A job interview runs normally until the interviewer observes that there is no address placed on the resume, a very common problem in the homeless who come in search of a job.
Before Entering, Let Out follows Mauricio Nares Vera, a metro operator with more than 20 years of experience. He is also called "Wolverine of the Subway," and he recounts his experiences as a train driver and shares his efforts to make the subway a safe and peaceful place.
Between 1950 and 1952, the Uruguayan essayist, critic and writer José Pedro Díaz created a film diary with images that display a range of diverse interests: social observation, the portrait of the artistic-intellectual community in Europe and a look at domestic cinema from travels, portraying his wife, the poet Amanda Berenguer. As a perfect complement he also had a literary diary. Both form a unique testimonial chronicle: how to read the script and see what was filmed. This documentary deals with that lesser-known area of Díaz's work.
In 2017, playwright Marco Canale staged a play called La velocidad de la luz (“The Speed of Light”) in the Villa 31 slum. There, a group of indigenous elderly ladies recovered their traditions in order to explore their bonds with modern culture, religion, politics and their own memories. Three years later, Canale replicated the idea in Japan and structured this film, together with Juan Fernández Gebauer and Ignacio Ragone, that revolves around that experience.
A visual trance that traces the daily odyssey of the dockers of the Port of Masusa in the Amazon. Dozens of ships dock at this dock that supply Iquitos, the largest city in the world without a land connection. A continuous transfer through which the resources of the jungle are also bled towards the mainland.
"Cabo Tuna or The Management of the Sky" is a materialistic re-reading of the history of artificial satellites and digital surveillance which, using footage found exclusively on YouTube, intertwines the origins of the Nazi and Soviet arms industries with the digital surveillance systems used in the Mexican context of the war on drugs. This narrative arc allows for an exploration of the Mexican government's failed attempts to create its own aeronautical rockets, the growing dependence on technology from foreign powers and companies, the privatization of space, and finally, the contemporary strengthening of the state's military control.
Callejeras is a documentary about the participation of women in one of the greatest expressions of popular culture still standing: the Cádiz carnival. Carnival is shown as a reflection of a patriarchal society where new voices begin to emerge from the spontaneity of the street. A reflection on the limits of humor and gender stereotypes. Shot in Cádiz, in 2020.
The last performance of the Travesía Travesti cabaret coincides with the Social Outbreak of October 18, 2019, in Chile. In the middle of the revolt, Anastasia tries to reunite the ex-members of a fractured cast, but Maraca, her best friend, does not want to continue with the work.
Argenis, Yanvaldo, Carlos, Eduardo and Javier have something in common: they will compete in the Miss Gay Venezuela, a trans beauty contest where the man who most resembles a “Miss” wins. For several weeks, we follow them in their preparations for the final night of the contest, seeing how that illusion is built: that of being a beauty queen for one night. The event is the excuse and the ideal setting to find ourselves with wishes, fantasies and the search for a dream come true. They look for the beautiful and feminine to achieve a desire: to be admired and recognized as the most beautiful trans in the contest.
Supported by current images and national and international archives, this documentary narrates the life of the singer Amparo Ochoa, who learned music from her father, in Sinaloa. His passion for teaching, the decision to live in Mexico City, his indispensable role in the Mexican scene of the seventies and eighties, as well as his constant criticism of the government, are narrated by family and friends, such as Óscar Chávez, Gabino Palomares and Mercedes Sosa, who speak of the consolidation of the artist as a fundamental figure of Mexican popular song and feminist militancy.
An e-mail and a found book are taken as evidence for an investigation: through analysis from a forensic software a relationship between what is built by humans and the spread of a virus is sought. What is the secret relationship between stones and pixels?
Sarah is a trans sex worker who fulfills her dream of breast augmentation. She show us her daily routine of life, showing people that whores are not vampires who only go out at night to do sex work, but also human beings with a normal life.