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La memoria interior

Through the narration of my family's history, it delves into the memory of the recent emigration from the spanish state to Europe, and reflects on the mechanisms of oblivion and remembrance, by recuperating the idea of the construction of memory as a nexus and a dialogue, and the elabo ration from personal experience against the idea of an official history and memory, restricted to the institutional and articulated around the aesthetici-sation and the deactivation of the political subjects.

La memoria interior

NR 2002
¡Viva la República!

This documentary recalls historical moments: it begins with the resignation of Juan Negrín, the appointment of the moderate socialist Indalecio Prieto as president, the German invasion of neutral and devastated Spain during World War II (showing Nazi troops passing through Madrid) to the current difficult cohabitation between the President of the Republic, José María Aznar, and the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, including the destruction of Cádiz, where the Spanish government had taken refuge from the Nazis, the Allied landings in Spain, the elections that brought the Christian Democrat Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez to power, Spain's signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and the Treaty of Rome (1957), the receipt of Marshall Plan aid, and the role of Juan Carlos de Borbón, a private citizen, as president of the International Olympic Committee.

¡Viva la República!

NR 2008
Misión Sueños Compartidos

When the Mothers decided to hold their final March of Resistance in January 2006, many thought they were beginning to abandon the central role in the struggle that had defined them for thirty years. But once again, they raised the banners of their children, and in the same places where they began their struggles and where many of them were kidnapped and disappeared, the Mothers began to change the reality of the most marginalized, those who had always needed everything. That's why the first homes were built in Villa 15 in Ciudad Oculta, and at the same time, the kindergarten, the school, etc. Soon after, this undertaking continued in the Los Piletones neighborhood and will continue on properties along Castañares Avenue, and in every place where the needs of the people demand it...

Misión Sueños Compartidos

NR 2008
Hombres del Marañón

The Marañón River is born in the highlands of Peru and it flows across large areas of the Peruvian territory and through the life of a peasant family that dwells upriver, over four thousand meters high. It runs into the warm lands of the Inter-Andean valley, where a 13-year-old girl exposes herself to risk by selling fruit to truck drivers, and through the Amazon rainforest, where indigenous Awajun children make competitions to prove their knowledge. It eventually arrives at the mouth, the workplace of a river merchant. The core theme of the four stories brought together in the documentary is the challenge of surviving amidst isolation in remote regions bathed by the waters of the Marañón River.

Hombres del Marañón

NR 2007
Toda una vida

The Rey Gitano Circus in Guatemala is a genuine family business. After their father’s death, the five Lopez brothers run the operation with their mother. However, the widow has resolutely taken over at the helm, which makes it hard for the sons. But her strict management style and frugality bear fruit: the circus grows, the audiences come flocking in. The brothers all play different roles during the show: Christiaan has his tigers and Paco does a trapeze act; Jim is a clown and Jerry entertains the crowd as the ringmaster. The more business flourishes, the more tensions rise among the brothers. They all dream of starting their own circuses, being their own bosses, but none of them has yet succeeded. One ill-fated day, Paco leaves the circus, abandoning his family. But the appeal of circus life appears too strong, and blood turns out to be thicker than water.

Toda una vida

NR 2003
Abandoned

Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse. After a hard time getting over the harrassment of his classmates and being accepted as one of them, another obstacle on the way to his peace of mind faces him: His obnoxious teachers. He has no intention of being bad, but it's beyond his ability to blend into the revolting place he's in. The nasty treatment of the teaching crew gets the better of him, and he's not all that calm and passive anymore. But that leads into unpleasant events which Áron himself wouldn't want.

Abandoned

8.0 2001
Bloqueo, la guerra contra Cuba

This documentary consists of interviews with various Cuban functionaries, scientists and artists, plus a few minutes of newsreel footage. The interviews are brisk and to the point and they add up to a coherent whole. There is perhaps not much new material, but the labyrinthine details of the embargo, still in place, deserve exposure. The US though the blockade would turn the people of Cuba against its own government. A bully's reasoning; it was of course wrong. Undeterred, and unable to learn, the US has since insisted again and again, the last two instances Iran and now Russia.

Bloqueo, la guerra contra Cuba

6.3 2005