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- "La Vida Loca" reflects a depressing and hopeless reality. The documentary, by photojournalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda, follows some of the members of "la dieciocho", the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador neighborhood.
- This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
- 1905, the cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick. They call it "o 'imbroglie din t'o lenzuolo" - "The Trick in the Sheet", as white sheets were used for screening.
- A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
- Bárbara (Ailén Guerrero) is ten years old and lives with her mother, Laura (Analía Couceyro), and her grandpa, Ernesto (Alberto de Mendoza). She spends her days going to school choir practice for the end of the year recital and planning her escape with her friend Matías, eight years old, an irresistible liar and petty thief. Bárbaras behavior at school; her sad looks; the recurrent incident of her peeing on herself when witnessing a violent scene; and her drawings, where she pencils a girl who loses her face gradually; all that makes Sara (Malena Solda), the educational psychologist, and her teacher suspicious. The tension and distance among her family members are evident. Laura has a submissive attitude towards her father and Rodolfo (Carlos Belloso), her boyfriend, who is unemployed and full of debts that he tries to pay off with money from Ernestos bookshop. Bárbara and Matías spend their days planning a crazy escape. The idea is to make a raft on which they will sail out to see towards a nearby island. She also keeps in her old toys trunk the back cover of books, looking for her father who she never met. She only knows he was a writer. Her conversations with Sara begin to reveal her fears and the darkness behind this girls look.
- Happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you have.
- In 1976, a coup d'etat by the Armed Forces replaced the argentine constitutional Government and policies of terror that trampled on human rights were implemented. In a few years, the hidden and silent violence of these policies spiraled and 30,000 citizens of different ages and social conditions were murdered. They were wrongly called the disappeared and, among them, there were young children or unborn young who were delivered in prisons of the military dictatorship and whose kidnappers abducted and registered as their own children. This movie tells the story of Estela Barnes Carlotto, a human rights activist in Argentina, chairwoman of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who stopped being a housewife to get involved in public affairs after the kidnap of her daughter, Laura Estela Carlotto in 1977. The film is about the way her life was transformed. The quest of a wife, a mother, a grandmother. A fight for ideals of justice, for reconciliation, for reunions. Estela's painful life can be taken as an example for anyone who has suffered a loss. Not only the loss of a relative during the military dictatorship but any kind of unfair loss.
- Pep falls for a young woman during a medical conference. Soon he begins inventing new reasons to spend more time with her. His wife Cristina begins meeting with a psychiatrist in order to figure out what is going on in her marriage.
- When the lights of the city go out, from the outskirts of Buenos Aries, a train arrives in which men, women and children who are excluded from the system travel, who earn their living by collecting what others throw away.