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Kalül trawün
Kalül Trawün was conceived and filmed during an exhibition in a room of the National Museum of Fine Arts located in a shopping mall, in Santiago de Chile. In this beautiful piece, Huichaqueo highlights the forms of violence and dispossession that the…
La Llorona
Alma, a Maya Kaqchikel woman, is victimized by military commander Enrique during the war in Guatemala. Thirty years later, he is tried and condemned for crimes against humanity, but then absolved by a higher court. Alma comes back to the world of the…
Tags: Maya
La Llorona
Features a former junta leader, based on Efraín Ríos Montt, murderous "chief executive" of Guatemala between 1982 and 1983. This general, Enrique Monteverde (Julio Díaz), is confined to effective house arrest when his conviction for genocide of the…
Tags: Maya
Raíces de mi corazón
A present day AfroCuban woman [Mercedes] seeks her roots through her family history. Old photos, newspaper clippings jealously guarded by her grandmother, and her mother's stories reveal her great-grandparents' history. The historical truth raises…
Rio 2096: Uma História de Amor e Fúria
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury is an animated film about Abeguar, an immortal Tupinambá hero, who has been in love with Janaína for 600 hundred years. While narrating their love story, he recounts Brazil’s history of colonization, slavery and the…
Tags: Tupinambá / Tupi
Ônibus 174
Uma investigação cuidadosa, baseada em imagens de arquivo, entrevistas e documentos oficiais, sobre o seqüestro de um ônibus em plena zona sul do Rio de Janeiro. O incidente, que aconteceu em 12 de junho de 2000, foi filmado e transmitido ao vivo por…
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…
Tags: Ache / Aché / Guayaki
La Soledad
La Soledad is a dilapidated villa located in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Caracas. It used to be the home of director Jorge Thielen Armand’s great-grandparents, but when the owners passed away fifteen years ago, the property was…
Octubre Pilaga, Relatos sobre el silencio
Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio es un documental realizado por Valeria Mapelmanen en 2010 que reúne testimonios de sobrevivientes de la masacre del pueblo pilagá realizada en 1947 por Gendarmería Nacional Argentina en la localidad de Rincón…
Lo que dejamos atrás
A la edad de 89 años, Julián toma un último viaje en autobús a El Paso, Texas, para visitar a sus hijas y sus nietos. Un largo viaje que él ha hecho sin falta todos los meses del año durante décadas. Tras su regreso a una zona rural de México, él…
Tags: U.S. Latino / Latinx
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…
Raspando coco
"Raspando coco” (31 mins, 2018) Una antropóloga quiteña viaja a la costa norte del Ecuador, provincia de Esmeraldas, para recoger las historias contadas por abuelas y abuelos afro-ecuatorianos sobre los usos tradicionales del coco en la cocina y…
Marímbula
En Palenque de San Basilio todos hablan de regresar a la tierra de sus ancestros. Andris y Gabriel (21 y 18 años) son los primeros palenqueros que parten a África buscando las huellas de su héroe Benkos Biohó y la cámara de Diana, la directora,…
Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futuro
This [...] 1982 documentary is a collaborative effort by the Colombian political filmakers Marta Rodrgiuez and Jorge Silva and the indigenous farmers of Coconuco, in the southwestern highlands [of Colombia]. Combining a Marxist cinematic visual…
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…
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…
Cuando las montañas tiemblan
Los testimonios de Rigoberta Menchú, ganadora del Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1992, amplían el panorama sobre los abusos de las fuerzas de seguridad guatemaltecas contra su pueblo y otras comunidades indígenas en el despojo de sus tierras. El…
Tags: K'iche' / Quiché, Maya, War Films
Raíces de mi corazón
A present day AfroCuban woman [Mercedes] seeks her roots through her family history. Old photos, newspaper clippings jealously guarded by her grandmother, and her mother's stories reveal her great-grandparents' history. The historical truth raises…
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
La Soledad
La Soledad is a dilapidated villa located in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Caracas. It used to be the home of director Jorge Thielen Armand’s great-grandparents, but when the owners passed away fifteen years ago, the property was…
Ventos de Agosto
Mascaro’s film shows a place in the process of disappearing; in this case, due to climate change. It centers on two main characters: Shirley (Dandara de Morais) and her boyfriend, Jeison (Geová Manoel dos Santos). Shirley used to live in a big city…
Rio Zona Norte
Spirit of Light (Great Othello), a talented composer of sambas, tries to sell his music and succeed in Brazil, but gets tricked by opportunists and finds himself trapped in the schemes of the music industry. Left unconscious after a train accident,…
Tags: Cinema Nôvo