Directed by Gabriela Chaim Tumax • Documentary • 2022 • 28 minutes

Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The midwives confront challenges, as they battle racism and a health establishment that strives to prevent them from providing care that is culturally...

Directed by Mark Kendall • Documentary • 2021 • 71 minutes

After eight years, American public school buses are auctioned off by the state school system. Filmmaker Mark Kendall follows the extraordinary second life of one decommissioned school bus as it travels from 3000 miles from Pennsylvania t...

Directed by François-Xavier Drouet • Documentary • 2024 • 116 minutes

The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theolog...

Directed by Pavel Giroud • Documentary • With Heberto Padilla, Gabriel García Márquez • 2022 • 78 minutes

Spring 1971, Havana: The poet Heberto Padilla is released from jail and appears at a meeting of the Cuban writers' guild where he spouts, in his own words, a "heartfelt self-criticism." He p...

Directed by Rodrigo Lebrija • Documentary • 2017 • 93 minutes

The stormy life of the Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Rodríguez Gonzalez and his alter ego "THE PANA". Gonzalez came from humble beginnings and worked as a baker and gravedigger before becoming a bullfighter. His dreams started to appear...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 1998 • 58 minutes

Hearing only the official version, a generation of young Chileans has grown up with little knowledge of the historical facts surrounding the events of September 11, 1973. On that day Salvador Allende's democratically elected governmen...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2023 • 96 minutes

THE FIRST YEAR is a jubilant record of the 12 months following the election of Chile’s first socialist president, Salvador Allende. Director Patricio Guzmán travels the country, meeting workers who no longer have to answer to the capr...

Directed by Julio López Fernández • Documentary • With Emy Mena, Larissa Maltez, Lilibeth Rivas • 2023 • 65 minutes

Three young actresses recreate testimonies of women who suffered sexual assault during the Salvadoran civil war in a fable guided by the history of Indigo, which narrates the explo...

Directed by Rogério Soares • Documentary • With Raimunda Gomes Da Silva, Tamakwera Parakana, Karliane Lopes De Souza, Francinete Pinto Novaes, Ana Paula Pinto Novaes • 2019 • 92 minutes

The Belo Monte Dam, one of the world’s biggest and most controversial infrastructure projects, is causing mass...

Directed by Kristina Konrad • Documentary • 2018 • 237 minutes

What do peace and justice mean to you?

In 1986, the Uruguayan Parliament approved a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the army and police during the dictatorship (1973-1985). This impunity ...

Directed by Leandro Katz • Documentary • 1999 • 30 minutes

Investigating death and the power of photography, EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors.

After Guevara was captured and killed, in 1967, a wir...

Directed by Tatiana Huezo • Documentary • 2015 • 26 minutes

ABSENCES, by award winning filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (The Tiniest Place), exposes the ever-intensifying phenomenon of enforced disappearance in Mexico. A boy and his father disappear one morning, snatched off the road by armed men. Left b...

Directed by Gretel Marin • Documentary • 2024 • 28 minutes

Afibola—a Black, queer, feminist activist and poet—lives with her eight-year-old son Olorun in downtown Havana, Cuba. Moving between the safety of their modest home and the uncertainty of the streets outside, Afibolo reflects on the comp...

Directed by Jakob Krese, Danilo do Carmo • Documentary • With Lilian Florinda Hernández Lopez, Sergio Rigoberto Lopez Hernández, Blanca Lilian Lopez Hernández, Victor Noe Lopez Hernández, Anali Floridalma Lopez Hernández, Ana-Maria Escobar, Wilson Antonio Funez, Carlos Irving Mondragón Prad, Iren...

Directed by Lissette Orozco • Documentary • 2017 • 96 minutes

When I was a girl, I had a strong role model in my life: my aunt Adriana. In 2007, she was detained and I found out she worked as an agent at DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) in Pinochet’s secret police, which has often been ...

Directed by Carla Valdés León • Documentary • 2024 • 19 minutes

A group of old friends reunite at a summer house in Varadero, Cuba. Their last meeting was in Minsk, mid-1980s: they were preparing to return home to Cuba after five years spent studying Marxist-Leninist philosophy in the Soviet Uni...

Directed by Ignacio Agüero • Documentary • 2008 • 80 minutes

El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile, has been owned and operated since 1849 by the Edwards family. Its current owner, Agustin Edwards Eastman, has controlled the journal since 1956. With editions published in Santiago and Valpar...

Directed by Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo • Documentary • 2021 • 72 minutes

After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria (The Rose Seller). Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that ...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2004 • 52 minutes

Polgovsky’s stunning debut immerses the viewer in the impoverished lives of families in the arid desert region of San Luis Potosi in Mexico (situated on the global parallel known as Tropic of Cancer), who survive by selling plants a...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2016 • 93 minutes

The once-paradisiacal waterfall of "El Salto de Juanacatlán" in Jalisco used to be known as the "Mexican Niagara”, a source of pleasure and sustenance for the villages surrounding it. This natural idyll was heavily polluted when an ...

Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2012 • 54 minutes

A shaman’s mystical rituals, furious electricians on hunger strike and a euphoric football crowd collide in the Zocalo, Mexico City’s central square, the ancient ceremonial heart of the Aztec empire. The documentary essay Mitote(Nah...

Directed by Laura Faerman, Marina Weis • Documentary • 2022 • 77 minutes

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle wages between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty. An indigenous teacher and a lawyer with strong relations to Bolsonarist federal power are on opposite sides ...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2022 • 83 minutes

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education...

Directed by Ruben Abruna • Documentary • 2013 • 55 minutes

A designer from Puerto Rico pioneered green architecture thirty years ago, and today he confronts climate change with sustainable constructions including a house without a roof that is completely independent of the power and water utilit...