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- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorRobert GardnerA look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.
- DirectorBanksyStarsBanksyMr. BrainwashSpace InvaderFollowing the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
- DirectorLucy WalkerKaren HarleyJoão JardimStarsVik MunizOn the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsAbilio FernándezSalvador AllendeThe chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsSalvador AllendeCarlos AltamiranoFernando CastilloFilmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreGeorge W. BushBen AffleckMichael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
- DirectorErwin WagenhoferStarsJean ZieglerPeter BrabeckKarl OtrokA look at how the world's food is produced and how mass production changes the environment and the lives of people.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsCompay SegundoIbrahim FerrerRubén GonzálezAging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsPina BauschRegina AdventoMalou AiraudoA tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsSergey BondarchukGrigoriy AleksandrovEisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
- DirectorJonathan CaouetteStarsJonathan CaouetteRenee LeblancAdolph DavisFilmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.
- DirectorByambasuren DavaaLuigi FalorniStarsJanchiv AyurzanaChimed OhinAmgaabazar GonsonWhen a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
- DirectorVincent ParonnaudMarjane SatrapiStarsChiara MastroianniCatherine DeneuveGena RowlandsA precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
- DirectorSebastián MorenoStarsVerónica De NegriJosé DuránPaz ErrázurizA film about the fearless photographers and photojournalists who documented strikes, demonstrations, protests etc during the Chilean military regime of Augusto Pinochet, sometimes risking their very lives.
- DirectorEverardo González
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of characters that make the old way of stealing endearing
- DirectorGeoffrey SmithStarsHenry MarshThis documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.
- DirectorEugenio PolgovskyDepicts the lives of children and their families who labor in the Mexican countryside.
- DirectorBrett GaylorStarsCory DoctorowGilberto GilGirl TalkA documentary which examines copyright issues in the information age.
- DirectorJens HoffmannStarsDante BonfimDanilo BarbosaThiago Mosquito'Mata Mata' is the Brazilian term for a 'knockout match': a win-or-go-home battle, do or die and sometimes also a metaphor for life. The Film 'Mata Mata' is the never before told story of the ups and downs in becoming a football superstar.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsPatricio GuzmánVincent DavyHortensia AllendeAfter decades of fascist rule in Chile, Patricio Guzman returns to his country to screen his documentary, Battle of Chile, which until the time of the filming was banned by authorities. His audience, a new generation of Chileans who remember little of the revolution and ensuing coup reflect on their experience of watching the film after so many years of suppression.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsRoger PigautA travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators. The poorest residents on the hilltops have trouble obtaining water for drinking and washing. There are community dances, a travelling circus, a race course. Boys feed the harbour sealions; a fashionable woman walks her penguin. The ever-present onshore breeze provides fresh air and an ideal environment for kite-flying. The film's second half is in colour, making the switch with the tale of the city's bloody pirate past.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsAmilcar CabralFlorence DelayArielle DombasleA woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsNina SimoneLisa Simone KellyRoger NupieA documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."
- DirectorJoris IvensClose shots of a railway train underway: track racing underneath, steam escaping, cars coupling, gears ratcheting, signals changing.
- DirectorRobert GardnerStarsRobert GardnerAn ethnographic documentary with allegorical undertones about the Dani people of Papua Barat and their social values based on an elaborate system of tribal warfare and revenge.
- DirectorRobert GardnerStarsRobert GardnerAn ethnographic portrayal of the Bororo people of Niger, showing an annual ritual dance, which symbolizes their beliefs about containing and controlling their feelings of love.
- DirectorMalik BendjelloulStarsRodriguezStephen 'Sugar' SegermanDennis CoffeyTwo South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
- DirectorLuis LuponeTeófila Palafox
- DirectorShaul SchwarzNarco Cultura (Spanish, English subtitles) takes viewers behind the scenes of narcocorridos, the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.
- DirectorSophie RobinsonLotje SodderlandStarsDavid LynchSophie RobinsonHente SodderlandAfter suffering a stroke at age 34, a woman documents her struggles, setbacks and eventual breakthrough as she relearns to speak, read and write.
