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Everyman's library volume 223
Language
English
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The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
2) Nostromo
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
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The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
4) Primas
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Language
Español
Description
PRIMAS is an evocative and poetic portrait of two Argentine teenage cousins who come of age together as they overcome the heinous acts of violence that interrupted their childhoods.
5) Los Reyes
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
Español
Description
Los Reyes is the oldest skate park in Santiago and it brings together teenagers from very different social and cultural backgrounds. Chola is young and vigorous and spends her days playing with balls that she throws to the pools in which skaters ride. Football is an old dog, but beautiful and energetic, that obsessively accompanies Chola in this game. The human world appears in stories of adolescents in transit to adulthood. We listen to their voices...
Publisher
Pragda
Language
Español
Description
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 compared to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany. My aunt claims to have never seen or participated in any instances of torture, but nevertheless she flee to Australia to avoid trial. In the hope that I can prove my aunt’s...
Publisher
FiGa Films
Language
Portuguese
Description
BUILDING BRIDGES is a film that pursues a possible relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Heloisa and Alvaro as they position themselves on opposite sides of the troubling political situation of Brazil.
8) Ciro and I
Publisher
Pragda
Language
Español
Description
Ciro Galindo was born on August 29, 1952, in Colombia. Wherever he went, war always found him. His children were recruited by the armies of war; his family was repeatedly displaced; and his wife Anita, an indigenous woman, died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
Español
Description
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own rowdy, lo-fi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than- life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow...
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
What do people seek when they step into the unknown? LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE is a striking observational documentary that follows an international tour group trekking through Peru. Travelers enjoy the beauties of historic Cuzco, the mysteries of a rain forest, and the splendor of Machu Picchu; however, their interactions with Peruvians are primarily short, staged, or commodified, with few significant connections. As the tourists journey through the...
12) Batman Alley
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Language
English
Description
A journey through BATMAN ALLEY, an area of Sao Paulo, Brazil covered in street art and graffiti.
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
Español
Description
WITH A STROKE OF CHAVETA takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the survival of the collective reading of literature while “tabaqueros” roll cigars. We learn how through "la lectura de tabaquería" cigar workers have been entertained, educated, and maintained a sense of class solidarity. Current day cigarmakers tell us they can’t imagine a workplace without their beloved “lectores.
15) Eating Up Easter
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Description
In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata'u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people, decendants of the ancient statue builders, as they face the consequences of their rapidly developing home.
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Language
Español
Description
The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In JAMAICA AND TAMARINDO: AFRO TRADITION IN THE HEART OF MEXICO, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond the color of one's skin.
18) The Cloud Forest
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Language
Español
Description
Sometimes, ordinary people can create extraordinary positive change. The people of a small community in Veracruz are the guardians of one of the ecosystems facing the most risk in the country: the cloud forest. Hoping to save their sacred and fog-laden land, they work for a simpler and sustainable life. Sixteen families redesign their needs, food, education and relationship with other people and with nature. They create an entirely self-sustaining...
19) The Territories
Publisher
Pragda
Language
English
Description
The desire to bear witness to the world’s great tragedies is addressed playfully by Ivan Granovsky in humorous THE TERRITORIES. It’s a miracle that this road movie even exists, it seems. The three previous times that director and protagonist attempted to make a film, he relates with a sense of self-mockery, turned into fiascos. An engrossing exploration into what it means to be a journalist, the film is about how we approach the conflicts –...
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Language
English
Description
Latin American icon Ruben Blades was at the center of the New York Salsa revolution in the 1970's. His socially charged lyrics and explosive rhythms brought Salsa music to an international audience. Blades has won 17 Grammys, acted in Hollywood, earned a law degree from Harvard and even run for President of his native Panama. Critically acclaimed director Abner Benaim takes us on a journey through Ruben's 50 year career, revealing that Ruben still...
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