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La hija natural
Maria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the…
Noche de fuego
Noche de fuego (2021) es una película dirigida por Tatiana Huezo, basada en la novela de Jennifer Clement titulada Prayers for the Stolen, que presenta un México rural donde la violencia a causa de la cosecha de amapola ha llevado a cometer crímenes…
Wiñaypacha
Like the elderly couple in Ozu’s wonderful Tokyo Story (1953), the main characters of Wiñaypacha carry upon their bent backs the sadness of being forgotten by their son. Nonetheless, they do not invest in anger nor build up blame. They spend their…
Wiñaypacha
Like the elderly couple in Ozu’s wonderful Tokyo Story (1953), the main characters of Wiñaypacha carry upon their bent backs the sadness of being forgotten by their son. Nonetheless, they do not invest in anger nor build up blame. They spend their…
Yo niña
Una pareja se muda a la Patagonia escapando de las imposiciones de la sociedad capitalista moderna. Al principio, el lugar, la gente, la vida parece ser lo que ellos buscan. Un mundo nuevo alejado de todo. Pero pronto descubrirán que no todo es tan…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
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…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
Dulce convivencia
Documental que muestra la elaboración de la panela con la cual, en Quetzaltepec Mixe, Oaxaca, endulzamos nuestros alimentos. Es una parte de nuestra vida, como pueblos indígenas, en la que compartimos el trabajo, la alegría y el dolor. Es también la…
Tiempo de lluvia
In her first narrative feature film, director Itandehui Jansen tells a powerful story of economic migration between rural and urban Mexico. Soledad is a matriarch and traditional healer whose daughter Adele left their village to work in Mexico City…
Wiñaypacha
Like the elderly couple in Ozu’s wonderful Tokyo Story (1953), the main characters of Wiñaypacha carry upon their bent backs the sadness of being forgotten by their son. Nonetheless, they do not invest in anger nor build up blame. They spend their…
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…
Hamaca paraguaya
Encina's reductionist approach is driven home in a 15-minute opening sequence, which is basically a fixed frame of an old man and woman emerging from the forest in long shot, stretching a hammock between two trees and sitting on it. Their nonstop…
Tags: Guaraní, Short Film / cortometraje
Cochochi
This debut is the simple story of a journey by Evaristo and Tony, indigenous brothers living in Mexico's rural northwest. After their primary-school graduation, the brothers are asked to deliver medicine to a far-off village; not wanting to walk,…
Tags: Tarahumara / Rarámuri
Ixcanul
In director Jayro Bustamante’s feature debut, Ixcanul (2015), a Kaqchiquel-speaking family negotiates their survival as farmers on a landowner’s plot in Guatemala. Looming in the distance is the Pacaya volcano from which the film takes its name.…
Tags: Maya
Bye Bye Brasil
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas