Fuego en el mar (2016)

A family history archive as told by matriarch Azalu Mekonnen and her granddaughter Samira Hooks.

El cineasta George Casey documenta las migraciones de mariposas, aves, ballenas grises, cangrejos y cebras.

Each year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey, relentlessly followed by every big African predator. Revolutionary spy cams - airborne, swimming or disguised as rocks, skulls or dung - reveal the Great Wildebeest Migration from entirely new perspectives. This 2-part series focuses on the growing-up of a calf as he takes his first steps, faces his first deadly perils and tries to cross crocodile-infested rivers. It combines natural humor with exciting drama and gripping music.

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration known as the "plebiscite by foot" against Salazar. Between childhood memories and historical investigation, he looks for the images of this exodus, the largest in post-war Europe.

The vege­ta­bles come from the garden behind the house, the fish comes out of a can, and money for bread is earned at the factory. It’s because of this money that they came here. Women from Turkey stand side-by-side with women form Meck­len­burg at the conveyor belt of a fish-proces­sing factory in Lübeck. Their hands are stained brown, the pungent smell of fish clings to them, and their arms and backs ache. If these jobs were done by men, machines would have been invented long ago to replace them. But female labour is cheap and the women do not complain. They have learned to work – and therein lies the source of their pride. (Source: https://www.artechock.de/film/text/filminfo/g/ge/gefubr.htm)

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see the changes that have settled over them, and follows the family on their return to Mexico.

Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration following the Partition of India in 1947. Inspired by the life of a woman who was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, grew up in Madras (Chennai) and lived the rest of her life as a Singaporean, the film juxtaposes fragmented recollections of the past with enduring practices of the present.

Follow Chris Cotter, an American traveler, as he explores a common migration path through Ethiopia and into Israel, tracking the plight of Eritrean refugees. Chris and his crew visit several refugee camps, including the never-before-documented Afar region. The refugees tell stories of oppression, torture, and survival. Searching for solutions, Chris speaks to various NGOs and experts, including Assistant Secretary of State, Anne Richard. The outlook is bleak, but the spirit of the Eritrean refugees is hard to ignore.

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.

Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration combining fantasy and stark reality, setbacks and achievements, in the midst of the dangers of such trips.

El infame barrio de El Raval, con sus estrechas callejuelas repletas de figuras oscuras, se encuentra en el centro de Barcelona, ​​en el casco antiguo, cerca del agua. Donde antes, marineros compartían los pequeños pisos baratos con las familias trabajadoras, los migrantes de todo el mundo ahora caracterizan la zona.

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering sandstone cliffs, everyone attempts to live and survive in their own way. Foreigners who have a go at being Swiss, and Swiss who observe with scepticism. They meet in the corner shop run by an Iraqi living in exile, send their kids to a children’s club managed by a missionary, and old drinking mates meet regularly over a beer in the neighbourhood’s only bar. Despite all the differences, they are rather proud of the fact that they come from here.

ADRIFT- People of a Lesser God is the story of an incredible odyssey made by several-times Pulitzer Prize-nominated undercover reporter Dominique C. Mollard. In this gripping story, Mollard sails with 38 African migrants, among them a five-month-old baby, out of West Africa on a quest to reach the golden shores of Europe. All aboard are packed together like sardines in a leaky fishing canoe as they set off under full moon on their harrowing journey. ADRIFT-People of a Lesser God captures the struggle of these desperate migrants as they brave their way across the cold Atlantic, risking their lives in search for a better future. —Ziad H. Hamzeh

Almost eight years ago the family of Marcela Gómez separated. His parents and younger sister emigrated to the United States and lived in Cali, Colombia. While reconstructing the history of her family through the home movies they sent her in the mail, Marcela questioned the phenomenon of third world migration to the great powers and how these powers assume an immigrant.

A metaphor of the Flood in our times, The Flood is the rain of violence that washes over us. Noah´s Ark is the train that runs through Mexico toward the United States and migrants are the species attempting to save their lives. For the directors, cinema moves people not just by condemnation, but by confronting and fostering emotions which lead to new, constructive ideas. This documentary became a cinematographic diary for their first viewer, their three-year-old daughter, Zafirah.

