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Lampião da Esquina: Lighting Up Brazilian Press
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sInspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper “O Lampião”, depicting the point of view of gays on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project, fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time, addressing controversial issues at the period, such as racism, abortion, drugs and prostitution.
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My Annoying Brother
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sSometimes brothers are no better than strangers. — A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.
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El paseo 4
🇨🇴 ColombiaThis year, the Rubio family goes to Miami. Beach, breeze and sea with pot walk included. So it is the style of this picturesque family that by chance the destination has the opportunity to travel to Miami. Finally they will spend holidays in another place different from their dear Sasaima. Soon Miami will receive these enthusiastic tourists full of patriotism that dazzled by the magic of the city of the sun will try to leave the name of the motherland very high. And as the suitcase is known to the passenger, the Rubio-Cucalon displaying all its Colombian charm will live the most fun situations that will leave surprised and enchanted to more than an unprepared gringo. Will the Rubio-Cucalón succumb to the American dream?
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Only Child
🇦🇷 ArgentinaDelfina returns from New York to a small riverside town in the province of Buenos Aires. There she visits a tomb of an older woman and one of a younger woman, named Julia, who is identical to her.
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Bromance
🇦🇷 ArgentinaUntil the desire appears — When three friends go on a camping trip in a remote part of Argentina, sexual tensions quickly bubble to the surface. Once in virtual seclusion by the beach, Juli, also camping at the site, quickly recognises that that the boys seem to have a closer relationship than what she would consider 'normal'. The line between friendship and love fade further for two of the boys in particular as their desire becomes too much to bear. When what started as a simple getaway quickly becomes tinged with sex, romance, and conflict, everyone is forced to confront who they really are for the very first time.
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Dolphins Go East
🇺🇾 UruguayAn almost family comedy — Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.
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Los globos
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAfter being in rehab for two years, Cesar now works in a small balloon factory in suburban Buenos Aires. His former father in law will force him to take care of his young estranged son, whose mother died in an accident. But Cesar has plans to give Alfonso up for adoption.
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All About Asado
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAll About Asado is a trip into the culinary heart of Argentina. Asado, the tradition of grilled meat, is a food and also a ritual. It is primitive and modern, wild and sophisticated, an art and a science. Few phenomena reveal the essential characteristics of Argentina’s national identity with more originality and precision. Equal parts road-movie, documentary and fiction, Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s playful film delves into the almost sacred tradition of asado, using a sharp and irreverent gaze to explore the country’s meaty fixation.
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Vapor
🇦🇷 ArgentinaFormer lovers randomly find each other, and start to catch up, walking in the Buenos Aires night.
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Music When The Lights Go Out
🇧🇷 BrazilA documentary floating on this thin border between fiction and reality. An author comes to a small city in Brazil’s countryside, to turn Emelyn’s life into a fictional narrative. The more the author teases Emelyn with cameras, the more she becomes Bernard, a teenager boy divided between living the desire and continuing desiring.
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2001: Mientras Kubrick estaba en el espacio
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2000sIn 2001, far from the space ships, Argentina suffers a social and economic crisis that rages the fury in the streets. Looting, violence and terror are part of the everyday landscape. Fear overflows the atmosphere and families are breaking down in a rarefied climate.
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Roberto Bolaño: La batalla futura
🇨🇱 ChileA look at the renowned writer Roberto Bolaño, and the turmoil caused by his strange relationship with Chile, his homeland. We approach the writer through his friends, his irony and his genius, traveling across Mexico, Spain and Chile.
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Don't Forget About Me
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1930sDestiny is what you choose. — Buenos Aires Province, a summer in the 30's. Mateo, an ex convict anarchist, travels around the Pampa in his old truck, carrying stolen hens and the illusion of finding his lost rooster, The King, which, he hopes, will lead him to glory at the cockfights. Fate faces him with Aurelia and Carmelo, two siblings in search for their father. Wandering, uncertain about his final destination, Mateo decides to give them a ride southbound.
