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- In the early 90's, in Rosario, Argentina, Vilma Palma e Vampiros were born; a band that would revolutionize Latin America's "pop". One of their first singles, La Pachanga, it immediately becomes an amazing hit. "30 years of La Pachanga", the story of a group of friends that with their music, they conquer the hearts of thousands.
- Afraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him before finally coming to terms with adulthood.
- Francisco Lopez is a workaholic man who has two daughters and a son with his wife Mariana Ortiz. But suddenly his life takes a sharp turn and he becomes a housekeeper. And when he meets new neighbor Bertha Hernandez, he and his family are in for many more problems.
- Conversation with an elite soldier. The soldier's speech, innocent and conventional, but revealing a dark area, where it is clear that he does not want to talk about his personal experience in the conflict, and he refers to something called kill rush, an addiction that is acquired when one has started to kill.
- A fantastical journey into the world of a ten-year-old girl who, following a playground skirmish, is given the weirdest punishment in the history of weird punishments.
- Antonio Gil was conceived as an aesthetic and ethical project. Our project uses the artifice of cinema -- the eye of the camera -- to attempt to capture an even more sophisticated and complex form of artifice: the myth. Far from being a heroic story or a rational explanation, this film is a polyphonic composition where the proper noun -- Antonio Gil -- is the signifier around which multiple and heterogenous stories come together. A mosaic of campesino voices, like a choir with its own peculiar cadence, narrates the myth's construction over the course of the 20th century, and accompanies us on a visual journey through its celebration. At the beginning of the film, we are situated in the year 2010, but as the film progresses, the images move us backwards in time: 2008, 2006, 2004, 2000. The iterations of its celebration can be seen as geological layers, which mix and build upon each other to consolidate the myth in the popular imagination. This film is also the narration of a ritual -- the annual festival in homage to the Gauchito Gil in the countryside of Corrientes, Argentina -- through the ritualization of a cinematic method: the traveling shot. The camera angle never changes; the locations remain the same -- and yet, everything appears to move and shift. Subtly, we witness the unintentional transformation of the colors, the setting, the faces, the characters, the fixtures. Generally, the further we move away in time, the closer we are to believing we've arrived at the truth, but in this film, this illusion quickly vanishes: like any myth, the Gauchito Gil is ever elusive. Using this narrative strategy, the film seeks to do justice to the singularity of the Gauchito Gil myth -- a narrative rooted in the imagination of a rural region of Guaraní ancestry, and long neglected within official Argentine culture. This story, which demands to be told, provides an origin for the myth, but without a doubt, goes beyond even the Gauchito Gil himself.
- Anna suffers from severe memory loss due to complications of her pregnancy. Her sister, Eva, has moved into Anna's apartment to look after her. Tensions rise between them as Anna grows weary of her condition and develops behaviors that may put her baby at risk.
- Mark likes to act like a macho man in spite of his bee phobia. On the first date with Margaret everything goes well until a bee enters the room and causes Mark's panic attack. Ironically the embarrassing accident creates an opportunity for Mark and Margaret to open up and share with each what they would hide otherwise.
- While waiting to get started on the production of his feature Liberxina 90 (1970), Carlos Duran shot this short (with very expressive support by several Escuela de Barcelona professors): a grimly colourful satire on modern society as such, and on its fascist Spanish variety in particular. "The intrusion into the private life of a human being, of the distinct tendencies that exist in the society we live in, until they fall into chaos." Carlos Durán.
- A region in Peru scarred by corruption and crime, held hostage by criminal syndicates. In the midst of all this: a human conflict between two characters. A district attorney that remains hopeful to achieve changes in society and a young hit-man that doesn't have any other option but to kill to be able to live. What is the background of this young hit-man? How did he end up like this? What role does the law play in this complex plot of crimes and violence?
- Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie Gayet and actor and director Mathieu Busson ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia Hansen-Løve remarks, "In the eyes of the people, a woman's film is always a woman's film, while a man's movie is simply... a movie".
- Clever, martial arts instructor and unhappily divorced father, is obsessed with painting special fires in his car. To express his desire, he must travel to a remote town where, apparently, the artist capable of making it a reality resides.
- An escaped homicidal female psychiatric patient seduces a young patrolman into helping her prove her innocence. Emma believes that a conspiracy may have been behind the woman's imprisonment but Frank is not so sure.
- An environmental leader, a young enthusiast, a fashion designer, a hard-working father, an entrepreneur, and a social worker tell the story of the most challenging moment of their lives, from the capacity for forgiveness, the reconstruction of the social fabric and its immense contribution to society where their participation dignifies and exalts human values, even being victims of the armed conflict and forced displacement in Colombia.
- A young couple move to suburbia from New York in order to start a new life and family. Upon their arrival in what seems to be the perfect neighborhood, they hear of a horrifying rumor that becomes a reality, and ultimately, their own inescapable nightmare.
