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- Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.
- Imagine being in jail. Now imagine living in a foreign country. Scary? Paul Connelly takes you inside these jails. He shows what living conditions are for the inmates, as well as the guards. You'll never look at prison the same.
- An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.
- Sixteen naked woman have their pictures taken for $10,000.
- A real-life dramatic series where boyfriends/girlfriends travel to a romantic place to quiz and fascinate the strengths of their relationships. Once the location has been selected, the couples were then introduced to singles and then break-up with their former partners until the last day of their stay. Throughout the run, they each had the chance to answer questions pertaining to themselves and their recent dating partner. It's here where they will find out if what they believe what their dream date is the one they really want.
- The search follows explorer Steve Elkins and a team of archaeologists, anthropologists, scientists and filmmakers in this true-life adventure, to search one of the last unexplored places on Earth for a lost Maya city.
- A look at the impact of the retail giant on local communities.
- Romance is in the air on the picturesque Caribbean island of Roatán, but the troubled pasts of its guests threaten to tame their desires.
- Film reveals the staggering human and material cost of illegal immigration to the U.S.A. Documentary is a raw depiction of death, torture and hardship suffered by Americans and foreigners due to illegal immigration.
- La Llorona, a supernatural being who seeks revenge for the death of her daughters, attacks a group of young people on vacation at the beach after they accidentally kill a young girl.
- Inspired from "Celebrity survivors" format.
- Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels. Eddie falls for a local girl, Marlena (Annette Cardona). However, when her father is killed by the Contras, things change.
- Former Special Agent Tim Ballard has spent over a decade rescuing children from child sex tourism both domestically and overseas before he leaves, founds his own organization and begins saving the large majority of children that fell out of the purview of the US. This is the story about the lost children and the attempt to investigate and liberate them from around the world.
- The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
- Scandinavian version of the popular reality show. Couples from Denmark, Sweden and Norwegian test their relationship on a tropical island.
- A typical story of Central American passion and the day to day lives of women who enjoy life, love and everything else.
- Hijos de la Guerra ("Children of the War") is a feature-length documentary film about the world's largest and most violent street gang: the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. The MS-13 gang spans the Americas with an estimated membership of 100,000 people across the United States and Central America. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has declared the MS-13 the fastest growing and most violent street gang in the United States. The Mara Salvatrucha was formed in Los Angeles in the late 1980s by Salvadoran Civil War refugees as a means to protect themselves from rival ethnic gangs. The newly formed gang channeled the widespread trauma of a genocidal civil war on entire generations of orphaned and abandoned children into fanatical violence. This formed the basis for MS's explosive growth. MS-13 has since become a growing threat throughout 33 states in the U.S. and in every country in Central America. The institution of systematic and increasingly stern U.S. deportation policies, along with forceful Salvadoran armed repression of the members, has radicalized the group. Instead of tempering the gang's influence, these policies have propelled the gang into a powerful, aggressive and multiplying force that seems increasingly difficult to control. Through a series of over 80 interviews (including gang members across several countries, the gang's founders, experts and academics) and powerful footage inside jails in El Salvador, gang-infested neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and Salvadoran communities across the East Coast of the United States, the film sheds light on the root personal reasons for gang membership, the ensuing explosion of fratricidal violence as well as the complex role of social and government policy in both containing and aggravating gang proliferation. Hijos de la Guerra ("Children of the War") is the first feature-length documentary film to tell the story of the MS-13. It addresses the causes and circumstances that have fueled this gang's ominous rise to power.
- A solar storm hits Central America. Its inhabitants must face life disconnected from technology. Fear, friendship and love emerge as they come together with others, while the skies are lit by lights never seen before.
- After Christmas, the Barro family is reconciled, and this time Filiberto invites his brother Quiro to spend a vacation together on a trip to the beautiful beaches of Honduras. The adventure continues and this summer will be more fun than ever. A Crazy Summer Catracho that you will never forget.
- 4 Scientists, live a series of paranormal events. their only track, is a message that would lead them to a place called ¨Ciudad Blanca".
