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The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.

Laura is the woman of a gangster involved in a robbery, who flees to Mexico, where she will be protected by a painter.

A French woman arrives in Montevideo, to meet poet Juan Carlos Onetti and investigate the story of the city. She is intrigued by the photograph of the day when president Bordaz was killed and a zeppelin flew above the city at the turn of the century. She is helped by a photographer and both fall into a police intrigue.

Cinematographer Carlos Macovich met Yuliet Ortega, a young "jinetera" (prostitute) from Havana, when he shot a video in Cuba, starring model Fabiola Quiroz. When he realized that the two women had not seen their respective fathers for many years, he made this documentary, which is also a reflection on the process of filmmaking.

After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destroyed, and the people plan to overthrow Gavilán.

Worker Juan Rivero goes to jail, and his wife Elena and daughter Sagrario are helped by Dr. Horacio Rueda, who falls in love with Elena. When Juan is released, the relationship ends, but Sagrario, now a charming young woman, plans to marry Dr. Rueda.

Anthropological documentary which follows the proceedings of a "krung kita" (or balsería), a rite of the Ngöbe-Buglé people, who live in the Western mountains of Panama. During four days, a community invites another one to drink, eat, play "krung kita" (a man throws a big balsa pole to his opponent's ankle) and settle conflicts.

On the 1st of January, 2000, the United States of America will return to the Panamanian government all the land surrounding the Panama Canal. This documentary at youngsters asks what will happen to all the installations built inside the US military forts in the Canal Zone.

Attracted by the music of a violin, a young student enters the house of a mysterious old woman who offers to sell the violin. When they hear the enraged voice of her husband, she leads him into her son's room where the student discovers a stringless violin.

A man's seven-year-old daughter dies and his grief is overwhelming. After twelve years he finds the body perfectly preserved and his neighbors consider it a miracle and support him in his efforts to fight Church bureaucracy, all the way to Rome.

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.