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Re-Existences
🇧🇷 Brazil“Re-Existence” is a documentary about migration stories of individuals from the Brazilian queer community.
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Pedro's Home
🇵🇹 PortugalDespite being a single father of three children, two of whom need special needs, Pedro enjoys life in the suburbs of Lisbon.
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C For Coffee
🇵🇹 Portugal“C for Coffee” is a series of informal conversations between directors, about cinema, around a coffee table. The eight conversations, which form the four episodes of the series, took place during the Porto/Post/Doc, Punto de Vista, IndieLisboa and Curtas Vila do Conde festivals, in emblematic cafés in each city.
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Espero que Esta te Encontre e que Esteja Bem
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1950sA batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.
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Nazinha, Pray for Us
🇧🇷 BrazilOn the eve of Círio de Nazaré, one of the largest Catholic festivities in the world, four prisoners - two men and two women - await a pardon specially granted to those who wish to accompany the procession of Nossa Senhora de Nazaré, patron saint of the city of Belém do Pará While making plans for the four days of freedom that pardons guarantee, they revisit their past and reflect on topics such as justice, family and faith.
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Buenas noches Malvinas
The 1980sIn April 1982 Dalmiro Bustos and Elena Noseda faced one of the most difficult moments of their lives, when their eldest son, Fabián, was sent to fight in the Islands, along with hundreds of conscript soldiers. Almost forty years after the events, Dalmiro, Elena and their two youngest children, Javier and María Elena, tell what they could not say at the time, in an attempt to follow Fabián's footsteps and put into words the anguish and pain that still remain.
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Fixed Shot - 100 Recordings around Dignity Square
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sOn October 18, 2019, Chile lives the most important social uprising since its return to democracy. “Italy Square” (neuralgic center of the capital), is re-baptized by the protesters as “Dignity Square”, transforming it into an iconic place of social demands.
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Through unique access to the peace process and inside the FARC, it is the guerrilla soldiers’ inner life that this poetic documentary explores. The war has lasted so long that the causes have begun to be forgotten, and when the peace process leads to the disbandment of the FARC, it becomes more important than ever for guerrillas to film, write down, and track material about the inner life of the movement so they can own and tell their own story.
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Peregrino
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 2020sRicardo Soulé, 67 years old, Argentine musician from the mythical band Vox Dei who released "La Biblia" in the 70s, a conceptual work in the key of progressive rock, achieving immediate recognition. At present, Soulé records an album with his new band, goes on tour invited by a very convincing band, practices the training of falcons, plays the violin every day. Still, 4 of her 5 children live in Europe and their place in the world is still debated.
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Digamos
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA look at the current poetic scene — In Buenos Aires every week a large number of poetry dates are held with varied proposals: readings, slams, cycles, etc. Independent publishers continue to bet on expanding their catalogs. The authors use social networks so that their verses are consumed and shared by people who otherwise would not have accessed them. In Digamos, the protagonists of the scene contribute their voices and reflections on the world, exalting beauty in simplicity and reconfiguring the poetic concept that today is in full swing and transformation.
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Okinawa/Santos
🇧🇷 BrazilDuring World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that 60% of the immigrants were from Okinawa. Based on testimonies from interviewees, this film reveals the hidden historical relationship between Okinawa and Brazil.
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The Sum of the Circles
🇪🇨 EcuadorA visual –and poetic– tour of "Wild Cathedral", a poem by César Dávila Andrade. — Fifteen locations are the stage where fifteen performers, among artists, poets, students etc., one per location, perform a fragment of “Wild Cathedral”, a poem by the mythical Ecuadorian poet César Dávila Andrade. A sum of portraits where the poem becomes a bridge to access the character and his respective surroundings. The poem as a regulating and critical voice between the character and the different territorialities.
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Me Cuidem-se!
🇧🇷 BrazilThe lives of eight people, of different ethnicities, creeds, professions and social groups, living in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo and Nova Iguaçu during the first 9 months of the pandemic.
