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An experiment with live choreography generated in real time to ironically and critically reinterpret the traditional touristic image of Galicia, this video includes images in cities such as Lisbon, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela and can be prepared to integrate those from any other, adapting choreographies to live music. It covers all of Galicia’s typical locations that serve as backdrops for the choreographies.
A laboratory rat which was sacrificed with scientific purposes comes back to life. The rodent claims for revenge but in its search for the culprits, it is manipulated by the members of a love triangle to solve their problems.
Across a vaguely historical territory – the Argentine pampas at the end of the nineteenth century – a manhunt takes place: cavalry soldiers track a gaucho guilty of an infamous crime. The outlaw is tormented by the memories of his past. The hunt will not cease for days, perhaps weeks. One afternoon, the far away figure of the fugitive becomes visible to the posse. A young army officer faces the doubtful glory of killing. But this is just the beginning, because in the desert, time is circular, justice a fragile dream, and reality a feverish reflection.
Nicholas, a young man with limited resources, decides to dress up as Santa Claus to make money during the Christmas holiday.
This documentary is called “Current”, which is the title of ansong by Jorge Lazaroff, and the film is a homage to that talented Uruguayan musician, who was a mainstay of Uruguayan popular music during the dictatorship and who died before his time. We feel the spirit of “Choncho” Lazaroff” through words and songs by Leo Maslíah, Daniel Viglietti, Carlos Da Silveira, Jorge Bonaldi, Luis Trochón, Jorge di Pólito, Daniel Magnone, Rubén Olivera, Mauricio Ubal, Raúl Castro, Eduardo Lombardo, Pablo Routín, Cecilia Prato, Fernando Cabrera and Eloy Yerle, to name but a few.
Recorded live at El Teatro, Flores, on May 31, 2008 at the end of a cycle of 7 shows that Attaque 77 gave to present Karmagedon (the album) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In the Chile of today during a supper, a recent couple of women discusses about infidelity. They verbalize the image which they have of themselves, looking for in this apparent lucidity to justify its acts. The course at night will take them to face the theories to the practice. face desire, will power, love, guilt and condemnation.
Documentary that tells the story of football from its earliest history. The documentary, accurately reflects the evolution of the sport, from its origins to become a great show.
This is the story of two German poets, children of immigrants, who found a corner of the Río de la Plata to settle down. Hanna does not find the meaning of life in a world where values and communication have been lost. Klaus, her husband, has a hard time understanding her and struggles to save the marriage that is threatened. In a pub they meet a young poet, Heinz, reciting Rilke, Hölderlin and Baudelaire. Hanna sees in him the opportunity to get away from this troubled world and will want to climb on his wide wings. From that moment on, the marriage goes adrift, led by Hanna's dreams and Klaus's rationality. A story of love, madness and poetry.
A little "compensation fairy" grants a hack in Malaga his wish of being the perfect cabdriver, but he gets her in trouble when he insists on killing all his customers in outlandish ways.
Ismael (Bismark Méndez), a Colombian undercover police officer obsessed with taking down notorious guerilla leader Comandante Lupercio (César Meléndez), finds life may hold more in store for him when he meets the beautiful Luz Angélica (Carolina Solano) on a bus. Based on the writings of Antonio Caballero, this arresting thriller is adapted for the screen and directed by filmmaker Mauricio Mendiola.
This documentary tells the story of a group of Uruguayan political and social activists who began or intensified their activities in the 1960s. What emerges is how diverse the Uruguayan left was in thought and action in fields like attitudes to armed struggle, the place of women and children, the historical significance of the Frente Amplio Party and the ways in which the old ideals have found expression - or not, as the case may be - under the first left wing national government in the history of the country. The documentary was made for Casa Bertolt Brecht, and is geared to stimulating debate and training new generations of activists.
Fausto Papetti is an overwhelmed fellow and tired of living until he receives the visit of Mephisto, who allows him to know the libations of sin and delirium.
Adaptation of Angelina, Honduran novel written by Carlos F. Gutiérrez Lardizábal in the year 1894.
2006-2009 / 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 8'
A group of students go to the jungle to get medicinal plants for their experiments.
An office clerk tries to escape from tedious work and nagging bosses, or does he?
Shows the lives of a group of homosexuals in Juchitán, a part of the isthmus of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, who defend their right to be different through transgressions, ethnic identity and the pleasure of celebrating life intensely. A community that enjoys sensuality, has fun and laughs at itself, but also dares to face the rejection of family members.
JoBeth is an 11-year-old girl who gets bullied at school. Desperate for help, she writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for revenge instead of toys and candy. Her wishes come true when, on Christmas eve, her enemies get a visit from an avenging, blood-thirsty Santa Claus and a couple of deranged, sadistic elves. By employing heavy artillery and extreme violence, JoBeth's bullies get their punishment and the Christmas spirit is restored.
