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Marias is a road movie that travels through Brazil and Russia in search of a woman that took part in great moments of the last century and had been made invisible by machismo and political persecution.
After the death of her grandfather, Antonio Bonino, Toia found six negatives proving that he was a member of the Fascist Party and an aide to Benito Mussolini. Influenced by this discovery, the director sets out to trace her male family lineage, whom the end of World War II brought to Argentina. Instead of a clarification, however, the past crumbles and disintegrates into a mosaic of archival material, family films, excerpts from personal diaries and fragments of the works of Roberto Rossellini or Luchino Visconti. But it is the meanings that emerge from the combination of disparate images that offer answers and fill the information vacuum that has shaped generations of the family. The dynamics of the Bonino family's male-female relationships have a much darker basis than the social context of the time. In the story of grandfather, father, cousins and sons, Toia also finds a story of identity and of the role of wives, mothers, grandmothers and daughters in a history shaped by men.
Cano Saavedra, a comedian prostrated due to a chronic illness, finds a way to continue his legacy through a double who will replace him. He will test his impostor in a show that will determine if it is possible to continue his legend.
The tuberculosis sanatorium was both heaven and hell within the same walls. The story of the epidemic includes death, shame and isolation as well as sanatorium romances, fun and survival stories. The film takes the viewer on a vivid journey into the sanatorium era: it gives the viewer a sanatorium experience full of surprises, and through documentary evidence, takes us to the heart of the secrets.
Two young ex-FARC guerrillas fight to keep their love alive and raise a family during the transition from war to peace. We follow them for five years as they enter civil life, build a home, and have their first child. Having lived through the conflict, they are adamant never to return to war, but Colombia's peace process is polarized and its future is uncertain.
Beer, cigarettes or margarine, the corner store in Sirca has it all. It's the meeting point of those who didn't emigrate. No work, no money, but a lot of humor and friendship. Everyday life in central Serbia and maybe soon all over Europe?
“The state of exception and enmity have become the normative basis for the right to kill. In these situations, power (which is not necessarily a state power) makes continuous reference and invokes exception, urgency and a fictionalized version of the enemy ”. Achille Mbembe
An unreleased diary film shot during the Fairleigh-Dickinson Artist Seminar simultaneous to the production of Back and Forth by Michael Snow.
The result of un an unexpected naked hike in the country is not what Wendy and her friend Celia had hoped. In spite of this Wendy and Charlie Simonds are joined by old friends and a newcomer to undertake a lively look at the sparkling jewel of naturism in Ibiza, Club Vista Bahia Nature.
The Czar of Black Hollywood is a documentary film chronicling the early life and career of African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951). Oscar Micheaux was America's preeminent black filmmaker for three decades, having directed or produced 22 silent movies and 15 talking pictures.The Czar of Black Hollywood uses archival film, photos, illustrations and music to weave a narrative of Micheaux's early life and his production of the first feature length silent film and the first feature length sound motion picture by an African-American.