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This time, in “Atlantida”, Puertas wanders through stories based on memories he keeps from his hometown, Póvoa de Varzim, wondering what happened to the aura of this city he remembers so nostalgically.
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“Paisagem Submersa” revisits the submerged places in the waters of the Vouga River, which, according to popular belief, “always goes after what it is entitled to”. From the memories and voices of Cidália, the Marias Madalenas, as well as of Manuel and José, the stories of the past of two neighboring places, ever further apart, come to life.
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A filmmaker and an actress travel towards a remote location, in search of a particular house, and of inspiration for their next movie. The region is Douro, and the house belonged to Manoel de Oliveira, where he took refuge to create many of his works.
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Behind Time, Time Comes
🇵🇹 Portugal“Behind time, time comes” interlaced with folk songs, narrates the rhythms of rural life, where time and its weight, shape and define the landscape, as well as the lives that compose it. Accompanying the reminiscences of a group of women from the parish of Dornelas, Sever do Vouga, Portugal.
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Celebrating the work of José Pinhal — Two cassettes are found in the old studio. Nothing is known about the artist. His music is played at parties and broadcast on the internet. Twenty years later, José Pinhal becomes one of the biggest myths of Portuguese popular music.
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On the eve of a boat trip, a woman is inspired by the life and work of the American painter J.M. Whistler to address, through oral letters, her friend Pedro, an assiduous reader of maritime adventure novels.
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“Implantação da Rapública” is a documental series with Antena3Docs label, dedicated to Hip-Hop’s history in Portugal. The series, divided into four chapters, focuses on the culture’s four pillars: breakdance, graffiti, DJ and rap. “Painting Hip-Hop” is the series second chapter and focuses on graffiti, with interviews with some of the pioneers of portuguese street art scene: Nomen, Youthone, Uber, Vhils, DJ Glue, Odeith, Nurea, Maze, Third and Keso.
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In My Skin
🇧🇷 BrazilA doctor mistaken for a thief. A cleaning lady treated as a slave. A mother who lost her son murdered by the police. A Trans employee who is never promoted. What do these people have in common? Their skin color. A human and poetic documentary sewn together with various narrative threads – characters, music, slams and black intellectual thinking – that unveil the racism rooted in Brazilian society.
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Mosca
🇨🇱 ChileOnda corta, underground press and solidarity. Two old revolutionaries cross their lives in a sonic journey thanks to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow and its program Escucha Chile, violating Pinochet's iron censorship and revealing to the world through short wave the deep economic and social transformation that was hidden behind the violent repression.
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The Araucaria araucana is a prehistoric tree species, present on earth for millions of years. "Vestiges" tells its story from its origin in a visual and chronological way, showing its resistance to the different external forces it has to face, the different ways it has been related to humans, until the disease that threatens them, as a consequence of the climate change.
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Vicenta
The 2000sA human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.
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Sebastian Muro, the director of this film, starts shooting his father, Rafa, an extroverted businessman, for a film school exercise. Hypnotized by the easiness and indifference his father has with the camera, Sebastian continues shooting him without much purpose until, without him noticing, he starts telling his own family story and stumbles upon an unsettled matter: the absence of his father during nearly a decade when Sebastian was a boy.
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Frontera
🇨🇱 ChileJuan Carlos is a lonko who has fought in defense of Mapuche autonomy. Many question him because he agreed to work for the government in order to improve conditions in his community. At home he shares his concerns, while his animals watch the tension grow and the seasons advance.
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Madre Baile
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1950s The 1940sThe story of Leonor Marzano, creator of the cuarteto — After composing the theme that gives its name to her second solo album, “Madre baile”, Vivi Pozzebón becomes interested in the ethno-musical origins of the cuarteto and the figure of Leonor Marzano, who knew how to mix the tarantella and the paso doble on her piano to give rise to the characteristic rhythm of Córdoba: the cuartero. From here comes this record about the origin of the cuarteto from the 1940s to the present.
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sIn 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
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Three carnival blocks, born in candomblé terreiros in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through work, centenary groups, the film explores black culture, its dances, its fabrics and its ancestry.
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An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?
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Glauber, Claro
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sHis Italian years — A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.
