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America is an open book in Jonas Poher Rasmussen's semi-documentary road movie, where reality and fiction sway in a sensual pas de deux down the mythological highways. Bob Mason is a retired gentleman, who leaves the trailer park where he lives...

Captivity is a condition of confinement, both in space and in time. The one inside the captivity is not exclusively nor necessarily a prisoner, but becomes an inherent part of that space. In turn, the captivity space is not inert, rather it is...

In a mountain estate a group of Chileans make a radical decision: to leave behind their comfortable existence to isolate themselves in the country and practice an intense Christian lifestyle. It turns instead into a “dangerous sect” according to...

The Mapuche people invisibilized and discriminated by the Chileans, struggle for its survival not only from the fields, but also in the city where most of their population lives. Elba Huinca is a Mapuche teacher born in Santiago, who teaches...

It discloses the existence and operation of a string of concentration camps filled with human guinea pigs, put at the disposal of Germany's most renowned scientists by a horrifying and mysterious organization: the Ahnenerbe, a secret foundation...

Women who, because they refuse to be victims, become active agents of the violence that surrounds them. Gangs are the reflection of a deep social malaise in the American Dream. The number of people belonging to gangs in the USA is estimated at 1...

Alma is 26 years old. She spent five years in the service of one of Guatemala's most violent gangs. Condemned to death by her former brothers in arms for wanting to leave the "Mara", she narrowly escaped their murder attempt, and is now confined...

These warnings are at the heart of this investigative documentary's reflection, at a cross-section of huge financial stakes, powerful lobbies and people who are sounding today's alarm bells. The fusion between man and machine has already started...

A derisory dosimeter erected at crossroads and devices around children's necks serve as a constant reminder of the invisible monster and the deadly particles people are trying to absorb by placing bottles of water on their windowsills. In the...

Where does the guilt come from that drives you to live among your parents' victims? A certain number of descendants of Nazi dignitaries now lives in Israel. Some have converted to Judaism and have espoused its precepts. They wear the kippa, have...

Filmed like fiction and imbued with the gorgeous melancholy of crushed dreams, award-winning Vodka Factory is a stunningly intimate reflection on the price of dreams. One hopes for love after decades of loneliness, the other fights for a dream...

This documentary features a different face of India, far removed from the classic images of a highly coloured and spiritual land. Part of these vanishing are temporary: lacking any means of communication, many pilgrims coming to bathe themselves...

From North African revolutions to angered Europeans, we travel through the present time, with a contemporary cinematographic vision. Stéphane Hessel arms us with the strength of his book and Tony Gatlif's directing extends the text though his...

They had almost abandoned all hope of founding a family when, two years ago, they saw a documentary on surrogate mothers. Armed with new hope, they set out to conquer their paternity.

Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, a native of Santa María Quiegolani, a small indigenous community nestled in the Southern Mountain Range in Oaxaca, Mexico, was refused the right to be Mayor of her community only because she was a woman. That led her to...

Goatherds in the Mixteca area of Oaxaca, lead a nomadic and lonely life up in the mountains with their goats, until it is time for the slaughter of the livestock which takes place every year in Huajuapan. A tradition that goes back over four...

In 1964, a colossal pre-Hispanic monolith was taken from the small town of San Miguel Coatlinchán, in the state of Mexico, to the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Since then, the absence of the monolith is present in its place of...

Julian, an 8 year-old Rarámuri boy, starts to glimpse the construction of strange tourist attractions in the Sierra Tarahumara mountain rangeFor Nazareno and other community elders these events confirm the threat of displacement that, for...

A portrait of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano’s personal journey during his third presidential campaign. It captures a moment in contemporary history told from the perspective and experiences of a political group that was defeated, a fundamental...

An introduction to the historical context of current Mexican reality. The action and main theme is the career of Molotov; the band’s story is told quickly, factually and amusingly together with the tragicomedy of Mexican history, to which it is...