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Fuga de la Patagonia
🇦🇷 Argentina The 19th CenturyEscape from Patagonia is a gaucho-western film set in the tumultuous Patagonia of late nineteenth century. It's a story of survival, based on real facts from the personal diary of the Argentinian pioneer Francisco P. Moreno.
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Red Gringo
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1950s The 1960sDocumentary concerning North American pop/rock musician Dean Reed who achieves fame in Latin America in the 50s and 60s
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Maldito seas Waterfall
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe art of do nothing — Solitary and sometimes attacked by an asthmatic crisis, Roque Waterfall leads, at age 30, an unproductive life and, little or nothing at work, lives on a small family inheritance. His passion is to collect videos of Atlanta, the club of his loves, and in one of his few nocturnal outings he meets Hans, a German intellectual nihilist who is in Buenos Aires to make a documentary film about people who have nothing. But when he meets Roque he decides that his film will be about someone who does not do anything, of course he is not sure if he wants to show himself before the camera, and while trying to escape the director he meets Carla, whose charm stimulates him to interrupt his sedentary life .
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The German Neighbor
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 2010sIn 1960 Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial. In 2016, Renate -a young German translator who lives in Buenos Aires- is hired to translate it. Her work shows the unusual life and remarkable trial defense of Eichmann.
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Subte: Polska
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAs a young man, Tadeusz left behind his sweetheart and his entire family to fight for the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. After the war was lost, the rise of fascism made it unsafe for a Jewish communist to return to Europe, and Tadeusz was forced to immigrate to Buenos Aires, literally going underground to help build the subway tunnels beneath the city. Refusing the doctor’s pills he believes responsible for robbing his lucidity and manhood, Tadeusz’s past begins to meld with the present. Knowing that his next journey will likely be his last, Tadeusz sets about reconnecting with long-lost lovers from his youth, with help from an eccentric circle of caring friends and neighbours. A sharply observed character study depicting a quixotic life that comes full circle in its final, bittersweet chapter.
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El jugador
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA retired gambler who works for a wealthy meat entrepreneur, travels to Mar del Plata where he must give a considerable sum of money to his boss's grandchildren.
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Easy Ball
🇦🇷 ArgentinaSometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the total, absolute and exclusive passion is San Lorenzo, which is not only an active part of his past, but a healthy obsession that bathes that gives color to his life. Until a single mother and her son cross their path. Now there will be someone to share the passion with. Maybe something more.
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1986. The story behind the Cup
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sHeroes are not extraordinary, they are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. — Anecdotes and testimonials about the performance of Argentina in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The whole story behind the Cup.
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Narcos: Season 2
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1990sSeason two continues the story of drug lord Pablo Escobar, the ruthless boss of the Medellin Cartel, including his incarceration in a prison he himself builds and his subsequent fall from power.
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Our Brand Is Crisis
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 2000sMay the best campaign win. — Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
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After the Rain
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980sSalvador, 1984. After twenty years of dictatorship, people go to the streets to ask for general elections. This will be a year of transformations for the country and the young Caio.
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Focus
🇦🇷 ArgentinaNever Drop The Con. — Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
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Point Break
🇻🇪 VenezuelaThe only law that matters is gravity — A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
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Sealed Cargo
🇧🇴 Bolivia The 1990sIn 1995, several cargo containers are discovered high in the Bolivian Andes. Inside are potentially toxic chemicals, and local policeman Mariscal soon becomes charged with the task of smuggling the containers into neighboring Chile. He recommissions an old train to haul the toxic waste out of Bolivia, but encounters one mishap after another, beginning with the local townspeople who know what's inside, halting the train's path.
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The 33
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sHope Runs Deep — Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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Lo que nunca nos dijimos
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIntimate story of a small family, starring Marian, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Di Mateo, who after several years of living in Mexico returns to his hometown Mendoza, because her father is dying; although the true intent of her return is to say what was sealed by the silence of the unspoken in an exemplary family as such as her mother claims to sustain.