- Panamericana - One street, two continents, three months, 12 countries and 13,000 kilometers! The adventure begins in Laredo (USA) and documents a trip through Central and South America until Buenos Aires (Argentina). The film Panamericana tells stories of life on and around the Panamericana. It illustrates unique natural beauty, contrasts of wealth and poverty, the importance of money as well as the world's longest consecutive road network from northern Alaska to southern Chile.
- The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, called by the New York Times "one of the great stories of 20th century scientific discovery", Breaking the Maya Code traces the epic quest to unlock the secrets of the script across 200 years, nine countries and three continents.
- A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, !Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's best health systems.' From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health-and the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care everyone's birth right.
- 1842. Morazán, Head of the State of Costa Rica, faces his last battle for the restoration of the Central American Republic.
- "A Film About Coffee" is a love letter to, and meditation on, specialty coffee. It examines what it takes, and what it means, for coffee to be defined as "specialty." The film whisks audiences on a trip around the world, from farms in Honduras and Rwanda to coffee shops in Tokyo, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York. Through the eyes and experiences of farmers and baristas, the film offers a unique overview of all the elements-the processes, preferences and preparations; traditions old and new-that come together to create the best cups. This is a film that bridges gaps both intellectual and geographical, evoking flavor and pleasure, and providing both as well.
- Caffeinated tells the story of coffee through the perspectives of people who have dedicated their lives to it. At every step of the process, it's the hands that planted the seed, that roasted the beans, that crafted the drink that makes every cup of coffee a story worth telling.
- In The Light tells the story of a caregiver who becomes close friends with a challenging patient that has grown frustrated with life due to her delicate and demanding medical condition.
- Cameron Diaz and friends go around the world to educate viewers about wildlife and the environment.
- An ace fighter pilot crashes in New Guinea, evades headhunters in the jungle, and is rescued. He attempts to return fifty years later to visit his downed plane, but meets opposition when he learns his story is still told among the locals.
- This one-hour documentary weave the tale of the journey of humanity that discovered the science, technology and medicine, which allows us to understand how sight works, cure diseases of the eye and correct vision.
- Dora, Saul, and Salvador all with different dreams of a future realize that one way or another someone has to pay the bills.
- LA LUCHA SIGUE (The Struggle Continues) is a feature length documentary that combines breathtaking cinematography with intimate access and creative storytelling as it follows COPINH and OFRANEH, two grassroots Indigenous and Black organizations leading the struggle for justice in Honduras. The Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), co-founded by the assassinated leader Berta Cáceres, works with the Lenca Indigneous peoples of the mountains in the interior of Honduras. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) is the black people's social movement along the lush coast of Honduras led by Miriam Miranda. Together these groups are holding down the frontlines of resistance in the face of the US-backed military dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernandez as they work to dismantle interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and racism. COPINH and OFRANEH are the resistance. They are the water. They are the land itself. Bullets cannot kill their fight to protect the land and build a Honduras that is rooted in justice for everyone and guided by Ancestral knowledge. Four years after the brutal assassination of world-renowned Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in 2016, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, sheds light on the role of the Atala Zablah's, the Honduran oligarchic family, who with corporate actor David Castillo, are part of the Honduran oligarchy and are alleged to be intellectual authors behind the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Honduran resistance to colonial violence is led by Indigenous and Black women. One of those leaders is Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, the namesake daughter of Berta Cáceres and current leader of COPINH. Another major leader guiding the fight is Miriam Miranda, co-founder of OFRANEH. Both Miriam and Bertha Zúniga have survived assassination attempts and continue to see comrades of their organizations assassinated on a regular basis. While those losses are devastating, they are not frozen by the pain. Instead they harness the rage to stand up to deadly forces and reshape the imagination of a world dominated by the dehumanizing forces of capitalism while building a world of Indigenous and black sovereignty and justice for all. The film unfolds through Miriam and Bertha Zúniga's lived realities as they navigate colonial minefields and speak truth to imperial power. The film opens at Utopia, COPINH's Center for Gathering and Friendship, an autonomous training