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Sun Inside
🇧🇷 BrazilIs the end of the school year, the heat comes, and with it regular power cuts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio have a harsh summer ahead of them. In a country where living conditions are increasingly precarious, these four young people will faced with the uncertainties of adulthood, invent new ways, perhaps unthinkable, to continue growing and dreaming.
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Story of My Name
🇨🇱 ChileA peculiar coincidence — After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this journey appears the memory of a photo for Karin Eitel, a young woman, tortured and detained during the dictatorship, to whom I owe my name. A story that my parents never told me, brings me closer to Karin and not just because of my name. In the background, the memory of a childhood in Chile, a country that reconstructed its democracy omitting its own history.
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Sai de Baixo: O Filme
🇧🇷 BrazilOn “Sai de Baixo,” anything can happen! — Based on the classic Brazilian television series that conquered audiences during Sunday night prime time on TV Globo, with improv that happens like in scenes of a play. The feature film’s structure maintains the members of a middle-class family from São Paulo, their maid, and the building’s doorman. It’s the return of iconic characters like Caco Antibes, Magda and Ribamar, and also new characters.
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In the Heart of the World
🇧🇷 BrazilThe inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.
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The Lost Frame
🇨🇱 ChileA Chilean filmmaker makes a return trip through his filmography in search of a forgotten frame.The Lost Frame is a retrospective documentary about work,themes and reflections around images.
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The Weasel's Tale
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
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Some Beasts
🇨🇱 ChileA family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the island, the smiles begin to disappear. With cold, without water and without certainties, tempers are diluted, exposing the tensions that each member of the family hides.
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The Prince
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sChile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.
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The Traitor
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980s The 1990sThe true story about the man who brought down the Mafia — Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
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4x4
🇦🇷 ArgentinaWelcome aboard — Buenos Aires, Argentina. A luxurious van is parked on the sidewalk. A man enters with the purpose of stealing whatever he can find, but when he wants to leave, he cannot. The doors do not open, the control panel does not respond: the van has become an armored box and he is trapped like a mouse.
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Your Turn
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sWhen numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.
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Men of Hard Skin
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAriel is a good-looking farm boy who lives with his father and sister in a rural part of Buenos Aires province. He has become familiar with sex thanks to Omar, a priest with whom he has a secret affair.
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Homing
🇧🇷 BrazilIn the bucolic countryside of Brazil, Marcelo, an easygoing cowboy at a cattle farm lives for one passion: rodeos. One tragic incident affects him deeply. Little by little he overcomes the trauma and is ready to dream again.
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Breakwater
🇧🇷 BrazilA group of friends from São Paulo head for a secluded beach to celebrate New Year’s. Together they relax, sunbathe and make music. And they talk: about their sexuality, their bodies, their hair, their youth, their fears, certainties and uncertainties, as anyone does sometimes with good friends. Along the way, we learn a lot about contemporary Brazil.
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Lemebel
🇨🇱 ChilePedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas, stilettos and a sharp tongue, he staged revolutionary performances that defied the era’s terror, he said what no one wanted to hear in a homophobic, repressed and militarized country.
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Brief Story from the Green Planet
🇦🇷 ArgentinaTania learns that her grandmother spent the last years of her life in the loving company of an alien. Together with two friends, the Trans woman travels through rural Argentina to bring the creature back to its place of origin.
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Mute Fire
🇨🇴 Colombia The 1900sOn 6 March 1906, four men were executed for the attempted murder of Colombian president Rafael Reyes. The event was photographed, and the photos were later used for a fictionalised film on the failed coup. From then on, cinema in this South American country has been inextricably linked to its violent history. Moving images have been used for historiography, propaganda, disinformation and to instil unity in a nation that refuses to come together. Falsos positivos, murdered youths disguised as guerrillas by the army to simulate military success, are a common element.
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Let It Burn
🇧🇷 BrazilA gritty observation of precarious romance, debauchery, and heartbreak between addicts living in a São Paulo hotel.
