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1) Badmom
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Everybody has a mother. But motherhood still remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ -always patient, caring, happy and the reality of mothers around the world. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, MALAMADRE narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mother’s point of view.
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Migration is frequently a multi-generational experience for families; not an individual choice or the particular economic decision of a single family, but rather a collective practice, repeated again and again by both individuals and communities. THE TIME OF THE FIREFLIES portrays this interconnected history through the narrative of Miguel and his family, questioning long-held misconceptions about immigration, as well as to the political and economic...
4) La Arrancada
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Jenniffer is a young sportswoman questioning her career as a national athlete in Cuba. Her mother, Marbelis, is the tough boss of a public fumigation center in downtown Havana. As her brother is getting ready to leave the country, Jenniffer struggles to find her place. This intimate family chronicle, seen from the perspective of two women, unfolds the portrait of a generation unsure of what’s next in Cuba.
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This road documentary travels across South America to understand Cartonera book production, finding citizens and cooperatives committed to using literary production as a means of fighting for social justice, economic equality, and a more sustainable world. Cartonera publishers are proponents of a salvage economy. They handcraft their books out of recycled materials, often bought straight from Cartoneros, people who make their living by collecting...
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The relationship between Ale and Rocío faces a big change when their mother is unjustly imprisoned, and they naturally become parents of their little brothers. First, all in good disposition and humor until their situation as illegal immigrants in Mexico is confronted with unexpected emotions and gender roles, discrimination, immigration systems, and inability to enjoy their youth let alone access to education. Eventually, the communication between...
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After 18 years living in Italy, Barbara Ramos returns to live in Cuba, her homeland. In the town of Santa Clara and through the projects of family and friends, she discovers what has changed, what hasn’t, and what will likely never change in her country. Shot over a period of three years – the time it took Barbara to build her dream house – RETURN TO CUBA chronicles her life after Fidel Castro’s era, in the wake of Raul Castro’s liberal...
8) Araya
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The peninsula of ARAYA in northeastern Venezuela, is one of the most arid places on earth. For five hundred years, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region’s salt has been exploited manually. A 17th-century fortress built to protect against pirate raids stands as a reminder of the days when salt was worth almost as much as gold and great fortunes were made. Benacerraf captures the life of the salineros and their back-breaking work in breathtaking...
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Victor and Fernando are hairstylists in Mexicali. They are the go-to professionals for the city's socialites. To their customers, they were a lovely couple until they decided to legally marry. Losing the support of people and friends an confronting a blacklash of criticism, through their fight they woke up members of Mexicali's society to fight homophobia and inequality.
10) Cholitas
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Five Bolivian indigenous women are involved in a unique expedition. As a symbol of liberation and empowerment, they propose to climb the highest mountain in America. The expedition could change their lives, the mountain could make them live, for the first time, true freedom.
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The rituals of a mining community are observed in this portrait of life and work in Bolivia’s Altiplano. The miners’ lives offer a strong denunciation of the hardships inherent in industrial work, underscoring the impact of global demands for earth’s wealth on the native population. Winner of Best Feature Documentary at the **Bolivia International Film Festival**. *“Engrossing, provocative filmmaking... A powerful, unsparing picture of life...
13) All of Me
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The story of the Patronas, a group of Mexican women who, every day since 1995, make food and toss it to the helpless as the train rushes by. In the midst of a country at war in a world where all hope seems lost, the Patronas breathe life into a human value that seems fading with each day: love for one another.
14) Climate Exodus
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CLIMATE EXODUS narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change. CLIMATE EXODUS narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change and now emigrate to start a new life. Lobuin struggles every day to find the last water supply so that she can survive in Turkana (Kenya) where it does not rain anymore. Nazma lost her crop in Ghoramara (India) due to the sea level change. Soil salinity...
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Extranjeras (Foreign Women) shows the least known and most typical aspects of other cultures through the experience of various immigrant women living in Madrid. We see these women's everyday existence - their family environments, how they live and what they work at. We are given the chance to know what happens to their dreams, and where their affections lie. We also discover the new places they have created in order to meet and exchange.
16) Robin Bank
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This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who stole half a million euros from thirty-nine different banks and then donated it all to social causes. Facing certain imprisonment, Duran went on the run in 2013 but he continues to work on underground movements of economic disobedience. This caught the attention of director Anna Giralt Gris who goes on a mission to find him and investigate the consequences of his actions. But as she unravels...
17) Brickmakers
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Considered a classic Latin American and Colombian documentary film, Brickmakers chronicles the search for a film production methodology that could be adapted to the sociopolitical conditions of Latin America. Filming began in 1966 in Tunjuelito, a neighborhood in southern Bogota, where the owners of large farms were renting out their land for artisanal brick production. Using the framework of “participant observation,” filmmakers integrated themselves...
18) Gods of Mexico
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With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, GODS OF MEXICO is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines—paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization....
19) Exit
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A journey out of the heart of human trafficking. Three women who were looking for a way out of their extreme poverty found themselves at the heart of human trafficking networks. EXIT is not a straight road and many don't make it to the end.
20) Fly So Far
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As states in the U.S. enact abortion bans, FLY SO FAR serves as a grave warning of how far government control of women’s bodies can go. This brave film from Swiss-Salvadorean filmmaker Celina Escher is set in El Salvador, a country with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, including the criminalization of those who experience miscarriages and other obstetric emergencies. The narrative centers on Teodora Vásquez, who was in the...
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