center that's a living example of the life-affirming alternative projects that can be built when people gather to plan political projects and construct strategies of resistance. It's called Utopia because it's a place to dream. Utopia is even home to organic agricultural projects meant to push back on the food insecurity experienced by so many Lenca communities due to colonization. Utopia is a model of sustainable systems of local food production while also generating autonomous income sources. Bertha Zúniga invites viewers into COPINH's revolutionary world through sharing glimpses of their historic gathering, The Peoples' Guancasco for Life and Autonomy. There, land defenders from across the country and continent share their resistance stories of fighting megaprojects invading their traditional territories and threatening their lives. Next, viewers are introduced to the world-renowned Indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres who was assassinated in 2016. Showing footage from 2013, Berta tells gathered Lenca people, "seventy-million Indigenous [people] were killed on this continent." She explains that the genocide was used to exploit the lands and the people and that the powerful countries in the North were built on that exploitation. Through Berta's countless visits to the community, thousands of Indigenous people were politicized and their strength fortified. Berta's fierce personality and relentless determination are revealed as we see her in action in communities building the political force that took on colonialism and imperialism so effectively that she was killed for it. From there we journey with COPINH to the street actions, grassroots campaigns, and legal tools they are employing to take on the most powerful families and forces in Honduras and around the world to demand justice in the case of Berta's assassination. Their voices cry out for justice for Berta and resound in the streets of Honduras. Their sharp political critiques of US backed colonial violence are broadcast on community radio stations in the most remote corners of Honduras as they build power and denounce David Castillo and the Atala Zablah family behind Berta's murder and the continued resource extraction on Indigenous lands. At the sentencing trial of the material authors of Berta's assassination, Bertha Zúniga fiercly reminds everyone that the State of Honduras is an accomplice in the crime. She affirms that COPINH's fight is "a fight for our country's democratization, for justice, for an end to corruption and impunity." And that despite attempts to sow fear with assassinations and silence voices through killing people, their determination will not waver. The first of three communities that viewers will meet is the Garífuna land of Vallecito. Vallecito is a revolutionary space that is the first territory to be freed from the hands of drug traffickers. This territory is home to the organizing hub of OFRANEH and comprises 2,965 acres of land titled to the Garífuna people. Vallecito is a Garífuna village strategically built inland so that it can take in the Garífuna refugees from along the coast that will be created as climate change continues to intensify. Vallecito, situated along the northeastern coast of Honduras, is filled with abundant natural resources and is an area of Honduras plagued by one of the principal drug trafficking routes to the United States. The coastal lands of the Garífuna are also a target of ferocious monoculture, tourism and extractive projects that drive displacement in the territories. These Honduran government-backed projects are land grabs forced on communities by strategies that include the fabrication of land titles to community territories, which are then sold and resource concessions are given to powerful foreign economic investors, displacing thousands of people from their ancestral lands and driving them into deeper misery. On top of this already precarious situation, free trade experiments in so-called "model cities" are violently thrust into the mix. These "model cities" are the more recent model used to bleed the territories and the people resisting within them. Miriam Miranda explains that the Garífuna people are fighting not just to exercise control over their territories but to create "a project to sustain life and food sovereignty." Reclaiming their territory has come at a high cost, Miriam notes. And assassinations are currently on the rise. Recently, in a 72 hour period, 5 Garífuna people were killed, says Miriam. Strategic displacement and assassinations are used to make way for megaprojects, especially destructive African palm-oil fields and hydroelectric dams. As viewers journey into the heart of Vallecito, they will understand what's at stake for Garífuna people. Land isn't just to build a house. Land is the basis to sow crops, to fish, to make drums, to make canoes and to do spiritual work with their ancestors. They need their territory to live as Garífuna. The language comes from the land, making their language school an essential piece of their revolutionary project. With shining determination in her eyes, Miriam shares the massive dream being cooked up in Vallecito -- an Indigenous Garífuna University rooted in the Garífuna principle "auya buni, amürü nuni" (me for you and you for me). There, Garífuna will learn all about the medicinal, regenerative and practical uses of coconut. The university project works hand in hand with their other main political project, the coconut production project. Drones, cinematic floating shots and traditional camera