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Terrible Jungle
🇬🇫 French GuianaFrench Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
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Bernarda is the Homeland
🇦🇷 ArgentinaDuring the last dictatorship and in the first years of return to democracy in Argentina, the under movement suffered attacks, exiles, arrests, ridicule and disqualification for a large part of society and applause from a minor group of people. In that underworld, Transformism was located as a form of expression cultural and artistic. Bernarda is the homeland, deconstructs the gender binary from Lorca and those movements of culture of the 80 '.
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Ecosistemas de la Costanera Sur
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA documentary about the Costanera Sur (south boardwalk) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, including Super 8 filmmakers, conspiracies, choripanes and myths.
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Las mujeres de mi casa
🇨🇱 ChileA family composed of three generations of women live in an old house in the neighborhood of Ñuñoa. On one hand, Leonor must decide her future, on the other hand, Monica must decide if she sells the house in which they have lived their entire lives while Emilia, must face her Alzheimer’s disease.
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Cracks in the Patriarchy
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA documentary told by seven protagonists, who share their personal and political point of view by expressing the reasons and the purposes for their advocacy as members of the Buenos Aires LGBTQI+ Community. Each one of them narrates personal processes and experiences which constitute their social and political identity as well as the motivation for their struggle for an equal and fairer future.
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#ChileDespertó
🇨🇱 ChileAfter the rise of 30 pesos on the Metro fare in Santiago (Chile), Chilean people rise up against the repressive measures of the government to stop the protests. With a scarf on the face and a camara, I’ll show the real upset of the social outbreak that woke up a country that was sleeping for 30 years amongst an illusion of democracy
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Carmen Vidal, mujer detective
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 2010sCarmen Vidal is a private detective addicted to pizza, beer and marijuana who fights against a criminal senator to avenge the death of her best friend.
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Onkel Günter
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s The 1940sA Chilean family of German descendants must confront a painful episode dating back to World War II. Silence gives in when one of its members moves to Berlin and begins to research the disappearance of his grandfather’s twin brother, who was a pilot in the German Army. Back and forth, between Chile and Germany, the director turns into his own history to reflect on how his family’s memory has been shaped, and how past behaviors of the Nazi times have echoes in present generations in Chile.
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Soldier's Woman
🇪🇨 Ecuador... They were scarred forever — Unspeakable events occurred in the town of Manta. Several young women had to flee from there and were despised forever. They were condemned without anyone asking why they did it. Thirty years later, Magda decides to return to rediscover her past, now that she is facing a judicial process that can restore the dignity and honor that her people have denied her. She feels watched, judged in this frozen place in time, until her friends come to accompany her and a little light appears again.
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Caperucita roja
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sTwo women, granddaughter and grandmother, discuss the stories and contradictions of our gender and class, while sewing. Outside, a new generation of feminists takes the streets.
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The Last Matinee
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1990sNo talking. No texting. No breathing. — On a stormy night in Montevideo in 1993, an engineering student named Ana takes over the duties of her father, a projectionist at a declining movie theatre, due to his ill health. Unbeknownst to her, the audience watching the film that she is running are being murdered by a mysterious killer.
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The Rabbits' House
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970sArgentina, 1975. Laura is only eight years old, but she knows that to survive you have to keep quiet. She shares her days with her mother and the other activists in a house where the clandestine printing of the Evita Montonera is hidden.
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Las razones del lobo
🇨🇴 Colombia The 2010sThe memories of an atypical family, in a typical and conventional place of Medellin-Colombia, make a portrait of the last 50 years of violence in the country. These memories, narrated in first person by the documentary filmmaker, range from the emergence of the M-19 guerrilla group in 1970 to the votes in the plebiscite for peace, the result of negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group in 2016. The atypical family is made up of a conservative father who was the mayor of Medellín and a mother who is an academic, intellectual, and researcher of violence, threatened with death and exiled as a result of her ideas and research. The typical place, is a social and sports club of the elite of Medellín about to turn 100 years, and from where the political destinies of the whole country are still decided.
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Vilca, the Magic of Silence
🇦🇷 ArgentinaRicardo Vilca was one of the most transcendent artists in the Argentinean north-west. However, his person and his music remained in the shadows to bigger audiences for years. Like a work of destiny, his songs arrived to Buenos Aires through the voice of important musicians such as León Gieco and Divididos. With unknown archival footage, Vilca is a journey through his story and a tribute, trying to better understand the sources of inspiration that sustain his music.
