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Afrolatinos
El cortometraje Afrolatinos es un reportaje que cuenta la historia de los africanos y sus descendientes en América Latina, recalcando la importancia de su influencia en la cultura e historia de varias regiones. Inspirado por la vida del director afropanameño Edwin Pitti, el documental explora lo que significa ser afrodescendiente, apoyándose en la investigación y entrevistas. Pitti muestra cómo los afrodescendientes enfrentan la desigualdad social, luchando contra el racismo y abogando por la representación y mejor acceso a los sistemas de educación, salud, y política. (Resumen de Éowyn Bailey) -
Damiana Kryygi
Paraguay, 1896. A 3-year old Ache girl is captured after the massacre of a group of indigenous people in the jungle. 100 years later her remains are found in Argentina and Germany and returned to the Aché in 2012. The film tries to restore a history and a name to the small captive who died of tuberculosis at the age of 14, in a mental institution. (Alexander Street) -
The Territory
Dual forces of climate change and cultural genocide overlap to devastating effect in The Territory, threatening not just a native community but a wider ecosystem — and cheered on by the actively hostile powers that be. Riveting and despairing in equal measure, freshman director Alex Pritz’s documentary immerses us over the course of three years in the lives, livelihoods and dwindling homeland of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people, whose supposedly protected patch of Amazon rainforest is under attack from all sides by farmers, miners and settlers who think nothing of deforesting swaths of jungle that don’t belong to them. For the Uru-eu-wau-wau, themselves rapidly diminishing in number, fighting back is essential but ugly, and anybody hoping for a comfortingly inspirational takeaway from “The Territory” may be disappointed. [...] And while the presence of Darren Aronofsky as a producer may be an additional draw to prospective distributors for this National Geographic-style doc, more telling production credits here go to the Uru-eu-wau-wau themselves. Not content merely to be sympathetic victims under the gaze of the camera, they often wield it themselves, and the film benefits from their righteously inflamed point of view. Pritz shares camera duties here with tribe member Tangae Uru-eu-wau-wau, who brings tense in-the-moment immediacy to footage effectively shot from the frontline of this land battle. Source: Lodge, Guy. "The Territory Review: Indigenous Brazilians Stand Their Ground in an Urgent Environmental Docu-Thriller." Variety.com, sec. Film, 22 January 2022. https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/the-territory-review-1235160642.Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Inacayal, la negación de nuestra identidad
En los tiempos de la llamada "Conquista del Desierto", un grupo de caciques patagónicos dio la gran resistencia ante el avance del huinca, entre ellos el Cacique Inacayal, al cual el Perito Moreno llamó "el indio amigo". Este documental narra la historia del Cacique Modesto Inacayal, guerrero huiliche, héroe patagónico silenciado, que terminó sus días en el Museo de la Plata en muerte dudosa; de la restitución incompleta de sus restos al Valle de Tecka en 1994. (Film Affinity ES)Tags Mapuche / Mapudungun -
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Negro cimarrón
Relata alzamiento de Yanga, un esclavo africano que formó un grupo de rebeldes en la zona de Córdoba, Veracruz a finales del siglo XVI. Este grupo fundó el primer pueblo de negros libres en la Nueva España. (SIC Mexico) -
Allpamanda
Desde hace mas de 500 años de colonización los problemas se habían acumulado y convertido en una amenaza constante a la supervivencia de las nacionalidades indígenas de la amazonía. En agosto de 1980, el primer congreso de las nacionalidades indígenas de la amazonía ecuatoriana culminó con la formación de la confederación de nacionalidades indígenas de la amazonia ecuatoriana, CONFENIAE. A partir de este momento inicia una nueva fase para las organizaciones indígenas de toda la región. La organización indígena uniría aproximadamente a 1.500 comunidades, de las 11 nacionalidades amazónicas del ecuador: kichwa, shuar, achuar, waorani, sapara, andwa, shiwiar, ai ́cofan, siona, siekopai y kijus. El motivo principal de las comunidades indígenas era organizarse y defenderse del saqueo de sus territorios y de la brutal explotación de su trabajo en manos del patrón, misiones o empresas. Un pueblo sin cultura no puede existir, un pueblo sin territorio no puede vivir, un pueblo sin idioma, no sería pueblo. La organización luchará para fomentar la unión de todas las nacionalidades defendiendo su vida, resistiendo frente a las empresas extractivistas y al saqueo capitalista, creando unidad entre todos los indígenas de la amazonía. Unidad, territorio, justicia y libertad. (Tawna, Cine desde el Territorio)
