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Not Quite Adults
🇦🇷 ArgentinaLola, a 30-year-old failed kleptomaniac with a bad temper receives a phone call from Mar del Plata: her father, whom she thought had been dead for years, has just died, and she must travel in order to check on some things related to the inheritance. Along with Teo, her former boyfriend, and his sister Rita, she sets off in Teo's school van. In Mar del Plata, she meets Natalio, her father's partner, and everyone must now travel to Bariloche in order to spread the ashes of the deceased.
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Desert Dreams
🇨🇱 Chile"Why are we Colombians who live in Antofagasta afraid?" Filmmaker Angélica Valverde seeks to answer this question by reconstructing her experience in this city, with Rafaela and Carmenza, immigrant women who, like she, came to the north of Chile to realize their dreams. To try to overcome it, to observe how each copes with the fear, this rejection produced.
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Contrasangre
🇨🇱 ChileChilean society neglects its ethnic and cultural diversity. Historically, the relationship with the Mapuche people has been defined by institutional violence, directly affecting those involved as well as generations to come.
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Here and Everywhere
🇨🇱 ChileFollowing the instructions of a dream, Flavia sets out to make a film about the Chilean Antarctic. Mixing together Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Pinochet, this film also features an unforgettably hilarious interview with Nanni Moretti! Creative and anarchic cinema at its very best.
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El testigo: Caín y Abel
🇨🇴 ColombiaThe Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado looks back into his photographic work portraying the Colombian armed conflict and visits territories affected by it, including San José de Apartadó, Ganada and Bojayá to show the photographs he took to those who appeared in them. He reflects on the horrors of war and the future of peace in Colombia.
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Absence of Me
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1970sHundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.
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Un tal Eduardo
🇺🇾 UruguayAn emotional visual portrait starring fans of the most important melodic singer-songwriter that Uruguay had, the founder and leader of Los Iracundos, Eduardo Franco.
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From Core to Sun
🇪🇨 EcuadorEcuadorian athlete Millán Ludeña, embarks on his new adventure to be the first athlete to register a new Guinness World Record for his beloved country.
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IKIGAI, La sonrisa de Gardel
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1990sMirta Regina Satz worked as chief of treasury of AMIA (Mutual Association Israelita Argentina), interspersing her love for art, until July 18, 1994. In the middle of the working day, a bomb completely destroyed the building. Mirta survived the catastrophe and left the AMIA to reinvent herself at work with her own artistic work. She got engaged and decided a new course, uncertain, but true. There she began his construction work for another life.
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The Shape of Now
🇨🇴 ColombiaAccording to estimates around 200,000 people lost their lives in the 50-year Colombian civil war. Another 25,000 were kidnapped, many are still considered missing. When the peace deal between the government and the FARC rebels was made in November 2016, guns were banned from the conflict. But the country's population have since faced the almost impossible task of having to agree on a common past. "The Shape of Now" illuminates this strenuous process and thus Colombia's leaden present from very different perspectives.
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Death in Berruecos
🇨🇴 ColombiaTen years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into his death is reopened, Captain Alejandro Godoy take charge as prosecutor. Several political motives mean that the case must definitively be drawn to a close. Godoy discovers that a large part of the documentation produced during the original inquiry has been destroyed. With his own life in danger, Godoy discovers a highly intricate plot that put an end to Sucre's life.
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The Other Magick
🇦🇷 ArgentinaInto the light, through the darkness — Documentary about a house of witchcraft in Buenos Aires
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Luz de América
🇪🇨 EcuadorFrom the light that falls on the backyard of his house on the day of the equinox without shadow in Quito, and inspired by the "Theory of colors" of Goethe, the director takes us to several cities in America to reflect on the influence that the light has in the understanding of our surroundings.
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Tierra de mujeres
🇪🇨 EcuadorThe reality of four rural women in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Despite their pain and difficulties, they have managed to forge a life that in maturity unfolds all the beauty of wisdom.
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Venezuela es un Desorden
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThrough humor, anecdotes and their songs, mythical Venezuelan ska band Desorden Público tells their story and that of three decades of their country.
