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Spanish documentary films from the 2000s
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Metallica: Pride, Passion and Glory - Three Nights in Mexico City
In June of this year we were fortunate enough to return to Mexico City for three sold out shows at Foro Sol Stadium and with 155,000 of you there over the three nights, we knew it would be extra special. So we asked our friend Wayne Isham t
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Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.
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Social Genocide
After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argenti
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My Life Inside
Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.
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Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Portrayal of a talented, influencial and troubled artist: a filmmaker who fought his own demons and seemed to live his own legend like no other director. Against all odds Sam Peckinpah was able to create a very personal body of work in the studio system of Hollywood and with his powerful directing and editing style changed the way of filmmaking forever. Legendary for his use of slow-motion violence, various scandals and his ongoing problems with sudios and producers, the story of Peckinpah is filled with tragedy, humor, success and defeat.
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Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-actors in the history of Mexican Cinema. He began his film career during the early years of what became the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Throughout the majority of his movies he plays the character of a pachuco; the Chicano/Mexicano in zoot suit, throwing out the tirili phrases and words, and jammin the jitty-bug. With the style and the slang down to a tee, he was picked up in Cd. Juarez Chihuahua by an acting troupe. Touring extensively through-out Mexico with the troupe landed him in Mexico City with film contracts. It was in those films that Tin Tan exposed the image of the pachuco, which Mexican Youth adopted. From the desert border-towns of Juarez y El Paso the style took off in various parts of the country, most nota
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La Sierra
La Sierra portrays daily life in a neighborhood of Medellín shaped by drug trafficking and urban warfare between armed groups. Through the stories of Edison, a young paramilitary leader; Jesús, a gang soldier; and Cielo, a teenage mother, the film shows how violence, faith, and tenderness coexist in a community struggling to survive.
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Café de los maestros
Coffee Masters is a documentary by Miguel Kohan, produced by Lita Stantic, Gustavo Santaolalla and Walter Salles. It tells the story of great tango of the old guard who, summoned by a rock musician, proposing a record to demonstrate its validity. This adventure, full of memories, humor and poignant moments, culminating with a presentation of the Masters at the Teatro Colon.
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Voces en imágenes
In Spain, they have been the others for decades, those whose names are not known because their faces never appear in front of a camera; those whose voices are linked to the best performances in the mind of any cinema aficionado. They are the other actors, those who work in the shadows, those who are often criticized by the cinephiles who defend the original version, the purity and integrity of the motion pictures. They are the dubbing actors.
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Sins of My Father
Nicolas Entel's searing documentary tells the story of Pablo Escobar -- Colombian drug kingpin, murderer and family man -- through the eyes of his son Sebastian as well as the sons of two of Escobar's most prominent victims. Sebastian shares stories of living in luxury and on the lam, but more significantly, he attempts to end the cycle of bloody retribution and make peace with two of the men his father so deeply wronged.
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Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio
Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the citys streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.
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A War in Hollywood
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts
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Las locuras de don Quijote
An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened: to reason, to freedom, to love, to friendship, to adventure; although only three destinations await at the end of an imaginary and audacious existence: the narrative of the adventurous life of Cervantes; the survival of a legendary novel in these heathen times, when the one-armed gentleman is nothing but dust and bones; the memory of the living, writers and scholars, where both the tormented captive and the insane hero, are immortals beings and will be forever.
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Presumed Guilty
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.
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The Legend of Time
A documentary/fiction mix inspired by the flamenco singer Camarón.
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Loving Maradona
What do they have in common a boy playing in a field of Villa Fiorito and the owner of a bar in Naples? What do they have in common 500 people celebrating Christmas on October 30 and 25 football fans showing their tattoos? They are all loving Maradona.
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In the Pit
A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.