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsTim FoleyJosé Manuel 'El Doctor' MirelesPaco ValenciaFilmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsMartín CalderónCristinaPatricio GuzmánDelving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
- DirectorPatrick AlexanderAseneth Suarez RuizStarsGyuri VillásThe story of what happens in between where we are born and who we decide to be, the only place we can really call home.
- DirectorCarlos ArmellaPedro González-RubioStarsFernando PachecoRomelia SosaMario TelloIntimate and fascinating portrait of Fernando, also known as El Suicida and El Negro, a bull fighter in the slums of the Mexican Yucutan Peninsular. Sometimes he is a charming host to the film makers, often he is known blind drunk and aggressive towards his wife. He isn't old but he's already covered in psychological and physical scars.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsRegina CardoFlorencia Vega MoctezumaMy grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand mother remembers him as a very special young man that filled up her life with art and love. But she also suspects that he murdered a dozen women.
- DirectorPável Aguilar
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceA shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.
- DirectorLouis LumièreWorkers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. DicksonWilliam HeiseStarsAnnabelle MooreAnnabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety of visual patterns.
- DirectorEnoch J. RectorStarsJames J. CorbettBob FitzsimmonsBilly MaddenDocumentary film depicting the 1897 boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day. Originally running for more than 100 minutes, it is the world's first feature film.
- DirectorNicolás Echevarría
- DirectorMiguel Covarrubias
- DirectorMacarena AguiloSusana FoxleyTowards the end of the seventies, the militants of MIR exiled in Europe, decided to return to Chile in order to support the fight against the military dictatorship. The ones who could would help through legal means, others through clandestinely. Many had children and couldn't' t return with them. So the idea of a community center to shelter these children was born. Project Home gathered 60 kids that were left to the care of 20 people who assumed the responsibility of their upbringing for the years to come.
- DirectorDavis GuggenheimStarsCharles AdamsJonathan AlterRobert BalfanzAn examination of the current state of education in America today.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellLogan RamseyThe Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened.
- DirectorStanley NelsonStarsBlair AndersonOmar BarbourJulian BondThis documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.
- DirectorIvonne FuentesStarsMaria Luisa AguilarEnoc FuentesVíctor Enoch GarcíaEnoc and Maria Luisa a retired teachers couple travels in a RV packed with telescopes to the most remote places in Mexico to teach and share their love for astronomy.
- DirectorNicolás EchevarríaStarsMaría Sabina"Maria Sabina, woman spirit", is the cinematic portrait of one of the most famous healers-shamans of Mexico.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasAdolfas MekasPola ChapelleFilmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- DirectorFernanda FrazãoAmanda KamancheckStarsRaquel Braga S. CarvalhoTeresa ChavesRosa CruzThis documentary illustrates how the participation of women in open urban spaces is marked by insecurity and harassment, explores the public space as a place of violence and analyzes how campaigns promoted by activists and feminists have changed power relationships between men and women in Brazil.
- DirectorSandra Luz López BarrosoStarsArtemio Gómez ZárateCocco ZárateArtemio was born in the United States. Now he lives in a small town in Guerrero, Mexico, with his mother and his new family. Despite his roots are in Mexico, he still doesn't feel like a part of it.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaAndré LubranoBlaise FournierAgnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
- DirectorLaura Huertas MillánStarsLaura Huertas MillánNohemi MillanMartha MillánAntonia is a lyrical singer whose beauty is uncommon, lush and somber. Recovering from a suicide attempt in a rehabilitation institution, all her family ties are irreparably broken. But her sister remains deeply affected by what happened.
- DirectorLaura Huertas MillánStarsCrispina NavarroInés NavarroGerardo NavarroLa Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico, formally mimicking the examination of an object through subtle shifts in scale and space.
