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Golden Mouth
🇧🇷 BrazilThe multiple versions of a single story — After his death, infamous Rio de Janeiro mob boss Golden Mouth (named after his all-golden teeth) gets multiple accounts of his life told to the press by his former lover.
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A Nossa Bandeira Jamais Será Vermelha
🇧🇷 BrazilA documentary about the current political state of Brazil.
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"Denied Legacy: Slavery in Brazil in an Incorrect Guide" is a professional analysis of the work "Guia Politicamente Incorreto da História do Brasil", written by journalist Leandro Narloch in 2009, which brings not only factual errors, but problematic interpretations about aspects of the history of Brazil.
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Hablaré de la patria
🇨🇱 ChileBased on "The Ghost of Pinochet" by Armando Uribe. Through archive footage this essay documentary propose the thesis that Augusto Pinochet embodies a political fantasy that traverses the entire history of Chile.
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Parío y criao
🇨🇱 Chile 🇨🇴 ColombiaCarmenza is a hard-working colombian woman. She lives in a slum in Antofagasta with her grandson Yorman. She works as a housemaid and tries to raise money for Yorman’s mother, who is ill in Colombia. Carmenza wants Yorman to return with her to their country so he can meet his mother, but he knows that the only option he has to get out of this environment is to stand out in football and be able to play in the local soccer club.
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Our Children
🇧🇷 BrazilVera, who fought in the armed left-wing movements against the Brazilian military dictatorship, has lived in multiple South American countries. Her daughter Tânica has been married to another woman for fifteen years, and they're about to have their first child.
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The Clowns
🇧🇷 BrazilThree young aspiring artists fly to Brazil to present their film at the Shortfilm World Cup. Reality and fiction merge to the point where the viewer might wonder if anything is actually real when there's a camera recording it.
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Fund
🇦🇷 ArgentinaAgain the same recipe. — The history of how the International Monetary Fund has been operating in Argentina for years.
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Professor Shanku and the El Dorado
🇧🇷 BrazilBased on Satyajit Ray`s iconic character, this film portrays the story of Trilokeshwar Shanku - a respected scientist and inventor who travels to Brazil for a science convention. But once he`s there Shanku gets involved in an adventure, a quest for the mythical city of El Dorado. Through the journey, he encounters native tribesmen and anacondas, but will Shanku and his friends ever find El Dorado?
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La pasión de Javier
🇵🇪 Peru The 1950s The 1960sA poet and guerrilla fighter — The life and times of Peruvian poet Javier Heraud in the 1950s and 1960s, including his university years and his involvement with Latin American guerrilla movements.
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The Dance
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIvanna returns to Caracas pretending to be a flamenco dancer…with three performances scheduled at a nightclub called ‘The Place’. There she is supposed to meet Vicente (Gabriel Agüero) and manage to get him emotionally involved with her in order to extract information about his father, the swindler that she has been hired to kill.
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Restless Spirit
🇺🇾 UruguayA movie about the life of Gustavo Pena. — Life of the Uruguayan musician Gustavo "Príncipe" Pena who, with only two records, has created a name for itself in the music industry of the country.
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Only Noise - Las 65:45 horas de gloria de Les Renards
🇺🇾 Uruguay The 1960sONLY NOISE is a documentary that tries to rescue from oblivion a tale with Les Renards as protagonists, one of the many bands from the 60s that was a key witness and pioneer in the first big explosion of Uruguayan Rock. It might look like a tale from an ordinary band, but in 1968 this band managed to break a world record.
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Eldorado - Mengele Alive or Dead?
🇧🇷 BrazilA return to the story of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's passage through South America. Conspiracy theories report that the border of Diadema, Sao Bernardo do Campo, and Sao Paulo was the center of German immigration. In the Eldorado neighborhood, on the border of these cities and bathed by the Billings Dam, lived a gentleman named Pedro Hochbichler, one of the aliases adopted by the alleged Mengele. Mengele fled to the US leaving a double in Brazil.
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The Country with no Indians
🇺🇾 UruguayIt has often been said that Uruguay has no remaining indigenous population. Roberto and Monica, who are two charrua descendants, vindicate their heritage and make us look back into the past to question the present. In a society that denies part of their origins, the quest for identity becomes a challenge.
