This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, to fight for the civil rights that were denied to them in their home country.
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This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, to fight for the civil rights that were denied to them in their home country.
It's been nine years since Liz Alderman's son Peter was murdered by terrorists. Every day since then she's faced the same two options; succumbing to the depths of despair or finding a way to survive. Esther Hyman knows about this choice. Her sister was killed when her bus was blown up, she too has had to continuously keep from being immobilized by sadness. And Ben Tullipan now lives minus two legs because of his encounter with a car bomb. Their lives, shattered by terrorists, are now on a new path and they're taking thousands of people along for the ride. 'Love Hate Love' follows these survivors as they search for honor, meaning and a new life's path.
This work focuses on the representation of a state somewhere between life and death. It is proposed as a place where there is a loss of consciousness. The death has just reached us and our body is drained of life. This crucial instant in which our existence comes to an end, is what we try to capture in their flight. The light of life through us and let us inert. We are in a timeless, ethereal and volatile place.
Accounts ranging from varying moments in human history, describe the organisms that inhabit the second largest wetland in the world.
The life and works of Ecuadorian writer Marcelo Chiriboga, a key figure of the Latin American literature and member of the “boom” generation. Through interviews, visits to different cities, archival footage and his most important book, a puzzle is woven that blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
The death of the Markus family mother awakens a rift in the relationship between the five siblings and the father of the family.
It's Eva's weekend out with her friends, and her boyfriend Sergio complains she won't take him with her. He decides to go out on his own without knowing what terror he will eventually have to go through.
Still reeling from the loss of his wife, a grieving man goes to great lengths to see her again. But their reunion comes at a stunning cost.
Yerba Mala Nunca Muere: The Story of La Mancha del Jardín, chronicles the history of the pioneering rock band from the west coast of Puerto Rico in the early 90's. Although La Mancha del Jardín never reached mainstream success, they were the seed of an independent musical movement on the island that still resonates today 25 years later.
For two years we traveled through Latin America and the Caribbean, and lived amongst the people who with their multitude of voices talked to us about social issues. With camera and pen, we recorded their struggles for a better world. Traversing through the territories of eleven countries gave birth to Tras Las Huellas del Che (Following the tracks of Che), a documentary about Ernesto Che Guevara, whose birth completed 90 trips around the sun this year. - Vocesenlucha.com
It shows the circumstances that shaped the thinking of the journalist and writer Rikardo Arregi, who died in a car accident at the age of 26.
A group of farmers grow their own ingredients until, suddenly, an executive of a company presents himself with an expropriation document. Farmers decides to work for this company using genetically modified products to finally participate again in this powerful company.
Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements.
Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on one of the darkest chapters of European history: the presumed organized extermination that took place during the coup, the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing crimes against humanity. The film is also a sore reminder of an issue that still stands today: the clear-cut accountability held by Germany, Italy, and Portugal. The film accomplishes to give both sides a voice - those against whom the killing has been directed; and the side of the perpetrators.
Blonde, stunning, criminals, nothing gets between Marta and Pepa and their goal… Except another blonde. Based on a true story.
A story about a friend's tribute to a lifelong sea lover.
A snake charmer’s basket that brings forth only deaf creatures. A moon revealing a new side. Twisted heroines scratching their way out of a film still.
Summer is coming to Nicaragua and Maycol and Bryan will start to learn their families' trade, shark hunting. In a place where traditional trades disappear in favor of drug trafficking, these two boy choose their future. A coming of age film set in the forgotten Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
After being widowed, Chela moves to a city where she doesn’t know anyone, to be closer to her daughter, but she ignores her. One day she meets her neighbor, Elena, who invites her to have a meal. Soon they will become great friends. What Chela doesn’t know is that Elena, in reality, is Jaime.
"In a recurrent dream I keep on following your steps, always at your heels." A handicraft film, a travel journal where the lead character is the one behind the camera pulling the trigger regularly and composing the frame’s area and duration.
The documentary "Juanas, bravas mujeres", by Sandra Godoy, portrays the life of Juana Rouco Buela and her fight for women's rights.
What happens when bodies defy the norm on a daily basis; when existing, breathing or showing yourself becomes an act of rebellion? A film that reflects on the traces that sexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, racism, ableism and fatphobia have left in their lives and the strategies they have developed to resist.
Miguel, a great undisputed fan of the king of pop, fights for his dream of being the best imitator of his idol, for this he will have to compete against important opponents at the most important festival in the area.
Two siblings go to Vigo to see a movie. In Cangas the cinema closed a long time ago.
In 1977, in the middle of the Transition towards democracy in Spain, she went up on stage and dazzled cabaret audiences by imitating Sara Montiel with gestural perfection and a very Mediterranean wit. Antonio Campos Ramos, with the stage name of La Margot, quickly became a great star of the Valencian nightlife. She was "more Sara" than Sara herself. Everyone fell in love with La Margot.