techniques capture the breath of their coconut production projects. Miriam also explains the importance of returning to traditional ways of using coconuts for washing dishes to push back on the world's reliance on disposability and plastics that are threatening the planet and our very existence. Viewers will understand the importance of cross community organizing as they hear powerful accounts of the historic relationship between OFRANEH and COPINH and see first hand how that relationship continues to be nourished by showing up for one another's struggles. In Vallecito, the people of the mountains (the Lenca) will learn how to cultivate coconuts alongside the people of the sea (the Garifuna). After Vallecito the film will travel to Guachipilín. Guachipilín is a Lenca community comprised of many COPINH members. Viewers will meet women pushing back on patriarchy and reclaiming their self-worth through their cooperative chicken project. The film will take viewers through the territory in Guachipilín to see how it's being threatened by mining interests. Community members Chico and Navidad will share their fears about their water being contaminated and why they are fighting. When Chico explains that a fight for their water will be a fight to the death, viewers will be exposed to the lengths the community will go to to protect their land and their way of life. Guachipilín stands out among COPINH communities in both their autonomy derived from diverse sustainable agricultural projects and in their widespread unity against the colonial mine that threatens to contaminate precious water sources. Bertha Zúniga foreshadows that the intensity of the fight in Guachipilín will reach the levels of Río Blanco, another formidable COPINH community. From Guachipilín viewers will journey to Río Blanco. Berta Cáceres was assassinated for the pivotal role that she played in Río Blanco to expel the Chinese company Sinohydro, the world's largest dam builder, and some of the most powerful international finance systems from Lenca territory. The Honduran company Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA) had a partnership with Sinohydro to build the Agua Zarca Dam. Viewers will meet Rosalina and her family who reveal the historic and present levels of violence that they've faced in their fight to protect their land from the Agua Zarca Dam. Bertha Zúniga and COPINH will face off with the Madrid family as they are blocked from accessing a public road and threatened with violence by the Madrid family if they pass. Historic levels of marginalization have entrenched poverty in rural Indigenous communities making many community members vulnerable to being bought off by the company with crumbs. Viewers will see this pattern unfold in Río Blanco as the Madrid family blocks the road, the only road leading to their corn farms --a staple in their diet. Rosalina and many other community leaders have been the targets of death threats. The community conflict stems from the dirty methods used by DESA to insert itself into the community by any means necessary. The audience will get an intimate look into the conflict when Freddy, Rosalina's son, recounts to his family how someone in the Madrid family tried to kill him. Rosalina has faced so much death in her life that she no longer fears it. She challenges those who are trying to kill her to come find her in her house. She'll be waiting, she says. As a mother it takes a toll knowing that her sons are some of the most threatened people in the community. Nevertheless, from the moment she wakes, she puts her warrior face on because she knows that showing any weakness could mean death for her, her family and her land. Selvin Milla, part of COPINH's community work team, explains how the dam began invading the community without permissions. He tells viewers that the going rate to hire an assassin is $25 USD, but it will cost more if you want the hitman to do any extras like digging up the body after it's buried. Assassination was one of the principal strategies used by DESA, the Honduran dam builder, to get rid of community opposition. "Violence in Honduras is daily. But the death with which one lives isn't normalized either" says Selvin. And that violence is used to justify the ongoing and increasing US-backed militarization of Honduran society. That intense militarization and the US role in fueling violence in Honduras comes to a head in the film when high school students take to the streets and face off with police. Fed up with the lack of state investment in schools, hospitals, food security and other social issues, students decide to block the entrance to La Esperanza, the town that Berta Cáceres grew up in. They decry the recent decision of the Juan Orlando Hernandez dictatorship to hand over the budget and management of the agricultural sector to the military as evidence that everyday the country is devolving more and more into a military dictatorship. "They're students who want a better country," says one of the student organizers on camera before the police start chasing the students while firing tear gas and live bullets. Bertha Zúniga tells us that each tear gas canister "costs between $140 to $241 USD. Here in a demonstration, they easily launch 150 tear gas canisters." Much of the tear gas and bullets are made in the US. In Honduras there is an active military on the streets and yet there's no openly declared war. Viewers will understand by the end of the film that in Honduras there is a war between the rich and the poor, with the US backing the rich. Berta Cáceres' assassination