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3) Violeta
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"El D�ia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, is here--a holiday for celebrating the lives of departed family and friends. Altars are decorated with sugar skulls and marigolds. Tamales and sweets are ready to eat. Soon it will be time for picnics, music, and a costume parade! Come join in these joyful and vibrant festivities that are a tradition in Mexico and throughout Latin America"--Dust jacket.
"It's D�ia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and...
6) 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.
7) Los Reyes
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Los Reyes is the oldest skate park in Santiago and it brings together teenagers from very different social and cultural backgrounds. Chola is young and vigorous and spends her days playing with balls that she throws to the pools in which skaters ride. Football is an old dog, but beautiful and energetic, that obsessively accompanies Chola in this game. The human world appears in stories of adolescents in transit to adulthood. We listen to their voices...
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
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.
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.
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...
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...
13) 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.
16) 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.
17) 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...
18) Cuba Feliz
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
CUBA FELIZ is the story of a guy with a dream. The guy in question is Gallo: a street-singer chasing his dream across Cuba. Along paths and lanes, on highways, in trains, and in backyards off crowded streets, the music mingles with his rootless lifestyle and Gallo turns these magical moments into the songs he knows by heart. Throughout his wanderings across Cuba, our singer finds a family of musicians who welcome him as a brother and go with him on...
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.
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In JAMAICA AND TAMARINDO: AFRO TRADITION IN THE HEART OF MEXICO, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond the color of one's skin.
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