Allpamanda es una película que relata 7 casos emblemáticos de luchas por la defensa de los territorios y derechos colectivos en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. A partir de un material de archivo y de entrevistas grabadas en los territorios con líderes y lideresas defensores de las selva, el documental traza la memoria del movimiento indígena amazónico del Ecuador desde 1980 hasta hoy, en una coproducción entre Tawna, cine en territorios y la Dirigencia de Comunicación de la Confeniae. (Comunicación Confeniae) -
Fôlego Vivo
The Kariri people, located in the Chapada do Araripe, a rural area in northeastern Brazil, reflect on water. The community tells of the Indigenous myth of recreating the world together with water as against the capitalist developmental myth of controlling water and human and non-human bodies inhabiting the San Francisco River. (Hemispheric Institute) -
Mujeres Unidas
Las mujeres de la región del Municipio Autónomo 17 de Noviembre hablan sobre la importancia de trabajar organizadamente en colectivo, a través de entrevistas realizadas a mujeres colectivos de maíz, hortalizas y pan. (SIC Mexico) -
Helena de Sarayaku
Helena is a 17-year-old student in Finland. Her father is Swedish, and her mother is originally from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, who live in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. On a recent trip there, Helena participates in the traditional Uyantza Raymi cultural festival, and meets with Kichwa leaders who ask her to deliver a message to the world — Kawsak Sacha, or ‘Living Forest,’ an innovative concept in conservation, in which the jungle is considered to be a living being. After COVID-19 confines Helena in Puyo — the closest city to Sarayaku — she learns that 80% of her community has been infected with the virus, and that the Bobonaza River has flooded part of her village. She is Helena of Sarayaku, and this is her story. (Insitutute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University) -
La rebelión de las oaxaqueñas
El conflicto actual en Oaxaca comenzó el 14 de junio de 2006 cuando el gobernador del estado ordenó a la policía desalojar el plantón magisterial instalado en el zócalo de la ciudad. Las acciones de ese día desataron la rebelión, conformando la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca. Miles de mujeres se involucraron en la lucha y su activismo adoptó diversas formas, incluyendo la instalación y sostenimiento de barricadas por toda la ciudad. Este documental narra la historia de estas mujeres, quienes a partir de distintas realidades se unieron en una sola lucha. (Sistema de Información Cultural, México) -
Espejos del corazón
Lourdes Portillo is a filmmaker of undoubted importance for Latin American nonfiction cinema. Her lucid filmography oscillates between documentary, experimental film and video art. Astutely inscribing herself to the genealogy of Third Cinema, she became a pioneer in the exploration of Latin American identity within and outside of the United States. Dealing with themes of extreme sociopolitical complexity and exploring them through a meticulous investigation guided by intuition and feeling, Lourdes’ work – which has documented situations from Argentina to California – carefully highlights the postcolonial relationalities that have emerged in the various societies that reside in the continent commonly referred to as the “Americas”. [...] This is a film in which Lourdes rerouted her experimentation towards the task of informing audiences in the United States about Bolivian, Dominican and Haitian societies and cultures. Portillo weaves together a documentary that is at once formally conventional while also defiant of the model in which it was produced due to its insightful social, political and aesthetic study. This documentary directly speaks of the consequences and changing contradictions that have occured in these territories due to European colonization and the neo-colonial process coming from the United States. Making use of a procedural approximation, she shows us the crystallized elements but also a point of demonstrating that we are witnessing cultures in the process of transformation and hybridization: presenting traits and fragments of who they were and who they will become. (Portillo, Lourdes. Interview with Eduardo Makoszay. Corrientes, Nov-Dec 2020, www.corrient.es/portillo-makoszay-eng) -
Afronta!