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Iberia
Adaptation of the suite "Iberia" by Isaac Albeniz. Documentary about the world of flamenco. The story arises from the music itself and those who interpret it: the musicians and dancers. The film recreates and reinvents musical pieces and merges classical ballet, contemporary and Spanish dance and flamenco
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Oblivion
Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart. It is about a forgotten city, a forgotten history and a forgotten people. With irony as their loved weapon for survival, they have to forget as well, in order not to give way to cynicism, hatred and grief. It is about remembering the old days when life - despite class differences, corruption and violence - was still good: waiters, bartenders and shopkeepers who are fighting a losing battle and have lost everything. It is also about the children who manage to survive by mastering the art of street life and who reveal the country in it's true colours. Just like the dogs they share the streets with, they have no good memories to forget.
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Zona Rosa
"Zona Rosa" is a documentary about the strippers who work in the gay clubs in Mexico City's famous district, the Zona Rosa. Christian Miranda gives us a tour though his professional and personal life while working as a cage-dancer stripper
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San Martin. El Combate de San Lorenzo
Damián Canduci's performance and Juan Carlos Gené's narration revive this moment in Argentine history, when the Horse Grenadier Regiment begins its performance in the fight for independence. A special dedicated to the first combat fought by San Martín in American territory, the one that inaugurated him as a patriot leader.
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¿Quién soy yo?
The documentary directed by Estela Bravo collects the story of girls, boys and young people who were able to recover their true identity thanks to the struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. The documentary gives an account of the tireless task undertaken by Estela de Carlotto in the search for the stolen granddaughters and grandsons, as well as to reveal the true story of the horror perpetuated by the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina.
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Mundo Alas
Argentine audiovisual documentary based on a musical tour carried out between 2007 and 2008 by León Gieco along with a group of young artists with disabilities from different provinces of Argentina. The film combines music, singing, dance, and painting, along with the life stories of the protagonists.
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Argentine Wings
The documentary tells the story of the first military aircraft factory in South America, located in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Its achievements competed on equal terms with those in the United States and Europe. The documentary sheds light on this history, which perfectly parallels the story of a country in a permanent state of discontinued cycles.
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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the creative and logistical challenges of filming a deeply interconnected narrative across four continents. Directed by Carlos Armella and Pedro González-Rubio, the documentary reveals Iñárritu’s commitment to authenticity and cultural sensitivity, from collaborating with local actors and communities to meticulously recreating environments. Through behind-the-scenes footage and the director’s reflective commentary, it delves into themes of human connection, the boundaries we hold within ourselves, and the visceral nature of communication, offering profound insights into the philosophy behind the acclaimed film.
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Vinotinto, The Movie
In 2002, a team that only knew defeat surprised all of South America with a chain of unexpected victories in the World Cup qualifiers. The players have begun to believe in themselves like never before and the vinotinto shirt is beginning to represent an entire country. A hope, previously unimaginable, is germinating in the hearts of Venezuelans: to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time.
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Princess of Africa
Marem a Senegalese dancer girl 14 years to emigrate to Europe, and Sonia, a Spanish dancer attracted by the magic of Africa, are linked by Pap Ndiaye, father and husband of Sonia Marem. Neither Sonia Africa is like dreaming (Pap Ndiaye has two women) or Europe is like dreaming Marem (no children on the streets and there is also poverty).
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What's Under Your Hat?
Documentry about Judith Scott, an internationally renowned outsider artist, who was born with Down's Syndrome and diagnosed as "severly mentally retarded" at the age of seven.
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Puerta 12
Documentary that explores the tragedy that occurred at gate 12 of the River Plate Athletic Club on June 23, 1968. Ribs, arms, legs, heads, chests, all shattered by the lightning force of thousands of people. Blood trickling down the steps. A sporting celebration with an absurd epilogue. Why?
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The Fanatic Search
A film that captures the spirit of "Fanaticos" climbers—those who have dedicated their lives to the sport. Living in vans and working odd jobs, they forge their own paths in pursuit of an obsession: the joy of climbing increasingly spectacular cliffs, pushing their limits, and sharing moments of camaraderie with friends. After a gentle opening featuring stunning footage of deep-water soloing in Mallorca, the film gradually builds in intensity. It shows Sharma tackling "Golpe De Estado" in Siurana (a route potentially rated 9b) and Dani Andrada nailing most of the moves on some of the most extreme routes in the Ali Baba cave at Rodellar, alongside other inspiring sequences of successful ascents across Spain (Siurana, Santa Linya, Rodellar).
