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The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
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When handsome and charismatic Pablo arrives at his affluent family's house, everyone is eagerly awaiting his return. A seemingly exemplary pillar of Guatemala City's Evangelical Christian community, Pablo's announcement that he intends to leave his wife for another man sends shockwaves through the family. As Pablo tries to acclimate to his new life in the city's gay subculture, his ultra-religious family does everything in its power to get their prodigal...
3) tormentero
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Ashland Library
V SPANISH F JUAN
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V SPANISH F JUAN
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White City Library Branch
V SPANISH F JUAN
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V SPANISH F JUAN
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When Havana begins to fill up with zombies, Juan, a 40-year-old slacker, is forced to become a hero, defend his country and protect his own on an island that has turned into a real bloodbath.
5) La novia
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Medford Library Branch
V SPANISH F NOVIA
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V SPANISH F NOVIA
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Eagle Point Library Branch
V SPANISH F NOVIA
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V SPANISH F NOVIA
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Shady Cove Library Branch
V SPANISH F NOVIA
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V SPANISH F NOVIA
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Set in rural Spain, the film is a story of a love triangle. The unnamed bride is due to marry a respectable groom, but her true desire lies with a mutual childhood friend, the rakish Leonardo, who is already married. On the day of the wedding, the star-crossed lovers flee, with devastating consequences.
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Estranged childhood friends and former lovers, Laura and Ruben go to a remote cabin in a mysterious forest in order to reignite their relationship after spending fifteen years apart.
7) familia motion picture 2017
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8) El bumbun
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V SPANISH F BUMBUN
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V SPANISH F BUMBUN
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V SPANISH F BUMBUN
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V SPANISH F BUMBUN
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In an inhospitable rural area in northwestern Argentina, the machismo, misery, and repression of the last military dictatorship frames the tragedy of Bumb�un, the daughter of an alcoholic and violent axman who forces her to assume the identity of a man from birth. Her life will be torn between resigning herself to his destiny for her or fighting to change it.
9) Bleak street
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Bleak Street is the latest provocation from Mexican master Arturo Ripstein, a surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked Mexico. This tracks the nocturnal adventures and ill fated encounter between two desperate old prostitutes and twin mini luchadores.
10) Julieta
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V SPANISH F JULIETA
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V SPANISH F JULIETA
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Redwood Campus
Spanish DVD Julieta 2016
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Spanish DVD Julieta 2016
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Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antía. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antía's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
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"Marina and Orlando are in love and planning their future, when one night Orlando suddenly falls ill and passes away. Instead of being able to mourn her lover, Marina is treated with suspicion by authorities and with disdain by his family. She is forbidden to attend his funeral and thrown out of the apartment they shared. Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando's family, her sexual identity is a perversion. So she must battle the very same...
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Medford Library Branch
V SPANISH F WILD
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V SPANISH F WILD
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Ruch Library Branch
V SPANISH F WILD
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V SPANISH F WILD
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Six short stories involving people out for vengeance. Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
13) Gloria
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Applegate Library Branch
V SPANISH F GLORIA
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V SPANISH F GLORIA
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Redwood Campus
Spanish DVD Gloria 2014
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Spanish DVD Gloria 2014
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A story about a middle aged woman who gets caught up in a passionate whirlwind romance with a retired naval officer, whom she meets at a dance club for singles. But when she discovers the truth of their relationship, she takes matters into her own hands and sets forth to change her life.
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V SPANISH F PAIN
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V SPANISH F PAIN
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V SPANISH F PAIN
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V SPANISH F PAIN
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Eagle Point Library Branch
V SPANISH F PAIN
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V SPANISH F PAIN
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The film tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
15) The mole agent
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V SPANISH 362.1609 MOLE
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V SPANISH 362.1609 MOLE
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V SPANISH 362.1609 MOLE
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V SPANISH 362.1609 MOLE
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Eagle Point Library Branch
V SPANISH 362.1609 MOLE
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V SPANISH 362.1609 MOLE
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A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
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Medford Library Branch
V SPANISH F BIRDS
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V SPANISH F BIRDS
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Ashland Library
V SPANISH F BIRDS
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V SPANISH F BIRDS
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The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
17) My best friend
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Lorenzo is a quiet teenager living with his family at the edge of the world in beautiful Patagonia. One day, Lorenzo's father decides to host the son of a friend from Buenos Aires named Caito, who had to go to hospital for a long stay. At first, Caito appears shy, tough, and hardly ever speaks, but over time the two boys become friends. However, Caito quickly wears out his welcome with Lorenzo's parents.
18) Güeros
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A group of slackers embark on a journey in order to pay their final respects to their childhood idol, but the simple trip soon becomes a voyage of self-discovery.
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V SPANISH F SONG
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V SPANISH F SONG
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Gold Hill Library Branch
V SPANISH F SONG
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V SPANISH F SONG
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Based on harrowing true events, it tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic, and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions, suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political...
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V SPANISH F HABITACIÓN
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V SPANISH F HABITACIÓN
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Ashland Library
V SPANISH F HABITACIÓN
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V SPANISH F HABITACIÓN
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Central Point Library Branch
V SPANISH F HABITACIÓN
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V SPANISH F HABITACIÓN
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Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old room, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers.