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A tribute to the Chilean actress Myriam Palacios, edited from scenes of some films in which she participated, interviews, photos, memories of her colleagues and home archives. Both a collage and a poetic portrait of intimacy.
A stunning descent into the tunnels, sewage pipes and subway stations of Madrid.
In 2014, a skeleton was found on the Valdellomar ski slopes, in the Pyrenees. Through its DNA, we discovered that it was that of an English aristocrat and we solved a scientific mystery that had shrouded a whole region in 1930.
Veteran French doc director Dominique Dubosc revisits the South American country where he taught ethnology, made his first films and got a taste of life under a military dictatorship.
Emilia is a 30-something bisexual who refuses to grow up like the rest of her friends.
After a life of delinquency without consequences, Aldo has to learn to live with the ghosts of those he has harmed.
Carmen is taking a course in her neighborhood studying home care for the sick and elderly, sponsored by the government with the aim of social inclusion of the Gypsy people. Meanwhile, behind the discreet behavior of her everyday life, Carmen has a secret love life that defies the strict rules of her community.
Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he finds a dead woman in the road, the woman is Lidia, a Mar's friend who works as a prostitute.
A couple's joy of moving into a beautiful hillside mansion is soon replaced by terror as a manifestation of evil begins to overtake their lives.
Inside a theater of a shopping center, several actors rehearse a new play. A recognized actor with delusions of greatness and vanity, faces his decay, making the rehearsals unbearable.
What can you do when you can’t make a film? Make another film. Hanging out with the camera shooting whatever comes to mind is the escape route for a couple of filmmakers who are waiting for their respective projects to gather funding to be carried out. There is nothing planned, just improvisation and the joy of making a film with total freedom, and only one rule: to respect the chronological order of shooting in the editing.
Eduardo wakes up bound hand and foot, locked in a room ... What could have happened?
"Aliens Stole My Boyfriend" - Two cute alien chicks crash land their space buggy in the parking lot of the motor court looking for Earth boyfriends. "Coma Girl" - A macabre maintenance man falls in love with a comatose patient at the convalescent home where he works much to the dismay of her faithful husband. "Brain Robbers In Love" - A powerful older woman steals the body of a young woman using a top-secret brain-swapping devise stolen from a government vault. "The Problem With Clones" - A skip-tracer must search through a family of clones to find the sister who murdered her look alike. "Four-Eyes" - A paraplegic hit man is encouraged to pursue his gruesome talent by a man who wants to murder his ex-wife. "Life After Men" - In the near future, males are virtually extinct from disease and are tracked down my man hunters working for the new government.
On the banks of the Ucayali river, in the Peruvian rainforest, three generations of the same family struggle to survive through their handmade production of coal. After an accident that burned her feet, the grandmother leaves the family, with the hope of dying somewhere else, far away from the coal. Left alone with her juvenile son, Nancy keeps on struggling. Will she be able to hold her family together?
Beyond being a historical record, this film explores the implied duality of Rafael Correa's public figure. The behind-the-scenes 2013 presidential re-election race, in campaign-distant black and white invites us to reflect on Ecuador's way of doing politics.
Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an "artificial" mother to help her fall asleep at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write any more about the plot line he introduces would be unfair to both the viewer and filmmaker alike. Suffice it to say that Leo's actions are both surprising and potentially dangerous, as they require Leo to subsume his own identity to the point where he nearly loses it.
A modern answer to Luis Buñuel's mythical documentary “Land Without Bread” (1933) about Las Hurdes, a historically impoverished region of the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, and also a journey of discovery of the soul of this beautiful land and its inhabitants.
1924: a group of men, amateur footballers of diverse professions and humble origins, set out on a journey towards the greatest adventure of their lives. They depart from Uruguay for Europe to disembark in Paris in its "Crazy Years" where, against all odds, Olympic glory and the amazement of the whole world awaited them. This feat would be the first of others to come in 1928 and 1930.
The irrepressible Ratones Paranoicos, Argentina's most enduring rock band, are featured in vintage concert and backstage footage as their story's told.
Two friends reunite to remember some stories.
On a weekend trip to the country side, Raúl and Manuel, two men in their thirties who have been friends since high school, will confront their fears, feelings, and explore the deepest side of their friendship.
There’s more than one method to counting the ways you love someone.
La otra educación (The Other Education) is about the class action suit Rosa Lydia Velez vs the Department of Education, and serves as the storyline to document 30 years of struggles that the families of disabled children in Puerto Rico have suffered. Their only request is the right to an education for their sons and daughters with special needs.
A homeless man wanders the lands in search of revenge for the murder of his son at the hands of an unknown gang. Upon arriving in a new town he finds himself trapped in a city drowning in chaos, its people firmly in the grasp of a ruthless crime boss peddling the mind-bending drug, "El Ultimo Aire." This man is a legend, a hit man, the killer of killers and the people call him "Toro Loco." He fights punks, crack-heads and tough guys with his trademark shooter, a Smith & Wesson 34-1, but you take that away from him and it doesn't matter. Toro Loco has another deadly weapon: his hands! is here and the first to die are the lucky ones!
A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student changing their lives forever. The beauty of their love is challenged by a fervent devotion to fighting for a cause. "Two Autumns in Paris" has won more than 130 awards and was the most awarded Venezuelan film of 2020. A historic examination of class, refugees, and political rebellion that subtly speaks in parallel to the world today. Its turbulent romance set with the background of the 'City of Love'.