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La Isla: Archives of a Tragedy
In July 2005 a huge explosion in the Guatemalan Capital leads to the discovery of the historic archive of the National Police. On the grounds of the today's Police Academy used to be located the island, the secret prison of notorious National Police squads.And here millions of documents appeared. Aided by an extraordinary visual end emotional interaction, the film traces the story of a tragedy and finds prove for inconceivable atrocities committed by the Security Forces. It is also a movie about a young generation of archive workers willing to free their society from the stranglehold of its own history.
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Ecuador vs. el resto del mundo
November 7th, 2001. After a seventy years absence, the Ecuadorian national soccer team is close to qualifying for the first time to a Soccer World Cup. This documentary follows the events that took place during that historic date, when a whole country lived under the shadow of a soccer game.
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The Colour of Olives
Like many Palestinian families, the Amers live surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locks and a constant swarm of armed soldiers. Through director Carolina Rivas' sensitive lens, we discover the private world of all eight members of the family. As their dramas unfold, we catch a glimpse of their constant struggles and the small, endearing details that sustain them, including olive trees, two small donkeys and their many friendships. Constructed with a combination of verité scenes and re-enactments, this poignant and richly crafted film offers its audience a much needed opportunity to reflect on the effects of racial segregation, the meaning of borders and the absurdity of war
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To Play and to Fight
The captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System - an incredible network of hundreds of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela’s towns and villages. Once a modest program designed to expose rural children to the wonders of music, the system has become one of the most important and beautiful music phenomena in modern history. To Play and To Fight presents interviews and performances by many of the world’s most renowned musicians including the great tenor Placido Domingo, Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Guiseppe Sinopoli, and Eduardo Mata, as they reflect on the impact of such a far-reaching social project. The documentary also presents the inspirational stories of world class musicians who have been trained by the Venezuelan system, including The Berlin Philharmonic’s youngest player Edicson Ruiz and world class conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
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Julia, toda en mí
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.
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The Toledo Report
A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo.
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Cartoneros
Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.
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Visit Nicaragua
Looking for a few reasons why you should visit Nicaragua? Considering the country's two incredible coastlines, almost 20 volcanoes, lively colonial cities, abundant wildlife, rich culture, and delicious food, it won't be hard to convince you to put “visiting Nicaragua” at the top of your travel bucket list! Nicaragua, set between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, is a Central American nation known for its dramatic terrain of lakes, volcanoes and beaches. Vast Lake Managua and the iconic stratovolcano Momotombo sit north of the capital Managua. To its south is Granada, noted for its Spanish colonial architecture and an archipelago of navigable islets rich in tropical bird life.
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1420, la aventura de educar
Documentary that tells the story of how Domingo Faustino Sarmiento hired 65 North American women to train native teachers and thus be able to establish normal and public schools throughout the territory
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Tell Mario not to Come Back
After a long exile in Venezuela, filmmaker Mario Handler returns to his country, Uruguay. There, the dictatorship is still present in the media, public opinion, and in the memory of people. The director feels he owes something to the comrades, those who could not leave the country. This debt translates into poetry, black humor and conscience, in a sharp and accurate atmosphere of this dark time of Uruguay.
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Fasinpat, fábrica sin patrón
In the province of Neuquén, in Argentine Patagonia, workers at the Zanon ceramics factory opposed their employer's layoff plan, which included laying off more than half of their workforce to avoid permanent closure due to the crisis. In October 2001, the workers took over the factory and have since continued production without a boss. They thus demonstrated that it is possible, in times of crisis, to offer work to others and contribute to the continued solidarity of society when the State fails to provide solutions.
