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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…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
Zona Sur
Anunciada como una cinta que se alimenta de experiencias personales del guionista y director, pero sin llegar a lo autobiográfico, Zona Sur cuenta la cotidianidad de una familia de la clase acomodada paceña que vive en la Zona Sur de la ciudad, en…
Caracoles: los nuevos caminos de resistencia
En estos cortos podremos ver y escuchar al EZLN respondiendo a la traición de la clase política mexicana. En abril del 2001 el Congreso de la Unión negó el reconocimiento de los derechos de los de los pueblos indígenas de México al traicionar los…
Leguas
Two Diaguita children are grazing their cows when two men on motorcycles come along and tell them it is their land. At school the two kids learn that measurements were different at the time the property was divided, and the land is actually theirs.…
El fantasma del Inca
A man (Jose Maria Vais) from the Inka period is transported to a present-day rural school, where he learns alongside the children, unseen. When the local politician wants to close the school, he helps them to keep the school open.…
Pisa ligeiro
É um documentário de Bruno Pacheco, produzido nos primeiros anos da década passada, com poplações indígenas de diferentes regiões do país. O filme é um resumo das movimentações políticas- e seus resultados- desde a promulgação da Constituição Federal…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
Que horas ela volta?
Que horas ela volta? tells the story of Val, a woman from the Northeastern region of Brazil who works as a live-in maid for a well-to-do São Paulo family. At first, as a very brief scene in the beginning of the film indicates, she worked as a nanny…
Domésticas
Domésticas is not a film about maid-servants but a film by maid-servants. Domésticas wants to give them a voice. Or rather: voices. No less than 3 million women in Brazil work as 'domestics' and they all have stories to tell. Domésticas is however…
Martírio
Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of the Guaraní Kaiowá genocide. A conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guaraní Kaiowá…
500 Years
The third film in a trilogy about Guatemala, this installment explores the sweeping historical significance of the war crimes trial of General Ríos Montt and the toppling of corrupt president Otto Pérez Molina. Sundance Film Festival veteran Pamela…
Tags: K'iche' / Quiché, 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…
El valle de los negros
En el Valle de Azapa, un grupo de afrodescendientes se organiza para realizar el primer censo afro de la historia de Chile, buscando el reconocimiento del Estado, el cual ha invisibilizado su cultura y rasgos africanos durante más de 200 años. (Cine…
Nana
El largometraje Nana retrata a la nana o la niñera, esa que sin que los padres lo adviertan y reconozcan, pasa a convertirse en la persona más importante en la vida de sus hijos. Crudamente se presenta el trabajo doméstico, por lo general feminizado,…
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…
Ôrí
While giving an overall look at the documented history of BLACK MOVEMENTS in Brazil (during the 70s and 80s), ORI tells the story of a woman, Beatriz Nascimento, activist and historian, who searches for her identity through research into the history…
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…
Roma
Relata un año en la vida de una familia de clase media en la capital mexicana a comienzos de los años 70. Roma es un retrato íntimo sobre los esfuerzos de una familia para mantener su equilibrio en momentos de conflicto personal, social y político.…
Cocote
Alberto is returning home from Santo Domingo for the funeral of his father, killed by a local loan shark who is untouchable thanks to his police-force position. The son arrives to find that his old man has already been put in the ground. He is…
Tú y yo
The Mrs., an old widow, and Aridia, a young maid, live together in a house filled with orchids in the center of Santo Domingo. Aridia cleans, the Mrs. gardens, and when work is slow, they can share some gossip. But sometimes, the atmosphere gets too…
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…
La isla rota
Guy, un niño haitiano que huye de la pobreza, presenció el asesinato de sus padres mientras cruzaba la frontera dominicana. Años más tarde, se enfrenta a los asesinos, enredados en una vorágine de venganza, amor, odio racial y un futuro incierto.…
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…
Tags: Mocovi / Mocoví
A Crushing Love
A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez,…
Tags: Feminism / Feminismo
La Sirga
Alicia está desamparada. Escapando de la violencia armada en la que perdió a sus seres queridos llega hasta La Sirga, el hostal de Óscar, el único familiar que le queda. En la Sirga a orillas de una gran laguna intentará reconstruir su vida. Pero…
Tags: War Films
Raza
This documentary attempts to tackle the racial problems in Cuba today, through the voices of researchers, officials, musicians, artists and the general public. (DVD container)
Dólares de arena
Noelí, una joven dominicana, viaja todas las tardes a las playas de las Terrenas. Allí, junto con su pareja, busca la manera de sacar ventaja y ganar algunos dólares a costa de alguno de los centenares de turistas que rondan el lugar. Entre sus…
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
1912, Voces para un silencio
1912, VOCES PARA UN SILENCIO es el titulo general para el proyecto de tres capitulos dedicado a la historia del Partido de los Independientes de Color (PIC). Una aproximacion necesaria a esta pagina tan poco conocida de la historia de CUBA. Se trata…
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…
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
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
Rio, 40 graus
Num domingo carioca, a vida é retratada através de cinco pequenos vendedores de amendoim. Em Copacabana, Pão de Açucar, Corcovado, Quinta da Boa Vista e Estádio do Maracanã, pontos turísticos da cidade, eles procuram compradores para seus produtos. O…
Diarios de motocicleta
Narrates the story of the trip undertaken by a young Ernesto Guevara y Alberto Granado. Before becoming one of the most famous relevationaries of Latin America, Che Guevara decided to travel throughout various Latino countries on his motorcycyle.…
Vidas secas
A andança de Fabiano e sua família de propriedade em propriedade, a dificuldade em ser gente e os sonhos de conforto material. A oscilação entre o servilismo e a revolta do cangaço, o retorno à andança pelas caatingas. (Cinemateca Brasileira) --- A…
Tags: Cinema Nôvo