Jéssica investigates the death of her girlfriend because she thinks it wasn't natural. Juan is trying to know if a robbery in a rural house is a fraud. Everything gets complicated and Juan's life will be in danger. While he is trying to survive, he will meet Jéssica and they will try to find the truth together.
After losing their 4 year old son in a tragic car accident Clare and Paul Knox decide to start a new life in Calabria, Italy. Paul settles into his new job as an engineer on the Strait of Messina Bridge building project while Clare, a photographer, picks up her camera for the first time since the accident, photographing the beautiful Calabrian countryside
Through personal testimonies and archival footage, this documentary takes a journey through the history of women in mountaineering and climbing in Spain.
In economic crisis, Kiko (Eric French) and Marcelo (Adrià Collado) believe finding a solution to their economic problems re-letting a room in his house in Ibiza ... As the floor in the living only two fit the closet of the housing as if it were a small room. After several unsuccessful visits appears Soto (Fernando Tejero), a strange character who not only accepts live in the small "bedroom" but also offers the ultimate solution to your all their woes ...
A microscopic tale about the trafficking of women, from the viewpoint of Campusano's universe. Including Vikingo and his bikers, who try to rescue Antonella, who has been kidnapped and sold to a brothel in northern Argentina. A rigorous narration with several subplots in which the narrative craft of this director gets to shine fully.
Vulcania is a small, isolated community ruled by an enigmatic leader where nothing is quite as it seems.
María, a retired woman, is living a nightmare in her daily routine. Between a rock and a hard place, she makes an unusual decision.
An exhausted man walks through the desert. The sun seems to melt the image. The man can barely walk, exhausted, hungry and thirsty. Defeated, he drops down. Between the heat and blazing sun on the horizon in the distance, he catch a glimpse of an hotel
Natalia Nikolaevna lives 400 km from Havana, in the city where the first nuclear power plant would be built in Cuba. He arrived 20 years ago from the USSR, to be reunited with her husband and work as an opera singer. In 1992, he began the great crisis, known as the Special Period. Natalia divorced, and rooted in the place gradually discovered him as the most hostile of spaces. Single mother without job opportunities, invented their own stage-a park-, their own -the spectators tourists- and their own livelihood: what gave him for his arias.
A trigger-happy Nationalist fears retribution from the son of a man he executed. To mollify the boy's anger, he takes a drastic step: he keeps constant watch over the fig tree the boy has planted at his father's gravesite. As the years pass, the man's lonely vigil makes him a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of his former colleagues.
This documentary weaves three stories – all set in the blind community of Havana, Cuba – into a tale of personal independence. As Lis, Mily, and Margarita each face family problems and heartbreak, their dependence on others turns out to be a double-edged sword. From the music halls of Havana to a cinema club for the blind, their stories reveal both the pain and the joys of fighting for yourself.
A teenager rehearses a song in her room while her father listens behind the door.
Mary and Monica works in a mortuary, Mary needs a donor heart for his father, Monica has an idea, Steal it from his own work.
Engram (Optical Sound #001) is part of a series entitled This is not Cinema that recreates traditional experimental cinema aesthetics using lo-fi digital video tools. In this case, the inspiration were optical sound films in which the soundtrack is generated from the frames of the film, that is, what you see is the same that what you hear.
More than 3,000 miners of Chile’s La Pampa were shot down by the national army during a demonstration in Iquique, a massacre told in Luis Advis’s 1969 cantata Santa María de Iquique. In The Blue Devils, Charlotte Bayer-Broc wanders through one of the ghost mining towns—a remote outpost in the Atacama Desert—interpreting Advis’s lament across eerily abandoned landscapes and industrial vistas. Bayer-Broc upends cinematic convention in a beguiling adaptation that is entirely her own; this medium-length musical is at once personal and political, reverent and burlesque.
Rodrigo hasn't worked in eight years. He'll be 47 soon.
A dialogue between the collective and the personal, a living memory that combines the dreams and realities of the Haitian community residing in Chile. This dialogue is guided by the voice of Wilner Petit-Frère, a Haitian immigrant who observes and captures, in a print publication, the society where he ended up living in this stage of his life.
In 1884, the famous painter Juan Manuel Blanes, from Uruguay, is asked to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one drawing of his face, done in his old age so Blanes must imagine what he looked like by reading up on his ideas and learning about his life.
Vera and Bruno used to be a couple, but haven’t seen one another since they separated. He coincidentally appears before her during a long-awaited country house weekend with friends on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Ifni ceased to be a Spanish province in 1969, the year in which it was transferred to Morocco. In 1965, General Franco's regime enacted a law that would prevent many of the widows of Moroccan personnel from the former colony from receiving their corresponding widow's pensions. Abandoned by Spain, and repudiated by Morocco, today these women live in miserable conditions.
Yoli always lived with her mother in a humble neighborhood in Havana. Until one day, a boy invites him to leave and Yoli decides to wait for him, trying to change his routine, even if it is for a day.
Argentinian short film.
A calm day passes in the field, a storm approaches.
The trajectory of Félix Cuadrado Lomas includes a post-war childhood, a bohemian youth and resistance, and a maturity of recognition when all his generation companions have already disappeared. His painting supposes a reinterpretation of the Castilian landscape, recovering the ethical meaning it acquired for the Generation of 98. The film accompanies the painter for a year, recording the seasonal changes in the landscape, as well as his artistic and creative processes.
Lidia buys a house in the sierra of Madrid and maintains contact through the Internet with its former owner, Wally, a young man who lives in Argentina. Over time, both fall in love. Everything seems fine between them until their computer connections start to fail seriously. (Film edit of the Limbo web series.)