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Aquel rebaño azul
A historical account of the complex plot surrounding police brutality in Puerto Rico, by means of vivid videos intertwined with eyewitness accounts. The documentary is a reflection of the near mute reality that affects societies everywhere, a situation in which protectors victimize those they have sworn to protect.
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Hit
Through the memories and confessions of some of the most important names in Uruguayan music, the film brings back to life the stories of the songs that defined a country and that, in some cases, helped change history.
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Standing at the Foot of the White Tree
After 22 years an old photographer finds lost negatives of El Popular, the newspaper he worked for when it was closed down by the dictatorship in 1973. A teenager is looking for the way to deliver to it's owner the treasure he had found playing in the garage as a child, inside a hole in the wall. A building reveals a secret that has been hidden inside it: fifty thousand ever enduring negatives with the untold story of a country.
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La hija de O'higgins
A family history transmitted through the generations culminates with the discovery of the illegitimate daughter of one of the greatest heroes of Chilean independence, Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme. Through the story of Petronila Riquelme, various previously unknown aspects of O'Higgins' life are revealed and a search begins in Chile and Peru for the remaining traces of this story; A journey that involves the filmmaker, since it is the story of her family: Petronila is her great-great-grandmother.
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Cerca de tus ojos
Ana is a journalist taken by her work to all sorts of different places the world over. Ever since her youth, influenced by her father, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its contents have been a place from which she observes the individual and collective behavior of human development. She is also an expert in new technologies applied to communication. This circumstance, combined with her desire to improve human relations, leads her to draw up a document uncovering the terrible failures to observe Human Rights.
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Madrid
A charming and meditative ode to the city of Madrid, where Guzmán studied directing and filmmaking during the 1960s, and escaped to from Chile after the military coup. Traveling through the streets of contemporary Madrid, Guzmán’s essayistic film freely draws inspiration from the landmarks, the music, the people, and the culture to evoke experiences, reflections, and insights in order to relate the nature of his historical and personal connection to the city.
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Palabras
A first-person account of the memory process experienced by a witness in the trial of the genocide perpetrators of the military dictatorship that ravaged Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
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Porotos de soja
Different voices reflect the complex confrontation between the national government and agricultural producers, which occurred in 2008 following Resolution 125 that imposed export taxes on soybeans.
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The Power of Speech
Hardy makes a living selling knickknacks on Chilean buses. But a government announcement worries him: Chile will soon be a world-class country with a modern and elegant public transportation system, so the bus system will tolerate his job no longer. He gathers two thousand colleagues, and together they struggle to survive modernization.
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Sensaciones - La historia del Sida en la Argentina
Fictionalized documentary about the history of HIV/AIDS in Argentina from its inception up until 2006.
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Los guardianes del ángel
The story takes us on a journey of tributes to the greatest bandoneon player of Buenos Aires, Aníbal Troilo, through interviews, musical sequences, dance and the powerful presence of football. The film intertwines fiction and testimonies to reveal to us a brilliant musician.
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Stars
Shot almost in its entirety in the corridors of the Villa 21, one of Buenas Aires' most well-known shanty-towns, Estrellas (Stars) revolves around the work of Julio Arrieta, who is both a theatre director and is responsible for providing shooting locations for those directores wishing to film in an Argentine ghetto.
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Our Disappeared
After learning that Patricia, a long-lost girlfriend, is among the desaparecidos, a filmmaker returns to his native Argentina to find out what happened to her and others he knew who mysteriously vanished during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
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Los irrecuperables
The 2006 trial of Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz connects three stories of young activists from the 1970s, victims of kidnapping, captivity, imprisonment, and exile. For those who controlled life and death during the dictatorship, they were the "irrecoverable." The armed struggle, the years of repression, society's perspective upon their release from prison, and the perspective of younger generations on that era are some of the topics covered in the film.
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Los marinos del pueblo
On the night of November 16, 1972, a group of officers and non-commissioned officers from a Marine Infantry battalion of the Navy rose up and took over the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA), in support of General Perón, who was returning to Argentina, after 18 years of exile.
