Despite the loneliness he experiences living in New York, Miguel remains resiliently motivated to help the family he hasn’t seen in 13 years. Combining dreamlike depictions of Miguels memories of his childhood in Oaxaca, Mexico with his everyday experience as a migrant worker, THE TIME OF THE FIREFLIES is a poignant depiction of the sacrifice many are forced to make in order to support their families.
An essay on memory that explores the vision of life and death in the Far East. Shot in five Asian countries over three years, it recounts the director's real experiences.
Panzeri was an honest man, a critical journalist, a freethinker. He faced power and died alone and forgotten. Kohan is an outsider obsessed with doing justice, getting Panzeri out of ostracism and bringing him back to this world. Without Panzeri, football has only a few days to live.
On February 12, 2021, and after 87 years of operation, the Mercado Modelo closed its doors for good. Combining music and documentary recording, this audiovisual piece reflects the work and environment that surrounded those last few days in the market, the place where most of the food consumed in Montevideo and the metropolitan area was traded, sold, and stored.
Two young ex-FARC guerrillas fight to keep their love alive and raise a family during the transition from war to peace. We follow them for five years as they enter civil life, build a home, and have their first child. Having lived through the conflict, they are adamant never to return to war, but Colombia's peace process is polarized and its future is uncertain.
Agustina has been a shepherdess for as long as she can remember. Throughout her life she has had three great loves. Between dreams and memories she sings about everything that has and has not been. Agustina lives with Dionisio in a rural community called El Saltillo in Guanajuato, Mexico. Serranillas are medieval spanish compositions dealing with some kind of amatory adventure in rural landscapes.
From contact to distance, how do bodily perceptions vary? The body and space feel blurred. The sensation remains, almost ghostly of our bodies moving. Dancing or just being together seems like a distant memory.
After almost 20 years, Fernando Martín Peña returns to the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata to teach the subject History of Cinema II. Little by little, the reflections, questions and contradictions of the students who wonder about the study of the history of cinema begin.
Merenberg is cataloged as the first private nature reserve in Colombia. Svanhild Buch is the heir to the reserve after two generations who have dedicated their lives to preserving nature and preserving forests.
An uplifting, entertaining profile of the grande dame of Cuban music, Omara Portuondo, the internationally beloved chanteuse best known in the States as a member of the famed Buena Vista Social Club. The filmmakers follow octogenarian Omara—feisty, charming, with a naughty sense of humor, and still in possession of her fantastic voice—on her third “final” world tour as she sings to and with those she’s inspired around the globe, demonstrating her impressive range and continued relevance as an artist.
Is that what mass graves are like, one body on top of the other and nothing else? Through the rain, Oliver sends signals to his mother to help her unearth the truth.
On 19 July 1929, in a village in Colombia, a group of shoemakers fought to improve living and working conditions in the country. They called themselves "The Bolsheviks of Líbano, Tolima". Their revolution lasted only one day and there was an attempt to erase their trail. The women of this village meet Aura, an anarchist grandmother, with the feeling that their rebellion is still going on.
A documentary that uses the image of my grandmother as a link to convey the urgent need not to mythologize the past and the importance of learning from it, always keeping in mind where one comes from.