Etiqueta: Society
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The Night Shall Be Long Saga (Saga Será larga la noche)
The country is being ravaged with violence. A child witnesses a murder that occurred on an abandoned highway in Cauca, Colombia. That same day, every bit of evidence from the disaster was erased so that not the slightest trace is left behind. In the nearest town, no one claims to have heard anything about the…
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Saga Lefty Mendieta (Saga El zurdo mendieta) (TV SERIES)
Silver Bullets | The Acid Taste | Name of the Dog Kiss the Detective | Murder in Sinaloa Park | She Came in Through the Bathroom Window It is foolish to die of stress when you could calmly kill yourself with a bullet. Edgar “Lefty” Mendieta is a police officer in his 40s whose…
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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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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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The Winter We Took Matters into our Hands (El invierno que tomamos cartas en el asunto)
A chain of solidarity that changed the life of a town. Winter arrives in Porvenir, a town surrounded by mountains that remained the same for many years. Sara, the postwoman, receives bad news: since no one writes letters anymore, they have decided to close the post office in town and transfer her somewhere else. She…
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Born (Film)
The most expensive ransom in Argentinian history. 14th September 1974. Jorge and Juan Born, heirs and main stockholders of Bunge & Born – the most influential corporation in Argentina during the 20th Century- travel by car when, all of a sudden, a group of Montoneros guerrilla stops the vehicle and kidnaps the brothers. A forced…
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The Silence Has Arrived (Ahora llega el silencio)
Two options left: to give up or to fight. Astrea never gives up. Overnight, people over 22 years old die for no apparent reason. This tragic event, known as “The Silence”, has spread chaos throughout the city, leaving only children and young people. The population has been segregated into different sectors and tribes. Nobody knows…
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The Empty Womb (El vientre vacío)
Maternity: portrait of a generation Many women nowadays want to have children but their economic situation does not allow them to. Plenty of women between 30 and 50 have seen themselves forced to abandon their dream of being mothers for not being able to afford a child. Many others opted for alternatives as in vitro…
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The Happiest Place on Earth (El lugar más feliz del mundo)
An extraordinary trip to the extremes of the human condition. Through the experience obtained for more than 15 years working as reporter in Asia, David Jiménez lives some of the most disturbing and mediatic historical events in the last decades. Jiménez takes the audience to different atmospheres, like when he entered a Cambodian prison where…
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Sexographies (Sexografías)
There is no better way to know a society than observing their sexual habits. Gabriela Wiener is a journalist with no filter, sexually open and active, and she is looking to answer some big questions., since she considers getting to know the most common sexual habits of people as important as knowing who the President…
