Boasting a stunning richness of image, sheer poetry of sound and visuals, it shows a profound respect for the people of Araya, an arid peninsula in the country’s northeast.
They suffered heavy losses when US forces invaded in 1989, and now this “interim” shantytown nears extinction due to recent outside private and commercial development.
Lives and loves in darkness. 14 years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he didn’t lose only his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life.
Mariana, playing a part based on her own mother, brings her children, Gabriel, 10, and Andrea, 6, to reunite with their father Antonio after many years of separation.
Old security guard at a supermarket on the outskirts of Montevideo. He works the night shift, monitoring the surveillance cameras of the entire building.
A lighthearted slice-of-life as seen through eyes of free-spirited North London nursery-school teacher Poppy in a storyline involving lessons of various sorts.
La Soga is many things: a crime story, a love story and a no-holds-barred examination of the costs of vengeance. + more details
When the smooth new Israeli Defense Minister decides to build an upscale new house for himself and his wife; Lemon trees are deemed a defense risk and ordered to be destroyed.
A young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her boyfriend, Sokol. She becomes an accomplice in a diabolical plan devised.
José and Nora were married for 30 years and divorced for 20. Before dying, Nora devises a plan to make José take care of her funeral. But she misses something.
The story of two teenagers trying to realise an extraordinary dream. One girl and one boy, are planning to dance their way out of one of the most violent favelas in Rio de Janerio.
She started rapping under the name “P-Star” before she hit double digits, and now she’s one of the stars of the reimagined and hip-hop-infused PBS series The Electric Company. + more details
Sergio, his life-and-death story about dashing, high-minded U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose career was about nothing if not life and death.
Reveals the surprising history of the women who made such a law necessary. It also offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors currently in the arena.
The music of the Dom. Rep. is a gift to the whole world. These rhythms have been exported worldwide by millions of its people throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
The Cove begins in Taiji, Japan, where former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. + more details
Imagine An Ocean Without Fish. Imagine Your Meals Without Seafood. Imagine The Global Consequences. This Is The Future If We Do Not Stop, Think And Act.
Raquel has been working for the wealthy Valdés family since she was 18. During that time she became a nanny for five children as well as a tireless maid who is on her feet from morning until night.
Fausta suffers from a syndrome she contracted from her mother’s milk. It is a psychological illness suffered by children born to women who were raped in Peru during the horrific years of war in the 1970s.
The rugged majesty of the Colombian landscape forms a spectacular widescreen backdrop for a simple, bittersweet tale of regret and companionship in this film.
It is a significant day for 80-year-old Antonio (Antonio Larreta). After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect.
MONIQUE vacillates between dotingly calling her daughter and ‘Helpless Cripple’. At age sixteen, NILSA really has a sunny disposition despite the fact that she is in a wheelchair.
One involves Sayra, a young woman from Honduras who joins her father and uncle in an odyssey through Guatemala and Mexico intended to take them to relatives in NJ.
III Dominican Republic Global Film Festival - 2009
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