Movies: Latin american history
- 2013
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
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“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian his...
- 2023
Javier Milei: la revolución liberal (2023)
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A portrait of Argentine libertarian politician Javier Milei....
- 1983
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)
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Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Preserved by the Academy Film Arc...
- 2020
Kill Pinochet (2020)
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Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet....
- 2021
Nueva York: A Musical History of Latin New York (2021)
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When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn...
- 2013
The Death of Jaime Roldós (2013)
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A portrait of Jaime Roldos, Ecuador's first democratically elected president, who died with his family when their plane crashed in the mountains....
- 1975
Letters from Marusia (1975)
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Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with te...
- 2024
Estimados Señores (2024)
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Estimados Señores sheds light on the little-known suffragette movement in Colombia. Set in 1954, the film follows Esmeralda Arboleda, a fiercely intelligent leader, who ignites a revolution in a society rooted in patriarchal traditions, culminating i...
- 2013
Serrat & Sabina: Two for the Road (2013)
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Joan Manuel Serrat fled to Mexico when Franco ordered his persecution. In Argentina and Chile, his commitment against military regimes is still remembered. Joaquín Sabina arrived later. His poetry bewitched the audience. In Argentina, he is a tango s...
- 2019
Letter Beyond the Walls (2019)
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Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaig...
- 2013
Open Wound (2013)
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Jorge, a young Ecuadorian, is unexpectedly in the middle of the jungle as an inexperienced soldier. At first, Jorge is confident that military experience makes you a recognized and respected man. But he finds out that the reality is very different; a...
- 1969
Fireflies at El Mozote (1969)
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During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist....
- 2020
Corporate Accountability (2020)
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Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror....
- 2024
Tango Bar (2024)
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A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network....
- 2004
The Prisoner of the Iron Bars (2004)
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In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento trained some inmates and together with his crew, they produced many hours of footage, showing daily l...
- 2001
Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil (2001)
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The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The geographer is gone, but his thoughts remains. Its political and cultural ideals inspire the debate on Brazili...
- 2024
Ein Traum von Revolution (2024)
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When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A young generation was taking the reins in a country of grand utopias. From West Germany alone, 15,000 “brigadists” travelled to help rebuild the war-torn...
- 1997
Agnus Gay (1997)
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Footage from the first ever São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, which took place on the 28th of June 1997 on Avenida Paulista. The annual event would go on to become the largest pride parade in the world....
- 2012
Mayan Renaissance (2012)
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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, ...
- 2022
Magma (2022)
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The visions experienced by a man in the midst of Chile’s social revolt lead him to revisit different moments of his life while his mind wanders through a limbo of images. The journey will help him to finally discover why he’s in that place....