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Luz Acesa
🇧🇷 BrazilThe documentary portrays five people trying to recover from alcoholism or substance abuse. The different narratives present different aspects of addiction: there is an artist who stopped drinking without the help of Alcoholics Anonymous; a sober man for 23 years who helps anyone trying to overcome drug addiction; a woman who has been hospitalized; a retiree who has yet to overcome his addiction; and a recovered man who lives on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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Sobradinho
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sIn the 1970's, the dam and hydroelectric power plant of Sobradinho, one of the most impressive works carried out during the military regime, was built in the north of Bahia. Four cities and dozens of villages were submerged. About 73,000 people were displaced, shaping up as one of the largest forced migrations in the history of Brazil. Pilão Arcado Velho was the only town in the area that has not been completely flooded. Dona Pequenita was the only former resident to return to her hometown. She lives solitarily in Pilão Arcado Velho until the present day, amongst the ruins. We went to Pilão Arcado Velho with Thereza Batalha, Fátima Massimo and Francisca Xavier, old ladies that worked as social assistants in the 70's. Their work was to inform the inhabitants they needed to go out
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Todas as Melodias
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s"Todas as Melodias" is a sensible journey throught the life and works of one of Brazilian music's biggest artists, Luiz Melodia. Featuring archive footage that goes back to the 1970s, the film presents the musician's cronology from his youth in the neighborhood of Estácio, Rio de Janeiro to his estabilished success.
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Back in the ‘90s, the wife of a Menemist politician recorded her husband’s public and private life on video. In this rigid, patriarchal family’s present day, Agustina and her aunt Bibiana build a story based on mystique and disenchantment, with tensions and silences that oscillate between love and power.
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Pampa
🇨🇱 ChileA look at the last saltpetre office on earth — In the middle of the Atacama Desert is the last saltpetre settlement still inhabited. Known as Maria Elena, its inhabitants are reluctant to leave it behind, clinging to their memory and to their dead.
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Cristiano Ronaldo is more than just a great footballer. He is an icon and role model for millions all over the world. He has proved that it’s possible to come from nothing and rise to be the best in your sport.
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Yeslie is a former FARC guerrilla who tries to reintegrate into society. Given the difficulties of life, mother of a 4-year-old girl and pregnant, decides to dig up some guns hidden in the jungle to sell them and get some money.
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Caminhos Encobertos
🇧🇷 BrazilKarai Mirim and Karai Jekupe are Guarani Mbya leaders who live in the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, in São Paulo. As they ascend the Pico do Jaraguá, they tell the Guarani history of the metropolis.
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Hold-Up
🇫🇷 FranceRETURN OVER A CHAOS — A controversial film from France widely criticized for featuring and promoting conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic. With his documentary "Hold-Up", the director Pierre Barnérias wanted to denounce the alleged lies, corruption and manipulation in France around the management of the coronavirus. The movie spreads various wrong facts, fake news and built-up arguments to promote its beliefs of conspiration.
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Splinters
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sOn 3 November 1995, the Rio Tercero Military Factory exploded in Cordoba, prompting thousands of projectiles to fire and spread in the surrounding villages, in a tragedy that would leave seven dead and hundreds injured and affected. At the time, Natalia Garayalde was a twelve-year-old girl who lived with her family near the place, and he was still playing filming with the video camera her father had bought, when she recorded the immediate moments of the burst, while her family escaped the explosions, as well as the daily activities of the village in the days and weeks that follow. Twenty-five years later, that material captured from a girl's candid and surprised gaze it becomes a thoughtful and painful testimony about the family, the destruction of a city, the traces of horror, the sinister truth about the case.
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The echoes of Jorge Bonino resonate in the spaces he inhabited, and his presence becomes imaginable from the stories that tell it. A body that exploded into a thousand pieces scattered across territories and affections that speak of him as someone capable of turning life into an extraordinary game.
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The film portrays André’s current love affair with his boyfriend Hudson from a set of pornographic and psychedelic experiments that forge both the couple and their doubts regarding the very conditions of the romance they are experiencing.
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Le Temps Perdu
🇦🇷 ArgentinaBuenos Aires, Argentina. For eighteen years, a group of people have been meeting in a bar to read the same work over and over again: the seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time, by the French writer Marcel Proust.
