Two Worlds Colliding (2004)

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Tras sobrevivir a una masacre que exterminó a su poblado, Carapirú, un indio Awa Guajá, huye y pasa diez años deambulando por las regiones más aisladas de Brasil. En noviembre de 1988, a 2.000 kilómetros de la selva de la que tuvo que escapar, un antropólogo experto en el mundo indígena lo descubre y lo arrastra a Brasilia, donde Carapirú se convierte en un fenómeno mediático. Disolviendo los límites entre realidad y ficción, y con un sentido del humor y una libertad cercana al libertinaje formal, Serras da desordem reconstruye el viaje inicial de Carapirú, y retrata a través de su historia la tragedia de una cultura violada en aras de un progreso inventado y brutal.

Two technicians foreign oil, along with the daughter of one of them, coming into the country to verify that there is a large oil field in the jungle area. They go in the area and must struggle against nature, isolation, loneliness and violence. The result, they will become victims in a new era of destruction and ambition.

This documentary is comprised of three shorts: 'El Afinque de Marín' that follows the musicians of the group Madera. 'Yo hablo a Caracas' about an indigenous leader and his reply to the authorities of the venezuelan goverment regarding the violations towards his people and finally 'Mayami Nuestro' chronicles the relationship of venezuelans during the eighties with the city of Miami.

For ancient Mayans, cocoa was as good as gold. For subsistence farmer Eladio Pop, his cocoa crops are the only riches he has to support his wife and 15 children. As he wields his machete with ease, slicing a path to his cocoa trees, the small jungle plot he cultivates in southern Belize remains pristine and wild. His dreams for his children to inherit the land and the traditions of their Mayan ancestors present a familiar challenge. The kids feel their father's philosophies don't fit into a global economy, so they're charting their own course. Rohan Fernando's direction tenderly displays a generational shift, causalities of progress in modern times and a man valiantly protecting an endangered culture. Breathtaking vistas of lush rainforests contrast with the urban dystopia that pulled Pop’s children away from him. Will one child return to carry on a waning way of life

Película dividida en episodios que adapta historias del escritor australiano Tom Winton. The Turning explora el impacto del pasado en la actualidad, cómo los incidentes aparentemente aleatorios que cambian y nos dan forma no se pueden escapar o dejar de lado. Todas las historias están unidas entre sí por temas recurrentes; el paso del tiempo, el arrepentimiento, la adicción y la obsesión.

Navajo Film Themselves is a series of seven short documentaries: Intrepid Shadows (1966), The Navajo Silversmith (1966), A Navajo Weaver (1966), Old Antelope Lake (1966), Second Weaver (1966), The Shallow Well Project (1966), and The Spirit of the Navajos (1966).

Mayan Renaissance is a feature length film which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization, the Spanish conquest in 1519, 500 years of oppression, and the courageous fight of the Maya to reclaim their voice and determine their own future, in Guatemala and throughout Central America. The film stars 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate and Maya Leader Rigoberta Mencu Tum. All of the images, voices, expert commentary and music in the film come directly from Central America, the heart of the Mayan World.

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.

A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and foreign companies.

The Algonquin once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century. Gradually, their Aboriginal traditions were undermined and their natural resources plundered. Today, barely 9,000 Algonquin are left. They live in about 10 communities, often enduring abject poverty and human rights abuses. These Aboriginal people are suffering the threat to their very existence in silence. Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie have decided to sound the alarm before it's too late.

En un sorprendente ciclo de tiempo y memoria, después de 30 años de impunidad legal, el ex general y dictador guatemalteco Efraín Ríos Montt fue acusado por un tribunal guatemalteco de crímenes de lesa humanidad. Décadas después de los acontecimientos, fue acusado de cometer genocidio contra los mayas del país en la década de 1980 convirtiéndose en el primer ex jefe de Estado en ser juzgado en su propio país por genocidio. Parte thriller político, parte de memorias, Yates nos regresa al presente con un elenco de personajes unidos por el destino y la misión de llevar ante la justicia a un dictador malvado, como si un dios maya vigilante estuviera tejiendo juntos.

La creación del Parque Xingu en 1961, está en manos de los indios y los antropólogos. Casi 50 años después de la iniciativa fue la decisiva participación de los hermanos indígenas Claudio y Orlando Villas-Boas, los indios más antiguos no se han olvidado de la tierra original, que dejaron atrás. Algunos quieren volver a sus antiguas aldeas.

Documental que se coloca en la línea de fuego directamente frente a dos poderosas fuerzas. Por un lado está el presidente Alan García, quien, deseoso de entrar en el escenario mundial, comienza agresivamente la extracción de petróleo, minerales y gas de la tierra indígena amazónica que había permanecido intacta; mientras que por el otro lado, el indígena Alberto Pizango lidera una fuerte oposición por las demandas de sus seguidores que fueron ignoradas. Finalmente, la tensa guerra de palabras estalla en protestas y enfrentamientos entre ambas partes, en una escalada que conduce a la violencia mortal.

A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.

Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restigouche) by the Sûreté du Québec in 1981, as part of the efforts of the Quebec government to impose new restrictions on Native salmon fishermen. Incident at Restigouche delves into the history behind the Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) raids on the Restigouche Reserve on June 11 and 20, 1981. The Quebec government had decided to restrict fishing, resulting in anger among the Micmac Indians as salmon was traditionally an important source of food and income. Using a combination of documents, news clips, photographs and interviews, this powerful film provides an in-depth investigation into the history-making raids that put justice on trial.

ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.

La iglesia, a lo largo de la historia, siempre se ha enfrentado al cine como uno de sus principales censores. “Nuevo Mundo” cuestiona el mito guadalupano al presentar cómo para someter a los indios, un sacerdote jesuita inventa la presencia de una Virgen que pide la reconciliación entre conquistadores y conquistados. Retes nos presenta en esta película una alegoría del método utilizado por los españoles para imponer su religión y asumir con ello un completo poder político sobre los indígenas. Producida en 1976, “Nuevo Mundo” fue boicoteada en su exhibición por el controvertido tema al que hace referencia. (FILMAFFINITY)

The story of a town at the mercy of a landscape in transformation; standing on the brink of an encroaching reality, one in which the age-old fears of the inhabitants are being reproduced. A hamlet has survived, perched in a remote location where its children can grow up and the elderly can die and stay there.