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La Lupa
🇦🇷 ArgentinaLA LUPA is a documentary that explores the different experiences of motherhood. Some personal adversities reveal the director the desire to be a mother but at the same time they boots her to interpellate and deconstruct herself. Her search develops in the international context of a new feminist wave. Identified with a gender perspective, she travels through three countries that influenced her: her homeland, Argentina, Italy and the country of her maternal grandparents, Norway. In this sentimental journey, she focus in the dominant patriarchal system, contrasting the cultural differences in the role of women, the social realities that propitiate or diminish family development and the encounter with women who inhabit motherhood in different ways, discovering in the nature of a winding and rhizomatic journey to find her own way.
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Relatos de Reconciliación
🇨🇴 ColombiaRelatos de Reconciliação is a broadcast project that artistically interprets the interviews and testimonies of some victims who suffered different types of violence in Colombia.
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Mommy Got a Demon
🇧🇷 BrazilDid you see my blue dress? — Tete Barilove is dead, but her body is nowhere to be found. Beni, a longtime fan, finds clues that could lead her to the truth about Brazil's most famous 90s singer.
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White Noise
🇧🇷 BrazilWho taught you to hate yourself? — Through a poetic language, "White Noise" seeks to reflect on the whitening processes that Brazil suffered for 130 years, after the abolition of slavery. How it affects our offspring and makes it difficult to search for the identity of black people in a historically racist country.
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The Lost City of Machu Picchu
🇵🇪 PeruHigh in the Peruvian Andes lies the ancient city of Machu Picchu, a lost city of doorways and passages that hint at the ghosts of its past. Who were the mysterious people who built it and why? The answers lie below the surface, and mummy kings wait to share their stories. But will these revelations finally lay the ghosts of Machu Picchu to rest.
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Espíritu del 98
🇪🇨 Ecuador The 1990sAt the end of the 90's, when unconventional musical proposals were lost in the “underground”, “Punk Union” arose by chance. The collective of teenage bands brought together many young people from different social strata in countless concerts for more than 10 years. Through the eyes of its protagonists and promoters, the documentary tells how the movement managed to become one of the most important independent music producers in Guayaquil.
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Paradise Hotel
🇵🇪 PeruIn the Peruvian desert lies an extravagant hotel filled with endless entertainment where one of the guests, introverted Guillermo, battles to overcome his lack of confidence and his school bully to win the heart of his dream girl.
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Despertar - Data Limite
🇧🇷 BrazilA deep reflection on the moral evolution of humanity, individual progress, the fact that we are not alone and the possible consequences of a near future, combined with the predictions of the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier.
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Primavera en Petare
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the populous parish of Petare, three girls whose names begin with the letter "V" have parallel lives but intersected by the same reality from which they seek to get ahead by their own means. One is a violinist; the other is a motorcycle taxi driver who, as a child, lost her father in an armed robbery; the third is a young woman who, after being raped, practices prostitution. The three girls and a woman nicknamed "La Colombia" will establish a relationship with El Diablo, a criminal with a curse on his back from which she can only free herself when she finds true love.
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La Corte Malandra
🇻🇪 VenezuelaJose Thomas is a spirit who fell into a subject in a trance and related his story himself, he said that he always defended his neighborhood and helped his people, he never allowed any child to take the wrong steps that he had to take because he did not have a voice A friend who would tell her about the good or the bad, grew up in a neighborhood of Petare and led her community for several years with her great friend from youth Piter.
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Arando en la memoria
🇻🇪 VenezuelaIn the Northern Andes, in the Venezuelan Andes, in the midst of work and immense and beautiful landscapes, women and men, farmers, tell us about the past and present of Andean agriculture and culture.
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Cines de Video
🇵🇪 PeruA group of ex-projectionists from different parts of Peru prepared to show a film in which they themselves are the protagonists; alongside former patrons and managers, they reveal their most intimate and unforgettable experiences in the cinemas that have aged along with them.
