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El agente topo
Rómulo es un detective que tiene una empresa de investigaciones privadas. Allí una clienta le encarga investigar la casa de reposo donde vive su madre. Rómulo decide entrenar a Sergio (83), que jamás ha trabajado como detective, para vivir una temporada como agente encubierto en el hogar. Ya infiltrado, le cuesta asumir su rol de topo y se transforma en un anciano más al interior de la casa de reposo. (Micromundo.cl) -
Aruanda
The film describes the miserable lives of the descendants of the slaves, who founded a "quilombo." The men plant cotton in the dry ground. The women work in crafts in an economic cycle that does not bring in cash. The poverty of the film-making is an expression of the miserable conditions that are not present only in the reality that is represented in the film, but contaminates the very material nature of the film (Torino Film Festival). -
Miguelito: Canto a Borinquen
Miguel Ángel Gonzáles Sánchez, apodado Miguelito, era un niño de Puerto Rico que ayudó a sostener a su pobre familia cantando en las calles. Allí fue visto por el legendario productor Harvey Averne, quien contrató al niño de once años, produjo un álbum titulado Canto a Borinquen (Elogio de Puerto Rico) y organizó un concierto de salsa en el Madison Square Garden. Esperando que sucedan grandes cosas, la familia se mudó a Nueva York con la esperanza de que despegue la carrera de Miguelito. Aunque sus canciones finalmente se convirtieron en éxitos de culto en toda Latinoamérica, el disco no tuvo éxito financiero. La familia regresó a Puerto Rico y Averne perdió de vista al niño que simplemente había desaparecido. El cineasta Sam Zubrycki quiso averiguar qué había sucedido realmente. (Revista Enfoque)Tags Youth / La juventud -
5x Favela: Agora por Nós Mesmos
The project ‘5X favela, agora por nós mesmos’ gathered over 80 young people from Rio’s favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities. The five stories speak of ethics and education, friendship and love, solidarity and tolerance, family and community, without ignoring the violence and the daily difficulties suffered by its residents. (Portuguese Language Films at Dartmouth) -
Carga sellada
Una carga misteriosa de supuestos minerales tóxicos aparece en la planicie andina alertando a la población. El gobierno encarga a un ambicioso capitán de policía la misión secreta de deshacerse de ellos, desentendiéndose luego de su destino. A cargo de un grupo de policías y un maquinista anarquista, el recorrido de rutina se convierte en un viaje errante y trágico. (Film Affinity ES) -
Canción sin nombre
Perú, en el apogeo de la crisis política de los años ochenta. Georgina es una joven de los Andes cuya hija recién nacida es robada en una clínica de salud falsa. Su búsqueda desesperada de la niña la lleva a la sede de un importante periódico, donde conoce a Pedro Campos, un periodista solitario que se encarga de la investigación. Basada en una historia real. (FICUNAM)Tags Quechua -
Canoa: Memoria de un hecho vergonzoso
En 1968, año de gran inquietud social, un grupo de jovenes excursionistas empleados de la Universidad de Puebla, es agredido (con saldo de dos muertos y varios heridos) por los enardecidos habitantes de un pueblo cercano a la Malincheque que han sido asuzados por el cura quien los tacha de peligrosos comunistas. (Filmoteca UNAM) -
Gerónima
Gerónima era una mujer indígena "mapuche" que vivía en Trapalcó, un poblado de la Patagonia Argentina. Vivía con sus cuatro hijos en una casa en las tierras que su familia había poseído durante generaciones. En 1976, ella y sus cuatro hijos fueron visitados por una brigada de salud. Trabajadores sociales y médicos preocupados por las malas condiciones de vida y de salud de Gerónima y su familia, se los llevaron al hospital con consecuencias trágicas inesperadas. La película que reconstruye la historia de Gerónima se basa en una entrevista realizada por un médico psiquiatra (Jorge Luis Pellegrini) mientras ella estaba en el hospital. Source: Cuartas, Diana Milena Berrío. "El cine antropológico y el abordaje de la salud de los pueblos indígenas." Revista de Medicina y Cine, vol. 13, no. 1, 2017, pp. 16-21. -
Xingu
A gripping account of a collision of cultures, "Xingu" tells the inspiring true story of the three Villas Bôas brothers, who became the leading advocates for Brazil's Amazonian Indians, an effort that culminated in the founding of a mammoth tribal preserve. Directed by Cao Hamburger, "Xingu" begins in 1943, when the brothers -- Orlando (Felipe Camarago), Cláudio (João Miguel) and Leonardo (Caio Blat) -- sign up for Brazil's March to the West, an expedition to explore and open the interior for development. Smitten by the land's raw beauty, they are also fascinated by the indigenous people there. Orlando, the eldest and a natural politician, defuses the tensions when they meet the Xavante, who have not seen white men before. When a flu epidemic kills half the tribe, the brothers vow to protect the natives from the forces of civilization that they represent. "We are the poison," Cláudio says, "and the antidote." The brothers eventually win the creation, in 1961, of the Xingu National Park, a preserve larger than Maryland. The film makes clear that not everyone agrees with the Xingu approach, that one answer does not fit all. But as natives maintain traditional lives there, they can integrate into the larger society, by their own choice and at their own speed. Source: Gold, Daniel M. Review of Xingu, by Cao Hamburger. New York Times, 14 Mar 2014, sec. C8.Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
