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Cabeça de Nêgo
Based on real events, this political drama fuses Brazilian history with international anti-racist movements. Saulo, a black introverted student and fan of the Black Panther Movement, challenges his school in the largely white city of Fortaleza. After…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Redes
A story of burgeoning labor rights amongst poor fishermen in a small village in Mexico. (IMDB)
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…