Alexandra Strauss

Acts of violence bring repercussions for exterminator Chua and his son Meng, who has been under pressure from bullies. Military service offers Meng escape into the jungle, an unknown world which could bring him closer to understanding his own nature.

The philosopher Edmund Burke has fled London, debt collectors and a ramping midlife crisis to go on a grand tour of the Alps to rewrite his book on the Sublime in this 18th-century road movie.

A finales de la década de 1980, Qodrat, de 15 años, vive en las calles de Kabul y vende entradas de cine en el mercado negro. Es un gran fanático de Bollywood y se sueña despierto en algunas de sus escenas de películas favoritas. Un día, la policía lo lleva al orfanato soviético. Pero en Kabul la situación política está cambiando. Qodrat y todos los niños quieren defender su hogar.

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment exploring the origins of violence and sexual attraction. Nobody expected what ultimately took place on that 3-month journey. Through archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition, this film tells the hidden story of the project.

Sudáfrica, 11 de julio de 1963. Varios miembros del Congreso Nacional Africano, una organización declarada ilegal, son arrestados en Rivonia, una casa de campo cerca de Johannesburgo. Los detenidos, y Nelson Mandela, encarcelado desde 1962, son acusados de graves delitos por su activismo radical contra el régimen del apartheid…

¡Las Sandinistas! uncovers the disappearing stories of women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution, and who continue to lead Nicaragua’s current struggle for democracy and equality.

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classmates become their port of safety, joy and sisterhood, all while they are going through the life changing transition into becoming adults in a country boiling with political changes. In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. The young girls at a mechanics school in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou are right in the middle of a crucial point in life when their dreams, hopes and courage are confronted with opinions, fears and society’s expectations of what a woman should be. Using interesting narrative solutions, Theresa Traore Dahlberg depicts their last school years and at the same time succeeds in showing the country’s violent past and present. This is a feature-film debut and coming-of-age film with much warmth, laughs, heartbreak and depth.

A través de las palabras del escritor y activista afroamericano James Baldwin conocemos uno de los grandes problemas de la sociedad estadounidense: el conflicto racial entre la población blanca y la población negra en los Estados Unidos. Este problema social y político forma parte de la historia norteamericana, pero también es una preocupación actual.

In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.

Narra la vida de dos perdedores de entre 50 y 60 años, dos vendedores de artículos de broma que viven en una casa abandonada, y que tienen tres encuentros con la muerte. Cual Don Quijote y Sancho Panza del momento actual, Sam y Jonathan nos conducen por un recorrido caleidoscopio a través del destino del ser humano.

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.

Todos los seres humanos tenemos momentos de grandeza y de miseria. En función de lo que nos va llegando tomamos una actitud diferente, pero siempre necesitamos a los demás para vivir. Ésta es una comedia trágica sobre el hombre en estado puro, sus comportamientos en sociedad, sus pensamientos, sus preocupaciones, y sus deseos de amar y ser amado. Una galería de personajes recurrentes desfila por situaciones cotidianas, a veces surrealistas, para mostrarnos su particular filosofía ante la vida.

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young or successful anymore.