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1) Soy Huao
Publisher
Kino Bureau
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the rainforest of Ecuador live the Tonampare, a community of Huaroni. They are legendary and have lived isolated for many years, due to their temerity. They introduce themselves as "Huaos”, which means persons..."The idea of not subtitling the "huaroni"language has to do with the fact that I wanted to transmit exactly what I was feeling while filming a native community in an observational manner. The Huaroni, in their first contact with settlers,...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
The True Story of Evita, as told by her Father Confessor, Her Friends, and ... Her Enemies. Actress, seductress, political powerhouse and cultural icon of Argentina and the world, the life and legend of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, or Evita, as she came to be known, endures to this day. Yet Evita, a woman of poor origins who rose to become the first lady of Argentina, was as hated by the upperclass of her country as she was loved by the poor masses...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The Return of Ruben Blades follows the singer to Harvard, where he gets his master's degree in international law; to his old neighborhood in Panama; to California for a recording session with Linda Ronstadt, and to New York for a performance at S.O.B.'s. The music is a joy, as danceable as it is intelligent, and Mr. Blades makes every nuance count. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored.
5) Sunu
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seen through the eyes of small, midsize and large Mexican maize producers, SUNU knits together different stories from a threatened rural world. This film documents how people realize their determination to stay free, to work the land and cultivate their seeds, to be true to their cultures and forms of spirituality, all in a modern world where corn is being threatened at the center of its origin: Mexico.
6) Arrieros
Publisher
Kino Bureau
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This film is an ethnographic documentary. Its objective is to present the culture and everyday life of Argentinean "arrieros”, workers that transport equipment and provisions during the climbing season at Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas, located in the Andes. At the same time that it explores the region's unique geography, the documentary also observes the gradual disappearance of a culture and of a traditional form of work.
Publisher
Kino Bureau
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Gustavo Salvatierra returns to his hometown, Sipo’hi, in the Impenetrable Chaqueno (the impenetrable forest in the north of Argentina), with the aim of listening and collecting stories of wichi culture, transmitted orally from generation to generation. The Culture is alive in language, in the faces and in the singular mood of wichi men and women. Salvatierra must find a way to show that, but what he doesn’t know is that he will have to overcome...
Publisher
Attic Independent Production GmbH
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Get fascinated by this journey owing to Cuban culture, full of dance and music...In interviews, music- and dance sequences exhibit some of the most important and world famous protagonists of the cultural scene in Cuba, the conversion of Cuban Salsa, Rumba and African tradition until the present era...The movie impresses with its proximity to protagonists. They discuss different subjects and get into details by live demonstration. They provide an overall...
Publisher
Heritage Film Project
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the opening scene of the documentary, the physicist Raul Baragiola speculates about time and eternity as he wonders amongst the centenaria graves at the cemetery of the University of Virginia : “Maybe there is a universe out there were all the times are possible, and all the spaces are possible, and what we don’t have is the ability to go through paths in that universe to look for different things. You can’t look for your grandfather in there...
Publisher
Grito Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every second Sunday of July from the early 1960s until today Cubans and lovers of Cuban music have gathered in New York City for the Recordando el Mamoncillo Festival. Organized by el Club Cubano, "El Mamoncillo" is not just a dance, but an event that has maintained Cuban culture, particularly Afro-Cuban culture, and provided a way for Cuban families to reunite every year. Remembering the Mamoncillo takes views into this joyous event..
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A firsthand account of the hardship suffered by a political prisoner of Chile's cruel and inhumane dictatorship in 1973. More than 30 years after, Felix Mora relives the shocking details of the human rights abuses he suffered, his escape from the dictatorship, and the challenges he faced as an exile in Italy and Canada.
12) Hummingbird
Publisher
Holly Mosher
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the beautiful coastal city of Recife, Brazil - a world capital for sex tourism - a couple of determined women decided they would try to break the cycle of domestic violence and get kids off the streets. HUMMINGBIRD goes onto the streets and sees the harsh reality these kids face and shows how these programs help break the cycle, using what they call the pedagogy of affection. The film follows the story of Adriana, a girl who left home at the age...
13) Silent River
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Santiago River, known locally as "the River of Death," flows along the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico. For forty years, waste from one of Mexico’s largest manufacturing corridors has been dumped into the Santiago. 80% of the companies in the corridor – brands like IBM, HP, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Honda and Nestle – are American and Japanese. The river has been transformed into a sewer with over 1000 known chemicals, including dangerously...
14) Surire
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Surire Salt Flat is placed at an altitude of 4300 m in the Chilean High Plateau and one of the very last places in the world, keeping the treasure of untouched nature with all its beauty, but also holds an allurement: a huge amount of borax, promising the mining industry profits in unknown levels...SURIRE, directed by two extraordinary filmmakers, tells us in an outstanding visual way metaphorically the story of our planet – about the very important...
15) Dirty Paradise
Publisher
Dschoint Ventschr
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
One last piece of South America belongs to Europe: French Guyana; where the native Wayna Indians live in an almost paradisiacal world. But criminal gold diggers occupy and pollute the land with mercury, through their primitive extraction techniques.
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Portraits of three women who live and work in the infamous mines of El Cerro Rico in Bolivia. Work inside the mines has been limited to men, while the women are forced to work outside searching for mineral scraps on the side of the mountain. The film highlights the women’s strength, determination and resilience in the face of struggle and hardship.
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated classical guitarist Julian Bream features in this series, playing some of the finest pieces in the repertoire of the Spanish guitar, including compositions by Albeniz, Granados, de Falia, Tarrega and Rodrigo. Filmed on location in Spain, the programmes trace the evolution ot the instrument from 1500 to the present day. Against a backdrop of magnificent buildings and beautiful landscapes, its music and history form a rich evocation of the...
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated classical guitarist Julian Bream features in this series, playing some of the finest pieces in the repertoire of the Spanish guitar, including compositions by Albeniz, Granados, de Falia, Tarrega and Rodrigo. Filmed on location in Spain, the programmes trace the evolution ot the instrument from 1500 to the present day. Against a backdrop of magnificent buildings and beautiful landscapes, its music and history form a rich evocation of the...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What’s it like to live without running water? In Peru’s sprawling capital, Lima, this is the everyday reality for 1.5 million children and adults, forced to pay up to a week’s salary for just one day’s water. And the problem isn’t confined to the capital, across the country, the shortage of water is putting lives in danger and provoking conflict, as it displaces communities and threatens their agricultural livelihoods...Climate change is...
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
THIRD MOVEMENT- The Classical Period (Rondo). Sor: Sonata in D, Op. 14, Grand Solo - Introduction. Traditional-Vocal lament-unknown female singer.. Sor: Sonata in D, Op. 14, Grand Solo – Allegro. Aguado: Pieces for Guitar, Rondo In A Minor, Op. 2/3. Sor: Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op.9, 01-Introduction: Andante largo. Sor: Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op.9, 02-Theme: Andante moderato. Sor: Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op.9, 03-Variations...
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