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Publisher
3DD Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Che Guevara, the archetypal Marxist revolutionary. Che was also a physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. We go to Dublin to meet Jim Fitzpatrick who met Che and designed the classic commercially renowned image..
Publisher
Impacto Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What price would you pay for paradise? And who would you be willing to take it from? The pristine archipelago of Bocas del Toro, Panama attracts retirees and developers from the U.S. with its crystal-clear waters and its island culture. In Paraiso for Sale, filmmaker, Anayansi Prado, returns to her homeland to document the effects the fast-growing migration is having on the local community.. This engaging and revealing documentary tells the personal...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Join world-renowned chef Jose Andres on an exploration of the most unknown – and some say, the most beautiful – country in the Caribbean. While most Americans know Haiti only through its disasters (earthquake, hurricane, poverty), Jose explores the UNDISCOVERED HAITI. As a chef and humanitarian, Jose is convinced we can change the world through the power of food, and understand a culture by exploring what, when and how its people eat.. Jose experiences...
84) Grey City
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, a new form of graffiti was born. Like wildfire, the works of artists such as Os Gêmeos, Nunca, and Nina spread through the streets of the city and then to art galleries and museums around the world.. Nevertheless, City Hall implemented the Clean City Law in an effort to “combat visual pollution,” hiring a small team to paint over graffiti deemed aesthetically unpleasing. When a large-scale mural was painted...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Witness an entire nation transforming its agriculture using organic techniques. The Greening of Cuba profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture, based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported machinery and agro-chemicals. When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80% of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half of its petroleum - the mainstays of...
86) Murals
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona organized an exhibition that brought together a group of contemporary mural artists from very different cultural and stylistic backgrounds. This documentary follows these artists as they work and discuss the use of an empty wall as a canvas and expressive medium.. The participants included women from Djajibiné Soninke, Mauritania; New York Times illustrator and editor Brian Rea; Thai muralist Sakarin...
Publisher
Meetai, llc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This film festival favorite follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. Under the guidance of idealistic music director Favio Chavez, the orchestra must navigate a strange new world of arenas and sold-out concerts.. However, when a natural disaster strikes their country, Favio must find...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order of fighting knights dedicated to defending the Holy Land and Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and most powerful bodies of the medieval world--and the chief defenders against the growing Muslim military campaign to reimpose foreign rule on a Christian society....
90) Primas
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
PRIMAS is an evocative and poetic portrait of two Argentine teenage cousins who come of age together as they overcome the heinous acts of violence that interrupted their childhoods.
91) Ciro and I
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Ciro Galindo was born on August 29, 1952, in Colombia. Wherever he went, war always found him. His children were recruited by the armies of war; his family was repeatedly displaced; and his wife Anita, an indigenous woman, died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.
92) Building Bridges
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Portuguese
Description
BUILDING BRIDGES is a film that pursues a possible relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Heloisa and Alvaro as they position themselves on opposite sides of the troubling political situation of Brazil.
93) I'm Leaving Now
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Felipe, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, has reached a crossroad. After living 16 years in Brooklyn, working three-paying jobs, and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children in Mexico, he's decided to return home to the family he hasn't seen in almost two decades. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the U.S....
94) Adriana's Pact
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
When I was a girl, I had a strong role model in my life: my aunt Adriana. In 2007, she was detained and I found out she worked as an agent at DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) in Pinochet’s secret police, which has often been compared to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany. My aunt claims to have never seen or participated in any instances of torture, but nevertheless she flee to Australia to avoid trial. In the hope that I can prove my aunt’s...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own rowdy, lo-fi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than- life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow...
Publisher
Doc & Film International
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about love and relationships in the world of the extremely popular ‘favela funk’: pornographic music from Rio de Janeiro’s deprived neighborhoods. The film shows the perspective of the favela youth and aims to find the relation between the favela funk lyrics and their personal, daily (love) lives, dominated by a lawless subculture of drug gangs, violence and sex.. INSIDE THE MIND OF FAVELA FUNK gives an insight in the current Brazilian...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Don Alfonso plays the marimba for a living. When he meets an old underground heavy-metal legend, they decide to do something radical and fuse both sounds. A fresh and hilarious documentary-fiction hybrid about the fusion between tradition and modernity that conveys a moving and authentic sense of Guatemalan life.. Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival.. “This largely comic look at one determined marimba player’s struggles...
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning documentary follows a Brazilian girls' football team as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gang confrontations, the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams alive.. Winner of the Silver Punt Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Cambridge Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Marbela International Film Festival....
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary film tells the story of Vanessa, a teenager born in Mexico who has lived in the United States with her family since she was six years old. Once an excelling middle-school student with big dreams of becoming a doctor, Vanessa begins to be haunted by her undocumented status as she reaches high school.. Reconsidering her aspirations, Vanessa begins to give up on academics. Then, in the summer of 2012, President Obama approves the "Deferred...
100) Mariachi High
Publisher
RAINLAKE
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a part of America that rarely makes headlines, there is a small town with a group of teenagers who will captivate your ears and warm your heart. MARIACHI HIGH follows a South Texas high school’s top ensemble, Mariachi Halcon, through one year of auditions and rehearsals, of heartbreak and joy, building to the state championship tournament, making a convincing case for the positive impact of in-school arts engagement on students' lives. One of...
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