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Yo no es otro
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA portrait of the everyday life of the great Argentinian painter Remo Bianchedi. We see him in his lonely house, spending time with a friend, always working in the most absolute of isolations—an author that perseveres in secret, like a monk, removed from the art world, its advantages and its whims.
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Crónicas de un exilio
🇵🇪 PeruDirector Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s voice, the feel tells of the director’s vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Argentine history.
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(upa) una pandemia argentina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe universe of Argentine independent cinema. The imposture. The unfulfilled dreams. Confinement—the capability for irony, the skill for comedy and the sagacity of UPA! Una película argentina (2007) are back, renovated, to explore the whims of a microworld still in turmoil.
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Channel 54
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sAn investigation about a transmission parallel to that of man’s arrival to the Moon, captured by a radio ham from Avellaneda, confronts the director of Channel 54 with a series of conspiracy theories and mysterious figures. Doing so also means questioning the nature of the images.
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A fines de agosto
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA group of friendly characters get tangled in the streets of Buenos Aires between jobs, infidelities, plays, books and musical instruments. A young director takes refuge in movie theaters and declares a sudden muteness. Despite his own and other people's pressures, he refuses to direct a script that he hates. In the end, he makes an unexpected decision.
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Antarctic bear
🇦🇷 ArgentinaConnection between a statue and the history of Cordoba — A man and a woman walk through the night of the city of Cordoba following clues left by an old man in a series of small wooden boxes. The clues reveal information about the city's statues and their mysterious links to local history.
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The Good Cinema
🇧🇷 BrazilAn authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
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Edna
🇧🇷 BrazilOn the edge of the Transbrasiliana highway, Edna lives in a land in ruins, built on massacres.
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Nosotras también estuvimos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sDuring the Malvinas war, more than a thousand Argentine soldiers were wounded. Many were cared for by 14 nurses in a mobile hospital located in Comodoro Rivadavia. After 37 years of silence, three of them return to the place to tell their stories.
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Dos Gringos
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sThe photographer and filmmaker Guillermo Cantón premiered “Dos Gringos”, a one-hour documentary on the history of the last 100% Argentine automaker: Industrias Eduardo Sal-Lari (IES). Based on Citroën products, IES manufactured low-cost vehicles in the Buenos Aires town of Mercedes, between 1983 and 1990.
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Você Nos Queima
🇧🇷 BrazilA character who has a voice and a body narrates an interrupted love experience. This immersion in subjectivity, as well as some fragments of almost lost poems by Safo and Lucrécio and some musical paths, lead us through images of different bodies of other people in constant motion in the streets, at parties, at home or inside the subway, while they move from somewhere indefinite to another in the city of São Paulo - in an indeterminate mix between the most everyday concreteness of the gesture and the possible abstraction of dance.
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To the Sea
🇨🇱 ChileThe story of Ana and Diego, a couple who decide to go live on the coast in Chile. There, they meet Vicente, with whom Diego secretly begins a relationship. Ana, for her part, must decide if she wants to open up to a relationship that deconstructs the traditional ways of relating affectively.
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Vai!
🇧🇷 BrazilCorinthians has spent 23 years without winning a title. Its fanbase, however, only grew and became more and more present: both in the life of the team and in the political life of the country.
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Usina-Desejo Contra a Indústria do Medo
🇧🇷 BrazilBill and Penelope are filmmakers who live together during a terrible era in Brazil. After a disaster, Bill's job hangs in the balance. Penelope introduces him to Usina-Desejo, channel of the Tarlogue Oracle on Youtube, which introduces the duo to a world full of mysteries. The end of this misadventure you decide
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Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
🇧🇷 BrazilA self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
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4x100: Running for a Dream
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe women's athletics (4x100m relay) is about to win a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian victory is almost certain and the athletes are one step closer to what would be a milestone. If only one fatal error hadn't put off their dreams: the carelessness of the young Maria Lúcia causes the group to be disqualified. This changes Maria Lúcia and Adriana's lives forever, Adriana does not forgive her teammate after the final. Four years go by. Maria Lúcia is still the great promise in athletics while Adriana makes a living out of MMA fighting. A few months away from the Tokyo Olympics, they are called in to join the new 4x100 team. This time, Maria Lúcia and Adriana need to overcome the mistakes of the past. They count on the help of veterans Rita and Jaciara as well as newcomer Bia, athletes who rediscover their true power as a team, showing that the Brazilian women's athletics is stronger than ever.
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What I've Never Lost
🇧🇷 BrazilA feature documentary on the life of Alzira Espíndola and her impact and influence on different generations of Brazilian music. From her origins on Mato Grosso do Sul to her breakthrough as a instrumentist and composer in São Paulo, the movie explores her life, work and ventures with partners such as Itamar Assumpção, Ney Matogrosso and her sister Tetê Espíndola with irreverence and erudition.
