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In a beautiful village in the Pyrenees, little Anje fulfills his dream of becoming the assistant of Christmas Basque figure, Olentzero. Olentzero warns Anje not to touch a little wooden jail that imprisons Iratxo, a wicked elf.
Can we imagine a world without borders, without the nation state and its monopoly on citizenship rights? In their third collaborative film Zanny Begg (Sydney) and Oliver Ressler (Vienna) focus on struggles to obtain citizenship, while at the same time questioning the implicitly exclusionary nature of this concept.
Documentary about a controversial figure, repudiated by many and praised by others, Cortés had led to writing thousands of pages about his life and the military task for which he is known: the conquest of the great Mexica Empire of Moctezuma II. This documentary explores the myth that was created around him and tries to explain a man with a life full of shadows and lights.
Two parents struggle with their beloved Mexican musical tradition when their son requests a love song for another boy.
Leonidas used to have a restaurant with his wife before she left him a long time ago. While playing pool -his only hobby-, a police officer asks him to receive and serve a meal to an outsider. Several deaths in neighboring towns will very soon alert Leonidas about the visitor.
Manuel attends the Chinese New Year celebrations, where he meets Danilo. The relationship fizzles. He then meets Eloisa; the passion ignites and the attraction is mutual. What Manuel doesn’t know is that Eloisa and Danilo are very close.
A detective in charge of molestation of minors find himself labelled as a suspect after finding the criminal in one of the cases he investigates.
Ale was a thief and the police shot him in a raid after he was betrayed. A puzzle of visual and testimonial elements takes us deep into this unsolved story. Based on a particular event, Orione faces us with situations we would rather not see.
A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture, conversations with family members, a trip to southern Chile cities, and an actress who re-enacts the photo, we see the existing prejudice against indigenous people.
Five directors portray five Basque political prisoners. A young woman counts the days remaining before she is arrested. A man returns to society after 17 years in prison. A mother records every phone conversation she had with her imprisoned daughter on 125 cassette tapes. An intellect and professor of journalism tries to find himself from the solitude of his cell. And a former ETA leader reconnects with a close friend from his youth, now a filmmaker. 'Windows Looking Inward' gives a brief insight into the lives of the people behind the bars, behind the events, behind the headlines.
Poetic documentary about the experience of a Puerto Rican film student in Cuba.
For an entire year, a small town up northeast Argentina undertakes the construction of a hotel. Young Isabel goes through the first-hand experience of a clash of cultures.
A famous TV fortune-teller tries to better his life and reconnect with his stranded sons and ex wife.
‘In the realm of the visible, all epochs coexist fraternally, even if they are separated by centuries or millennia’. John Berger. ‘The third eye turns on a recognition: the Other perceives the veil, the process of being visualized as an object, but returns the glance [...] the third eyes winks at us [...], but notice how ridiculous my cage and my image are’. Tobing Rony.
In a climate of tedium and loneliness, three sisters live together in a country house. The unexpected arrival of a stranger will alter the timeless universe in which they find themselves, awakening the pulsional instinct previously contained in a struggle manifest between body and gaze.
Musical drama about two teenagers. A story about love and accepting who you are and what the complexity of human relationships represents in a society where tabooes about sexuality and how relationships change constantly.
The culmination of Encina’s work with the so-called Archives of Terror—meticulous records kept by the government of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Encina’s longstanding political and aesthetic research project focused on how a community can cope with such detailed accounts of human rights violations. Memory and history, the personal and the political interweave in this experimental documentary that explores the consequences of Stroessner’s decades-long state terror regime and how it continues to mark the Paraguayan people. Constructed from the testimonies, visual material, and memories of the children of Agustín Goiburú, an opposition leader who disappeared in 1979, the documentary is a provocative reflection on how film might respond to political circumstances amid a surfeit of images of terror.
This film is Álex Montoya's first feature film: an interesting adaptation of the play La gente by Juli Disla and Jaume Pérez, also screenwriters of the film. The emergence of assembly groups after the political movements after 2011 served their authors to cast a comic look at decision-making processes and the capacity for dialogue of the human being.
A teenager will try to tell his best friend a secret on the last afternoon they spend together before illegally emigrating to the United States
Taken away from her land because of violence, Blanca has been recently taking care of a shack on the border of Bogotá with three of her grandsons. Didier, the eldest child, struggling with a turbulent adolescent crisis, already seems to be heading towards uncertain territories. Blanca fights to protect him from afar, as she watches over the two younger boys, in fear of seeing them stray as well…
Across Africa, people are using soccer to lift themselves up, to create change in their communities and to pave the way for progress. "The Beautiful Game" follows several unforgettable Africans who are beating the odds on and off the pitch.
A German actor lands in Montevideo. Rude and speaking very little Spanish, he gets himself in trouble: only a few hours after his arrival, he gets lost and runs into a group of young men who try to rob him.
It's June 24 and the people of Lawan, a Mapuche community in southern Chile, are planning a big celebration for Saint John's Eve. Despite this, Cheo a restless and misfit kid, is not happy because this means the return of his father to the community. He is a violent man who, when he drinks too much, vent his anger with his family, unleashing in Cheo strong desires for revenge.
In the vicious slums of Colombia, where prosperity is dictated by brutality, a conflicted kid seeks membership in a brutal gang, with the hope of one day having the power to determine his own destiny.
We could say that this is the story of one of that dates told in six chapters. Nothing else. Everybody knows the rest of the tale.
Two brothers return to Chile after years in Iraq.
Jone is a sixteen year old girl that lives in Bilbao (Basque Country) in 2009. In her highschool you can feel the independentist environment, demonstrations, strikes... are usuals between the students organizations. In this moment her dad starts to work int the Basque Government, between other things he has to go with body guards. This situation will change Jones life and she will have to learn to live between two worlds that she doesn't understand yet, and to understand that not everything is black or white.
A game of chess with his granddaughter will ignite David's long forgotten memories from the Spanish Civil War.
An aging criminal is double crossed by his partner and sentenced to 15 years in prison. After escaping he seeks revenge.
All families have secrets and lies, and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family reunion? Today, on Christmas Eve, it doesn't seem to be the best moment. On Christmas Eve you must enjoy yourself, because Santa Claus is coming, because children are there. Tonight, the secrets are whispered and lies are floating in the air. But who cares about another small lie, it will be the last one. Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow we will tell her everything. So, grandma, Merry Christmas.
Caracas has been changing since the nineteenth century this is a story that tries to explain why the Venezuelan capital is complex, chaotic and fertile. In light of these new evidences, community experiments, social awareness and organization of people, seem to be the necessary ingredients to rescue a metropolis that is not yet completely lost.
After appearing in the film Rosemary's Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land, where they shut themselves inside a dark apartment for thirty years.
A fragile border separates our world from the realm of darkness, where nightmarish creatures await in the shadows. Only one thing is standing in their way: a secret order of priests, who devote their souls to protect this border. They are the 'Deus Irae'.
Indira finds out that her 16-year-old daughter likes women, goes into crisis by not assimilating how to face this image of her. It begins like this, to open a sentimental gap between her and her daughter.
Juan Santos and his wife were kidnapped by mistake, but for their surprise, they are not the only Santos there. Another couple with the same last name was also kidnapped. The Santos will try to work together to escape their not so smart kidnappers.
During summertime, Nahuel moves to his friends to spend vacation time together. Between drinks, weed and foolish games, sexual tension starts to raise, but none of them dares to take the first step.
Influenced by the sound of the city, different artists improvise ephemeral pieces that dance between music and what is typically considered to be “noise.” Different sonorous and visual textures converge in this documentary about the creation of experimental music in Buenos Aires.
Set against the background of a broken U.S. immigration system, A Place to Be is a love story between two young men, Abel & Diego. When tragedy strikes and Diego's immigration status is revealed, Abel and Diego discover the power of love during uncertain times.
Elena is a 17 year old teenager who has doubts about her sexuality. She lives with her grandmother who is a repressive and hard-to-please religious woman and in the midst of it all, her cousin Julia appears at her house, bringing new airs to her life and awakening Elena's need to discover herself.
“Since airplanes did not exist, people moved around using prayers; they went from one land to another and returned early, before dawn. In old audio recordings, the voices of pastors speak of the mythical existence of witches and their travels. In the daily life of a woman, the magic of her tales begins to materialize as night falls. Night is the time when travel is possible.”—Samuel Delgado & Helena Girón
Following the instructions of a dream, Flavia sets out to make a film about the Chilean Antarctic. Mixing together Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Pinochet, this film also features an unforgettably hilarious interview with Nanni Moretti! Creative and anarchic cinema at its very best.
The body of a beautiful woman appears gutted, floating in the waters of the pond, one cold morning in 1928. The murderer, a mysterious cloaked figure, keeps the blade of a sharp stiletto cane and flees the scene.
The Suicidrag group travels the streets and nightclubs of Mexico City to create awareness about the non-conformity with the gender stereotype imposed by the consumer society.
Ramiro organizes a get together with his close friends at his house in the outskirts of town before heading to a party. Everything is normal until something strange begins to take place. The young people become entangled in a situation disturbingly related a past that is more present than ever. Ramiro seems to be the only one who knows what is going on.
A young man wanders through a stylized Valparaíso, seeking to overcome a recent breakup.
Living among the percebeiros of the Coast of Death (Galicia), this documentary shows a unique relationship between man and his surroundings, man and the sea. At the end of Europe, years after the Prestige oil spill disaster, these fishermen face an uncertain future.
A documentary feature looking at the effects of poverty on prostitution.
Romina returns to her roots to rediscover who she is. After the first overwhelming years as a mother, it's as if the mist starts to rise: she's a little too old for disco parties and hanging round with twenty-somethings, but still young enough to fantasise about others. Actress Romina Paula points the camera at herself, her son and her mother in this intriguing mixture of documentary and fiction.
