from Saladillo did not stop making video films using the inhabitants of Saladillo as interpreters. the pampa city. The films, written, filmed and finished in a very short time, are broadcast on local television, breaking audience records. The film follows the activity of the tenacious and enthusiastic Fabio Junco and Julio Midú and their relationship with the neighbors who, in addition to being actors, provide them with all the facilities so that they can make their films. It is the beginning of what will later be known as “cinema with neighbors”, who consider this involvement as a kind of therapy and escape from a particularly adverse daily life.
An account of the many assassination attempts suffered by dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975), perpetrated between 1936 and 1964, taking as a starting point the short story entitled 'La verdadera muerte de Francisco Franco', an ucronic fantasy published in 1960 by the Spanish writer Max Aub (1903-71), who fled Spain after the Civil War (1936-39) and established in Mexico in 1942.
"Malvinas: The Story That Could Have Been" is an original Discovery Channel production documentary in co-production with Cuatro Cabezas, from Argentina, and Wilton Films, from England. This documentary raises a new question: Could Argentina have won the Falklands War?
In this big adventure, the Ugly Duckling faces some very scary ghosts. Some of them haunt the mysterious caves close by the farm, and they won´t let anybody come near - they are guarding an astounding secret. In the misty, marshy woods there are other ghosts, which that nobody dares approach, apart from the brave little Ugly Duckling. With the help of his friend Nico the Piglet he sets out to discover the mysterious secrets that the sinister spooks are hiding.
The Santana family, in search of a better life, decide to move out from one residential to another. The film depicts how drugs become an option for youths with no other alternatives.
The story of two girls and their strange relationship with the cold. Ana has a phobia of cold and, especially, of snow. Her mother has moved her to live in the south, near the beach. But her fears don't go away; on the contrary, they get worse.
A group of artists adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to show what the reality of madness is really like, but they end up showing the madness of reality. Raquel Lubartowski decided to stage a performance of the play Marat Sade by Peter Weiss at the Vilardebó Hospital, which is the psychiatric hospital in Montevideo. This documentary takes us through from the first meeting to the first rehearsal at an old dilapidated polyclinic.
Set in Cuba in early 1959, although the historical context is deliberately avoided in its epic backdrop, the story follows the persecution of a poor guy who owes a few pesos to a loan shark and a thug who swear to get even with him, not so much because of the unpaid debt as because they don't want to set a precedent. The man's name is Miguel, and he seems to care as much as Santiago Nasar that the killers are hot on his heels with their half-tone shoes. On the day of his "double crime" (the story recreates those 24 hours), he has a couple of drinks in a bar, argues with his ex-lover, has sex with a young prostitute, puts up with a scolding from his friend Pedro for being negligent, walks, urinates, goes to bed...
The politically and environmentally challenged landscape of the Bolivian town of Uyuni is the backdrop for a tense exchange between a man and a woman, which is intercut with sound from Peruvian radio.
A woman is questioned about whether she loves her fiancé.
An exploration of the world and the work of the most international Catalan filmmaker through the director's entomological vision and his portrayal of the characters and themes he loves and hates.
A woman’s body on a bed. The camera follows her silhouette and slides out of the window to frame an urban landscape on the water’s edge. The sky and the sea share the horizon. A breath of freedom emerges from the images, like a dream in the shade of summer. A short effort made as part of the Pompeu Fabra film school, in Barcelona.
Three friends are staying at one of their homes. At first, the weekend seems completely normal, but Sofía tells the legend of a man named Vicente, who was murdered in cold blood inside that very apartment. She says that if you say his name three times in front of a mirror, he will return to take revenge on anyone who dares to disturb his rest. The young people see it as nothing more than a bit of fun and an old legend.
A group of actors is shooting a film in Aguas Buenas, based on the legend of a magician. There, they become infected with the honesty syndrome, which unleashes a number of hidden secrets to come to light.
Documentary about Gabriel Orozco
A journey into rural Paraguay, the struggle for land, for rights, to maintain cultural identity and traditional production methods in the face of the advance of the soybean agro-export model. Organization, persecution, imprisonment. The voice that is not heard, but cries out and expresses itself.
Movie? Comedy? Documentary? Sex-sociological analysis?? In any case, a unique tour of the essential questions of life: Why sexually attract us? What was the sexual revolution of women? What is the mandate of our genes? Is it mathematically impossible to hit in mate choice? Is marriage a risky business? And a fundamental question: why dinosaurs became extinct?
A young professional with a beautiful girlfriend finds himself in a crossroad when he falls in love with a new neighbor who just moved into his building.
Myna is a young illegal immigrant woman from an eastern Country that is at war. She works as a home assistant for a marriage and their small son. When the parents go on a trip, Myna has to shoulder all the responsibility for the household and the child since the marriage have trust in Myna. However, one night, the child has an accident and Myna, who knows that she can be deported if she goes to the hospital, decides to help the child in underground ways. Written by Anonymous
Mexican band Cafe Tacuba celebrates 15 years of making--and often revolutionizing--Spanish rock with Un Viaje. This lush, luxurious live set includes three discs of music and one electrifying DVD. The group has culled the best moments from a two-night stand in Oct. 2004 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, and the results are consistently electric. Every song, every rhythm, every guitar lick, every laugh is important, a not-to-be-missed moment. Cafe Tacuba's potent mix of music and message is a powerful thing, and the group thrives in its unflinchingly earnest, sweetly sincere approach to its art. Even during backstage interviews and recording studio hijinks, each member seems wholly pleased to be a part of the process. Throughout the proceedings, Cafe Tacuba's ardent fans thank them with hoots, hollers and constant singalongs to almost every song, making Un Viaje a joyous trip for everyone involved.
A character adrift, half real, half created, and a look/listen that searches for reality in these two halves. An encounter between two forms of creation, which may have in common the visual, the sonorous, perhaps the scenic, and certainly the poetic.
A half-hour documentary shot in the town of Kabalo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2006, on the subject of Violence Against Women, for Doctors Without Borders. Wim Wenders' short film as part of the anthology film Invisibles (2007)
One of the first works by María Cañas, an excessive metadiscursive exercise on the “pig character” of current information and archive culture.
Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past. It is a survey of the controversy stirred up in society by the fact that, thanks to this law, the armed forces personnel and police who committed crimes under the dictatorship (1973-1985) have gone unpunished, and it examines the scars the authoritarian regime left on a section of the population.
The relevant NGOs and the Spanish film industry have organized the First International Sahara Film Festival, with the official objective of bringing films to refugee camps for the first time for a few days. With a humorous tone and a self-critical intention, the aim is to include a range of shades of gray in a world dominated by black, white, and slogans.
MAGHREB FLAMENCO is the first short documentary by Flamenco Biënnale NL made in 2008. With Cherifa Kersit (1967), the 'Cheikha' - the grande dame - of the singing tradition of the Berbers from the Moroccan Middle Atlas Mountains and guitarist Niño Josele (1974), protégé of Paco de Lucía, a descendant of a gipsy dynasty from the South Spanish Almería. The flamenco guitar mingles with the lotar, the Berber lute; and the raw Berber songs alternate with the "Cante Jondo", deep flamenco song. Together they built musical bridges, or rather, restored the old connections across the Strait of Gibraltar.
The overview of how Jacinto Molina became Paul Naschy and stalked his way into horror history.
Raised in New York, Marilyn Morales returns to Puerto Rico to claim an inheritance. Her obsession with Marilyn Monroe, dressing and acting like her, creates a clash of acceptance with the residents of the neighborhood. The new surroundings and clash will lead her in search for her identity.