Etiqueta: Violence
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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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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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Hyde
Eight teenagers and one deadly experiment. Hugo, Esther, Jacobo, Diana, Alvaro, Cristian, Andrea and Hector, a group of 8 high schoolers who aren´t particularly interested in reading, are selected to be a part of a school conducted experiment run by Professor Vidal. The experiment seems simple: they must agree to go on a 7-day retreat…
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Ghetto Brother
GANGS OF NEW YORK meets WARRIOR. Ghetto Brother tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded the notorious, multiracial gang, the Ghetto Brothers. From the seemingly bombed-out ravages of his neighborhood, wracked by drugs, poverty, and violence, he led the historic Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting, which brought an end to the violent gang…
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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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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 Non-Fiction Collection (Colección Sin Ficción)
29 Bullets and a Love Note | The Mice of God | Dismantling the Perfect Crime | Smell of Death in Pioz | The Hole | The Brotherhood of Evil The most shocking stories in the media. Based on true stories, the Non-Fiction Collection (Colección Sin Ficción) is composed of works written…
