Cuando el toro lloró (2017)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 7M
Director : Bart Goossens, Karen Vasquez Guadarrama
Sinopsis
Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...
Un grupo de jóvenes pistoleros se dedica a asaltar los bancos del estado de Wyoming y el tren-correo de la Union Pacific. El jefe de la banda es el carismático Butch Cassidy, y Sundance Kid es su inseparable compañero. Un día, después de un atraco, el grupo se disuelve. Será entonces cuando Butch, Sundance y una joven maestra de Denver formen un trío de románticos forajidos que, huyendo de la ley, llegan hasta Bolivia.
Cuenta la historia real de Yossi Ghinsberg, un joven aventurero que vivió para escribir un bestseller de memorias sobre su aventura en el interior del Amazonas. Con una guía incompleta y dos amigos más, el viaje se convirtió en un calvario psicológico y aterrador en el que lucharon por sobrevivir ante las amenazas de los elementos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana.
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Un adolescente introvertido de la ciudad es enviado al rancho ágil de su padre. Al tratar de descubrir su lugar como el hijo del jefe, se encuentra en un mundo lleno de violencia naturalizada.
Mario Álvarez (Demián Bichir) es un profesor boliviano cuyo sueño es emigrar a los Estados Unidos para poder mejorar su nivel de vida. Pero, además de no conseguir el visado americano, se ve envuelto en una trama criminal
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Película sobre la esterilización de mujeres campesinas por miembros del llamado Cuerpo de Paz de Bolivia.
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Averno, un lugar del imaginario de los habitantes andinos donde conviven vivos y muertos y donde todo encuentra su cara opuesta. Muchos han oído nombrarlo pero muy pocos verlo; Tupah, un joven lustrabotas lo debe encontrar para rescatar a su tío.
Jonathan Perel vuelve a los años más oscuros de la historia argentina. Ahora, lo hace basándose en Responsabilidad empresarial en delitos de lesa humanidad, el primer informe realizado por el Estado nacional que prueba la participación de ciertos empresarios en la represión durante la última dictadura.
Critical investigation of The World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, but prime time TV everywhere else. Do the World Bank and IMF make the poor even poorer? Are the Bank and IMF democratic institutions? Why do people demonstrate against the Bank and IMF? For the first time, a documentary global investigation of major criticisms of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), two of the most powerful financial institutions in the world. Five country case studies are presented, each concentrating on a different aspect of critics' charges: 1. Bolivia: Debt, Drugs and Democracy 2. Ghana: The Model of Success 3. Brazil: Debt, Damage and Politics 4. Thailand: Dams and Dislocation 5. Philippines: The Debt Fighters. The charges, including those related to structural adjustment, are controversial and provocative. Some go to the heart of the power and policies of these institutions.
Danger, toil, and superstition pervade life in a mining town high up in the Bolivian mountains. Tin is the heartbeat of the community providing jobs and livelihoods - but at considerable cost. With deaths commonplace, people make offerings to El Tio, the devil under the earth, for protection and good fortune. But when the mountain's flow of tin ebbs, further measures must be taken...
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