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Publisher
Kino Bureau
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Gustavo Salvatierra returns to his hometown, Sipo’hi, in the Impenetrable Chaqueno (the impenetrable forest in the north of Argentina), with the aim of listening and collecting stories of wichi culture, transmitted orally from generation to generation. The Culture is alive in language, in the faces and in the singular mood of wichi men and women. Salvatierra must find a way to show that, but what he doesn’t know is that he will have to overcome...
4) Arrieros
Publisher
Kino Bureau
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This film is an ethnographic documentary. Its objective is to present the culture and everyday life of Argentinean "arrieros”, workers that transport equipment and provisions during the climbing season at Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, located in the Andes. At the same time that it explores the region's unique geography, the documentary also observes the gradual disappearance of a culture and of a traditional form of work.
5) Soy Huao
Publisher
Kino Bureau
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the rainforest of Ecuador live the Tonampare, a community of Huaroni. They are legendary and have lived isolated for many years, due to their temerity. They introduce themselves as "Huaos”, which means persons..."The idea of not subtitling the "huaroni"language has to do with the fact that I wanted to transmit exactly what I was feeling while filming a native community in an observational manner. The Huaroni, in their first contact with settlers,...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The Return of Ruben Blades follows the singer to Harvard, where he gets his master's degree in international law; to his old neighborhood in Panama; to California for a recording session with Linda Ronstadt, and to New York for a performance at S.O.B.'s. The music is a joy, as danceable as it is intelligent, and Mr. Blades makes every nuance count. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive...
8) Sunu
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seen through the eyes of small, midsize and large Mexican maize producers, SUNU knits together different stories from a threatened rural world. This film documents how people realize their determination to stay free, to work the land and cultivate their seeds, to be true to their cultures and forms of spirituality, all in a modern world where corn is being threatened at the center of its origin: Mexico.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
The True Story of Evita, as told by her Father Confessor, Her Friends, and ... Her Enemies. Actress, seductress, political powerhouse and cultural icon of Argentina and the world, the life and legend of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, or Evita, as she came to be known, endures to this day. Yet Evita, a woman of poor origins who rose to become the first lady of Argentina, was as hated by the upperclass of her country as she was loved by the poor masses...
10) Silent River
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Santiago River, known locally as "the River of Death," flows along the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico. For forty years, waste from one of Mexico’s largest manufacturing corridors has been dumped into the Santiago. 80% of the companies in the corridor – brands like IBM, HP, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Honda and Nestle – are American and Japanese. The river has been transformed into a sewer with over 1000 known chemicals, including dangerously...
11) Hummingbird
Publisher
Holly Mosher
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful coastal city of Recife, Brazil - a world capital for sex tourism - a couple of determined women decided they would try to break the cycle of domestic violence and get kids off the streets. HUMMINGBIRD goes onto the streets and sees the harsh reality these kids face and shows how these programs help break the cycle, using what they call the pedagogy of affection. The film follows the story of Adriana, a girl who left home at the age...
12) Surire
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Surire Salt Flat is placed at an altitude of 4300 m in the Chilean High Plateau and one of the very last places in the world, keeping the treasure of untouched nature with all its beauty, but also holds an allurement: a huge amount of borax, promising the mining industry profits in unknown levels...SURIRE, directed by two extraordinary filmmakers, tells us in an outstanding visual way metaphorically the story of our planet – about the very important...
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A firsthand account of the hardship suffered by a political prisoner of Chile's cruel and inhumane dictatorship in 1973. More than 30 years after, Felix Mora relives the shocking details of the human rights abuses he suffered, his escape from the dictatorship, and the challenges he faced as an exile in Italy and Canada.
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Portraits of three women who live and work in the infamous mines of El Cerro Rico in Bolivia. Work inside the mines has been limited to men, while the women are forced to work outside searching for mineral scraps on the side of the mountain. The film highlights the women’s strength, determination and resilience in the face of struggle and hardship.
15) Dirty Paradise
Publisher
Dschoint Ventschr
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
One last piece of South America belongs to Europe: French Guyana; where the native Wayna Indians live in an almost paradisiacal world. But criminal gold diggers occupy and pollute the land with mercury, through their primitive extraction techniques.
16) The Paranoids
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Luciano Gauna, a paranoid and failing screenwriter in Buenos Aires, has his world thrown upside down when his successful TV producer friend returns from Madrid with a stunning new girlfriend.
17) Beauty Factory
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Venezuela has won more international beauty pageants (18)* than any other country. What is it that makes Venezuelan beauty queens so special?..Beauty Factory follows five contestants over the course of four months as they compete for the coveted Miss Venezuela crown, offering an intimate look into the world of beauty that has never been seen in such depth. This film takes you behind the scenes as the girls are told how much weight they must lose,...
18) The Crow's Nest
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The first fiction film from El Salvador to be produced since 1969 and the first ever to see a worldwide release, The Crow’s Nest follows Don Cleo, a humble pinata salesman who receives an extortion letter at his doorstep. If he doesn’t pay 500 dollars, a small fortune for him, within 72 hours, he will be killed. Don Cleo quickly decides to gather the money through friends, but the harder he tries to raise the funds, the deeper into trouble he...
19) Open Cage
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Open Cage takes a subtle and ultimately hopeful look into one of society’s mayor issues: the abandonment to its youth and senior populations...Among those affected when the economy collapses are rebel teenager Flavia and her elderly and grumpy neighbor Martin. Outside the building there is a camp of protesters among whom human values still govern coexistence. However, its members have a serious problem: they need a shower. Flavia, Martin, and their...
20) Paradise
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With Andres Alameida, Daniela Rincon, Camila Selser, Beatriz Moreno, Jose Sefami..Childhood sweethearts Carmen and Alfredo live a life of quiet bliss in Satelite, a sleepy suburb outside of Mexico City. When Alfredo is offered a promotion, the lovebirds make the move into the bustling metropolis...It’s a rude awakening for Carmen, who until now has not really worried about the fact that she and Alfredo are both overweight...After overhearing gossip...
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