Edgar Neville was one of the most peculiar directors in our film history. Despite being a member of the aristocracy, he would be remembered as a humorist, playwright, painter and, of course, as a different kind of film director. The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks is the starting point for this documentary..
The story of Sebastián, a young Salvadoran who returns to his country after spending 5 years in Spain. His parents, Jose and Rita, are Spaniards who have lived in El Salvador for 30 years. Sebastián's return unleashes a series of family conflicts during his father's birthday celebration in which his cousins Ray and Sergio, his best friend Sofia and his sister Nicole are also invited. We learn the secrets of each guest, and José's homophobia causes enormous tension with Sebastián, his only son who is gay..
Lilian and her four kids are in search for a better life. She dares to leave her violent husband in Guatemala and joins the migrant caravan in order to make it to the Mexican-US border. Being a single mother, this is her only chance to make the dangerous way through Mexico..
Thirty years after the start of the internal war in Peru and ten years after publication of the Report of the Commission on Truth, the documentary inquires about the fate of the 16,000 disappeared persons resulting from actions of the Peruvian government and Shining Path in the Peruvian Andes. It narrates the story of three persons who travel from different towns to the Public Prosecutor’s office in the city of Huamanga, in Ayacucho, where they expect to receive the remains of their relatives and to arrange for a proper burial. During this process, they tell us about the violence and the pain they experienced, their life stories and their incessant struggle to survive in those times..
Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s..
Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently..
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild their lives, but tragedy surges in the most unexpected way..
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema..
El camino entre dos puntos (The way between two points) investigates Patagonia’s tainted nature. Here, where throughout the 20th century ever enhanced methods of oil recovery, have transformed an amorphous, ambivalent and hardly populated landscape into an uncanny site of man’s supposed mastery of nature, the film traces the ways of a man, who wanders the scenes aimlessly, bound by his own implication in the menacing mechanics of oil production but drawn physically to their coevally proceeding erasure by the rough and untamed nature of this seemingly self-subsisting land..
Chapter 8 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1935-1939..
The romantic entanglements of three singers: two boys and a girl who fail in a radio contest and formed a trio..