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La vereda de la sombra
Documentary focusing on Fabián Polosecki, a journalist and creator of the legendary TV shows "El otro lado" and "El visiteur," who committed suicide in 1996.
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Profesión Cinero
The office of Tito Juan Vera was to portray the magic of cinema to the inhabitants of the interior of Paraguay. He and his family no longer live from that job, but he keeps thousands of rolls of films, posters and equipment from that era. Juan recounts his experiences, shows the elements and secrets of his art and commemorates the cinema in a special performance for this documentary.
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El último confín
The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team—created twenty years ago to investigate forced disappearances and clandestine burials—is working in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, where a mass grave containing the remains of more than 120 people has been discovered. "The Last Confine" is a documentary about the exhumation of this grave, about those working to identify those buried there, about the hopeful search by family members, and about the story of four of them who managed to recover the remains of their loved ones after twenty-seven years of waiting.
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Imax - Oasis en el Oceano
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Juan Meléndez 6446
Documentary presenting the story of Juan Meléndez, a Puerto Rican immigrant raised in the city of New York, who was charged in Florida for a murder he did not commit. Juan Meléndez was unjustly incarcerated on death row for 17 years, 8 months and 1 day, until his acquittal on January 3, 2002.
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The Scene
What is "la escena" (the scene) and what is its importance, if any? Guillermo Gómez Álvarez tries to answer these questions with candid interviews from musicians and fans of the vibrant and, many times controversial, punk music scene in Puerto Rico. The decadence, rage, drugs, alcohol, politics, and social aspects are showcased in this documentary that tells an important part of the history of the great dysfunctional family that is "el punk boricua".
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Coca mama, la guerra antidrogas
The US recently launched another billion dollar aid package to intensify its "War On Drugs." But some Washington analysts claim this war will become another Vietnam. Filmed over a year in four countries, this documentary brings us coca-growing peasants, anti-narcotic patrols, US law-makers and gains unique access to the Columbian rebels who stand accused of protecting the drug trade.
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Carne Viva
In January 1959, around 9,000 workers at the Lisandro De la Torre state-owned meatpacking plant began a strike against its privatization. While President Arturo Frondizi traveled to the United States, an unprecedented popular uprising erupted in the Mataderos neighborhood. The documentary chronicles the testimony of the protagonists of the now legendary takeover of the meatpacking plant to analyze the close ties that meat, politics, and violence have had throughout Argentine history.
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Aguirre 0231: el último vagón
Documentary that highlights one of the most important sugar mills in Puerto Rico: the Central Aguirre, located in the town that carries the same name, of the municipality of Salinas. It tells about the culture within the corporate town of Aguirre, stories, anecdotes, and coexistence of the residents within the Central.
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El santo del pueblo
A film that captures the history of San Cayetano and transcends historical data to portray the social phenomenon of the urban sanctuary that gathers the most people in Latin America.
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Estela
Documentary about Estela de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who in her home, amidst a few photos and many memories, reconstructs her family's history for her grandson, Guido. She speaks, looking into the camera and addressing her grandson directly. He has yet to recover his true identity and should have turned 33 this year. She tells him about his parents' lives and her own life, as if assuring him that even if he never sees it, he will have the chance to relive his story, just as she would have liked to tell it to him.
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A gozar con Billo. Luis María Frómeta
Valuable testimonies, unedited images and Billo's iconic music depict his life from 1937 and throughout the following five decades, during which he immortalised Caracas' current affairs, public figures and historical landmarks in his musical arrangements.
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Football: The Birth of a Passion
Documentary that tells the story of football from its earliest history. The documentary, accurately reflects the evolution of the sport, from its origins to become a great show.
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Miguel Otero Silva: A life and one thousand stories to tell
Poet, student, fighter against Juan Vicente Gómez's dictatorship, novelist, humorist, entrepreneur, journalist and politician. Each of these pathways paints the multifaceted character that was Miguel Otero Silva
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My name is Enric Marco
Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologising journey into his past. Two years earlier, a historian had shown that Enric Marco wasn’t the member of the Resistance he had claimed to be, and that he’d made up the stories of his experiences in a concentration camp that he had been recounting on television for years. Now, Marco retraces the route of his 1941 train journey as part of a convoy of workers sent by Franco to Hitler, in the middle of the Second World War.