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Soy paraguayo
🇵🇾 ParaguayA documentary that collects the stories of 32 people, from which a complex mosaic of current Paraguayan reality emerges. Essential problems: unequal land distribution, rampant deforestation, intensive use of agrochemicals in the cultivation of transgenic soybeans. In the middle, there is the story of Javier, a gay man, whose life trajectory becomes entangled with different social problems.
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Identidad
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980s“Identidad” is an introspective journey about what it means to be born in Peru in the early 1980s, when the worst economic, social and political crisis in its history began. This trip results in a look, perhaps hopeful, about a recent moment of social change and transformation whose essence was reflected in what happened around the return of the Peruvian Selection to the World Cup after 36 years of failures.
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Mónica entre el Cielo y la Tierra
🇻🇪 Venezuela The 2010sMónica entre el Cielo y la Tierra , is a true story, between the university professor Giovanni Gómez Ysea and the famous international actress Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2004, at the moment when the teacher tries to make Monica's dream of making movies come true . All truncated by his murder in January 2014. However, through the magic of cinema, Mónica, played by Andrea Rosales, makes her dream come true.
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The King of the Toad
🇨🇴 ColombiaA young woman heads to Colombia in search of her father and funds for her mom, only to find herself in a sapo tournament and a wild family adventure.
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No me dejaron llorar
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sThe collective of antipatriarchal men is a political organization that, since 2010, organizes spaces of group self-reflection to problematize the role of masculinity for those who identify as and/or are read as men. This documentary was filmed around one of their yearly regional forums.
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Shorts from the south
🇨🇴 ColombiaGrandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
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Enclosure
🇧🇷 BrazilThrough scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.
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Ratones Paranoicos: The Band That Rocked Argentina
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThe irrepressible Ratones Paranoicos, Argentina's most enduring rock band, are featured in vintage concert and backstage footage as their story's told.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980sFearless lives forever — Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
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Araby
🇧🇷 BrazilAndré, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Araby begins — or, rather, transforms. As André reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
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Birds of Passage
🇨🇴 ColombiaGenerations of tradition. Consumed by greed. — During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
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November 29th
🇨🇱 ChileDocumentary about Carmen Bueno and Jorge Müller, who were taken by police on the chilean coup d'etat, and now are part of the list of the Desaparecidos.
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Empty Days
🇧🇷 Brazil"Empty Days" tells the story of a day in the life of Jean and Fabiana, a couple of young boyfriends who try to reinvent their lives in a small town in the Brazilian interior. They are in their senior year of high school and live the old dilemma: either we leave this city or we stay here and continue the history of our parents. At the end of this day Jean commits suicide and Fabiana disappears. Two years later, Daniel and Alanis, another couple of young boyfriends, try to understand how everything happened.
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The Devil's Knot
🇧🇷 BrazilDuring the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
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Penguin Island
🇨🇱 Chile The 2000sChile 2006, a country that maintains the same public policies of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. After 16 years in a state of democracy, young chileans still do not see any changes in the education system, so they decide to manifest in the streets starting a movement that finally manages to mobilize a nation.
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Uma Quase Dupla
🇧🇷 BrazilIn action against boredom — Keyla the police officer and the unprepared detective Claudio could not be more incompatible. However they are forced to form a duo to solve the series of mysterious murders that are happening in the quiet city of Joinlândia.
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Terrified
🇦🇷 ArgentinaThey are in your house… Watching you… — Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
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Loveling
🇧🇷 BrazilBonds of family are the hardest to break — On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
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The Queen of Fear
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sOnly one month left until the premiere of The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from focused on the preparations for this new production, Robertina lives in a state of continuous anxiety that turns her privileged life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape.
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Operation Finale
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAfter World War II, Hitler’s deadliest lieutenant escaped. — In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Averno
🇧🇴 BoliviaYoung bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.
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A Journey to the Fumigated Towns
🇦🇷 Argentina The 2010sA Journey to the Fumigated Towns is the final episode made by Fernando Solanas in a series of 8 films dedicated to the Argentinian’s crisis in the 21st century. Based on testimonies, re-creations, archives and photos, this investigative documentary reveals not only the after-effects of the soya’s model and other GMO’s grain productions with agrochemicals, on the health of the Argentinian people, but also the global and environmental consequences.
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