Most of the highland inhabitants of the Mexican state Guerrero belong to indigenous communities. They are among the poorest people in Mexico, and frequent victims of the violence used by drug cartels to exert power. In an effort to counteract this force, and appealing to the autonomy of indigenous peoples, the residents of Ayahualtempa have created a Policía Comunitaria, which has many children among its ranks.
A short documentary essay revolving around the phrase "The individual is in the past and the community is the future" done during the 100 hour challenge organized by DocsMx.
Three teen ballet students — Raymundo, Angel and Victor — are the only boys in a class of twenty. In a country where dance is mostly considered an activity for women, they are determined to follow their dreams and challenge traditional gender roles. Like a waltz, music played in triple time, the three boys move through Santo Domingo while confronting, yet sometimes abiding by, the Dominican machismo culture.
Alan, a 43-year-old French man living in Barcelona struggles to overcome an addiction to methamphetamine. Picking up filming himself ten years after his first attempt quitting, he intends to showcase his fight to warn potential addicts of the rough road ahead.
This is not your typical making-of where everyone is a genius and everything goes right the first time! It’s the story of a team of creatives facing their last opportunity, after chasing their dream for a decade.
The new generation of musicians irrupts in the local scene, without any complaints or apologies. This film captures the twists and turns of trap as an arrogant form of speech, rock’s young promises willing to eat the world and “expression” as an unappealable art form.
At a maximum security prison, a boxer searches for his freedom and receives advice from the leader of the cell block , along with a group of young men who want to be millionaires and another one who has just been imprisoned for murder. The director of the films coexists with them and obtains a portrait from the edge.
Where are we going? shows the routine of people in their daily lives and how it goes hand in hand with the chaos of the city of Lima. The Documentary returns to the memory of our old normality, Where are we going? Maybe now we can answer that question, or not.
Lizbeth, a transsexual woman in charge of the funerary rituals in the small town of San Nicolas, has a gift that allows her to accompany the souls of the deceased with songs, prayers and music, in their journey towards the unknown. She embraces this skill with care, and it has made her a loved and respected figure in her community, where her intimate life is spent in solitude and silence.
A taboo in the family: the death of my great-grandmother Sofía. The surface of this history is known but not the background and much less the beginning, only its end. The tragic end The answers are in the family, in my grandparents and my uncles. This project is a tribute to her and the woman she was.
Abandoned for two decades in the Colombian Andes, La Cumbre is an intimate portrait of the film-maker’s home told through the memories and presence of his grandparents, reflecting on the time they spent there with their family.
I keep moving the videos from one place to another and look for a relationship, as if they were the material for a film. That's how I know it: we shoot images to tell a story with them. But none of these videos were shot with that intention.
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