- It is February, when nearly 60 women who make up Ballet 40/90 meet to begin work. For the next 8 months, difficult rehearsals are ahead of them. The group is made up of housewives, employees, psychologists, teachers, traders. Some are married women; others are singles, widows or divorced women. The youngest is 47 years old, the eldest is 81, and except one of them, no one has ever danced as a professional. Elsa, the Ballet director, arrives with the weight of her 87 years of age on her shoulders. This great and hyperactive white hair woman, who carries a walking stick, is the one responsible for creating the choreographies, for adapting the music, designing costumes and deciding lighting, among lots of other things. Rehearsals follow one after the other in pursuit of perfection. Each step, each hand and each gesture will exactly match with the ones Elsa has designed. They repeat each gesture once, a hundred times, a thousand repetitions until they manage each gesture. Cha-cha-cha, classical music and even military marches are some of the 20 musical genres chosen in order to shape this year's show. Choreographies are shaping up. Finally the opening night comes. Dressing rooms are packed with people. Shoes, dresses and lash extenders are everywhere. "To the stage!" one of them shouts. 58 wonderful women take each other's hand on the stage of the Empire Theatre. Elsa gives the final instructions. They wish each other "much, much merde!" The theatre is ready!! The show begins.
- A playwright, two actors and an art historian rehearse a play based on the painting called The Death of General Güemes. This rehearse is a search for how to tell a historical fact, a dream staging narrated with silhouettes. But in art, as in life, nothing turns out the same as planned.
- "Family Album" is a coming of age film comedy about the difficult bond between parents and children and the world of amateur rock bands
- Fries with That is a sitcom about the hilarious antics of a group of teens who run havoc running a fast food joint. Pattie, Robyn, Tess and Alex are way too concerned with friends, dating, body image, and the in-crowd to bother much with actually working. All the while, the assistant manager Ben is going nuts trying to get them to flip burgers and actually serve customers.
- In the devastated urban landscape of Mexico City, in the course of a day, the lives of a handful of characters intertwine.
- The story of Hassan, the handyman in the inn of his sister Aïcha, widow and childless. A whole series of incidents, misunderstandings, will punctuate his daily routine in which we find him alternately driver, waiter, welder, etc. But he refuses to submit to anything that does not conform to the idea he has of society and things.
- Sheriff Marty McGregor has been the victim of an Indian curse. His wife Connie needs to hide him until that curse, has finished, and that moment will happen when the day embraces the night and the last crow of the damned town of Hell West has died.
- Hermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
- A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects and considered part of their social environment. Growing up and coming into contact with urban life, the child denies his culture to avoid the discrimination, but, in the end, his vital roots lead him to reconnect with the forest and to reconcile with his ancient traditions.
- An anthology of four stories about very miserable people.
- Based on real events, this dramatic mini-series follows the experiences of the fictional Alvaro family who are a part of a Canadian community during World War Two that attempts to come to terms with events over which they have no control.
- This short film, shot clandestinely during the war in Algeria, is made from drawings commented on by Algerian children collected in 1961 in a refugee camp in Tunisia.
- L.A. Paranormal follows the ups and downs of a Los Angeles-based team of paranormal investigators. The group is led by second generation ghost hunter and skeptic Vince Norton. He is aided by Max Rutledge, his neurotic best friend and old college roommate. Also on board are metaphysicist and consultant Elliott Szpigiel, the team's technical wizard, and playboy medium John London, a psychic artist and former British television personality. During an investigation at the famously haunted Hollywoodland mental asylum, the team collects remarkable evidence that may support the existence of life after death. But soon after, an accusation of fraud lights a firestorm of controversy and sends them into a downward spiral that threatens to tear the group apart. The investigations get less appealing and the team loses credibility even amongst their peers, as they search for a way to clear their name and just maybe, once and for all, prove that ghosts really do exist.
- A hardcore party family will be celebrating a birthday, until they realize that they house inheritance is at stake.
- This delightful film introduces us to the members of La Pegatina, from fans to stars of mestizo sound, en route to universality. A documentary about buddies around the world: up-close, witty and filled with humanity.
- Based on real events, from the life of Andrea Casamento. Andrea's life, a middle-class woman, changes drastically when her 18 year-old son ends up in jail falsely accused for a misdemeanor he did not commit. Now she must dedicate his days to freeing him from jail. To release him, she has to face the bureaucracy of the judicial system, prisoner abuse, but above all her own prejudices, values and beliefs. She will realize of this powerful change when she can't help falling in love with a convict.
- A woman goes through the crisis of the change of cycle during the day of her birthday.
- The forces of evil descend on Argentina. Mankind's best hope, a once-legendary shaman, is confined to an insane asylum from which he must escape when the battle against demonic resurrection becomes personal.
- Love U Crazy Girl is a story of a simple college girl whose dream is to achieve money and fame and in a bid to fulfill her desires, gets trapped in nexus of crime.Coming from a poor family, Khushi succumbs to peer pressure of her rich friends and agrees to entertain a businessman for money. But what awaits her in the room is the murder of her client. Now, being the solo witness to a high profile murder, Khushi makes a run for her life. Will she escape from the hands of the brutal criminal or will she fall prey into yet another world of illegal and unethical activities?
