“Currently, an estimated 7,000 languages are in active use on earth. One language is lost every 14 days.” —“The Young Ancestors.” Director Aimėe Barry Broustra’s documentary film “The Young Ancestors” illuminates not only the tragic loss of spoken languages, but…
East Germany in 1980 was a place of great paranoia: who could be trusted? No one. Definitely not friends, not even family. They could all be betrayers. The Berlin Wall hadn’t come down and sinister surveillance, persecution and suspicion ruled.…
All of us, in all of our respective backgrounds, must work to preserve the diversity that is humanity. And “Garifuna in Peril” gives us the impetus to do just that.
"The piece I submitted," Galo Tobías said, "is the result of a technical-aesthetic experimentation I went through about two years ago, the intention is to get a very accurate visual result and close to what might be an abstract thought."
Alicia, una joven campesina colombiana de 19 años, intenta rehacer su existencia después de que su familia es asesinada por los militares. Es así como llega a La Sirga, un hostal decadente a orillas de una laguna grande en lo…
The makers of “A.K.A. Doc Pomus” have done an honest job of portraying their subject “warts and all.” The interviews paint a multifaceted and complete picture of the man without feeling forced.
According to the director, this is not intended to be a film about war, violence or about drug traffic, rather, it´s about relationships—relationships between the five characters.
La combinación magistral de una genial dirección por parte de Andrés Wood con un estupendo libreto de Eliseo Altunaga y la soberbia actuación de Francisca Gavilán, dan como resultado un retrato increíblemente acertado de Chile, de su cultura, su folclor y su gente, sobre todo de la extraordinaria Violeta Parra.
A masterful combination of great direction by Andrés Wood with a very well written screenplay by Eliseo Altunaga, as well as exceptional acting by Francisca Gavilán, results in an incredible portrait of the Chilean culture and folklore, of their people and most of all of the extraordinary singer herself.
The film is a swirl of questions we want answered for ourselves and of society: Is it better to be gay or a criminal? Is it better to follow a lie and be validated by “society” (or at least this story’s version of that reality) or to tell the truth? And—what will we have to talk about when it is no longer a scandal to be gay?
“Brief Encounters” follows Crewdson as he develops his most complex series of photos called “Beneath the Roses.” He builds an entire sound stage, finds a multitude of “real life” locations, and admits having an enormous amount of anxiety over the whole thing.
The cinematography in “Shun Li and the Poet” emphasizes how small Shun Li is in the world, but she retains an optimistic spirit and tells her son stories in letter form: she must be reunited with him. She works for him, not the sewing factory boss, not her Chinese bosses and not the taverna customers.