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Nheengatu – The Language of the Amazon
🇧🇷 BrazilNheengatu – The Language of the Amazon takes us on a journey along the Negro River, on the trail of this language imposed on indigenous people by the first Portuguese colonialists who landed in Brazil in the 15th century. Throughout the various encounters with local communities that still speak this language, the director faces the different cultural, historical and social issues that confront tradition and future.
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Atravessa a Vida
🇧🇷 BrazilWhile a group of high school seniors from an impoverished area of Brazil prepare for an exam that can change the course of their lives, a journey of anxiety and personal drama unfolds before the camera.
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Secrets from Putumayo
🇧🇷 BrazilDocumentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions during the time he spent in Africa, Brazil and in his native Ireland still echo in our days.
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Mal vecino
🇨🇱 ChileMaule Sur is in struggle, the company Coexca S.A. dedicated to the breeding, slaughter and export of pig meat, decided to install in the rural area of the commune of San Javier a mega pig breeding plant, which would reach a total of 144 thousand animals, fear and mistrust, a series of irregularities that also adds to the current pollution that this plant is generating in the daily lives of the residents of San Javier and Cauquenes.
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Chico Rei Among Us
🇧🇷 BrazilChico Rei was an enslaved Congolese king who freed himself and his subjects during the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais. His story is the starting point to explore the various echoes of Brazilian slavery in the lives of black people today, understanding their movement of self-affirmation and freedom from a collective perspective.
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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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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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Dente por Dente
🇧🇷 BrazilA thriller set in São Paulo Brazil, about a private security agent who starts to dream of his teeth falling. Somehow those dreams might be related to a string of mysterious deaths around him. Tormented by his dreams he sets on a journey to investigate, his life, his memory and his subconscious.
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Mulher Oceano
🇧🇷 BrazilAfter relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
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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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La Conmemoración
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sA week before the 1973 Chilean coup d'état 46th commemoration, Miguel and Gaston, electricians, come in aid of Victoria, the widow of an ex CNI agent, to fix a malfunction in her mansion. There, by chance, they will discover a big treasure hidden in the basement. The only problem is to get away with it unnoticed
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El Último Vuelo
🇨🇱 ChileA story in the Chilean countryside. Of those legends that the old ones tell. They say that a witch lived with Ariel, a boy who always wanted to fly. When the adolescence of young Ariel arrived, unfortunately, he lost all his family. Hopefully, he took it as an opportunity to leave. To a journey with no return, one that the witches had already destined.
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Ni juntos, ni solos
🇨🇱 ChileAmparo is 18 years old and lives in the city of Iquique, in northern Chile. Among confusion, she must deal with the discovery of her father's secret life, feel love for the first time, decide whether to leave her hometown to study, and even realize that perhaps friendship is not meant to be forever.
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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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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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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 Kids in the Bikes
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThroughout Córdoba, Argentina, there is a wave of looting, and the police are taking several young people. In the midst of this hectic period, teenage Juliana becomes pregnant by her boyfriend, Lautaro. Juliana wants to have an abortion, but she is afraid to do it with pills and they do not have money to pay for an intervention.
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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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(In)Voluntary Retirements
🇦🇷 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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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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In the Border
🇦🇷 ArgentinaVero lives with her older brother Abel, and they both work together at a construction site. There she has to put up with the advances of some of the workers, which is something she’s used to doing because she’s had this job since she was a lot younger. In the Border follows this character on her path to becoming a better person, which is represented in her way of helping a cousin with an abusive husband and in the NGO she signs up for to give food to the homeless who live on Paseo Colón Avenue. But there’s another parallel film here, and it’s the one in which Campusano’s eye captures the City of Buenos Aires in his own unique way. One of those great moments takes place as soon as the film begins, when Campusano stops to film some street musicians while they rap on a subway platform.
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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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Historias de Verano
🇺🇾 UruguayFive stories of summer love lived by young Uruguayans and the hopeful record - of three sunsets - to see the green ray.
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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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Let the Lights Move Away
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA cat wandering among the pastures, the sparks that emerge among the red embers of a fire, a man walking under the shadow of high trees in the middle of a forest, a distant fire, the ghostly figure of firemen at night: these are some of the minimal postcards that make up the enormous beauty of the Manantiales mountains, in the outskirts of Córdoba, Argentina.
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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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Re-Existences
🇧🇷 Brazil“Re-Existence” is a documentary about migration stories of individuals from the Brazilian queer community.
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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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