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1) Owner's Land
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The application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage in the process. The film explores the tensions that arise when such communities come face to face with the complex institutions responsible for enforcing the law.
3) Band
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A group of young people from a community in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in an environment shaken by poverty, migration and alcoholism, however they have a regional music band that will take an unexpected turn towards jazz. It is where they will discover their greatest talents.
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The reason to live or "Ikigai" in Japanese, tells the story of Mirta Regina Satz, an artist who paints, composes, sings and dances tango. Art is her refuge to overcome the pain and confusion she suffered as a survivor of a bomb attack on her Jewish community in Argentina.
6) Beaverland
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Derek and Giorgia are a couple of biologists who go on a mission to Tierra del Fuego where beautiful long-toothed beavers have become a plague for the town and the ecosystem, impacting the economy. In an elaborate process of espionage, biologists discover the sophisticated mechanisms of the beavers.
8) Guerrero
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In the depths of the Sierra of Guerrero in Mexico, after the disappearance of the 43 students, the reaction of wounded civil society is explored to seek an answer to the abuse of authority mixed with poverty.
11) Barefoot Giants
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A look at basketball among Mexican indigenous communities. Children shape their lives around sports and are taught resilience and self-confidence despite living in an adversarial world of harsh mountainous terrain and communitarian limitations.
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In the Colombian Amazon rainforest a strange and growing case of suicides is occurring among the young indigenous population. The documentary explores this case and recounts the arrival of the white man in the jungle, which little by little invades the ancestral natural space of the Amazonian tribes.
13) Señor Ca
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Camilo Arroyo, alias Don Ca, is a white man who exiled himself from his sociocultural comfort to live in an Afro-Colombian community. He lives a simple life day by day, examining ethnicity and confronting old ideas of coexistence.
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