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Celina's Son is an intimate portrait of one of Puerto Rico's most celebrated singers of all time. Despite his popularity, both in Puerto Rico as well as in Latin America, he remains a simple, sincere and lovable person. This 25-minute film explores the life of Andy Montañez through the eyes of his mother Doña Celina. She describes his rise to fame from a mother's perspective, making clear the pride she feels for the oldest of her 18 children. Combined with Doña Celina's narrative, are comments from Danny Rivera, a popular Puerto Rican singer, Nick Quijano, a San Juan graphic artist and Cuco Peña, a renowned music composer. These interviews, intercut with colorful footage of Andy, paint a picture of a grass roots performer, whose humble beginnings helped shape the great artist known as Andy Montañez.

A young woman grows body parts in her garden and sells them to people in her town. Though mostly content with life, loneliness tends to creep up on her. Then, one day, she realizes something peculiar may be lurking beneath the soil.

Nicknamed the "Switzerland of Central America", Costa Rica has much more to offer the visitor than relative prosperity and certain tranquillity.

Commissioned by Italian independent publishing house Pietre Vive as a companion piece to the book Inventario dei Sogni (An inventory of dreams) by Antonio Lillo.

Diesel loco-hauled expresses have made a comeback… For this Driver’s eye view we travel in the cab of a class 68 hauling a rake of refurbished Mk 111 carriages marketed by Chiltern Railways as ‘Silver Trains’

A cautionary tale about love and the dangers of drunken, late-night internet shopping in an alternate dimension.

The motel girls show what they've got.

The descent into hell of Dany, a young homeless man taken in by a "charitable" man.

Many people know of the death of Rudyard Kipling's son John - but few know of the earlier death of his much loved daughter Josephine. This film reveals the true story behind both of these deaths, creating an evocation of a man who had remarkable gifts - and had to bear great personal tragedy. Combining touching dramatizations of three of Kipling's most important works with distinguished contributions from his leading biographers, this is a truly remarkable portrait of one of the world's greatest writers. In Kipling's bedroom at his house Bateman's to this day are his son's cricket bat and his daughter's portrait.

Ghostly images of Colombia’s jungle landscapes are set to radio transmissions sent by family members to their kidnapped loved ones—heartrending messages of grief, support, and, against all odds, hope.

A plan to avoid job losses at a factory in 1976 becomes the starting point for an incisive account of our current and future economic situation.

Tommy is a gay boy, living with many challenges in his life. His friends make fun of him and push him to do things like stealing alcohol, abusing drugs and jumping down a cliff. After many situations, Tommy asks himself the question "courage - what is that?", that will be answered by the film: "Courage is standing up for yourself!"

A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze. The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement!

A physical and spiritual journey of the last heir from the ancestral culture of oral tradition that remains on Easter Island: María Elena Hotus. Before dying she has taken the decision to leave her legacy and appoint as her successor to her daughter, Aru Pate Hotus, an island that must fight against the deeply rooted and prejudiced patriarchal society.

Initiated as a collaborative project with prisoners (most of them veterans of the armed forces) the film explores the interconnections between the military, spaces of internment and civilian life. The artist questions how we as viewers are implicated in these spaces, while also examining the notion of work, a seemingly everyday activity familiar to us all.

Anne Marie Fuchs' ex-husband Konrad Gelden was shot dead in his villa. This shatters the private detective's hope of solving the riddle of the disappearance of her son Florian. Almost thirty years ago, he was kidnapped as a boy to punish Anne for leaving the Stasi. When Anne's business partner Youssef receives a new order, the tide turns.

How far would you be willing to go to settle the issues of the past?

This film highlights the beauty and importance of Afro hair at every step of it's wash-to-style process.

New Mexico, July 1945. In this land, the paths of an old farmer and a young Navajo boy cross, just prior to a world-changing event. This visual narrative piece features beautiful imagery and composition by Vancouver’s Todd Duym, which won him the award for Best Cinematography in a Short Drama at the Leo Awards in early June. It’s a poetic, silent contemplation of the beautiful landscapes and a memorable day long ago, recalled by the boy, now an old man who knows the implications of what he witnessed that morning. This is a powerful indictment of American military nuclear testing and its effects on Native Americans.

Alice is a young journalist with AIDS who must start taking medication to stop the disease. On the same day of his birthday, he receives the medication to begin treatment for HIV. Without thinking, he starts a trance moved by love and fear, his convictions and imagination, guilt and desire. Alice has to learn how to live and love with that disease-fighting against family and personal prejudices.

Short experimental film by Alvaro Chior. Exhibited at various art spaces, including Porto dell’Arte (Bologna, Italy), Spectral Microcinema (Wisconsin, EEUU), Interview Room 11 (Edinburgh, Scotland), Proyecto T (Ciudad de México, México) and Galería Santa Fe (Bogotá, Colombia).

The French pastry again on the roof of the world! On January 23rd, France is awarded for the 8th time wins the pastry world cup again, one of the most prestigious international competitions of gastronomy. France thus remains the most successful country to this day. But the conquest of the world of the French pastry does not limit itself to awards. The know-how and the French creative genius are durably exported and spreads over all the regions of the world!

In the early 1970’s, 23 year old Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, drilled a hole in her head — that is she trepanned herself. Now 74, Amanda is a leader of the renaissance in scientific psychedelic research.

«Bonds» is an experiment between two creatures who explores the bonds that ties them together through bondage. It explores how queer intimacy, consent and eroticism intersects with power play, the relation to the camera and d.i.y feminist filmmaking.

At the turn of the 20th century, the 'flâneurs' started disappearing from the Parisian landscape. Walter Benjamin became, in his posthumous book 'Das Passagen-Werk', the witness of their extinction. What if one century later, against all odds, the art of flânerie was reappearing in Paris?

New Year’s Eve is here. The city is in a trance-like state. Among blackouts, fireworks, and cheap cider, a girl lets herself flow with people she doesn’t know, hoping to feel something different.

A short ciné-tract made by Boris Lehman in homage to the films of May '68.

Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is like in the Sahrawi refugee camps and, more importantly, how important the friendship between these two kids is.