A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.
A personal journey through the images and cinema, guided by filmmakers and artist like, Theo Angelopoulos, Bego Vicario, Wim Wenders or Rut Hillarp among others. In this non-fictional road-movie their vision of what cinema is, of what is hidden behind the images, intersects with the world of beekeeping, architecture and the human landscape.
A little girl waits for his father, who is fighting on the front line, to come back home.
Vera is a young shepherdess who lives in a valley with green fields. A beautiful and disturbing natural event initiates her into an enigmatic metamorphosis.
Paraguay, 1933. A woman is waiting for her husband to return from war when she's disturbed by a strange whistle that warns of the arrival of a famous Paraguayan myth: El Pombero.
Abel arrives at a village by the sea and meets a fisherman who offers him a job in an old house where three women live. First he seduces Leticia, Pia's mother, and then Pia, while the grandmother observes everything.
At the beginning of the 50s, a group of men and women from different corners of Europe met casually in Bariloche and began, almost without knowing it, a unique cinematographic movement: the Argentine Mountain Cinema.
The story of Celina, a woman who was torn apart from her hometown at early age and her return years after.
Even today there is still a certain resistance to recognizing the aesthetic revolution caused by Virus in the early eighties. The audacity of Federico Moura at the head of the La Plata's band exceeded the limits of rock and is still a source of art-pop knowledge. Imágenes Paganas explores that tension and rejection in times of dictatorship, a scourge that the Moura family paid with the disappearance of Federico's older brother. The documentary by Costantino inaugurates a time of historical reparation with Federico Moura as a warrior of modernity.
Oscar discovers that a Norwegian band has made a remix of a song by an artist that “belonged to their production company” 30 years ago. He has promised his girlfriend Natalia a trip to Miami. But the little information he obtains places the whereabouts of the former singer somewhere in the mountains of Córdoba. He invents a story to deceive Natalia, and they head towards those inhospitable places in their old convertible.
22- year old Cami asks her 40-something uncle Oliver to follow her and her three best friends to a party so he can film everything with his camcorder
Between the ages of two and three, children already know which gender they belong to. One in 10,000 males and one in 40,000 females feel the opposite gender to the one they were assigned at birth. The first signs of transsexuality can appear very early. The families of all the protagonists in the documentary agree that their children have, almost from the moment they began to speak, expressed with surprising insistence and firmness that they belonged to the sex opposite to that of their genitalia.
A documentary about the life and the work of the Costa Rican artist Guadalupe Urbina, one of the most important Central American singers and poets. Her songs and reflections explore the meaning of love, eroticism, nature, and the sacred; helping to strengthen an endangered communal identity.
This short film brings light to the reality of transsexuality during childhood and aims to emphasize the importance of the role of grandparents.
Paquita, an old woman with an innocent and endearing appearance, is not willing to sit idly by when her lifelong banker announces that she has lost her savings due to having purchased “apparently” safe financial products... Products offered by himself!
Lovely Letters is an intimate documentary portrait away from the big cities. From a school in a small rural village, three couples of children experience for the first time the adventures and misadventures of love.
The very elegant Marsella comes to Mexico from Transylvania and is hired by Diamantina to work in her bar as a showgirl. She develops a relationship with one of the disco's choreographers, but things get complicated when she discovers that multiple men are in love with her. If that's not enough, chaos ensues when her international lover, who turns out to be a vampire, comes to Mexico to take her back with him.
Brahim Mohamed Fadel is a young Sahrawi boy, blind since birth, who studies at the University of Málaga. A life full of difficulties, overcome thanks to his extraordinary spirit of overcoming. A film for reflecting, learning and feeling.
Argentina feature film.
The documentary follows the steps of eminent journalist Edmundo Cruz of the investigation that he and other journalists conducted into the murder of the university professor and 9 students, arrested in 1992 during a military raid at the teacher training college of Enrique Guzmán y Valle, better known as "La Cantuta". The professor and students were never seen alive again. The remains of only five of the victims were ever found, among the barren hills on the road to Cieneguilla. The evidence led to the eventual conviction, in 2009, of members of the Grupo Colina death squad and of Former President Alberto Fujimori for human rights abuse crimes.
Hector Noguera recalls his long trajectory that extends for more than fifty years through the poetic text of Calderón de la Barca "Life is a dream".
Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new strength to start a new life.
A group of youths play an extreme game of spin the bottle.
Francisco Cruzans is a young man from Buenos Aires suburbs, who was filmed from his first days of life and for more than 25 years, until today. From there, an archive that links him to his maternal family, stands out for the frustrations and longings of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to carry out the original desire to form a family.
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