A woman is tied up and blinded in a dingy room. A TV is talking to her. Is she going crazy or is she in terrible danger?
A few women arrive at an escort agency to choose the men who will accompany them at their events. They aren’t all there for the same reason. One of them mistakes the office for that of a gynaecologist, while two prostitutes seeking a change in profession want to learn how to be more refined and respectable. Others are indeed looking for an escort for events, where they must portray an image of personal success despite being single.
Fighters is a portrait of the current realities of both the urban and rural Mexican woman. Filmed in Mexico City and the State of Zacatecas this film documents the primary circumstances, difficulties, obstacles and preoccupations that women face daily in this country. Poverty, hunger, * machismo*, mass migration, and social inequality -- these are some of the issues that are explored through their testimonies. Women from various professions, ages and social-economic statuses share their stories and their hopes for the future, and create a portrait of a Mexico where women are taking more of a central role.
A documentary that follows the daily violence inside the ghettos of Panama, portraying a stark vision of the reality of life on the streets of Panama, focusing on the city of Colon.
Focuses on the history of the Archivo General de Puerto Rico (General Archive of Puerto Rico) which started in 1955.
Recorde live at Obras Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dcember 15, 2001.
At the end of the 19th century, a girl whom everyone considers ugly, becomes, over time, an insignificant woman, ignored by all. Yet she observes the world around her with a strange eagerness and finds signs of beauty everywhere she looks. Years later, a French photographer already married and with children arrives at her house. He will be the only person capable of seeing the beauty and the richness of her intense inner world.
Historical documentary about the Sahrawi conflict: the exile, the wall, the mines… the last colony in Africa.
At the entrance of a jazz club, one rainy night, a teenage drug dealer awaits the arrival of his best client: the club's singer. But what he believes to be a routine deal turns into a final farewell. She tells him that she is leaving the next day. Despite the ban on him not to enter the club, he decides to take a risk and go in to listen to it for the last time.
In the shadows of the post-war era, a military officer is forced to face his ghosts under the gaze of three strange creatures and the lingering echo of a guitar.
In an attic on a stormy night, the old-fashioned toy are unamused.
In May 2005, after 30 years of Moroccan occupation, Saharawi students initiated a series of peaceful demonstrations demanding their right to the United Nations-mandated referendum on Western Saharan independence. The Moroccan authorities responded with a brutal campaign of repression, detaining and torturing human rights activists as well as Saharawi students and children as young as eight years old.
After the end of Guatemala's military dictatorship, relatives of the Maya killed during the genocide in the 1980s search for the bodies of their missing relatives, and fight to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Said, a Moroccan child, crosses the Strait. On the other side, in the country of opportunities, he discovers that the world is not as beautiful as he had been told.
A look into the life of an extremely poor argentinian family.
After being sent abroad at the tender age of eight, Virginia returns to Quito, her birthplace, twenty-five years later. She is finally reunited with her widowed father and her fraternal twin sister, Manuela. Her sister lives in their parents' house with her husband and two sons while her father vegetates in a retirement home. She confides to her sister that living in New York and the separation from her family has caused her to find affection in troubled love affairs, but Manuela has secrets of her own.
Legend has it that in the depths of the forest a bloodthirsty satanic monstrosity moves in the shadows, trapping all those unwary who venture to enter.
Five friends meet like every afternoon under a bridge. One day they are deciding how to hang out and without realizing it they find themselves immersed in a massacre that has them as protagonists.
The Woman from Columbus Circle tells how a young investment banker's chance encounter in the subway with a beautiful, mysterious woman changes both his way of thinking and perception of the world.
Based on the story by writer Ángel Santiesteban, a young journalism student who prostitute herself to support her family in the agonizing economic outlook of 1994.
When teenager Felix, from a deadbeat Brooklyn home, is asked by Mr. H, the kindly corner store owner, to mind his dog while he's away, it's up to Felix to either reciprocate the benevolence Mr. H has always shown him, or perpetuate the neglect handed down as a family legacy.
Some 15-year-old half-freaked-out kids gather on the mountain to worship Van Damme and train in martial arts to achieve the goal of the ancient warriors of Kova Dera: to kick fire.
The story of a mother and her four children and their struggle to survive the abuse of her love partner.
Félix Costa, an anarchist militant who has lived in exile since the end of the Civil War, discovers that the Administration has left him for dead and decides to return to Spain. As he tours the place where they say he was shot dead, he reflects on the validity of his struggle and the fact that he has fallen into oblivion.
José is a passionate young man in the Dominican countryside who has been in love with Julieta ever since they met when they were young kids. 10 years later and after Julieta returns from the city to visit her father, José looks for the help of his best friend to win over her love. But things don't exactly workout as planned when Julieta's new step-mom ("Seliné") cooks up some good 'ol Dominican witchcraft and decides to put a spell on José, hoping to separate them. It is then up to Julieta, her best friend María and El Jobo to take on this new 'witch' to save themselves and José.