El socio de Dios
A principio del siglo XIX, el empresario Julio Cesar Arana, conocido como “el socio de Dios”, se alía con empresas extranjeras, en su mayoría europeas, para explotar las reservas de caucho en la región de la Amazonía peruana. Su éxito y poder se basa en su falta de escrúpulos. No se detiene ante nada, ni siquiera ante el exterminio de las tribus originarias. De este modo ocurren los llamados crímenes de Putumayo; las comunidades amazónicas se revelan y resisten. (Festival Cannes)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Diálogo con mi abuela
Un audiovisual donde se mezcla el documental y la ficción. Una foto de los años 20 es la imagen de la evocación espiritual. El Grupo Vocal Baobab interpreta los cantos tradicionales del espiritismo cubano. La voz original de la abuela Inocencia y el conjunto de fotos familiares de la realizadora Gloria Rolando, forman parte del relato cuyo objetivo es darle valor, en la historia social de Cuba, a esos pequeños y grandes pasajes de la vida cotidiana de una familia negra. (CubaCine - Portal del ICAIC) -
Carandiru
São Paolo, 1992. A new doctor arrives in the notorious male prison of Carandiru, aiming to promote Aids education. Gradually we become aware of individuals within the crowd of convicts, as they come to the doctor's office for treatment. In flashback we learn the crimes that brought them to the prison. Dagger has killed another prisoner's father. Highness is a good-looking thief with a white wife and a black mistress. He has taken the blame for a fire set by his jealous wife. Chico is a dignified older man, waiting in vain for a visit from his grown daughter. Zico, a drug dealer, was taken in by the family of Deusdete after being abandoned by his mother. Deusdete has killed the two men who raped his sister and now shares a cell with Zico. Antonio and Miro are armed robbers brought down by the jealousy and treachery of their wives. Lady Di is a transsexual who aims to marry fellow inmate Too Bad. On visiting day the partners and children of all these characters are allowed into the prison. Zico, now addicted to crack, goes crazy and pours boiling water over Deusdete. He is killed in turn by a number of prisoners, and Highness gets Ezequiel, another addict, to take the blame. There is a football match among the convicts. Afterwards a fight breaks out which escalates into a riot. Although the prisoners give up their arms, the riot squad enter and slaughter the inmates. The final titles tell us that 111 convicts were killed and not one policeman. Documentary footage shows how the prison was finally demolished in 2002. Source: Smith, Paul Julian. Sight and Sound, vol. 14, no. 4, 2004, p. 44-45. -
Coraje
Coraje is about the last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso. María Elena was the founder and leader of the so-called Women's Federation of Villa El Salvador, a slum district that had been built in the desert on the outskirts of Lima and was run by the inhabitants themselves. This community won several prizes abroad, such as the Spanish 'Principe de Asturias' and the 'Messenger City of Peace'. Two months before the brutal attack, María has spoken out against the campaign of hatred and violence of Sendero Luminoso and even though she was called 'Mama Coraje' by the local press, that condemned her to death.The film is narrated by a female Spanish doctor who remembers María's last months. We see the difficult conditions in which the vital and charismatic María did her work: the economic crisis, the hunger in the Villa, the bureaucratic opposition and increasing terror of the Senderos. But Coraje is above all a lively and intimate portrait of a fascinating woman who is not portrayed as a inviolable heroine, but as an ordinary woman with two children and a husband who is characterised by doubts and despair as well as courage. (International Film Festival Rotterdam) -
El otro Francisco
Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint. (IMDB) -
Sirionó
A fictional account of the Sirionó community of Ibiato, just before the historic 1990 March for Land and Dignity to the nation's capital. A revolutionary guerilla fleeing from the dictatorship's military forces is mistakenly accepted as the teacher the community has been expecting. (Native American Film + Video Festival) -
Chuva é cantoria na aldeia dos mortos
João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora's hybrid [film] follows Ihjãc (Henrique-Ihjãc Krahô), a 15-year old indigenous Krahô from the north of Brazil, who runs away from home after he is called to direct his deceased father's spirit to the village of the dead. Denying his tribal duty as a prospective shaman, Ihjãc instead resides in the nearby town of Itcajá against the advice of his wife (Raene Kôtó Krahô) and community. (Cinema Tropical) -