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Traces of Dylan
Taking advantage of a Bob Dylan tour through Spain, Fernando Merinero and crew decided to follow up their tracks, attending concerts, meeting his fans, both Spanish and foreign, interviewing singers, writers, music critics and filmmakers they have known or followed throughout his career, to approach this myth of twentieth century music, creditor of a work and a life wrapped in a mystery whose secret is discovered.
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Gelbard: la historia secreta del último burgués nacional
Documentary about José Ber Gelbard, Argentina's Minister of Economy from 1973 to 1974, during the governments of Héctor Cámpora, Juan Domingo Perón, and Isabel Perón.
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Padres de la plaza – 10 recorridos posibles
Documentary that reflects on the figure of the men whose children were kidnapped and disappeared during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. Men who from the first moment shared with their wives, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the search for their children, but without actually organizing themselves into a group that would provide them with a space of visible recognition for the rest of society.
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El lugar donde se juntan los polos
Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, the film director considers the issue of political commitment and the heritage left to the next generation in the form of a letter from a father to his children.
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La escuela
Today, thirty years after her kidnapping and confinement at the Naval Mechanics School, Miriam Lewin is a renowned journalist. Through her story, the documentary brings us closer to the stories of other survivors: that of the couple Ana María Soffiantini and Ricardo Coquet, who met during their confinement; and that of Victoria Donda Pérez, who was born in captivity and is the daughter of disappeared parents, appropriated by her uncle, who was linked to the forces of repression; and the sister—unbeknownst to her—of Victoria Grigera, also the daughter of a disappeared militant.
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The Swan of Wishes
Sergio Abel lives in a small town in Central Cuba and he videotapes his life. He is also a grade school teacher. A beautiful documentary that incorporates Sergio’s observations and footage and his student’s aspirations for the future with the outsider’s eye to tell his story.
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Oligor Brothers
Documentary about two peculiar brothers and their even more peculiar art.
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Muertes indebidas
This film unfolds several stories from the lives and perceptions of three families of those who disappeared during the last military dictatorship, reflecting the unique interweaving of these relatives' personal relationships, as a reflection of the social complexities established by the process of state terrorism that occurred from 1976 to the present.
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El paradigma Brandazza
A documentary with some fictional elements that explores the Brandazza case, considered one of the first (or the first) cases of forced disappearance followed by torture and death. This case is unique in that it occurred in 1972 during the Lanusse dictatorship.
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Madres con ruedas
Monica contracted polio at age seven, during one of the national epidemics in 1957. Although the disease confined her to a wheelchair, with great difficulty moving her four limbs, Monica has worked as a private English teacher and, more importantly, has been the mother of a daughter who is now 15. After the birth of her daughter, Monica felt the need and the impulse to make a documentary about her "colleagues," mothers in similar situations, a task she undertook with the help of her documentary filmmaker husband.
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Vacuum
The film explores the effects in the society that the last military dictatorship inherited. In Uruguay there are still a lot of desaparecidos - people who vanished during the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985 - and were never found again. María Emilia is one of them and still missing. She disappeared when she was 22-years-old, with her husband and her child of 18 months. María Esther - her mother - spent 16 years searching only to finally find her granddaughter living with a family of an Argentinean military officer in Buenos Aires. After learning the truth about her origin, the granddaughter chose to continue living with the parents who adopted her by force when she was a baby.
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Time and Blood
Sonia is a former militant of the Montoneros. In the 1970s she was a militant in the JP in the western suburbs of Greater Buenos Aires. She begins her journey to the West, to the past, searching and wondering what remains of that revolutionary practice in the very territory where it was tried and failed. But his initial intention fails and he finds, instead, other things: an unexpected balance and demand from the children of that unbeatable generation; the discovery that in the West there were almost no survivors left, due to a particular form of repression; and the most important thing: he discovers his profound need for reflection in order to bring to an end the most intense and tragic stage of his life.