ignited national and international social movements that will not stop until colonialism and imperialism are dead. Meanwhile, the oligarchs in Honduras, with the backing of the biggest military power in the world, are doing everything they can to hold onto power. The work of COPINH and OFRANEH builds on a legacy of 500 years of fights for sovereignty. Their struggle to protect their ancestral territory and to defend humanity is for all of us. They are part of Indigenous and black resistance movements across Turtle Island and around the world that have never been silent, but whose voices can no longer be ignored by the dominant groups. The interconnected forces of racism, capitalism, global warming, and militarism have wreaked an untenable level of destruction whose harms can no longer be contained in the margins. Descendants of those who enslaved march along-side those whose ancestors were enslaved shouting Black Lives Matter. The unhoused are occupying empty homes, with support from the masses who feel the pressure of the collapsing capitalist economy--accelerated by COVID--pushing them closer to the streets. Heir's to fossil fuel fortunes are divesting and big oil companies are being forced to move toward renewable energy. Calls to abolish the police are rooted in an understanding that social problems can not be resolved through militarism. Bertha Zúniga reminds us that, "true justice is in our struggles, it's in our communities. It's in our [resistance] process, which does not waver despite numerous attacks. Or despite attempts to sow fear with these assassinations that try to silence the voices of the people. We know fighting for justice under a dictatorship is extremely complicated. But the battle of the peoples for justice for Berta Cáceres will be yet another reason to fight. It's a fight for our country's democratization, for justice, for an end to corruption and impunity." By transforming Honduras, COPINH and OFRANEH are transforming the world. In Howard Zinn's words, "you can't be neutral on a moving train." It's time to decide what side you're on.
- Two brothers (one from the rural areas and the other from the city), after 20 years of being separated, meet again on a Christmas Eve in the city, but end up having various culture and tradition differences that causes a crazy Christmas.
- Hours before her assassination, indigenous leader Berta Cáceres wrote down the names of the corrupt interests aiming to kill her. Using these clues, the documentary puts together the puzzle pieces to help Berta solve her own murder. In the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders, Milton Benítez, a tenacious Honduran journalist, follows the clues written down with Berta in the meeting they held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned international lawyer, the puzzle is put together... What killed Berta? Behind the crime, the questioned operation of companies in collusion with public officials, forges a pattern of death.
- A strong-willed woman by the name of Kayden Zwicky sets out on a journey to find the killer of her husband and avenge his death.
- A powerful international investigation of the global pharmaceutical industry. Every year, many new drugs come to market which offer hope to the sick and dying. This film investigates just how far drug companies are prepared to go to get their drugs approved; what they will do to make sure they get the prices they want and what happens when profits are put before people.
- Saving the world's last dinosaur, the sea turtle.
- THE COFFEE MAN follows Sasa from Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee to Seattle, Washington (USA), the home of the specialty coffee movement and host of the World Barista Championship. From humble beginnings in war-torn Yugoslavia to his adopted home in Australia, Sasa Sestic's journey to the 2015 World Barista Championships is a long one. But his dedication and pursuit of excellence carries him through as do his family, his staff, coffee growers and roasters and the vendors who travel with him on this remarkable journey. THE COFFEE MAN is an intensely personal, observational documentary that will have you biting your nails, standing up and cheering; and wishing that you, too, could experience Sasa's Holy Grail: the perfect cup of coffee.
- We accompanied an 8 months pregnant Yuri, who migrates with her partner Mike and her son Santi with one objective, to give birth in USA.
- After a woman mysteriously vanishes without leaving a trace, a man by the name of James Booker appears in search of her. What he discovers is a thread that is linked to a powerful crime organization that deals in human trafficking.
- Santiago is a child who is not interested in school at all, until his mother realizes that he is going to play at school .
- Three young men decide to break the monotony in their lives by climbing on their motorcycles, pointing them south and heading wherever fate takes them. In HD.
- The story about the courage of the people of Central America who survived the devastation of Hurricane Mitch, the worst natural disaster to hit the Western Hemisphere in over 200 years.
- In 2009, Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, was removed from power in the first Central American Coup in over 25 years. By 2011, San Pedro Sula, Honduras had become, "the murder capital of the world". That same year Karmic Release began work on This is Honduras, the story of the International Aid workers and everyday citizens who have dedicated themselves to this place the rest of the world has forsaken.