- DirectorAbner BenaimStarsRubén BladesResidenteGilberto Santa RosaLatin American icon Ruben Blades was at the center of the New York Salsa revolution in the 1970's. His socially charged lyrics and explosive rhythms brought Salsa music to an international audience. Blades has won 17 Grammys, acted in Hollywood, earned a law degree from Harvard and even ran for President of his native Panama. He lives in New York, where he shares his life at home and on tour with the camera. Critically acclaimed director Abner Benaim takes us on a journey through Ruben's 50 year career, revealing that Ruben might still have both musical and political ambitions. The film is a celebration of this living legend and his struggle to come to terms with his legacy.
- DirectorPetra CostaStarsLi AnElena AndradePetra CostaElena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.
- DirectorMelisa LiebenthalStarsMelisa LiebenthalVictoria D'AmuriCamila MaglianoMelisa, filmmaker and character in The Pretty Ones is young, intelligent and funny, but also critical and ironic. She interviews her friends, reconstructs herself as a person using family photos and videos, and reflects on the images and expectations society has of young women.
- DirectorMelissa Elizondo MorenoThis is the story of a teacher who has been a father to the children of the community and that has made the school a second home for all of them.
- DirectorLuna MaránI am afraid of returning to my hometown and finding my father dead. Memoires of Uncle Yim, as told by his daughter, Luna.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzStarsAnaïsEmmaAnaïs and Emma have been best friends since childhood. It's a friendship is filmed over the years, during a period when their physical, emotional and intellectual development is dramatic.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsSergio ChamyRomulo AitkenMarta OlivaresA private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
- DirectorLuciana KaplanStarsNicole MonoskyA documentary of three people in three different cities, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, sharing their experiences on commuting - a sacrifice of half their lives for the sake of supporting themselves and their families.
- DirectorLuisa RileyAt 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A series of testimonials allow us to get to know the family and social circumstances that influenced Deni 's path; we also discover the ties of love and friendship she found in the safe house, her daily life in the underground and the discipline and aspirations she shared with her fellow guerrillas.
- DirectorPau OrtizAle (18) and Rocio's (13) relationship is faced with the greatest challenge possible when their mother is imprisoned under dubious charges. They have to act as father and mother to their two younger siblings.
- DirectorDiego MondacaWhat can represent the confinement for a person. The emotions, changes, uncertainties and traumas that are generated in a space/situation limit. Place from where a particular form is constructed to see the life and the freedom.
- DirectorEmiliano Mazza De Luca
- StarsGael García BernalYásnaya AguilarThe six-episode, documentary web series deals with the fundamental aspects of the climate crisis in Mexico through the stories and experiences of environmental activists, human rights advocates, indigenous communities, academics, and non-profit organizations. Two witnesses, actor, producer and director Gael García Bernal and writer and linguist Yásnaya Aguilar, will weave the different stories together and reflect on the impact of each of the problems discussed in the show. The shorts are framed by the ecosystems and natural landscapes threatened by human impact in different parts of the country. The shorts will revolve around the following subjects: Water, in Chihuahua; Air, in Monterrey; Carbon, in Coahuila; Oceans, in Cozumel; Energy, in Tabasco; and Food, in Chapala. Each episode centers on a specific issue and interlinks visions, strategies and actions in order to propose a possible future that takes the environment into account as part of the country's political agenda.
- DirectorIngrid Eunice Fabián GonzálezOn the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Juchitan, Oaxaca is the town of Alvaro Obregon. Here, the members of a Binniza (Zapotec) community have been under constant threat since a transnational corporation decided to install a wind farm in the sea without the consent of the community. The inhabitants resisted from the outset; they organized and created a communitarian police that controls the entrance of people into the conflict zone. Herminia and Mariano, two Zapotec fishermen, have actively lived this struggle and resistance. People of the Sea and the Wind recounts how the inhabitants perceive the wind farm and the way in which they are ready to defend their community.
