Guadalupe: Madre de la Humanidad (2024)

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.

El Hombre con la Cámara, muy en la línea de "Berlín, sinfonía de una gran ciudad" (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927), es un retrato de San Petersburgo compuesto por cientos de pinceladas fílmicas sobre la vida cotidiana en dicha ciudad. Podría decirse que se trata de un retrato puntillista en el que sólo la totalidad de los breves retazos permiten percibir San Petersburgo en su totalidad. Con la complicidad de su hermano, el operador Mikhail Kaufman, Vertov, fiel a su teorías, no permite ni por un momento que se pueda suponer que alguno de esos retazos pueda imaginarse inventado. Por ello en el vertiginoso montaje que plasma la fascinación de Vertov por el constructivismo y el futurismo, introduce constantemente imágenes del operador que con su cámara está filmando la realidad que le rodea.

L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

La vida parece que nos come y no nos deja margen para decidir…pero ¿qué pasaría si esa persona, ese golpe del destino o ese parón tuvieran un sentido que no esperabas y cambiaran tu mirada y el enfoque de tu vida? Estas son cuatro historias, reales, que se encontraron cara a cara con alguien que muchos no logran ver…aunque Jaime, Carlos, Andrea, Antonio y Sonsoles aseguran que está VIVO y les ha devuelto la vida. Si escuchas Le podrás oír y, si miras, Le podrás ver, porque, aunque cueste creerlo: Ahí hay vida.

A film director falls in love for the person interviewing and becomes obsessed with the idea of playing her as a character. This documentary/ficction film is an ode to the actor's spirit and a detailed document of the processes of his art.

Chris Marker, local loan shark who gave him 200 euros and a young filmmaker discuss nature of art and what it's worth.

Two inspiring real-life stories are intertwined with never-before seen footage of Billy Graham talking about heaven, filmed at his North Carolina mountain home. We never know what we truly believe until it's a matter of life and death. Billy Graham, along with firefighter Cheyane Caldwell and Laurie Coombs, a young woman forced to face the reality of death, share the Gospel message, and what really happens when we die.

A Chinese Canadian son sets out to make a film on his mother, who was once known as the first ever Chinese Opera Singer to have performed Pingju Opera in English in late 1980's China.

John Wilson wakes up, gets ready for his day and heads to work. He has no idea that he's being watched, tracked and studied. Is he a threat to national security? Is he a terrorist or a criminal? No, he's an ordinary American citizen. Like everyone else, John's rights and freedoms have been systematically destroyed - all in the name of security and convenience. Is it about peace and unity? Or is it about ultimate global power? What if there were hidden forces with no ties to democracy or constitutional rights in power? What if new laws, media propaganda and Secret Societies labeled John a danger to society? And what if all this set the stage for a Biblically prophesied global government run by the Antichrist?

"All Five Millions of Us" is a hybrid of documentary and fiction feature film about father absence, based on data released by the National Council of Justice: there are 5.5 million children without paternal recognition in Brazil.

Spain, early 20th century. Since she was a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra has been dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is something only men can do.

Todo el mundo tiene una historia de padre única. Ya sea positivo o doloroso, siempre es personal y puede afectar profundamente el núcleo de nuestra identidad y la dirección de nuestras vidas. Al proporcionar una nueva perspectiva sobre los roles de los padres en la sociedad actual, MUÉSTRAME EL PADRE te invita a pensar de manera diferente sobre cómo ves a tu padre terrenal y cómo te relacionas personalmente con Dios.

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.

La película destaca la “escalada de honores” que han otorgado a San José todos los Papas, desde Pío IX, que le nombra Patrono de la Iglesia, hasta Francisco, que ha declarado 2021 Año Jubilar de San José. El actual Pontífice reconoce que él pone al pie de su estatua durmiente papelitos con las intenciones que le encomienda.

Four friends tired of protests are thinking about another way to shake up capitalist society. Driven by fiction, they decide to blow up a Brussels shopping center. How to think the attack? What roles do they need to play in order to imagine taking action? Is their friendship reconcilable with such a radical act?

A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 1910. What was the reason for his tragic death? And that odd yet familiar figure glimpsed on the beach, at the end of the trip, as the woman told it: who did it belong to?

Un cortometraje escolar fallido se resignifica 12 años después para transmitir las múltiples capas e intenciones que existen en la creación de una película. En este distanciamiento-recomposición de las imágenes, las etapas de la filmación se reconstruyen desde el scouting hasta la producción, a la vez que un miembro del crew rememora una experiencia trágica que golpeó las pretensiones estudiantiles.

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through a film - a hybrid of real recording and directed material. The grief, the sick body, is reflected in self portraits, portraits of dying strangers and paintings of dead models. The paintings, apart from his work, also express a different version of himself. All together contribute to the depiction of man as a "garment of pain".