El último malón
Cuatro años antes de que Robert Flaherty estrenara "Nanook of the North", autor Alcides Greca hizo esta experiencia en Sante Fe. El filme no solo se anticipó a antropología visual, pero también borró los límites entre ficción y documental. La primera parte describe la situación de miseria de los Mocoví que viven en el norte de Santa Fe. La segunda parte reconstruye (en parte con las mismas protagonistas) el ataque de los Mocoví al pueblo de San Javier en 1904. (Cinemargentino.com)Tags Mocovi / Mocoví -
Perfume de violetas: Nadie te oye
Basado en notas periodísticas, Perfume de violetas aborda el tema del abuso sexual en contra de las adolescentes, así como la superficialidad con que se suele tomar tal problema. Yessica es una joven rebelde, renuente ante la presencia de un padrastro y un hermanastro a quienes debe obedecer contra su voluntad. Tras haber sido expulsada de la escuela por enésima ocasión, en su nueva secundaria conoce a Miriam; a pesar de tener personalidades muy distintas, ambas empiezan una profunda amistad: comparten cuadernos, juegos, gustos, maquillajes y perfumes. Pero esta armonía se rompe cuando Yessica es secuestrada por su hermanastro Jorge y el secuaz de éste, 'El Topi', quien la viola. Llena de temores y desconfianza hacia los adultos, Yessica entra en un laberinto de confusiones y errores. (Cineteca Nacional México) -
De cierta manera
Conflicts between old habits that perpetuate marginalization and a new moral era, in the context of the social tranformation that took place in Cuba beginning with the victory of the 1959 Revolution. The construction of the Miraflores neighborhood in 1962 by its residents: the conflicts, contradictions and changes seen from a personal, individual perspective. The film is based on true events and combines documentary wth fiction. (Translation by Jeimy Hernandez) -
Reed: México Insurgente
In 1913 the American journalist, John Reed, returns to Mexican territory to witness and report on the revolution. He meets General Urbina, attends the funerals of Abraham Gonzáles, interviews Pancho Villa, but above all, he meets with a series of anonymus characters, the men and women who were the protagonists of this period in Mexican history. (Translation by Jeimy Hernandez) -
El Norte
When a group of Mayan Indians decides to organize a labor union to improve conditions in their village, their community is violently destroyed by the Guatemalan army. Teenage siblings, Rosa (Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez) and Enrique (David Villalpando) manage to escape the massacre and decide to start a new life in El Norte -- the USA. The two trek through Mexico, meeting a variety of characters and facing trials and tribulations on their journey toward lives as illegal immigrants in Los Angeles. (IMDB)Tags Maya -
Yawar Mallku (Sangre de Cóndor)
In a peasant community in the Altiplano, tragedy looms over a couple whom after the loss of their children, in their attempt to have more, discover the woman, like many others, is unable to get pregnant. Many suspect the nearby maternity hospital created by the gringos from "Cuerpo de Progreso." (Translation by Jeimy Hernández) -
Vuelve, Sebastiana
Shows daily life of a group of Chipaya Indians in Bolivia in the early 1950s, when drought made food production very difficult. (Worldcat) -
Chircales
Castañeda's family, due to its extreme poverty, lives under the domination of the landowners and stewards who give shelter to its members in return for their work in the brickmaking, where everyone, even the youngest children, should make bricks. (Portal del cine y audiovisual Latinoamericano y caribeño) -
Um passaporte húngaro
Através do pedido de um passaporte, Sandra Kogut guia este documentário, partindo em busca da história de sua família, dividida entre dois mundos e dois exílios: aqueles que se foram e aqueles que permaneceram onde estavam, os imigrantes que chegaram ao Brasil na década de 40 em decorrência da Segunda Guerra e os que não puderam sair da Hungria. (Adoro Cinema Brasil)Tags Hungary / Hungria -
Alamar
Before their inevitable separation, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots and Natan, his son born to an Italian mother, embark on an ancestral journey to the open sea where, in the company of "Matraca", Natan’s grandfather, Jorge instills in his son the fundamental values of work and love for nature. (Translation by Jessica Batista) -
Revolución
The ten directors come together and unite their voices in an attempt to create a contemporary vision of the Mexican Revolution. The purpose of this is not to examine one historical aspect of the revolution, but instead to gain a unique perspective on its various social and personal phenomena. These ten stories try to sketch a diversified and contemporary perspective on the Mexican Revolution. (Translation by Jessica Batista). -
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Jogo de cena
"Mulheres desconhecidas e atrizes famosas se revezam em depoimentos pessoais num jogo onde o espectador nunca sabe quem está representando." (Cinemateca Brasileira) -- Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation. (IMDB)