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Muribeca
🇧🇷 BrazilFaced with the imminent transformation of their homes into a true ghost town, residents of the Muribeca Housing Complex express the physical death of a community still alive in memory and feelings. The disappearance of the neighborhood (in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco), due to structural problems, real estate speculation and a long and turbid imbroglio between residents and agencies responsible for the work, is witnessed through resilience and resistance, affective landscapes and memories , who sometimes seek shelter in nostalgia, sometimes rekindle the resolute flame of hope.
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Chico Mário - A Melodia da Liberdade
🇧🇷 BrazilYounger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world.
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Secos & Molhados
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sThe founder of Secos & Molhados, João Ricardo, gives his version of the story of one of the main bands of the 1970s.
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Toada para José Siqueira
🇧🇷 BrazilA feature documentary on the life and work of Brazilian conductor, teacher, musicologist and composer José Siqueira. Founder of some of the most important Brazilian orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra, Siqueira was part of the 3rd. nationalist generation of Brazilian composers who used folklore as a source of inspiration and emphasized their northeastern roots in their work. An artist and leader of the musical class who showed the world the strength and diversity of Brazilian culture and who remains unknown in his own country after having his history erased by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
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Brincando com Maracatu
🇧🇷 BrazilAline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of Recife's Maracatu Estrela Brilhante Nação, she and her traveling companions reflect deeply on the different aspects of this genre, beyond music.
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Filme Hõkrepöj
🇧🇷 BrazilA deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Kilza Setti and the Hésperides Música das Américas nucleus, the documentary takes us to a world where contemporary music, the Guarani and Timbira peoples, the colonization of America and poetic professions meet.
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Sidereal
🇧🇷 BrazilThe historic launch day of the first Brazilian manned rocket affects the lives of Marcela, Marcos and their two children. — In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.
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Cantareira
🇧🇷 BrazilBento, a worker and resident of downtown São Paulo, returns to the place where he grew up, his grandfather’s house in Serra da Cantareira, seeking not only peace, but also a job.
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Doutor Gama
🇧🇷 BrazilBased on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
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Valley of the Righteous
🇧🇷 Brazil The 19th CenturyIn the 19th century Minas Gerais hinterland, an outsider discovers a mysterious bar.
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Migliaccio: O Brasileiro em Cena
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe documentary Migliaccio - O Brasileiro em Cena follows the path of those who take risks for the art, either as directors, as writers, as scenographers and even as costume designers. The Oscarito trophy received by Flávio Migliaccio in 2014 Gramado Film Festival crowns a career enmeshed by many threads. Since Migliaccio has performed in different fields of art - from cinema and theater to literature and drawing -, the documentary creates varied visual interventions to enchain the narrative, in addition to the interviews and archive pictures, such as a shadow play to represent his humble childhood, and to the cartoons the artist drew to portray his existential questions in his ranch in Rio Bonito (State of Rio de Janeiro). Images and stories that aim to show a professional and personal life pervaded by possibilities and attitudes, both artistic and political.
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Un País Llamado El Pez que Fuma
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1970sDocumentary that has unpublished testimonies from Román Chalbaud, director of El pez que fuma, an emblematic Venezuelan film from the 1970s; as well as funny conversations with the actors, 40 years after the premiere of the film. Made from a solid video-newspaper investigation, the film has unpublished stills and behind-the-scenes scenes, as well as incredible technical anecdotes, explanations about the montage and the rehearsal of scenes.
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A Suspeita
🇧🇷 Brazil"A Suspeita" is a thriller of police investigation, that tells the story of Dolores do Nascimento, a renowned police investigator. At age 50, has dedicated her entire life to her profession and is a respected name among her peers. Everything changes during an investigation, a writer that was writing the memoir of one of the drug trafficking lord, and had his phone tapped illegally by Dolores, is assassinated and she is under investigation by her superiors. At the same time, she finds out she has Alzheimer.
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Homem Onça
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1990sPEDRO was a child in the small town of Barbosa during the 50s. He was 11 when he first heard the story of a jaguar turning up during the night in the nearby farms. One night, a farmer prepared a trap and killed the jaguar. The next day all the kids went running to see this beautiful creature, lying dead, with its yellowish skin full of black dots all dirty of blood. This image stayed with Pedro for the rest of his life. Fast-forward to the 90s and Pedro (55) now lives in Rio de Janeiro with his family. He works as Environmental Projects Manager at Gas Brasil (GB), a state-owned company. His wife SONIA (45) is an economist who has just lost her job of many years at a multinational company. ROSA (20), their daughter, is studying Journalism at university. PAULA (40), KATIA (39) and GUTO (35) form Pedro's team at Environmental Projects. DANTAS (53), also a manager at the company since the 70s, is Pedro's best friend.