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De Senegal hacia España y Argentina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaDocumentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community
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The singer and songwriter Florencia Núñez is from Rocha, a coastal department in southeastern Uruguay. Her first compositions took place at her parents' house, in the classes she shared with the composer Enrique Cabrera, or on the shores of the ocean when she spent the summer in Costa Azul, her usual beach town. Today, she lives in Montevideo, she listens to her songs and wonders: what is the origin of all these melodies? This film is her desire to relive that music that made her grow. A tribute to the music of her department through the reinterpretation of five songs that marked her songbook. With that map in mind, Florencia goes out in search of answers in conversations with authors, interpreters or actors from the Rochense scene who were witnesses or protagonists of the construction of the local folk. A journey through the essence of a department that traces a route between melodies and landscapes, poetry and culture, and voices and roots.
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Road documentary that delves into the musical and religious expressions of sub-Saharan Africa. Through Mauritania and Mali, the film documents the lives of Dogon, griots, musicians and instrument makers who, through oral accounts, explain why music plays a fundamental role in the socio-religious organization of peoples. The film culminates its search with the recording of the performance of the traditional Dogon mask dance, in Begnematou, a small village lost in the desert.
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The Last Dance: Miniseries
Illinois The 1990sA 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100 interviews with famous figures and basketball’s biggest names.
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Quem Precisa de Identidade?
🇧🇷 BrazilEvery day they have to fight to exist. Immigrants and Afro-descendants in Brazil - one of the most racist countries in the world - move to overcome the struggle of existence and have a better place with respect and rights. But how to guarantee one's identity if racism is such a perfect crime that the culprit always ends up being the victim of a victim?
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A trans documentary — The story of ten trans girls who form a co-op theatre to be able to stop working as prostitutes. The protagonists tell us their dreams, show their daily struggles and share their experiences and realities to be accepted and belong to society as well.
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The Game Changers
🇩🇪 GermanyArmed with the truth — From the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berlin and the bushlands of Zimbabwe, the world is introduced to elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes—each on a mission to create a seismic shift in the way we eat and live.
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Muckraking filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reignites his battle with the food industry — this time from behind the register — as he opens his own fast food restaurant.
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The Rape of Recy Taylor
Alabama The 1940sShe spoke up — Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.
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Documentary about the lives and dreams of nine people in a big city. — Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.
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This documentary chronicles former Olympian and UFC champion Ronda Rousey's ascent to iconic status in the world of mixed martial arts.
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A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.
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A Tuba To Cuba
Louisiana 🇨🇺 Cuba The 2010sA son seeking to fulfill his late father’s dream takes his band from the storied city of New Orleans to the shores of Cuba, where — through the universal language of music — dark and ancient connections between their peoples reveal the roots of jazz.
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Claudia Touched by the Moon
🇨🇱 ChileA Trans Woman's Diary — Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".
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Penguins
🇦🇶 AntarcticaFor Steve, his adventure isn't all black and white. — The story of Steve, an Adélie penguin, on a quest to find a life partner and start a family. When Steve meets with Wuzzo the emperor penguin they become friends. But nothing comes easy in the icy Antarctic.
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Inside every pocket is a little piece of magic — A tale of how the great vision and epic failure of General Magic, the "greatest dead company in Silicon Valley", changed the lives of billions.
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50 Chuseok
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe making of a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Korean community in Argentina takes actor Chang Sung Kim back to his native land. But soon the trip becomes an unexpected and transforming reunion with his family and the culture that, 48 years ago, he decided to leave behind.
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Inna de Yard
🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇫🇷 FranceThe soul of Jamaica — Capturing the ongoing relevance of reggae and its social values, and the music's passion to revitalize an older generation while passing it on to younger listeners.
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I'm Leaving Now
🇲🇽 Mexico New YorkAfter 16 years in Brooklyn, working three low-paying jobs and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children, undocumented immigrant Felipe decides to return home to his family in Mexico. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the U.S. and continue to earn.
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Fevereiros
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sA record on Brazilian samba school Estação Primeira de Mangueira's victory on the 2016 carnaval parade. Mangueira's parade that year was a homage to singer Maria Bethânia. The documentary also follows Bethânia on the celebrations of Our Lady of Purification, in Bahia, northeast of Brazil.
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Embark on an epic journey of family, courage, and coming home. — Join Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape.
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Screwball
New York Florida The 2000sA batsh*t tale of steroids, schemeres and baseball stars — Investigates the MLB's infamous doping scandal involving a nefarious clinician and his most famous client: the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez.
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The Biggest Little Farm
CaliforniaThe successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.
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