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2) X500
Publisher
Alfhaville Cinema
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Thousands of kilometers apart, three young migrants undergo mental, emotional, and physical transformations in order to survive the violence of their new worlds. Includes forced Spanish subtitles.
3) Bananas
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
With a career that spanned 50 years, Mercedes Sosa sold millions of records, performed thousands of concerts all over the world, and left behind an incredible legacy as an artist who went beyond the borders of music to become one of the most influential and loved personalities of the twentieth century. This intimate documentary reveals her early life and her rise to worldwide stardom, and explores the impact she had on the musical and political heritage...
6) The in-laws
Series
Criterion collection volume 823
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered dentist becomes involved with his daughter's father-in-law's bizarre life with the CIA, which may or may not even be true.
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Portuguese
Description
BUILDING BRIDGES is a film that pursues a possible relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Heloisa and Alvaro as they position themselves on opposite sides of the troubling political situation of Brazil.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Felipe, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, has reached a crossroad. After living 16 years in Brooklyn, working three-paying jobs, and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children in Mexico, he's decided to return home to the family he hasn't seen in almost two decades. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the U.S....
9) Primas
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
PRIMAS is an evocative and poetic portrait of two Argentine teenage cousins who come of age together as they overcome the heinous acts of violence that interrupted their childhoods.
10) Ciro and I
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Ciro Galindo was born on August 29, 1952, in Colombia. Wherever he went, war always found him. His children were recruited by the armies of war; his family was repeatedly displaced; and his wife Anita, an indigenous woman, died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.
11) Adriana's Pact
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
When I was a girl, I had a strong role model in my life: my aunt Adriana. In 2007, she was detained and I found out she worked as an agent at DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) in Pinochet’s secret police, which has often been compared to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany. My aunt claims to have never seen or participated in any instances of torture, but nevertheless she flee to Australia to avoid trial. In the hope that I can prove my aunt’s...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own rowdy, lo-fi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than- life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow...
13) Police Killing
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Portuguese
Description
On the outskirts of the city, a car is riddled with bullet holes, some the size of a fist. You'd think it was a gangland shooting, but these bullets were fired by the police, and the passengers were unarmed teenagers. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 16, 000 civilians have been killed in police operations over the past twenty years, all in the name of self-defense. This powerful and disturbing film follows the mothers of these victims as they fight for...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What do people seek when they step into the unknown? LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE is a striking observational documentary that follows an international tour group trekking through Peru. Travelers enjoy the beauties of historic Cuzco, the mysteries of a rain forest, and the splendor of Machu Picchu; however, their interactions with Peruvians are primarily short, staged, or commodified, with few significant connections. As the tourists journey through the...
15) Batman Alley
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A journey through BATMAN ALLEY, an area of Sao Paulo, Brazil covered in street art and graffiti.
17) Eating Up Easter
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata'u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people, decendants of the ancient statue builders, as they face the consequences of their rapidly developing home.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
WITH A STROKE OF CHAVETA takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the survival of the collective reading of literature while “tabaqueros” roll cigars. We learn how through "la lectura de tabaquería" cigar workers have been entertained, educated, and maintained a sense of class solidarity. Current day cigarmakers tell us they can’t imagine a workplace without their beloved “lectores.
20) Chicana
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. Using murals, engravings and historical footage, CHICANA shows how women, despite their...
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