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Un Pogrom en Buenos Aires
At the beginning of the 20th century, many Jews arrived in Buenos Aires escaping the misery and persecution they suffered in Europe. In 1919, during Tragic Week, a pogrom (persecution of Jews) occurred in the Once neighborhood. It has been said of this incident that "they were some well-off kids who went hunting for the Russian." This documentary begins with the questions that the director himself, whose grandfather arrived in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century, asks about the event and its implications. He also explores the causes and consequences of its limited coverage, the falsified data regarding the number of deaths, and the internal disputes within the Jewish community.
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Familystrip
The Spain that fades. We assist to the painting of a family portrait that reveals a generation away: our elders. Two survivors of the civil war and postwar tell us about their most intimate secrets, which are none other than the commitment to life. Another view of our collective memory ...
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Los nueve puntos de mi padre
What remains of a man after death? A documentary that, through interviews with his closest relatives, attempts to speak about inheritance in its broadest sense. A documentary journey through memory and grief to reveal the invisible map that builds a family.
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Isla chatarra
Isla chatarra describes the phenomenon of the ubiquity of automobiles in Puerto Rico. The island measures slightly less than 9,000 square kilometers, but has 25,000 kilometers of paved road, one of the highest proportions in the planet. Puerto Rico is one of the countries with the largest number of vehicles per kilometer (of road) and third in the world in number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants. The film was produced with the idea to raise consciousness and create a dialogue about the ongoing situation of our dependence on cars. It also shows the dangerous circumstances of an island that is slowly being covered by scrap metal.
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Japón a lo lejos
A topographer who makes a living drawing up maps for indigenous and peasant communities dreams of managing death.
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Ajishama, The White Ibis
Shot in Venezuela over a 30-year period, this documentary depicts the life and work of José Maria Korta, the controversial Jesuit Missionary with the Ye'kwana people of the Amazon.
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Septembers
Each September, the inmates from Madrid's prison system gather in Soto de Real penitentiary for the Festival of Song. This intimate, experiential documentary follows the love stories of eight participants over the course of one year.
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Mamalluca, Nace Una Obra Sinfónica
This documentary by José Luis Valenzuela meticulously follows each step in the evolution of the creative process of this fundamental work in the history of Los Jaivas, Mamalluca.
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Abrazos, tango en Buenos Aires
This colorful documentary captures the excitement of the fifth annual Buenos Aires Tango Festival, where some of the world's most accomplished dancers come to compete and win. With stirring traditional music, dizzying choreography, nine stages, 300 couples and more than 200,000 passionate fans, it's an experience you'll never forget.
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7746 Legajo CONADEP
The last Argentine military dictatorship left the people not only with fear but also a long list of missing persons. In order to investigate the fate of these people, a National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) was formed on December 15, 1983, and concluded its work on September 20, 1984, with the preparation of a report entitled "Nunca Más" (Never Again). In Mendoza, more than 100 statements were received, but it was the testimony of a former officer of the Federal Police, Mendoza Delegation, that opened File No. 7746. This statement states that the Federal Police of our province carried out numerous operations, attacks, kidnappings, torture, murders, and robberies. File 7746, CONADEP, constitutes a new element for the Federal Court of Mendoza to judge those responsible for the largest genocide in the province.
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The Infinite Border
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans enter Mexico illegally trying to reach the United States. At each stage of the journey, their words express determination, hope, a journey without end.
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La pérdida
A reflection on the exile of an entire intellectual, scientific and academic elite that was forced to flee Argentina due to the political violence of the sixties and seventies.
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The General's Daughter
The film tells the story of the life of Michelle Bachelet and her surprising journey along the road to the presidency of Chile.
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Diario Vietnam
A Puerto-Rican Vietnam veteran returns to the site where he was injured in combat 36 years prior.