A série AFRONTA! é dirigida pela cineasta negra Juliana Vicente e lança luz sobre a potente juventude negra brasileira contemporânea que contam suas trajetórias e oportunidades geradoras da sua constituição como indivíduo e expressadas pelos seus trabalhos. Em 26 episódios documentais de 15 minutos, grandes nomes contemporâneos refletem sobre o AFROFUTURISMO, como movimento estético e filosófico, sobre os encontros afrodiaspóricos e a criação desta rede como geradora de autonomia e potência. Realizado em diversos pontos do país como Recife, Bahia, São Paulo, Minas e Rio de Janeiro, Afronta! apresenta nomes como Rincon Sapiência, cantor de rap, Grace Passô, atriz e dramaturga premiada e Ingrid Silva, bailarina do Dance Theater of Harlem, NY. (Film's Official Website) -
Africa mía
In the midst of the Cold War, ten young promising musicians from Mali are sent to Cuba to study music and strengthen cultural links between the two socialist countries. Combining Malian and Afro-Cuban influences, they develop a revolutionary new sound and become the iconic ensemble ‘Las Maravillas de Mali’. New Year’s Eve 2000. Richard Minier, a French music producer meets a former member of the band in Bamako and decides to bring the band back together. (AfricanFilm.com) -
Kafe Negro
Kafe Negro tells the story of migrations around a small grain that became the second most important raw material on the global market. This film tells the story of the waves of migration of Haitian workers who, over time, profoundly transformed the culture and demography of Cuba and developed coffee growing on the island. (AfricanFilm.com) -
Tejiendo mar y viento
Es un documental sobre el Primer Taller de Cine Indígena en México, que se impartió a mujeres artesanas de la comunidad de San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca. El filme nos muestra los resultados de esta experiencia, en donde el director, además de darnos una visión de la cultura Huave, resalta el trabajo cinematográfico que realizaron estas mujeres, siendo uno de ellos La vida de una familia ikood (mismo que se incluye en la película) (Film Affinity ES) -
Sueños binacionales
Sueños binacionales / Bi-national Dreams, directed by Yolanda Cruz, deals with the experience of two Mexican indigenous groups in the United States. The first part of the documentary focuses on the Mixtec. One of the largest indigenous groups in Mexico, the Mixtec and have been traveling to the Fresno area for over 30 years. Two charismatic community leaders discuss how the Mixtec have rallied around social issues and how their effective communication and organization has helped them reach out to immigrants from various Mixtec towns who have settled in the Fresno area. Community members who are featured show a strong commitment to maintaining ties to their communities in Mexico, endeavoring, it seems, to live the film title’s bi-national dream. The second part of the documentary is less upbeat and perhaps that is why it is more gripping. It focuses on the Chatino, one of the smallest indigenous groups in Mexico. Chatino immigration to North Carolina is more recent, having occurred largely in the past 10 years. (Source: Domínguez, Daisy V. Film review of Sueños binacionales. Cine Runa: Indigenous Film and Video of the Americas, CUNY Academic Commons, 5 June 2019. https://cineruna.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/08/10/suenos-binacionales-bi-national-dreams/.) -
Reencuentros: 2501 Migrantes
Every day, thousands of poor, young indigenous Mexicans abandon their homes in communities throughout the country. Whole villages are left empty except for the elderly and the very young, as these migrants leave their families and their culture to journey to the First World in search of jobs and a brighter future or just any economic future at all. (Morelia Film Festival) -
Nacer de nuevo
Un retrato lleno de poesía de dos ancianos, María Eugenia Vargas (71 años) y Carlos Valderrama (75 años), damnificados de la tragedia causada por la avalancha del volcán Nevado del Ruiz. La subida del río Gualí a raíz de la erupción del volcán Nevado del Ruiz, en noviembre de 1985, arrastró casas, personas y animales. Esta pieza nos muestra la vida de María y de Carlos en las carpas habilitadas para las personas damnificadas (Mostra Internacional Films de Dones Barce). Es un homenaje a la fuerza y a la valentía de los personajes que se enfrentan a otra forma de vida en medio del abandono total y una reflexión sobre la muerte, el amor y la vida. (Proimagenes Colombia) -
