Blood of the Condor (1969)
Gênero : Crime, Drama
Runtime : 1H 10M
Director : Jorge Sanjinés
Sinopse
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
O mochileiro israelense Yossi Ghinsberg, acompanhado de dois amigos, viaja até a cidade de La Paz, na Bolívia, para o que seria uma aventura inesquecível. Guiados pelos caminhos desconhecidos da Amazônia por um austríaco que mora no local há anos, os amigos embarcam numa viagem pela selva que se transforma em uma das mais assustadores jornadas de suas vidas.
Dois amigos inseparáveis, Butch Cassidy e Sundance Kid, lideram o Bando do Buraco na Parede e vivem de assaltar trens e bancos. Quando são caçados por todo o país resolvem ir para a Bolívia e juntamente com Etta, a namorada de Sundance, rumam para a América do Sul. Mas esta decisão não lhes proporcionará grandes assaltos ou uma vida mais tranqüila.
No altiplano boliviano, Virginio e Sisa, um casal de quíchuas idosos que viveu uma vida tranqüila durante anos, enfrentam um dilema impossível durante uma seca excepcionalmente longa: resistir ou ser derrotados pelo ambiente hostil e pela passagem incessante do tempo.
A consultora política Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock) é especialista em conseguir contornar situações complicadas. Apesar de estar aposentada, ela decide trabalhar para o candido a presidência Pedro Castillo (Joaquim De Almeida) pelo simples motivo de querer ganhar do seu antigo rival Pat Candy (Billy Bob Thornton). Para conseguir o que deseja, Jane precisa manipular os pontos de vista e tornar Castillo o homem certo para a população, mesmo sabendo que ele irá trair todos no momento em que assumir o cargo.
'The Devil's Miner' tells the story of 14-year-old Basilio who worships the devil for protection while working in a Bolivian silver mine to support his family.
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Young bootblack Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle, Jacinto, lost in the Averno. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, myth and reality get endlessly intertwined and the death-loaded night in La Paz unveils the darkest and most surreal face of the imaginary of the Andes.
After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands.
A community reacts against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960’s and 70’s: removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands and involuntary sterilization. The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
The massive scandal comes to light through a father's unwavering search for the truth behind the sudden death of his family.
Explora o papel das grandes corporações na ajuda aos massacres perpetrados pela Junta Militar Argentina contra os dissidentes, durante a chamada Guerra Suja na Argentina ou Guerra Suja (em espanhol: Guerra Sucia) (1976-1983) e também autonomeado como Processo de Reorganização Nacional, tudo isto fazendo parte da "A Operação Condor" (em inglês: Operation Condor; em castelhano: Operación Cóndor, também conhecida como Plan Cóndor) foi uma campanha promovida pelos Estados Unidos de repressão política e terror de Estado envolvendo operações de inteligência e assassinato de opositores. Foi oficial e formalmente implementada em novembro de 1975 pelas ditaduras de direita do Cone Sul.
O governo dos Estados Unidos forneceu planeamento, coordenação, formação em formas de tortura e apoio técnico, e forneceu também ajuda militar às Juntas durante as administrações de L. B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, James Carter e Ronald Reagan, tais apoios era frequentemente encaminhado através da CIA.
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.
An introvert city teenager is sent to his father's limber ranch. While trying to figure out his place as the son of the boss he finds himself in a world packed with naturalized violence.
The film tells the story of a girl who arrives in the city with her young son and must take care of an old house where an elf lives. One day the child disappears mysteriously, which will motivate his mother to do the impossible to recover it.
A documentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales.
2006: Evo Morales, first indigenous President is elected in Bolivia after the 2003 dramatic events following the fall of the President Sanchez de Lozada (exiled in the U.S. since then). The socialist revolution enters in its crucial stage. But dealing with power carries a burden of temptations and pathologies. In four years of shooting between Bolivia and the US this film focus on the difficult path of this unique historical opportunity. The film ends with the recent TIPNIS dramatic indigenous protest which creates an historical circle.
His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.
Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularly on a system of debt peonage known locally as ‘habilito’. This system is used throughout the Bolivian lowlands, and much of the rest of the Amazon basin, to secure labor in remote areas.
The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her to return to her home.