A humble family lives inside an unfinished residential building in Bogotá. On the outside, there seems to be no life, b…
This short film premiered at the Berlinale takes us to the farm of Juan, who has worked in agriculture all his life and…
In an old underage prison in Mexico, a video and photography workshop brings out the infinite creativity of a group of …
In the bucolic and desolate Argentinian wilderness, a young man spends his days alone surviving as in ancient times. Wh…
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
In Havana, a former military bunker serves as a meeting place for Cuban gay men. Among shadows and gnawed walls, they t…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
How do those who cannot see with their eyes conceive the world? What other perspectives of what surrounds us can we lea…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
Blending documentary and fiction in a way rarely seen before, this South American road movie follows an Argentinean man…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
Meet Natalia Gallardo. She is an Uruguayan peacekeeper who collaborates in a MONUSCO mission patrolling the lakes of Co…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
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