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Magallanes
🇵🇪 PeruEveryone has pending affairs — Magallanes sees his humdrum life turn upside down the day Celina, a women he met in the violent years when he was a soldier with the Peruvian Army, jumps into his taxi in a Lima street. This unexpected re-encounter after 25 years with the dark past that unites them prompts Magallanes to embark on a daring plan to help Celina get money and find his own redemption.
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Cássia
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sCássia Eller Rejane. Cássia Eller. Cássia. A powerful restless force on stage, shined herself out of it. One of the greats of Brazilian music, Cássia Eller marked the 1990s and shocked the country with her early death in 2001. A film about the singer, the mother, the woman who exposed her personal life and broke barriers, leaving a beautiful social and artistic legacy.
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The Second Mother
🇧🇷 BrazilAfter leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
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Colonia
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThere is no turning back — A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
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The Pearl Button
🇨🇱 ChileThe ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
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The Club
🇨🇱 ChileIn a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
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The Debt
🇵🇪 PeruSet against the backdrop of an international finance deal in New York and Peru, Oliver's Deal is an intense political drama which explores how far people will go to get what they want.
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Seashore
🇧🇷 BrazilA lonely beach on the southernmost coast of Brazil is the scene for two friends, on the brink of adulthood, to explore their understanding of themselves and one another. Martin (Mateus Almada) has been sent by his father to retrieve what appears to be an inheritance-related document from the family of his recently deceased and estranged grandfather. Tomaz (Mauricio Jose Barcellos) accompanies him, seemingly hoping to regain some of their former closeness. The two boys shelter themselves in a glass house, in front of a cold and stormy sea.
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Landfill Harmonic
🇵🇾 Paraguay The 2010s"Landfill Harmonic" follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. Under the guidance of idealistic music director Favio Chavez, the orchestra must navigate a strange new world of arenas and sold-out concerts. However, when a natural disaster strikes their country, Favio must find a way to keep the orchestra intact and provide a source of hope for their town. The film is a testament to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Beyond My Grandfather Allende
🇨🇱 ChileMarcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first democratic socialist president who was overthrown by the Army in September 1973, seeks to reconstruct the personal and familiar image of her grandfather, buried by his historical person, her exile and the family pain.
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Babysitting 2
🇧🇷 BrazilFranck and his girlfriend Sonya, plus some of their friends go on holiday in Brazil. Franck, his friends, two girls and Sonya's grandmother leave to visit a cave, but everything goes wrong and their crazy adventures begin.
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Last Conversations
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sMade from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, film editor Jordana Berg, and the final cut is signed by João Moreira Salles.
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Nitrate Flames
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sWhat ever happened to Dreyer's Joan of Arc? — French actress Maria Falconetti (1892-1946) traveled a winding road from her glory days in luminous Paris, in the 1920s, to her last days in Buenos Aires, in the late 1940s. In her strange journey through life, she found a very special character, the center of a tragic story and the obsession of a peculiar filmmaker: a unique opportunity, a sublime performance, so remarkable that nothing would ever be the same for her again…
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Paulina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaPaulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was attacked, without realizing that her attackers may be even closer than she thought.
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Land and Shade
🇨🇴 ColombiaAlfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.
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Embrace of the Serpent
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1940s The 1900sA poetic and haunting journey into a lost world. — The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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Alias Maria
🇨🇴 ColombiaA vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.
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S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 2
🇧🇷 BrazilAfraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening.
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An Important Premiere
🇦🇷 ArgentinaFor many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive authoritarian governments shaped the will of the spectators, dictating what could be seen and what could not, so that the true cinema lovers, in their desire to watch films, had no choice but to embark on the most extraordinary and strange adventures.
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Strange Days
🇦🇷 ArgentinaTwo young Colombians, Luna y Juan, live in the suburbs of a Buenos Aires without Argentines. Their relationship oscillates between tender gestures and violent explosions. Everything between them gradually gets more intense: their games, fights, recklessness and even their monotony. But something changes when Federica shows up that sets into crisis the fragile nature of their relationship, unveiling the decadence they have gotten themselves into.
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