Discoveries from Honduras World Cinema

Maura, trapped in the shape of a chair, reclaims her body amidst dance and rage to leave the wood behind and rename herself human.

The Great Kan has dreamed of a city, and describes it to Marco Polo. Guided by the testimony of its old inhabitants, we travel across an imagined, impossible city. An empty restaurant, a rainy street, a construction city and the constant presence of smoke, fire and ash.

According to the Honduran Public Ministry, during the 2020 pandemic, there were more than 100,000 calls to 911 from women reporting that they were victims of domestic violence. Of these calls, less than 30% were attended by the authorities. Living Bodies it’s a documentary that portrays a society submerged in indifference and silence. Living Bodies becomes an experimental documentary that seeks, through the sensoriality of images and sounds, to vindicate the empowerment of female bodies and highlight the harmful stereotypes to which girls, young women and women are exposed in the country.

A lagoon in Cuba suddenly dries up. All that remains of this lost landscape is an old painting with faded contours. This is the starting point for Violeta Mora’s quest: how does one remember a landscape that is no longer there? She then interviews those who do remember it, in an attempt to make the lagoon reappear.