On the last Sunday of July in the city of Hueyotlipan, Tlaxcala, the Rising of the Lord of the Convent is an ongoing celebration that has remained as a tradition within the community, with the showcases of faith growing bigger by the year. 500 years after the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to mexican lands, the Catholic religion, their biggest trademark, is still deeply impregnated within the Tlaxcaltecan society..
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family..
As in every terror tale, Andy have the ability to see things that other can´t, entities, things that are about to happened, and even predict death. This gift, what he call it a curse, increases while visiting Hugo´s old house for vacations. Doña Chelo´s house it´s the hot spot off a story of fear, between a mysterious maid and the ghost that clame vengeance, it will take as to a series of scary jumps and a disturbing finale..
A Chilean spy pretends to love an Indian woman, the only one who knows a secret passage in the Andes mountain range..
Summer of 1990. Chile and the world are going through great changes. In a small beach town off the Chilean coast, an eclectic group of teenagers, from very diverse social upbringings, are living their own transition to adulthood. These kids are actually guided by a director, who is trying to make a movie, and above all, to recreate an era that affected him, in a country where these kinds of social encounters are not possible anymore..
In Mexico there are just over 150 films a year, half of them have support or encouragement from the State for their production, only half get projected on a screen commercially or in Festivals and only some of these films are independent. A documentary that arises from the same filming of an independent film, filmed for 4 weeks in Durango in the midst of wonderful landscapes..
The 23,000km long route of the Incas laces its way through the Cordillera range of the Andes. This road network served as the major means of transport, of communication and of government administration in the history of pre-colonialist America. The film covers three periods that deeply marked this region and its Indian tribes. Three phases, three eras for a road, and a history of violence and injustice that constantly repeats itself. Crystallizing the spirit of the conquests that took place in the Atacama Desert, a Peruvian prince once said in regard to the Indians: “We must spare our enemies or we will hurt ourselves, because they will soon be ours with all that is theirs”. In visualizing this statement, it is easy for us to imagine what hell the men of these lands endured during centuries of invasion and submission..
250 Years of tradition make the fallen Lord of Girardota one of the most commemorative saints of Colombia. Each year in the middle of the week, thousands of Catholic pilgrims go on a long journey to offer a sacrifice or to thank a miracle..
A Mayan boy is late for school because he is distracted by a fish. Though contemporary and indigenous cultures are crossing paths, the fight to understanding one another is still an ongoing process..
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways..
Jorge (17) travels from Chiloé to Santiago to look for his unknown father, however, upon arrival he finds a disconcerting surprise that will turn his trip around..
