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- Documentary showing how the growing number of U.S. Citizens living in San Miguel de Allende has caused problems for the local population and their traditions.
- Everyone is talking about the Mayan Prophecies of 2012. But who is listening to the Maya? This film brings us the voices of the Mayan people as they share their perspectives on the prophecies of their ancestors and their fight to defend Mother Earth and their culture from destruction. Today, on the eve of the 2012 solstice, Mayans are being assassinated and evicted from their lands by governments and multi-national corporations in the name of 'development'. 2012 The Mayan Word is both a message of hope and a call to action. featuring testimonies from contemporary Mayans throughout Mesoamerica, from spiritual guides to activists, community leaders, farmers, artists, teachers and children, this film is an extraordinary journey into the heart of Mayan struggle and spirituality.
- December 21, 2012. This date, identified by the Maya nearly 1,400 years ago, has in recent years become the source of great curiosity and debate. Some believe it will bring catastrophic events. Others, an era of enlightenment. But what did the ancient Maya themselves believe? In 2012: THE BEGINNING, we travel the world to examine what the Sacred Maya texts really say. Throughout, our journey is guided by noted archaeologists, scholars, and the living Maya, who take us into the field--to the very origins of the Maya Long Count Calendar--and into their lives and sacred ceremonies. Together, these people from very different worlds shed light on a date that has long been shrouded in mystery and intrigue.
- A middle-class girl who embarks on a road trip across Mexico.
- The greatest tragedy in the history of Mexico marked the lives of 49 families who lost their children in a fire in the ABC nursery, and of an entire nation. In the wake of the tragedy, the parents of the deceased and injured children seek to rebuild their lives while demanding justice. ABC Never Again brings us the story of two families that took refuge in love to overcome their loss, and while they try to have children again, depression and age threaten their hopes. The search for happiness joins the fight to bring justice to those responsible for a tragedy that the entire country mourned in a case that is riddled with corruption, negligence, and abuse of power that involves influential politicians and wealthy Mexican families.
- In a dark basement, Norma hears Everio's voice coming from an old Ampex tape recorder. Every time she goes down again, it stops. They have been palatinates their lives, and several times the recorded conversations end coinciding with the talks they hold. What worries Norma is that until that day, she did not know Everio, and the last thing she heard was that he hanged himself.
- Four undocumented college students are trapped at the intersection of education policy and broken immigration systems, the obstacles these students face: financial, legal and psychological are presented, demonstrating the dehumanizing effects of marginalization and unequal educational access. Featuring experimental sound design, asynchronous imagery, and a sophisticated metaphorical language, Admissions creates a space in which new forms of struggle and dialog emerge.
- Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
- A documentary film about Alejandro Colunga a contemporary Mexican surrealist artist from Guadalajara Mexico
- Eleven thousand years ago, a discovery at the heart of America changed the history of the continent. Today, at a distance of over 3 thousand kilometers in Los Angeles, CA, indigenous women, heiress to this knowledge, continue to pass it on via their art of cooking. This documentary is a gastronomical adventure of recipes that have outlived thousands of years and tell the story of cultural survival and resilience of 7 indigenous Mesoamericans immigrants. Narrated in their own voice, these women share different stories, some bitter-sweet, others rich and diverse, as the ingredients found in their culinary odyssey.
- "AQUÍ": Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the US, he hopes to now finally make a better life with his family, and even to pursue his dreams on the side by starting a band: Copa Kings. He cherishes the everyday moments with his family. "ALLÁ": The villagers think this year's crop will be bountiful. There is also good work in a growing city an hour away. But the locals are wise to a life of insecurity, and their thoughts are often of family members or opportunities far away, north of the border. While working in the fields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager who dreams of the US. That place somehow always feels very present, practically knocking at the door. "Aquí y Allá" is a story about hope, and the memories and loss of what we leave behind.
- The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four men walk the streets of a city that was once great.
- Avion (it means airplane) is a strange Spanish village. Heap of ruins and luxurious town houses for returnees in winter and in summer overflowed with the arrival of Mexicans returning to the land of their ancestors. That land that once had to be left behind and they were never able to forget.
- Andres, aged 35, leads a quiet life, he has a girlfriend named Isabel he plans to marry, and lives in Mexico, with no other family than his mother Clara, who years ago fled there from the Spanish dictatorship. One day by chance, Andres finds out he has a grandfather who lives in a village in Galicia. This news so moves him, that he decides to drop everything and travel to Spain to reconstruct his own past and meet Justino, his grandfather.
- FALSE FLAGS is a documentary film about today's social movements, like Occupy Spain, and mass manipulation. The movie is contemplative, experimental, poetic and political.
