Luchadoras portrays the courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women — who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.
El Gran Fellove is a documentary film from actor and filmmaker Matt Dillon, that chronicles the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco Fellove and the recording of his last album. Through a series of interviews, archival photos and videos, as well as Matt's own footage, the film recounts Fellove's life as a struggling musician in Cuba, his eventual success in...
A Place Called Music is a documentary about the peculiar musical encounter between Daniel Medina, a traditional Wixarika violinist from the mountains of Jalisco, Mexico, and Philip Glass, the eminent composer from New York City.
The documentary features live music as rehearsals and performances take place in prominent venues in Mexico and New York – music that has only been hea...
Now is the time for the hands that till the soil, heirs to an ancient conscience and language, who have never forgotten their origin. They come from the depths of Mexico, from its fields and the fruit of its land, to revalue the relationship between body and spirit.
"In the Salvadoran civil war, my father and thousands more were captured and tortured by the State. These are some of their stories. When I turned 33, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadoran civil war, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These pe...
A road trip into the realm of bullfighting with philosopher Francis Wolff, who probes his humanist views alongside this controversial practice which, as contradictory as it may seem, is also his passion, one whose days seem to be numbered.
An experimental documentary about a family's loss of a child and the struggle between remembrance and forgetting. The film explores the cultural differences between a North American mother and a Mexican father in the face of death.
影片以宽银幕拍摄，视野比较开阔。导演没有用太多的篇幅表现开幕式，只是简单地纪录了点燃火炬的仪式。之后，影片即开始表现各种赛事。一开始是男子4X100米接力，接着是男子标枪、女子标枪，男子100米跨栏等。声音方面，现场音响加单一的男声解说。.影片较长，原版长度为240分钟（美国发行长度为120分钟）。
It catches the spirit of both the year 1968 and the games., 6 September 1999
Author: f. baez from Mexico City
The film catches the spirit of 1968. The glance is on the individual against odds ...
A portrait dedicated by Lorenzo to his father Oswaldo: two Vigas', one in front of the camera, the other behind it, to portray the father, one of Venezuela's most famous artists. The renowned Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas, at the age of eighty, travels through the cities of the province in which he grew up, searching for a painting he is convinced was lost when he was a teena...