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Lamento
🇧🇷 BrazilWe are at all times making decisions that define who we are and what we face in our day to day. Elder manages the hotel inherited from his father throughout his life. In his hands the hotel went from a luxury resort to a hotel on the verge of bankruptcy. He is the portrait of a people whose life was easy but at the height of his fifties he faces the consequences of a life of excess with an erratic and cyclical addiction to alcohol and cocaine. Unsuccessful in his professional life, this failure is repeated in his social life with a marriage in ruins and with no prospect of improvement. At the limit of his emotional balance, Elder puts everything at risk when facing his demons and the consequences of their decisions. A story that finds its peer in every family nucleus of the Brazilian middle class.
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Reflejo actoral
🇨🇱 ChileA group of Chilean actors reflect on their works when they see footage off their characters on film and TV.
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Perro bomba
🇨🇱 ChileA young Haitian immigrant living in Santiago de Chile, will see his life balance shaken after a series of unexpected events that will fuel a deep racist reactions in his environment.
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Infection
🇻🇪 VenezuelaFilm about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an epidemic of aggressive and cannibalistic beings. Doctor Adam Vargas is in the midst of all this, when he begins a journey within a ravaged Venezuela to save his son from being infected.
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Me, Myself and My Dead Wife
🇦🇷 ArgentinaBernardo is a renowned architect and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He just buried his wife, refusing to fulfill his desire to be incinerated and thrown into “Costa del Sol”. Only when his wife’s grave is desecrated, he decides to take the trip to Spain. With Abel, owner of a bankrupt real estate business, and Amalia, a beautiful public relations employee, Bernardo will be involved in absurd situations to get rid of the ashes of his wife. Bernardo will discover that he didn’t know his wife as much as he imagined.
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Spider
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe past is always present — Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
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Darkness
🇵🇾 ParaguayEveryone is afraid of something. — An anthology of nine short horror stories set in Paraguay.
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Héroxs del 88
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sIn the year 1988, Chuchu Fasanelli and Walter Kolm, two 24- and 20-year-old young men, founders of the Radio Trípoli label, released Invasión 88, the first punk and hardcore compilation in Argentina. This documentary tells that story, that of the birth of a cry of freedom in the shape of translucent vinyl.
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God
🇨🇱 ChileIn a country at the world's end, the highest authority of the Catholic Church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.
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Jairo’s Revenge
🇨🇴 ColombiaJairo José Pinilla Téllez is the pioneer of suspense and science fiction in Colombian film. Pinilla was the first to use special effects in Colombian film and now, at the age of over 70, he is working to finish his last film. This documentary follows Jairo’s footsteps through Colombian film.
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O Barato de Iacanga
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980sParticipants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
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Ituzaingó v3rit4
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThis night, Ituzaingó, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, exudes film and theater. Actors, actresses, directors, and producers parade like narcissuses of the underground in a world of jealousy, hypocrisy, idiocy, and so much more.
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Palau the Movie
🇦🇷 ArgentinaOne man, millions of souls. — After his father passes away at age 10, the lives of Luis Palau and his family are changed forever. Within a few years of his father's death, Luis, his siblings, and his mother are left nearly destitute. Luis is forced to discontinue his education at an elite boarding school in Argentina and provide for his family as they slip into poverty.
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Life In Common
🇦🇷 ArgentinaA puma stalks Pueblo Nación Ranquel, an indigenous community in the North of Argentina. Hunting is a rite of passage, and the older boys want to kill the puma. But Uriel chooses a different path.
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The Guru
🇨🇱 ChileIn the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself, like when he delivers blows on the punching-ball. A machine that dreams of glory. Because in his other life, Carlos is little-by-little becoming “the Guru”, who ceaselessly trains in what little leisure time he has so that he can win his match.
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Sertânia
🇧🇷 BrazilWhen bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.
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Maria Luiza
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sThe first transgender in the brazilian army, Maria Luiza's story begins in Ceres (Goiás, Brazil), where she was born in July 20, 1960 - the same day we celebrate Santos Dummont's birthday, patron of the Brazilian Aviation. Since she was a child, she didn't consider herself as a boy. During puberty, she went through a vocal cord scraping process and a hormonal treatment to become manlier. Depressed, she dropped out of school. At 18 she enlisted in the Air Force, and being completely in love with airplanes, she saw an opportunity there. She was drafted into the military in 1979. It marked the beginning of 22 years of service as a military aircraft mechanic in Brasilia.