Una historia ambientada en la ciudad de Roma. Se trata de un retrato desde la mirada de Jap Gambardella, un periodista de 65 años, que regresa a la ciudad en la que nació para recuperar sus recuerdos y esencia juveniles, y con ello reflejar la brillantez, hermosura y variedad de la capital italiana.

Adaptación de la novela homónima de F. Scott Fitzgerald. En la alta sociedad norteamericana, llama la atención la presencia de Gatsby, un hombre misterioso e inmensamente rico, al que todos consideran un advenedizo, lo que no impide que acudan a sus fastuosas fiestas. Gatsby vive obsesionado con la idea de recuperar al amor de su juventud.

En 1939, a punto de estallar la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el extravagante Guido llega a Arezzo, en la Toscana, con la intención de abrir una librería. Allí conoce a la encantadora Dora y, a pesar de que es la prometida del fascista Rodolfo, se casa con ella y tiene un hijo. Al estallar la guerra, los tres son internados en un campo de exterminio, donde Guido hará lo imposible para hacer creer a su hijo que la terrible situación que están padeciendo es tan sólo un juego.

Mia, una joven aspirante a actriz que compagina los castings con su trabajo de camarera, y Sebastian, un pianista de jazz que se gana la vida tocando en sórdidos tugurios, se enamoran. Pero la gran ambición por llegar a la cima en sus carreras artísticas amenaza con separarlos.

Forrest Gump es un chico con deficiencias mentales no muy profundas y con alguna incapacidad motora que, a pesar de todo, llegará a convertirse, entre otras cosas, en un héroe durante la Guerra del Vietnam. Su persistencia y bondad le llevarán a conseguir una gran fortuna, ser objeto del clamor popular y a codearse con las más altas esferas sociales y políticas del país. Siempre sin olvidar a Jenny, su gran amor desde que era niño.

Durante las labores de recuperación de los restos del famoso Titanic, una anciana norteamericana se pone en contacto con la expedición para acudir a una plataforma flotante instalada en el Mar del Norte y asistir 'in situ' a la recuperación de sus recuerdos. A través de su memoria reviviremos los acontecimientos que marcaron el siniestro más famoso del siglo XX: el hundimiento del trasatlántico más lujoso del mundo, la máquina más sofisticada de su tiempo, considerada «insumergible», que sucumbió a las heladas aguas del Atlántico en abril de 1912, llevándose consigo la vida de mil quinientas personas, más de la mitad del pasaje. En los recueros de la anciana hay cabida para algo más que la tragedia, la historia de amor que vivió con un joven pasajero de tercera clase, un pintor aficionado que había ganado su pasaje en una partida las cartas en una taberna de Southampton.

Dom Cobb es un ladrón hábil, el mejor de todos, especializado en el peligroso arte de extracción: el robo de secretos valiosos desde las profundidades del subconsciente durante el estado de sueño cuando la mente está más vulnerable. Esta habilidad excepcional de Cobb le ha hecho un jugador codiciado en el traicionero nuevo mundo de espionaje corporativo, pero al mismo tiempo, le ha convertido en un fugitivo internacional y ha tenido que sacrificar todo que le importaba. Ahora a Cobb se le ofrece una oportunidad para redimirse. Con un último trabajo podría recuperar su vida anterior, pero solamente si logra lo imposible.

Un joven sin ilusiones lucha contra su insomnio, consecuencia quizás de su hastío por su gris y rutinaria vida. En un viaje en avión conoce a Tyler Durden, un carismático vendedor de jabón que sostiene una filosofía muy particular: el perfeccionismo es cosa de gentes débiles; en cambio, la autodestrucción es lo único que hace que realmente la vida merezca la pena. Ambos deciden entonces formar un club secreto de lucha donde descargar sus frustaciones y su ira que tendrá un éxito arrollador.