Bafici
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After a sudden blackout in the prison, Tila’s dead body hangs before the eyes of some surprised guards. A journalist becomes obsessed with shedding light on one of the most macabre and sordid stories ever recorded on Chilean police history.
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The protagonists of this documentary are Latin American women living in Madrid and working as maids, what allows them to send money to their families, with which they communicate via Skype. Meanwhile, they dream about returning to their native lands.
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Based on the short story Cálamo aromatico by Polish writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Lombardini depicts the life of Marta, a woman who finds herself paralyzed by a painful memory and one day meets German, the town’s mysterious womanizer.
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Through one of the most independent and passionate Maori tribes in New Zealand –the NgāiTūhoe– this film explores the deepest and most sublime links between human beings and this planet where they live and prosper.
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The unstoppable, strong current decides on the bodies the armed conflict leaves behind. Meanwhile, a girl searches for any trace of her boyfriend, and a man rescues the bodies the tides leave on the Colombian shore.
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The filmmakers follow six people who, for different reasons, take on a transgender identity. The before and after of a transformation in which sex change is only a part of the exploration of one’s own identity.
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Filmmaker Edmundo Bejarano captures a moment in the life of poet Julio Barriga, a charming character he approaches by entering his house and letting the author himself read him his poems and tell him about his love for Amy Winehouse.
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Through the course of ten years, the director documents her complex relationship with her mother and brother, both of them diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At first, the making of the film seems to bring the family together, but the director immediately realizes things aren’t that simple.
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In Puerto Pirámides, streets have no name. Julia, a teacher in the only existing school in the area, develops a school project that engages her students in a shared goal: look for names for the streets.
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