- Two American teenagers in search of cheap drugs, trespass into the seedy town of Barrio, Mexico. What they find instead is a disturbed story teller and three tales filled with blood, witches and a cannibalistic taco chef.
- You'll believe in the promise of medicine once more. And you'll never take your face for granted again.
- FAT: the last socially acceptable refuge of class-ism, racism and sexism in a skinny culture gone mad.
- The blueman is a traveler without a goal. He has begun an endless tour of the world. He is big, blue, shapeless and lonely. His strange presence invites furtive encounters and poetic scenes. As he moves from place to place... these little stories grow to form a kaleidoscopic human tale.
- During the preparation of the first album of "Hiperboreal", member of the famous Nortec Collective, Octavio Maya captures the moments of the recording process and a serial of interviews where members VG Pichardo and PG Beas talk about their musical influences and the concept of new album "Border Revolver."
- Japanese artist Susumu Shingu sculpts the winds and follows them in search of a resting place, a wind-powered home, for his long, lifetime dream of Breathing Earth. 75-year-old Japanese artist Susumu Shingu talks with nature through his sculptures. His lifelong dialogue with the wind and with water has given the world uniquely beautiful works of fluid, unpredictable and ever-changing movement. Susumu renders visible the veiled and the unseen and opens to us new perspectives. Thomas Riedelsheimer accompanies this quiet and unassuming man in pursuit of a dream, a quest to create an awareness of our planet, our breathing earth and our human values. Breathing Earth is a film about the wind, the philosophy of a wise person, about art and love and dreams.
- One day filmmaker stumbles across 2,000 feet of Super 8 at a flea market. Home movies shot during the 1970s, at their center is a lovely blond girl, Larisa. The director decides to track down Larisa.
- Gerardo is a young man who lost everybody he loved in life. When he starts a relationship with Mar, he thinks all of the emptiness has disappeared. Now, Mar is gone. And he looks to reconnect with the people once gone from his life to help him find Mar. In the way, he begins to find himself and close the circle that was previously open.
- Butterfly Stories is a magical trip to the world of butterfly people all over the world. The main story is a witty road trip with Cory McAbee aka Wandering Star on the butterfly trail from Chicago to the highlands of Mexico. In his search for inspiration the singer/songwriter follows the spectacular monarch migration. Other butterfly stories are about a young artist from Ecuador who has fallen in love with the unseen beauty of moth, a couple of silkworm-breeders and a moth hunter in the Thai jungle, a Swiss hippie girl living in her own cocoon and a German guy who just hates butterflies. Metamorphosis and magical microcosm are keywords for the film.
- Open Field: A post-documentary about the most famous contemporary Mexican artist goes chronologically through the last 10 years of his life and work, in ten main sequences. Using diverse media supports (super8mm, 16mm, High Definition Video) the documentary registers some of the most important and spectacular moments in the development of his work. These years could be his most mature ones, in which he consolidates himself as a key figure in the contemporary global art world. It is a cinematographic collage consisting of interviews with the artist, his colleagues, sequences that register his work's development and exhibition, and other sequences in which the artwork and camera simply have a beautiful dialog.
- Caravan of Hope on the road to solidarity is a Documentary about solidarity. A trip from Toronto, Canada, through USA, Mexico, and Guatemala, ending in El Salvador. Driving a donation of 7 Ambulances to the smallest country of America. 6000 Km, 12 days, 7 ambulances, 19 volunteers, one big heart.The Canadian arm embraced Latin America through a group volunteers from different origins, religions, social and economic backgrounds. Just one thing in mind to globalize solidarity.
- Scheming to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
- Amidst the hostile beauty of the jungle surges the love story of how coffee first made its way to Chiapas in 1800s.
- Maria's and her grandmother's love for cooking, and Maria's energy and creativity to change those around her. The importance of Mexican food and family traditions.
- In 1994, Mexico's ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation.
- A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
- The East Side of Los Angeles, known for its drugs, violence and corruption is about to go to war. This Time, however, it's between two childhood friends who are forced to face a secret so deep that it has kept them apart for 15 years. Luis Ruiz, a former gang leader, is on the verge of getting out but his younger brother, Carlos, will not allow it. An innocent kid with a chip on his shoulder, Carlos dishonors the drug lord Pablo Mendecello, forcing a stream of events that lead to the ultimate face off. To make matters worse Luis falls in love with Tess McKay, an LAPD cop whose sole mission is to end the gang war. Luis must choose between two worlds: one where his family lives, or the other where his future lies.
- We are always told that love lasts forever like in children's fairy tales, but the reality is that people change and relationships expire.
- We are always told that love lasts forever like in children's fairy tales, but the reality is that people change and relationships expire.