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- DirectorFlávia CastroIn DIARIO DE UMA BUSCA (Diary, Letters, Revolutions), the director tells the story of her father, Brazilian activist Celso Afonso Gay de Castro, whose life was intertwined with the political struggles that shattered Latin America starting in the 1960s. His life was a combination of repeated exiles and political activism, from the enthusiasm and hope of the early days until the disillusion of his final years. He died tragically at age 41, in the apartment of an Nazi he was perhaps investigating on. A two-part film, featuring a childhood lived in exile, crossed by the father's letters...
- DirectorFlávia CastroMariana ChenilloPablo FendrikStarsGael García BernalEstefania PiñeresUnder the creative direction of Gael Garcia Bernal, ten award-winning directors tell the story of the high school dropout crisis in Latin America in an anthology of narrative and documentary film as beautifully diverse and complex as the region. Travel to seven different countries and explore the underlying reasons why nearly one out of every two students never makes it to graduation day.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsSofia BuenaventuraJulián GiraldoKaren QuinteroOn a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsPorfirio Ramirez AldanaJarlinsson Ramirez ReinosoYor Jasbleidy Santos TorresLiving between his bed and his wheelchair, Porfirio - a man who lives in a town on the edge of the Amazon - dreams of being able to fly.
- DirectorAlejandro LandesStarsAlex ContrerasJavier EscalasÁlvaro García LineraA documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's effort (urged by the U.S.) to eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsÓscar GarcíaJorge Ortiz SánchezJorge MendívilTwo saint makers are ordered by a gangster to construct a Virgin and deliver it to a town in the jungle. Accompanied by their friend, a gambler, they proceed to have misadventures which test their respective faiths in God and gambling.
- DirectorMarcos LoayzaStarsPaolo VargasLuigi AntezanaAlejandro MarañonYoung bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle lost in the Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face.
- DirectorCarlos VeloStarsJohn GavinIgnacio López TarsoPilar PellicerHighly symbolic and allegorical, this drama takes as its basis a son's search for his father in the chaotic times of the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s. Stereotypical (or archetypal) figures from early Mexican cinema appear from time to time, and the violence of the revolutionary period is not ignored. Scenes of the father's earthy lifestyle are placed amid his son's search for him.
- DirectorJosé BolañosStarsManuel OjedaVenetia VianelloBruno ReyRemake of the 1967 literary adaptation, in which a wayfarer travels to a mysterious arid village to meet the father who long ago abandoned his wife.
- DirectorAndrea BussmannStarsVictor PueyoFernando RenjifoZiad ChakarounOn the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literature, myth and local entanglements, the frontier between reality and fiction, and the seen and unseen, no longer apply.
- StarsGerardo SánchezElena S. SánchezAntonio GassetAntonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed in a documentary-like way.
- DirectorMarialy RivasStarsAlicia RodríguezAline KüppenheimMaría Gracia OmegnaDaniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.