Naked World: America Undercover (2003)

The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challenge. This documentary by Lee Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little-known part of South Africa's political history through archival footage, interviews and, of course, several mesmerizing musical performances.

Cuenta la historia de Nadav, de 13 años, que se enamora de su atractiva tía Nina. Como si ser adolescente no fuera suficiente, Nadav tiene que hacer frente a su familia rota, al divorcio de sus padres, su padre moribundo y su temperamental madre, así como al haberse encaprichado de Nina... que tiene sus propios problemas que resolver. Catalogada como una "comedia muy triste", "Las tragedias de Nina" ganó 11 Premios (un récord) de la Academia de Cine Israelí y fue la candidata Israelí a la Mejor Película Extranjera a los Oscar.

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations ...

Después de algún tiempo sin verse, tres hermanas -Gloria, Ana y Lidia- se reúnen de nuevo en torno a la madre, que acaba de morir. Las tres hermanas descubren que su madre había dispuesto que sus cenizas fueran divididas en tres partes y que cada una de ellas fuera a parar a un destinatario distinto. El viaje de las tres hermanas, con las cenizas de su madre en el maletero del coche, se convertirá en la llave que abrirá viejos secretos familiares.

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

Documental sobre Evo Morales. Hijo de la guerra norteamericana contra las drogas, un indio aymara llamado Evo, acompañado por una tropa de cocaleros, atraviesa los Andes y el Amazonas en jeans y zapatillas encabezando una contienda histórica para convertirse en el primer presidente indígena de Bolivia.

Un sábado en una Buenos Aires desolada y casi irreconocible. Una pareja casi acostumbrada a su aburrimiento cotidiano, una chica que ya decidió que quiere estar sola, su novio que no quiere aceptarlo, un actor famoso que no parece estar a gusto en ningún lado y una chica que cree divertirse sin notar que se aburre todo el tiempo. Una comedia melancólica sobre la incomodidad y el miedo.

A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Con la actuación estelar del actor y teniente Clark Gable, el film nos ofrece una visión privilegiada del día a día en la vida de los pilotos de bombarderos B-17 estadounidenses en sus bases de Inglaterra, su preparación y entrenamiento; así como los peligros a los que deben hacer frente en las continuas misiones de bombardeo sobre la Europa ocupada.

Un matrimonio desgastado por el paso de los años, el desamor de un marido insensible y agresivo, la falta de hijos y una práctica irracional y enfermiza de la religión son los pilares que sostienen la atormentada vida de Gregoria, pese al intento de escapar de ella al amparo de una Providencia que parece indiferente a su dolor.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

How does artist Matthew Barney use 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, a factory whaling vessel and traditional Japanese rituals to create his latest art project? Barney plowed the waters off the coast of Nagasaki to film his massive endeavor, Drawing Restraint 9. The documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint journeys to Japan with Barney and his collaborator Bjork, as the visual artist creates a "narrative sculpture" telling a fantastical love story of two characters that transform from land mammals into whales.

Una mujer le roba a su novio traficante de drogas y huye. Ella se encuentra con una mujer simpática en el camino que la ayuda a escapar.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

En 1975, Nicolas Philibert, un joven ayudante de dirección, participó en la película de René Allio "Yo, Pierre Riviére, habiendo matado a mi madre, mi hermana y mi hermano...", inspirada en un crimen que tuvo lugar en Normandía hace 140 años. Esta película debía su singularidad al hecho de que los miembros del equipo artístico eran los propios granjeros de la región. Treinta años después de rodar aquella película, Nicolas Philibert decide reencontrarse con los actores. Algunos ya no viven y otros han emigrado, pero en un absoluto proceso de investigación, Philibert intenta recuperarlos para que nos hablen sobre su vida y nos cuenten cómo les ha afectado su participación en aquella película.