- Fifty years ago, overcoming obstacles and prejudices, a handful of black creators proudly claiming the name of "Nègres" managed to bring together in the same spirit many artists and writers from all the black lands of the globe. In September 1956, the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists took place at the Sorbonne. In the gallery Alioune Diop, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Richard Wright. In the room, Claude Lévi-Strauss, René Depestre, Édouard Glissant, James Baldwin. Picasso signs the poster for the event. This film tells how and why such an event could see the light of day, how and why the authorities of the time - from France of the Fourth Republic to America and the USSR - did everything to disrupt this congress, to denigrate its conclusions, to stifle its scope. By its importance, such an event has left us its share of images, documents, interviews and photographs, even if history has conscientiously concealed them in the replicas of its memory. This film reconstructs the puzzle. The last participants in these three days, still alive, brought their testimonies and these interviews constituting the very basis of the story.
- Recently released from prison, an ex-mafia boss tries not to fall into his old habits, but surviving outside of the mafia is harder than it seems.
- Premiered in the framework of Bafici, Seized Files: Film School is the second collective feature sponsored by the Museum of the Cinema of Buenos Aires, this time with propaganda series produced during the fifties, aimed at a young audience also protagonist of them. The more re-concentrated nature of materials, less heterogeneous than events intervened "first project use old newsreel "Sucesos Argentinos"", makes that the movie has a more cohesive character on the back and return of the same images, flowed through various searches of each Director, creating different looks and uses. In this case, the director wanted to out his 'intervention' in all senses of the word, just like Prividera's previous feature films. In fact, in these few minutes is both using the file how in the beginning of Fatherland (2011), and the intertitles deployed on M (2007), in base a quote it reconsiders those old images and words looking for its resonance in our present.
- A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after, he was brought into a sleazy funeral home, run by Violet, a greedy homosexual who has learned to survive by renting out the dead bodies in his funeral home to Simon. Along for the ride is Jojo, a police officer who is under the payroll of Simon and who supplies the dead bodies for Violet to take care of and make money from. Violet has two workers, On-on and Dyograd.
- Suriyabandara is a wealthy businessman descended from a high class up country background. He is a widower and lives with his mother Sybil and son Akalanka. In memory of his late wife he starts an orphanage and it is run by Theresha, a strict disciplinarian in her middle age. She thinks that discipline could be instilled in children only through punishment. Percy, the shrewd accountant in the orphanage, misuses and extorts money. The administration of these two have negative influence on the children and the discipline in the orphanage is badly affected. Suriyabandara who realizes the ongoing changes decides to stop the orphanage. But Akalanka and his grandmother think the orphanage has to be continued somehow at least as a respect to Akalanka's dead mother. And they decide to recruit a new mistress and called for interviews. One qualification is that the applicant should be over 30 years of age. A large number of prospective candidates who are in their middle ages come for the interview conducted by Suriyabandara and Theresa and Percy themselves. However there is a young applicant too. Nimsara a beautiful girl too has applied for the post. But initially her application is rejected by Theresa as she had mentioned her age as 31 in her bio data. Theresa concludes that it was a silly mistake and Nimsara is not experienced enough to be awarded the vacancy. But Nimsara manages to get the job and she proves that Theresa is wrong and that children could be transformed not by the cane them but by love and affection. Sanjaya Nirmal who had directed a number of tele dramas including 'Nonimi Yathra' and 'Rosaliya' entered cinema with 'Samara', a story about a sick child and her mother.
- A little town, a rural hospital and there a Doctor who assists his patients, who auscultates them, that controls blood pressure and set them medication, but, above all, a doctor who sits down and talk for long with them. Carrying all what he needs, briefcase in hand, Dr. Serrano also visits those who are not able to reach the hospital. Each consultation in the hospital, each home visit tells a little story and all, assembled, make this documentary film.
- After starting work at the mysterious Beckinsale Library, the brutal murder of young English student Claire draws Lucy into a dangerous battle to survive.
- David Attenborough discusses the biomass and life in a variety of eco-systems spanning many of the environments found on Earth (from tropical to polar).
- This documentary film follows the remarkable evolution of the creative process surrounding the innovative production of "The Nutcracker Suite and Spicy" created by Choreographer Carolyn Paine. The film looks at this groundbreaking show from its genesis to its 10th year on the Aetna Theater stage in Hartford, CT while also examining the cultural relevance of rebooting the holiday classic for a contemporary audience.
- The occupants of a van transporting a wounded excursionist have to avoid sitting next to her during the trip.
- A young hardened police officer finds himself in the middle of the murder of the inspector he is now supposed to replace at a small sea town.
- Vida and her mother share beautiful moments together, but all the happiness come back at night in the shape of scary nightmares.
- Four women plan a dangerous strike against a band of Mexican drug traffickers. Motivated by revenge, this action could change their luck forever. The cast: power, lust and money.
- Zyara is a documentary web-series of three to five minute videos. It depicts intimate portraits of various individuals sharing their hopes and dreams, their love stories, fears, family albums, and their most memorable experiences.