Europa Passage
2022
Maria, Tirloi and their relatives have no choice: in their Romanian Roma village there is no work. In order to survive and provide for their families at home, they go begging in Hamburg.
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Karen Blixen: Out of This World
2005
This is the story of the incredible life of Karen Blixen/ Isak Dinesen − a story just as dramatic as her own fantastic tales. It is a story about a formidable and extraordinary woman, a vain eccentric, and a very sensitive human being, whose life was characterized by great ups and downs. The documentary takes the viewer on a journey through the author's life as described by many of those who were close to her. A journey that not only documents her extraordinary life, her extensive travels and the people she encountered-but one which also depicts the era in which she lived. A time of adventure, eccentric aristocrats, and of unending possibility and immeasurable hardship. Introduced by actress Meryl Streep, Karen Blixen−Out of this World tells the real story behind the inspiration for the Academy Award winning film, Out of Africa.
The Mayor
2012
The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.
Recado Para o Mundão
2016
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The Imposter
2012
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
Hottabych and His Team
2016
During a year of the war, Ilya 'Hottabych' Lysenko, a participant in the Maidan and a successful financial director, managed to create a team of five medical crews who evacuate the injured under fire from the hottest flashpoints on the frontline.
Somos animales
2023
Tania and Cocteau, a cat that comes from the not too distant future, tell the story of the passage of animals through the world and their relationship with humans.
Volunteers
2015
They could not look indifferently at the bloody wounds of Ukraine, did not stand aside when the Ukrainian East fell into darkness. The story of those who became a symbol of the war for independence.
Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia
2019
The film shows how the famous Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov reflects the events taking place in Russia in his works. We will see his whole career - from the first successes in the theater to feature films. We will see that the rise and fall of the director’s star is also a reflection of Russian cultural policy: from the short flowering of artistic freedom under Medvedev to a conservative culture, backed by authoritarian measures.
Santa Calle
2023
Documentary short set in a street in Liniers where two religions collide: the catholic with its church in San Cayetano and the Umbanda religion among others that can be seen in pagan sanctuaries. It reflects everyday life as well as both differences and similarities between these two religions.
Poesia Azeviche
2018
From Now On
2016
It has been eight years since Typhoon Morakot, the deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history, swept through Siaolin Village. It left 462 inhabitants dead, including Mr WENG Jui-chi's beloved family. Like the other 46 survivors, WENG struggled to face the recurrent nightmare after losing his family, tackling the regret and guilt of being left alone.
Clara
2022
Clara is a woman capable of everything, she can carry the world on her back and create a universe tailored to her loved ones in order not to hurt them. Clara is many women and because of that, she is willing to reveal her fears, to face the voids left by forgotten loves, to look her children in the eyes and tell them about herself, about what she has always carried trapped in her chest. Aseneth, her filmmaker daughter, holds a dialogue with Clara. They converse between the tension of revelations and direct questions. They meet again in the image of Lilia, Clara's girlfriend who disappeared from the scene years ago. Aseneth will soon become a mother and this will lead to an enlightening, challenging and loving encounter.
Las AAA son las tres armas: Carta abierta de Rodolfo Walsh a la junta militar
1979
Short about the disappearance of the body of the political Argentinean writer Rodolfo Walsh after he was shot in an ambush by a special military group in Argentinia on March 25 1977.
Pata negra
2015
Three generations, the old way of life and its traces in the present. The memory, the reminiscence of a village in Extremadura. Of that Spain of years ago where my family had to migrate north, away from the land where they grew up, only to return later and observe.