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After fourteen years, Leo is released from jail, but he remains imprisoned by an idea: to avenge the death of his brother, Ale. The blood in the eye is the continuation of Orione. The second act of a drama that reunites two brothers in crime and punishment.
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(In)Voluntary Retirements
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇷 Argentina The 2000sOn July 2nd, 2008, at five thirty in the afternoon, a 53-year-old man called Jean-Michel was run over by a train in Saint-Lyé, a town with a population of 3,000 located in the east of France. No one knew whether it was a suicide or an accident. The director investigates around the town, asks different inhabitants what they think of that tragedy. For many people, Jean-Michel had killed himself, after amassing too many worries and problems; the more the voiceover asks, the more mysterious it all gets. But there is a detail from Jean-Michel’s life that connects him to Argentina—he had been an employee at a phone company until a privatization left him without a job. (In)Voluntary Retirements is a documentary that shows how the kinship between Argentina’s politics in the ‘90s and France’s twenty years later damaged the lives of so many people.
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A father who has lost his memory. A son looking for home movies that his father filmed. And among them, the impossible memory of the missing mother
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Bicentenario
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1810sExactly 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s Colombian war of independence, a campaign that ran from late May to early August 1819, filmmaker Pablo Alvarez-Mesa follows the iconic Libertador’s route through the country. At each historic battleground, he calls on a medium to summon the general’s spirit, helping Alvarez-Mesa reveal Bolívar’s permanent and more or less visible presence in an array of social rituals and state structures. This historic legacy, after two centuries transfigured into a blend of political mysticism and unchallenged military doctrine, remains an integral part of Colombia’s collective unconscious. It keeps finding new expression in an endless cycle of violence, which this intriguing medium-length film seeks to exorcise. (Charlotte Selb)
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La Muerte Está en Los Catres
🇨🇱 Chile The 2000sKaren, a former professional soccer player born in Puente Alto in the southern part of Santiago. Rosa, her grandmother, assumes the role of mother and becomes a fundamental piece in Karen's life and career. In 2008 Karen begins a love relationship with her neighbor Mariel, a year later they get married in the company of family and close friends. Coto, Mariel's father, never questioned the relationship and accepts that Mariel and Karen move in with him. They will share, joys, fears, life and also death. A record that moves between madness and lucidity, an invitation to feel the heroic act of simply being and being. To resist.
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Negras Vozes - Tempos de Alakan
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sFor the past 14 years, the Ilú Obá de Min - Educação Cultura e Arte Negra promotes parades on the streets of São Paulo with its afro feminine band that celebrates themed carnivals. There’s always an homage to a black woman, embracing our history, fight and productions. In 2019, we sang “Black Voices” and spread “Alakan Time” - word that means alliances in Yoruba.
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La Paz
🇨🇴 ColombiaDuring the peace negotiations in Colombia, a troop of women and men found themselves in the midst of uncertainty to dream of life without weapons. They wander between their loves, their fears, between doubts because Peace also produces fear. This guerrilla command reveals the intimacy of human beings who shudder at the possibility of other winds, some will also be overwhelming and uncontrollable.
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50 Anos do Tri
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sIn 2020, we celebrated 50 years of winning the Tri, won at the Mexico World Cup in 1970. The film portrays the backstage of that title, the political and social context of Brazil at the time and how that selection of superstars marked the lives of many people. To tell the story of this achievement, different names in different spheres of Brazilian and Mexican society.
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Ariel de Bigault's work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works of the Portuguese cinema that explored its colonial past. Some directors as Fernando Matos Silva, João Botelho or Margarida Cardoso help to understand imperialism, colonialism, and propaganda seen through the "family album" which is the Portuguese cinematic collective imaginary.
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The Sky Is Red
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sIn 2010, 81 inmates died in a huge fire at San Miguel prison in Chile’s capital city Santiago. Inside, they were trapped behind bars like rats; outside, dozens of family members waiting for visiting hours to begin looked on helplessly as their loved ones shouted for help. The doors remained locked. This reconstruction sheds light on the utter failure of the prison’s administration, which was housing twice as many prisoners as permitted.
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