Documentary movies

The Parakultural is a mark, a lost dream, a battlefield. Those who never attended the Parakultural, shelter of original artists, home of an orphan audience and a cursed monument of reconquered democracy, do not know what they missed. The film is the portrait of a generation that doesn’t forget.

50 years can be golden even though the knees hurt, even if the air isn’t the same or a layer of distress settles on one corner of the brain. The protagonist reflects on his fifty, shoots a film about endless loves and inquires, with existential humor, into the daily struggle of living.

Hundreds of workers risked their lives in union conflicts during the last civilian-military dictatorship. With an unusual narrative creativity that even includes animated reenactments, The End Will Come… gathers their silenced testimonies and gives an account on their vital resistances.

Mari is a maid—she is a woman like any other, but she’s also unique. This film discovers, with amazing precisions, the layers of her uniqueness and her attempts to emancipate herself, build herself and, perhaps, leave a traumatic past behind.

An account of the life and work of Spanish journalist Manu Leguineche (1941-2014), an indefatigable nomad who, after living through decades of countless adventures and enduring hardships, wars and catastrophes traveling the globe, achieved his goal of discovering the harsh reality of the world, and its immense beauty, to his legions of readers.

In a small money transfer agency based in Milan, people send money to their family in homeland. The camera watches and listen silently giving the start for an archive of metropolitan stories. Spanish and Italian are melted together, time and space are alternated and a smile come from the boredom. A tiny space lived by episodes that are together the reflection of an entire community into another. Lima is not that far.

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts with a flight in a ramshackle plane to Guyana. Then the refugees travel to Colombia where they cross the jungle to arrive in Central America, from where they hope to reach the promised land of America—a hard and dangerous journey. Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán visits them in a refugee camp in Panama, where one of the residents gives him an idea. Many people here have filmed their journey, she says, and these videos tell their real story. These jerky, shocking videos are interspersed with Beltrán’s footage of the camp, tangibly illustrating the difference between the hectic pace of the journey and the insecure life at the reception center.

The history of Gaston Soublette, his life and work as a teacher and intellectual of his time and how it influenced ours, a group of students from Campus Oriente during the 80's and how it has influenced many others.

A group of artists and friends of the late painter Martín Santiago meet to make his dream come true of his home becoming in an art museum and cultural space for the town of Deán Funes, Córdoba. The group is led by the artist's disciple, the painter Mario Sanzano, who heads the initiative. He is also accompanied by artists from the area and friends of Martín Santiago. Despite not having official resources, they carry out the feat of recovering the work and turning the space into a cultural center for the city.

Documentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)

In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the largest mass suicide in the history of the territory known today as Argentina took place. The film is a phantasmagoric trip within this geographical extension, taking it as a vast, green cemetery.

A man travels to the Argentine north following the leads of a mythical pre-Columbian entity in charge of the relatives’ sorrow. The roads at night, the inns and the large salina of Zelarayán’s poem reject anthropological shortcuts and build up a mystery that is perhaps as formidable as the very bearer of sorrow.

The story about the controversial process of the Andalusian Revolutionary Federalist Republican Candidacy promoted by Blas Infante and headed by Ramón Franco in 1931, during the beginnings of the Second Republic.

A documentary film by Tomás Utillano, made in Buenos Aires, during the brief stay of Álvaro López (Los Bunkers) in the capital of Argentina in 2014. From the spontaneous meeting of three strangers, Álvaro's songs emerge, which accompany and give meaning to the meeting and the film.

Joaquín is a young man with down syndrome. Through the family bond that unites him with his cousin, we observe his daily life outside the family and institutional spheres, watching him grow from the age of 11 to 13, with his emotional and physical changes. It is an affective and intimate look at a character, who experiences the least expected situations.

Essayistic documentary short film that proposes a tour of Paraná during the mandatory preventive social isolation decreed in Argentina on March 19, 2020. While observing the urban geography in an exceptional state, fragments of reflections by world-renowned intellectuals regarding the pandemic situation are heard, in the voices of local journalists, actresses and actors.

"Why do I want to straighten my hair? Why have they made me believe that we should straighten our hair? These simple questions sparked a research that is now a counter-memory to the Panamanian history that has gone unquestioned for so long. This counter-memory was built by the hands of multiple Black women, friends who have found themselves in a similar situation."

The work of the coffee vendors is a fundamental part of the Mercado Modelo, the main center of commerce and storage of food in Montevideo. Following its move to the outskirts of the city, the Market made headlines for several months. However, these workers did not appear in any media reports. This documentary short seeks to give them a space and a voice so we can listen to the valuable things they have to say.

Nazario is a faithful lover of bicycles, since he was a child he found love for traveling on two wheels and feel the wind on your face, to feel free. His first dream was to become a cyclist, but the His life took him down other paths, although he could never keep him from continuing to love the bicycle, and the Today, the restoration and sale of bicycles continue to fuel his passion.