Girlhood (2003)

As the title implies, this documentary is educational and aimed at helping parents learn to untangle fact from fiction concerning homosexual people. The film is taken from educational session that took place in seven elementary and middle schools from around the country that each participated a frank workshop for students discussing homosexuality with the hope of eradicating myths and promoting tolerance and understanding. During each session, gay people offer brief lectures and question and answer periods for the children. Also include in the film is a segment in which teachers themselves argue the place of the issue in their curriculum.

Documental sobre los Juegos Olímpicos celebrados en la ciudad de Berlín en 1936. Divida en dos partes de 118 y 107 minutos, respectivamente, el atletismo ocupa buena parte de su metraje, incluida la primera parte en su integridad. La segunda incluye imágenes de gimnasia, vela, pentatlón, decatlón, hockey sobre hierba, polo, fútbol, ciclismo, hípica, remo, salto y natación.

The Second part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 1938 and again in 1952 after the fall of the Nazi Regime.

An autobiographical document about an amazing couple, and the healing powers of love and music.

Faltan dos días para la llegada del año 2000 y las calles de Los Ángeles están abarrotadas de gente. Lenny, que ha sido expulsado de la Brigada Antivicio, se dedica a la captación de clientes para venderles unos clips que reproducen las vivencias de otras personas.

Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia. Miss GULAG explores the individual destinies of three women: Yulia, Tatiana, and Natasha, all bound together by long prison sentences and circumstances that have made them the vigilantes of their own destinies. For these women, undoubtedly, life is harsh under the constant surveillance of UF-91/9, but it is no less so on the outside. Today they, their families, and loved ones are sustained by hope for a better life upon release. This is a story of survival told from both sides of the fence.

Freely adapted from Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the film follows the investigation of a local teacher's murder in a small and desperately poor rural village, the story of the crime gradually pieced together from the fragmented memories of witnesses forced to testify at an inquest. Sharing with her Fifth Generation colleagues Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang a remarkable eye for the barren landscapes of northern China and a fascination with small-town life — especially those enduring superstitions that Communism failed to erase — director Li Shaohong also introduces several formal innovations, particularly in storytelling structure, that remain unprecedented in Chinese cinema.

Narra por vez primera la aventura secreta del empresario francés Jean-Yves Ollivier, quien consiguió en los años 80 involucrar a una serie de líderes políticos y altos cargos de diferentes ejércitos y servicios secretos para sembrar la semilla de un diálogo de paz regional que condujo a la liberación de Mandela.

This iconic American story was written in 1900 by L Frank Baum, a Chicago businessman, journalist, chicken breeder, actor, boutique owner, Hollywood movie director and lifelong fan of all things innovative and technological. His life spanned an era of remarkable invention and achievement in America and many of these developments helped to fuel this great storyteller's imagination. His ambition was to create the first genuine American fairytale and the story continues to fascinate, inspire and engage millions of fans of all ages from all over the world. This documentary explores how The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has come to symbolise the American Dream and includes previously unseen footage from the Baum family archives, still photographs and clips from the early Oz films, as well as interviews with family members, literary experts and American historians as it tells the story of one man's life in parallel to the development of modern America.

En la ciudad anárquica de Seaside, cerca del mar, los titiriteros Judy y Punch están tratando de resucitar su espectáculo de marionetas. El espectáculo es un éxito debido a la superioridad de los títeres de Judy, pero la ambición y la inclinación de Punch por el whisky conducen a una tragedia inevitable que Judy debe vengar.

Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. "The Illusionists" turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.

Henry Darger (1892-1972) ha trabajado toda su vida en empleos de baja categoría en Chicago. Vivía solo y en situación de pobreza, no tenía amigos o familiares cercanos. Pasaba sus horas libres en soledad, entonces se entretenía trabajando en una novela ilustrada de 15.000 páginas titulada "Los Reinos de lo irreal". Su trabajo fue descubierto sólo después de que Darger fuera trasladado a un hospital en los últimos días de su vida. También escribió Darger revistas y una autobiografía. El documental usa entrevistas con los vecinos de Darger y la narración de pasajes de su novela, junto con sus ilustraciones, para explorar su mente y obra.

Four young women joined the Resistance to fight Nazi oppression and brutality in occupied France. They were arrested and deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where they helped each other to survive. SISTERS IN RESISTANCE captures their recollections and the intense friendship that has survived with them.

En plena Guerra Fría, la Universidad de Chicago becó a un grupo de estudiantes chilenos para ir a estudiar economía bajo las enseñanzas de Milton Friedman. Veinte años después, en plena dictadura, cambiaron el destino de Chile y lo convirtieron en el bastión del neoliberalismo en el mundo. Esta es la historia de los Chicago Boys contada por ellos mismos: ¿qué estuvieron dispuestos a hacer con tal de lograr sus objetivos? ¿Cómo nació el modelo que hoy está en jaque? ¿Cómo explican los resultados a largo plazo?

En 1979, José Efraín Ríos Montt renace cuando se convierte al cristianismo. Está dando un sermón a dos alumnos cuando un grupo de soldados irrumpe en su escuela cristiana para pedirle dirigir el golpe de estado de 1982. Francisco Chávez Raymundo y su hermana eran niños pequeños cuando su comunidad fue arrasada a causa de las politicas de Ríos Montt. En marzo de 2013, la vida de Francisco Chavez y Efraín Ríos Montt convergen en el mismo espacio. Llamado por la justicia guatemalteca, Ríos es confrontado por un grupo de huérfanos y viudas de la guerra. Uno de ellos es Francisco.

It's a music documentary that tells the story of Roy Gurvitz, who created Lost Vagueness, at Glastonbury and who, as legendary founder, Michael Eavis says, reinvigorated the festival. With the decadence of 1920's Berlin, but all in a muddy field. A film of the dark, self-destructive side of creativity and the personal trauma behind it.

A moving documentary. The life stories told by immigrants in Paris are often saddening. The hardships they went through and their current uncertainty and difficult situation. No residence permit, fear of the gendarmerie, little money, poor housing. The quality and background of the musicians is many times amazing.

This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.