- DirectorLuke LorentzenStarsJuan OchoaFer OchoaJosue OchoaIn Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
- DirectorPablo Cruz VillalbaFive oil tankers went aground in the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of oil workers lost their jobs, their payments and their rights. The platforms threaten to exploit the densest mangrove zone in the country but a couple of siblings defend the rivers. The fishermen of the island, however, have been in capsize for the last four decades due to the discovery of the second biggest oil reserve in the world.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsShabnam YousefiSolmaz PanahiJafar PanahiJafar Panahi sets out to find a young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaDocumentary explores how humanity expresses itself with technology and the intended and unintended consequences of our tech-dominated world.
- DirectorCarolina CanguçuIsael MaxakaliSueli MaxakaliIn the past, when white people didn't exist, we used to hunt with our yamayxop spirits. The whites came, cut down the trees, dried up the rivers and scared the animals away. Today, our tall trees are over, the whites surrounded us and our lands are tiny. But our yamayxop are very strong and taught us the stories and chants from our ancients who walked around here.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaTold using Mexico's 200 year-old tradition of corrido music, To The Other Side recounts the story of an aspiring corrido composer facing two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States.
- DirectorLisa RovnerStarsJean-Michel JarreKim GordonWendy CarlosFollows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
- DirectorSandra Luz López BarrosoSurrounded by prayers, music, altars and color, Lizbeth, a transsexual afro-descendant leads the funerary rituals of a small community in Guerrero, Mexico. Liz is heir to ancient knowledge, a particular cultural and religious syncretism in which life and death are part of the same inseparable cycle.
- DirectorAnaïs TaracenaIn the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona, also known as "The Mole", infiltrated the heart of one of the most repressive governments in Guatemalan history. The film captures the moments when revelations from the past explore the cracks in the walls of silence that surround the country's secret history.
- DirectorJulio López FernándezA group of veterans "guerrilla and soldiers" faces hatred from the past and a prevailing grief when they return, 25 years later, to the neighborhoods of San Salvador where they fought the final battle of the Salvadoran Civil War.
- DirectorJavier CorcueraStarsIker IgeltzEvaristo PáramosSuméAfter years of silence, the Basque band La Polla Records is back to play live. Evaristo Paramos, the band's charismatic vocalist, announces this at a press conference.
- DirectorJonás CuarónStarsNaomi KleinDrawing surprising connections between market methods and CIA torture techniques developed in the 1950s, the film explores how well-known events of the recent past have been theaters for the shock doctrine, from Pinochet's coup in Chile, to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to the war in Iraq today.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsGregory CorsoAllen GinsbergLeRoy Jones-BarakaThis is a video record of the Allen Ginsberg's death and funeral in his apartment in New York.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsEdith 'Little Edie' Bouvier BealeJohn Kennedy Jr.Caroline KennedyJonas Mekas spend his summer holiday with Jackie Kennedy, her sister's families and children.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsAndy WarholJohn CaleAllen GinsbergThe pioneer of the American diary film presents footage of his avant garde colleague shot between 1963 and 1990.
- DirectorJonas MekasFilmed in 1971, this film includes images of Moscow the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorJonas MekasSightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.
- DirectorJonas MekasPart of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.
- DirectorJonas MekasPart of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.
- DirectorJonas MekasMekas recounted and film the walk of St Teresa in 1967.
- DirectorJon GreenhalghStarsJohn du PontDave SchultzMike GostigianDocumentary filmmaker Jon Greenhalgh examines the life of Dave Schultz, a professional wrestler who was part of 'Team Foxcatcher', funded by multi-millionaire John du Pont.
- DirectorAldo GarayStarsStephania Mirza CurbeloStephania is a transvestite born in Nicaragua. As a boy, he was adopted by a couple of Uruguayan leftist activists in the midst of the Sandinista revolution. At the moment, Stephania earns her living watching parked cars in Montevideo. The film follows Stephania in her journey to rediscover her home country, where she was once a son, a brother and a boy who taught literacy and where she now wants to be accepted as the woman she is.
- DirectorAldo Garay
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánProtests that exploded onto the streets of Chile's capital of Santiago in 2019 as the population demanded more democracy and social equality around education, healthcare and job opportunities.