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Hermanos de sangre, compañeros de ideas
🇧🇴 BoliviaJuan Martín Guevara travels to Bolivia on the 50th anniversary of the murder of his brother Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The encounter with people strengthens him, but he does not stop questioning the ways of evoking his figure and asking himself what do we do with this myth?
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Operación Orión
🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇨🇴 ColombiaJairo and Javier, two young Colombians, are recruited to travel to Venezuela to work as farmers. A few days later, they will understand that they have been deceived and that they are now part of the complex Orion Operation.
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El señor de los dinosaurios
🇦🇷 ArgentinaOn the outskirts of the Pampean town of Eduardo Castex there is a park where about 30 cement and iron works represent different aspects of the prehistoric life of dinosaurs. Its author is Jorge “Cacho” Fortunsky, who besides having an innate talent for drawing, carving and sculpting, has a past marked by crime that he tries to leave behind forever.
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DISTORSIÓN, En medio del caos
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAgainst a backdrop of tension and violence throughout Venezuela, Ángel, a businessman of questionable repute, is held captive in his apartment. In this highly charged atmosphere, he is forced by his captors to face the dilemma: To continue as a social predator, or to take responsibility for his actions?
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The Bridge Master's Daughter
🇵🇪 PeruIn the Peruvian highlands, a father and master of a 300-year-old bridge weaving tradition struggles to maintain his culture as his daughter tries to escape it.
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Quebrada
🇪🇨 EcuadorThe documentary portrays the everyday way of life of a group of young people from Quito, who being fans of hardcore and for different personal reasons decided to become Straight Edge. The Straight Edge is an urban culture, young people who together or separately make the decision not to consume psychotropic substances, alcohol or tobacco.
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Gartelmann la memoria
🇪🇨 EcuadorKarl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of a life that is dying. This documentary brings together the director's permanent concerns: culture and nature wasted by extractivism. A conversation between two directors about the creation of memory through cinema.
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Javier con i, Íntag
🇵🇪 Peru The 2010sOn April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for the crimes of “rebellion, sabotage and terrorism”. A few days later, the National Mining Company entered the area accompanied by a squad of at least 200 policemen to carry out studies related to the Llurimagua mining project, in the Íntag cloud forest. Javier with I, Íntag collects Javier Ramírez's reflections after his release, his feeling of condemned innocence, the pain of living in a divided, busy and frightened community, with its social fabric destroyed.
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Grita
🇦🇷 ArgentinaTwenty years after the appearance and rise of the Buenos Aires Hardcore movement, its protagonists, now adults and with children, share their memories of that time: the shows, the ideal that united them and how that peculiar way of living music ended up marking them for forever. This documentary is an archaeological work to find the vital impulse of the Buenos Aires hardcore scene beyond any visual testimony that still remains on the shelves of private collections.
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Neptunia
🇺🇾 UruguayFour friends decide to spend a winter weekend in a rented house in a Uruguayan beach town called Neptunia. Once there, the friends begin to realize that the people are acting strange.
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El Paraíso
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over the course of fifteen years. The tapes are a mixture of the personal and the political – the father was politically engaged in the revolutionary movement that brought Hugo Chávez to power. The family’s life becomes a backdrop for political and economic developments in Venezuela and their impact on the lives of ordinary citizens.
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78 Revoluciones
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 2010s The 1940sMarcel Keoroglian, a public figure in Uruguay thanks to his works in carnival, television, radio and cinema, has at home eighteen records of the 1949 carnival that have never been heard. These records were recorded by José Goglian, an Armenian immigrant, who in the 1940s lived in Villa del Cerro (a Montevidean neighborhood made up of many immigrant groups) and who invited his neighbour carnival musicians to his apartment to record them with a phonograph. This documentary is focused on Marcel's passionate bond with the murga genre, as he writes the lyrics for a group that is preparing for the next carnival, while looking for a way to revive the music of these albums that awaited sixty-eight years to be heard.
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Sangre de Campeones
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1920s1924: a group of men, amateur footballers of diverse professions and humble origins, set out on a journey towards the greatest adventure of their lives. They depart from Uruguay for Europe to disembark in Paris in its "Crazy Years" where, against all odds, Olympic glory and the amazement of the whole world awaited them. This feat would be the first of others to come in 1928 and 1930.
