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- Subject Coverage / Tema is exactly "Emigration and immigration / Emigración e inmigración"
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Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories highlights the experience of a black Cuban American family, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. The film explores the various…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
Home Is Somewhere Else
Home Is Somewhere Else shares the rich complexity of the emotional experiences of immigrant children and families to better understand and empathize with them. It invites discussion about the need for a new US migratory model based on respect for…
Vicenta B
Carlos Lechuga’s poignant third feature follows Vicenta Bravo, a gifted Afro-Cuban woman residing in Havana with the unique ability to see into the future and commune with spirits. Every day, people seek her out for guidance, but her world crumbles…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
X500
Al mirar el mapa de América, X500, un pequeño poblado en el estado de Yucatán, México, aparece justo en medio del continente. Desde este punto de vista imaginario, X500 narra la historia de 3 personajes que viven en países diferentes, pero que están…
X500
Al mirar el mapa de América, X500, un pequeño poblado en el estado de Yucatán, México, aparece justo en medio del continente. Desde este punto de vista imaginario, X500 narra la historia de 3 personajes que viven en países diferentes, pero que están…
El futuro perfecto
Xiaobin tiene 17 años y cuando llega a la Argentina no habla una palabra de español. Sin embargo, a los pocos días ya tiene un nuevo nombre, Beatriz, y un primer trabajo en un supermercado chino. Su familia vive en el mundo paralelo de su lavadero,…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
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…
Tags: Afro-Cuban / afro-cubano
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…
The Invisible Color: Black Cubans in Miami
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…
Los hijos de Baraguá
"La producción de Rolando es un documental etnográfico e histórico sobre la comunidad de Baraguá, un enclave cañero de inmigrantes antillanos en el cual aún sobreviven los descendientes de estos trabajadores. De esta producción, emergen dos…
Flores de otro mundo
Patricia, una dominicana, busca un hogar y una seguridad económica que su situación de inmigrante ilegal no le permite alcanzar en Madrid. Milady, una cubana de veinte años, sueña con recorrer el mundo. Marirrosi, una bilbaína con casa y trabajo,…
Mamá Chocó
Chocó es una de la regiones con mayor riqueza natural e hidráulica en el mundo, de ahí viene nuestro personaje: Paulina, una mujer fértil como su tierra, madre de 26 hijos, partera y artista. Una persona con una alegría y amor por la vida…
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…
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…
Entre nos
Mariana y sus dos pequeños hijos (Gabriel y Andrea) llegan a Nueva York para reunirse con Antonio (respectivamente, su esposo y padre), quien había emigrado anteriormente a Estados Unidos. Este reencuentro genera tensiones entre la pareja y Andrés…
Tags: U.S. Latino / Latinx
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)
Ori Inu: In Search of Self
Ori Inu: In Search of Self is a coming-of-age story about a young immigrant woman who must choose between conforming her identity and spirituality to the cultural norms of America or revisiting her roots in the Afro-Brazilian religion called…
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…
Vida diferida
This documentary film tells the story of Vanessa, a teenager born in Mexico who has lived in the United States with her family since she was six years old. Once an excelling middle-school student with big dreams of becoming a doctor, Vanessa begins…
Tags: U.S. Latino / Latinx
Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican
Refreshingly sophisticated in both form and content, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO contemplates the notion of “identity” through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and…
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…
Al otro lado
Al otro lado estructura tres historias paralelas en torno a la misma temática y con un desarrollo complementario. Estas historias reflexionan en torno a la condición humana, el dolor de la ausencia y la pérdida de la inocencia. Los protagonistas son…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
Ayawaska
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
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)…
Tags: Maya
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…
Tags: Hungary / Hungria