Todos somos mexicanos
Los primeros centros coordinadores indigenistas se establecieron en los estados de Chiapas en la zona tzeltal - tzotzil y en la cuenca del Papaloapan en Oaxaca. Se exponen las acciones sociales, educativas y de salud que implementó el instituto con su creación en 1948. (Filmoteca UNAM) -
La familia indígena
The Chiapas Media Project documents the work of the Chiapas Media Project. The 11 minute video features interviews with community members about the effects of the militarization in Chiapas and the different ways that video technology will be used by the communities to record human rights abuses, cultural and religious events, cooperatives and women's work. The Indigenous Family takes an intimate look at the role of men and women in the community of Ejido Morelia. Men and women discuss their individual and collective work. Shot and edited by community members only six weeks after their first exposure to video equipment, this six minute work contains unique shots inside the homes and work places of proud campesinos struggling for a better life. (World Cat) -
Patria nueva
Los Kekchies, pueblo originario de Guatemala sufrio los horrores de la guerra. En territorio mexicano encontraron refugio y muchos de ellos un hogar para comenzar de nuevo. (Film's Official Website) -
Amazônia Eterna
The Amazon is a vast laboratory for sustainable experiments that are revealing new relationships among human beings, corporations, and the natural heritage crucial for life on the planet. This is where the guidelines are being drawn up for a new global economic model: the green economy. With an astonishing soundtrack and cinematography, Eternal Amazon presents a critical analysis of how the world’s largest tropical rainforest is understood and utilized. Exploring the Amazon’s five million square kilometers—home to 20% of the world’s freshwater reserves—the film asks whether it is possible for humans to make sustainable use of the rainforest by featuring nine successful projects for sustainable forest use that directly benefit the local population and foster good economic partnerships. Experts like economist Sergio Besserman, ecologists Bertha Becker and Virgilio Viana, and Amazonians themselves explain activities such as agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry. The film portrays the daily lives of the forest people as the guardians of this great natural heritage that, if properly managed, could last into eternity. (Pragda)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
El aula vacía
Bajo la dirección creativa de Gael García Bernal, once directores retratan el impacto de la deserción escolar en América Latina a través de un largometraje maravillosamente diverso y complejo. Viaja a siete países y explora las razones por las que casi la mitad de los estudiantes de secundaria nunca se gradúa. (Cine Aparte)Tags Youth / La juventud -
Cidade de Deus, 10 anos depois
City of God – 10 Years Later investigates the fate of the young actors who participated in the award winning film City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. The documentary shows how their lives unfolded after the film’s worldwide success. The film includes the participation of the actors who portrayed Dadinho, Bené, and Li’l Zé, as well as the actress Alice Braga and musician and actor Seu Jorge. (Pragda) -
Te Kuhane o te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros
El abuelo Bene, quiere contarle a la niña Mika, la historia del Moai Hoa Haka Nanaia (El Rompe Olas). Le dirá que también le llaman El Amigo Robado, pues extranjeros se lo llevaron de la isla hace más de 100 años y nunca más volvió. Le contará que en la isla las cosas poseen Mana, un poder sobrenatural de sus ancestros, pero que hoy se ha debilitado. Una forma de recuperar el Mana para devolver el bienestar a la isla, es traer al espíritu del Rompe Olas de vuelta a su tierra. El Moai está en un museo en Inglaterra, donde no saben esto, ni tampoco que esa energía permanece en un depósito con una temperatura que no es la suya. No quieren perder la posibilidad de visitarlo e ir a rendirle un homenaje. (Cine Chile) -
Calafate, zoológicos humanos