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Heroic Losers
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIn a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
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Santos de Todos os Gols
🇧🇷 BrazilThe goal is the culmination of any football match that prevails: the moment of maximum euphoria expected by any team. And the team of Santos is known for being the Brazilian record holder who has rocked the networks to this day. In this essay, idols like Pelé, Robinho and Serginho Chulapa tell how their sensations blended into the Club's own history in its most important moments on and off the field.
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A Treat of Coutinho
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sWould have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.
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Alvaro: Rockstars Don’t Wet the Bed
🇨🇱 ChileDocumentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)
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Gepe y Margot Loyola: Folclor imaginario
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010s"Folclor imaginario" was one of the most acclaimed Chilean albums of 2018, and this documentary sets in front of the camera the reasons, searches and associations that led to such brilliant result of crossing with the tradition
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Normalistas. Amor por la enseñanza
🇨🇱 ChileThe story of primary teachers in Chile and their links with feminist struggles for a free and quality education; which nowadays is the most significant social movement in the country.
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Hell and Back
🇦🇷 ArgentinaLa Pampa, Argentina. María, a teacher in a small town who is about to become a mother, decides to leave her violent husband to raise her child in a better place. A small incident triggers the beginning of her journey through the hostile desert.
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The Fortress
🇨🇴 ColombiaIn the final days leading up to the Colombian national soccer finals, Jorge, a young man from the northeastern Colombia, travels 1,000 miles across the country with his friends to see his native Bucaramanga’s soccer team. Proving their commitment as loyal fans, they travel by illegally hopping onto tractor trailers to attend the most important game of the season — one that promises the team a chance to return to Division A of the Colombian professional soccer league after eight years in Division B.
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Maluma: What I Was, What I Am, What I Will Be
🇨🇴 ColombiaIntimate interviews, sold out concerts and archive footage that narrates the path to success of the Colombian singer and songwriter Maluma.
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Pacarrete
🇧🇷 BrazilRussas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.
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Divaldo: O Mensageiro da Paz
🇧🇷 BrazilBorn in the small town of Feira de Santana, in the interior of Bahia, Divaldo has lived with mediumship since he was 4 years old. Disturbed by what he sees, rejected by other children and repressed by his father, the boy does not have an easy childhood. At 17, he is convinced that it is useless to try to deny his gift. With the support of his mother, he comes into contact with Spiritism and moves to Salvador to study the doctrine. Under the guidance of his spiritual guide, Joanna de Ângelis, the young man overcomes the homesickness and the loneliness of the big city and embraces his mission. A few years later, that strange boy from Feira de Santana becomes one of the most important mediums of all time and gives up his personal life to dedicate himself to charity.
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Abraço
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000sIn 2008, Sergipe teachers engaged in legal struggle with the state government to prevent the loss of rights already won. 30,000 teachers from all over the state leave their schools and go on a long journey to fight in the capital Aracaju. The challenge is to convince the judges of the Court not to vote for the end of the teaching career. The trial is postponed twice and the battle lasts for a month. In the midst of this struggle between government and teachers, Professor Ana Rosa lives the challenge of being a mother, a woman and a union leader. She needs to reconcile the multiple tasks of professional and domestic life, but her husband's incomprehension and the macho vision of his own mother make his journey even more challenging.
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Las facultades
🇦🇷 ArgentinaStudents of different careers prepare to take final exams. Botany, anatomy, sociology, medieval philosophy, criminal law, morphology, theoretical physics and piano. Each one uses their own abilities to cope with the situation of oral exposure, the most common evaluative practice in the National Universities of Argentina. Throughout the waiting moments in the halls, between the drama and the absurdity of each exam, the subjects begin to find unexpected relationships.
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Lupin III: The First
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960s The 1940sThe iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.
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Poison Dew
🇦🇷 ArgentinaSara discovers that agrochemicals sprayed by her neighbor for soy cultivation poisoned her daughter. The treatment compels them to travel to Buenos Aires. To get money for it, Sara devotes herself to drug trafficking. This becomes a threat to her freedom and the safety of her children.
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