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Agridulce
🇺🇾 UruguayLuis is a drag actor with the stage name "Dulce Polly" with great contrasts between the comical and overwhelming of his artistic character and the person outside the performance and in his privacy. He in turn is an English teacher and works in a high school in a deprived area of Montevideo. As an artist Luis wants more, he has the need and he will try to fulfill some dreams such as acting in the city of Buenos Aires. Outside of acting, he needs to feel more secure, as well as to find a partner who will fill him in his life to stop feeling loneliness and anguish.
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Candomberos - De dos orillas
🇺🇾 UruguayDocumentary about the birth and development of candombe in Uruguay. It is built through testimonies, audiovisual files and animations. It also covers the actuality of the candombe on the shores of the Río de la Plata.
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage
🇧🇷 BrazilThere are no more patriots, just rebels and tyrants. — Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.
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Geostorm
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010s The 2020sSome things were never meant to be controlled. — After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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The Lost City of Z
🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for? — A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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Good Manners
🇧🇷 BrazilClara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.
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Zama
🇵🇾 Paraguay The 18th CenturyIn a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
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American Made
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980sBased on a True Lie — The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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The Movie of My Life
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960sI arrived and he left. The rest, I can't tell. — The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his father had left for good, back to France. Tony then looks for the company of his fathers friends in search of information and references of a lost male role-model. He becomes a school teacher and a male figure to kids, in an attempt to provide them with something he lacks himself. A series of developments lead him to a surprising final lead on his fathers' whereabouts and reasons for leaving.
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Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇾 ParaguayThe border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.
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El Revenge
🇦🇷 ArgentinaTwo friends hit the road to Buenos Aires aboard an orange Opala 72, with a mission: be with as many women as possible. This is all a plan to wash the honor of "Caco", a man who found his girlfriend in bed with an Argentine.
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Be kind, please rewind — Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.
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Snatched
🇨🇴 Colombia 🇪🇨 Ecuador The 2010sMess with me, mess with my mother. — When her boyfriend dumps Emily, a spontaneous woman in her 30s, she persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey, their bond as mother and daughter is tested and strengthened while they attempt to navigate the jungle and escape.
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Where I Grow Old
🇧🇷 BrazilTwo young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving portrait of two counterparts, attracting and repelling, is also an ode to Belo Horizonte: a city with no tourist attractions, but bags of atmosphere and lust for life.
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Jungle
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1980sNature has only one law - Survival — In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past. Their journey quickly turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wilderness lead to an all-out fight for survival.
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The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sBuenos Aires, 1977. In the midst of the dictatorship, a man receives information of the whereabouts or two people who are being searched by the military. Now he has the chance to save them, although that means risking his own life.
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Cora Coralina: Todas as Vidas
🇧🇷 BrazilAll the lives of Cora Coralina in a poetic narrative in the voices, feelings and interpretations of six generations of great Brazilian actresses. A polyphony of the voices that inhabited Cora, revealed in prose, verse and images with its immense literary talent and human content. The film reveals the trajectory of Cora Coralina, from her childhood years to getting married and leaving Goiás, from the long period of 45 years lived in different cities in the state of São Paulo and her return to the City of Goiás, when she revealed herself to Brazil with the strength of his poetry.
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The Family
🇻🇪 VenezuelaAndrés and his son Pedro live in a working district of Caracas and hardly ever see each other. While Andrés fills his time doing different jobs, Pedro wanders the streets playing with friends and learning from the violent atmosphere around him.
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Central
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000s The 2010sThe Central Prison of Porto Alegre was considered the worst in Brazil by a commission of inquiry of the Chamber of Deputies in 2008. Now, the place opens its doors to expose the poorly maintained structure and the life of penitentiaries in unhealthy conditions. Prison officials, detainees, and relatives of prisoners tell how their daily lives are in jail and propose a reflection on the condition of the Brazilian penitentiary system.
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The Cambridge Squatter
🇧🇷 BrazilThe Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.
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Nalu on the Border
🇧🇷 BrazilNalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.
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Whirlpool
🇧🇷 BrazilLuzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
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