A fines del siglo XIX, fueguinos fueron capturados y arrastrados a Europa para ser exhibidos como salvajes en zoológicos humanos. Entre ellos estaba Calafate, un niño selk’nam de 9 años que sobrevivió y volvió al Estrecho de Magallanes. Pero muchos nunca regresaron. Los restos de cinco fueguinos fueron parte de la colección del Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de Zurich, hasta que en 2008, los realizadores de este documental descubrieron sus cuerpos. 125 años antes habían sido exhibidos, famélicos y moribundos, en un teatro de la ciudad. En Chile, la lucha de sus últimos descendientes por traerlos de vuelta duró dos años, hasta que en 2010 pudieron finalmente sepultarlos en el Estrecho, convirtiéndose, probablemente, en el último funeral fueguino de la historia de una etnia al borde de la extinción. (Cine Chile) -
Voces de resistencia
Voces de resistencia es un proyecto audiovisual del Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos (CEAF) de la Universidad Icesi de Cali, financiado por la Fundación Ford, y realizado en alianza con el Centro de Ética y Democracia (CED), que busca visibilizar y fortalecer procesos organizativos de mujeres afrodescendientes. El proyecto busca divulgar, circular y fomentar el alabao como expresión musical de las comunidades afrocolombianas en el departamento del Chocó. En este sentido, la universidad quiere atender la necesidad del grupo de cantadoras y cantadores de Pogue de crear productos audiovisuales y discográficos que den cuenta de sus esfuerzos por preservar los cantos y tradiciones de su comunidad. (Film's Official Website) -
Plan de Vida
The Misak are an indigenous people whose territory is located in Cauca, Colombia. As with many indigenous peoples in Latin America, the Misak lost large parts of their territory during colonial rule. In the 1980s, they started a process of land reclamation and were eventually successful in gaining formal land rights recognition. Since then, the Misak have developed their Life Plan as a tool for self-determined development to ensure their gains would be preserved for future generations. (Film's Official Website) -
Más allá del fútbol
Más allá del fútbol is a feature length documentary film that introduces the highland Afro-Ecuadorian communities of the Chota-Mira valley and the genre of music and dance known as la bomba. Afrochoteños, as many in the region today self-identify, are the descendants of enslaved Africans brought by Jesuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to labor the sugarcane fields situated along the rivers Chota and Mira in the provinces of Carchi and Imbabura. For much of the twentieth century, Afro-Ecuadorians had been marginalized to the extent that their presence within the nation has now been reduced to their athletic contributions. This film goes beyond soccer to document the rich history and culture of the Afro-Ecuadorians through a discussion of la bomba. Featuring interviews with local community members, organization leaders, and renowned bomba musicians along with segments of bomba music and dance, Más allá del fútbol presents an overview of the history and development of la bomba and addresses the genre’s significance for afrochoteños. In the process, the film’s narrative and discourse illuminates the current dynamics of race and racism currently impacting perceptions and representations of la bomba and afrochoteño identity and culture today. (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtFEHrSGdJk) -
El botón de nácar
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice. (IMDB) -
Oggun
In making the documentary "Oggun: An Eternal Present," film director Gloria Rolando skirts the edges of enchantment, enters Yoruba philosophy, and, especially, pays homage to the singer Lazaro Ros, one of the most important personalities in recent AfroCuban culture. In Oggun, Gloria relates the patakin or mythical story of Oggun, the tireless warrior who, enamored of his mother, decided as punishment to imprison himself in the mountains: only Ochun, goddess of love, succeeded in captivating him when she let fall a few drops of honey on the lips of the god of metal, war, progress, and civilization. This film of 52 minutes includes chants, dances, a "tambor" (Yoruba religious ceremony with the bata drums), and the experiences of Ros, who not only made his the beauty of the African chants, but had the opportunity to sing them in trips throughout the world. The noted "apwong" works incessantly to preserve the lore and transmit it to the younger generations. (AfroCubaWeb) -
