Etiqueta: Policy
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The Queen’s Flight (El vuelo de la reina)
A romantic relationship that goes beyond obsession and dives into the depths of human morality. A veteran journalist, Camargo, has an uncontrollable attraction towards a young writer. He is a powerful and influential director at the newspaper El Diario in Buenos Aires. The story alternates between two time periods that narrate apparently unrelated…
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Signed with a Tissue Paper (Firmado con un klínex)
From reality to fiction, from peacefulness to violence. A detective with the pseudonym ¨Lefty¨ investigates the incomprehensible wave of female suicides, where the wives of artists and politicians alike are among the victims of this deadly epidemic. An Italian and a French man argue the night before their national soccer teams pay for the world…
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I am the Spider (Yo soy el araña)
A young policeman believes he is a superhero and faces corruption in his city. When Pedro Pérez woke up that morning, he thought the only ¨dangerous¨ thing that could happen to him would be to argue with his wife, Maria Juana. He is a young (and weak) policeman who performs administrative tasks and who has…
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A Sensitive Subject (Un asunto sensible)
Three Cuban stories of crime and betrayal. The emotionally thrilling true crime story and its trial that struck the Cuban society and negatively shifted their opinion about the Castro regime. After having recently survived the failed invasion of officer Fulgencio Batista´s Presidential Palace, four children from the Revolutionary Directory were gunned down by the Havana…
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Front Page (Primera página)
The birth of a great period in the most turbulent years of the Spanish 20th century. Front Page are Juan Luis Cebrián’s memoirs, the first managing director and co-founder of El País newspaper. It is also the detailed story of the turbulent and bloody years that took Spain from a dictatorship into democracy. Born in…
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Candidate (Candidato) (Film)
The boundless ambition of a young politician. 30-year-old Simón Soria is a professor of politics who is a very talented liberal intellectual tired of his career and cornered by his unpopular ideas within the faculty. Despite having gained some recognition and having a huge ego, Soria lives distressed because his success never seems enough for…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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Saga President by Surprise (Saga Presidenta por sorpresa)
President by Surprise | Suddenly Disobedient She wanted to be class delegate but became president of the nation. Marta Chacras is 13 years old and she was never interested in politics. However, after a quarrel with her biggest enemy and classmate, Héctor Rufián junior, the son of the nation’s president – and although she…
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Nothing, Nobody (Nada, Nadie)
The voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. After the Mexico City earthquakes of September 19th and 20th, 1985, nothing and nobody would ever be the same again. Panic, desperation, anger, impotence, horror, rescues, solidarity, death, the megalopolis completely destroyed. While a child would get out, unharmed, from under huge debris, somewhere else someone would take…
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Good Sisters (Buenas Hermanas)
The “perfect” March sisters hide a huge secret. Concord city is governed by an oppressive regime (much like in Orwell’s 1984). A society with steampunk aesthetics, with contemporary technology, and nineteenth-century habits. Of “Little Women”. In Concord everyone “must” be happy. Having the “good citizen” recognition promotes the protection of each individual by…