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En el nombre del litio
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIt is a documentary about the struggle of the original communities of northern Argentina to prevent their salt flats, where one of the largest lithium reserves in the world are found, from becoming a “sacrifice zone” to reduce global warming.
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Sobre Olhares
🇧🇷 BrazilThe feature film that brings together 12 shorts by youngsters of the suburbs of São Paulo, addressing issues such as the lack of work perspective, racism, right to housing and homophobia.
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O Dia da Posse
🇧🇷 BrazilBrendo wants to be president of Brazil. Until that day, he studies law, makes videos for the networks, dreams of new achievements and imagines himself in a reality show during the pandemic.
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Reação em Cadeia
🇧🇷 BrazilA peaceful accountant, after find again a love of youth, discovers a big embezzlement in the company where he works. Thanks to the fact, he ends up involving in a corruption network that supplies the Brazilian politician system .
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Quem Saiu Para Entrega?
🇧🇷 BrazilA vertical documentary, directed remotely. — Five delivery workers tell stories during COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
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Honoris Causa
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sHonoris Causa is an essay documentary that records Jacques Rancière's visit to the University of Valparaíso in 2017. The city is transformed into an open place that welcomes the philosopher and the images interweave to give shape and tension to a political narrative that speaks to us of the university, knowledge, philosophy, art and friendship.
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The Aftermath
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2020sBrazil, 2022. Luiza is a veterinarian whose life is torn apart after a global data leak exposes private user content from major social networks. A reflection on technology, friendship and solitude.
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[O vazio que atravessa]
🇧🇷 BrazilCrossed by greed, two hundred and seventy-two people were buried by tailings from the Vale mining company in Brumadinho (MG), Brazil. The emptiness that now crosses those who try to carry on will never be filled. This tribute film is dedicated to the victims of the irresponsible mining tragedy that continues to take its toll with blood and devastation.
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Sweet River
🇧🇷 BrazilUnder pressure from a back pain and being constantly short of money, Tiago (played by Okado do Canal) experiences an encounter that will reshape everything he knew about his own father, instilling an imminent crisis in his way of being. Set amid the outskirts of Olinda and the Recife middle class, the film contrasts both worlds without ignoring or overlooking the complexity of human relationships. In this universe where rap beats and community life thrive, we glimpse through the cracks of a disintegrating family model the construction of another masculinity.
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Protests against the violence of security guards and shopping mall employees in Brazil have mobilized thousands of people in recent years. This form of protest showed the barriers imposed by racial discrimination and social exclusion. Follow in this documentary the lives and memories of three black characters that went through traumatic racism situations and took part in the protests which recently took place in shopping malls. Discover the dreams, beauty, poetry, art and politics of a generation that has found new ways of dealing with violence by promoting an intense debate across the Brazil about how black lives matter.
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Suriname
🇸🇷 SurinameWhen Winston Righter decides eligible to stand for the presidency in Suriname, he is confronted with his criminal past. A chess breaks loose as he competes with justice and the underworld.
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The Cotton Wool War
🇧🇷 BrazilDora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she discovers the incredible history behind the women of her family.
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Cosas de hombres
🇨🇱 ChileSantiago comes out of the closet to his 2 long life friends at the age of 50. The reaction is not very positive from one of them, Raul. Who tries by all means, to convince Santiago that he is only going through a moment of sexual confusion, and there's no way he is gay.
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Adoniran - Meu Nome é João Rubinato
🇧🇷 BrazilAdoniran Barbosa bears the title of São Paulo's greatest samba singer of all time. Through the artist's personal collection, rare archive images and testimonials from friends and family, discover a multifaceted character who portrayed his São Paulo in songs and radio characters. Having the city as an auxiliary, the documentary draws a parallel between today's metropolis and the one lived by Adoniran.
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Kill Chain
🇨🇴 ColombiaA hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.
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The House in Argüello
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1980sAfter the appearance her uncle’s remains, disappeared in Argentina military dictatorship, Valentina (documentary’s director, born in jail) explores the stories of her grandmother-Mother of Plaza de Mayo and her mother-political prisoner- to find those memories that her mind does not seem to find.
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Las cruces
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sIn September 1973, 19 paper mill workers were imprisoned and taken to the Laja police station. Six years later, their bodies were found in Yumbel’s cemetery. After almost 40 years, one of the policemen involved broke the pact of silence they had made the night of the killing, revealing the participation of the Paper Manufacturing Company (CMPC) in the murder. Today, the case is still open and awaiting sentence.
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The Imaginary State
🇨🇱 ChileA Chilean man travels to Sweden searching for the answer to a crime that involves his family.
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