Invisible color
This latest documentary by the Dean of Afro-Cuban Cinema Sergio Giral investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida, since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath, to today. It tracks its presence throughout the region, and highlights its contribution to Miami’s civic culture through testimonies and visual documentation. (African Diaspora International Film Festival) -
Las manos de Dios
Documental acerca de Julio ''Chocolate'' Algendones Farfán, destacado percusionista, compositor e intérprete de la música afro-peruana y del jazz. Fue considerado el gran maestro del cajón y reconocido internacionalmente. (Videoteca de Culturas) -
Havanyork
El discurso rebelde y contestatario de los músicos cubanos y norteamericanos nos invita a reflexionar sobre la contracultura y las realidades paralelas que nacen en todo sistema de gobierno. Los sueños, la familia, el barrio, la ciudad, la vida, la guerra y la política son algunos de los temas que permean su música y nutren nuestra historia. Desde los barrios de La Habana y Nueva York, la cámara retrata con una visión cómplice las reflexiones que los músicos de ambas ciudades han elaborado con relación a sus raíces, a la evolución del tambor y al alma del Hip Hop. (Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia) -
Bixa Travesty
A documentary that follows Ms Linn da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo. (IMDB) -
¿Dónde está Sara Gómez?
Sara Gomez was a 'searcher.' My first encounter with her was watching her only fiction film and it blew my mind. She was the first Afro-Cuban woman filmmaker to have shot a fiction film and, more than thirty years later, the film (as well as her documentaries) remains so vibrant, so contemporary, and so touching. She searched new territories, brought people together from opposite worlds, and created new landscapes. And she died like a drama character, in the early seventies at age thirty-one, leaving behind a couple of brilliant films, two husbands, and three children; the ones who knew her, regret her departure. She left no apparent trail in the new filmmakers generation, but it’s as if her ghost is still around, sometimes in the most unexpected places. This film tells three love stories: 1) of Sara and her husband Germinal (who was also one of the finest Latin-American sound people), 2) of Sara and her family, and 3) of Sara and cinema, which she expanded so that Afro-Cuban culture is adequately represented. (Culture Unplugged - watch complete film here) -
Tango Negro: les Racines Africaines du Tango
Tango Negro explora la expresión africana en el tango y la contribución de las culturas africanas al tango. El tango era una reflexión de la vida de los esclavos llevados a Sudamérica – Argentina y Uruguay entre otros países – desde África Central en su mayoría, sobre todo desde el antiguo reino de Congo. La película revela hasta qué punto la música africana dejó sus huellas en el tango, mezclando la música en directo con entrevistas a amantes e historiadores del tango en Latinoamérica y en Europa, el famoso pianista argentino Carlos Cáceres entre ellos. (Film Affinity ES) -
Chicana
El trabajo intenta trazar una historia de la mujer mexicana, desde la época precolombina hasta el presente, tanto en México como en Estados Unidos. Reuniendo testimonios, remitiéndose a la plástica de ambos países y recopilando imágenes de archivo, la cineasta consigue una emotiva reflexión sobre el papel de estas mujeres en los movimientos sociales que cambiaron la historia de ambos países. (Filmoteca UNAM) -
Balseros
En el verano del 94, un equipo de reporteros de Televisión de Cataluña filmó y entrevistó a siete cubanos y a sus familias durante los días en que preparaban la arriesgada aventura de lanzarse al mar para así poder alcanzar la costa de los Estados Unidos, huyendo de las dificultades económicas que asolaban su país. http://cinematecacubana.com/ -
Integração racial
Uma visão abrangente da situação dos diferentes grupos étnicos existentes no Brasil. Nos depoimentos, recolhidos nas ruas e bairros de diversas capitais, negros, brancos, mulatos, portugueses, italianos e japoneses manifestam sua opinião e descrevem experiências pessoais, envolvendo o relacionamento, o racismo, a miscigenação e o intercâmbio cultural. (Cinemateca Brasileira)Tags Cinema Nôvo