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Modern Amazons are fierce heroines. They are ready to fight for what is important to them. Without explaining, without compromising, always persisting. They fight for victory in the ring for acceptance, and too, for fell
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Modern Amazons are fierce heroines. They are ready to fight for what is important to them. Without explaining, without compromising, always persisting. They fight for victory in the ring for acceptance, and too, for fell
Family builds a houseboat and sets sail down the Amazon. Based on a novel by Jules Verne.
Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of caimans, jaguars an
Red Soil is an experimental feature-length documentary that explores the tension between life and predation in the Peruvian Amazon. Through a poetic lens, the film portrays how Amazonian societies confront the exploitati
Nancy offers an intimate portrait of the invisible battles a woman faces in her quest to feel whole after surviving breast cancer. She seeks ways to challenge ignorance, machismo, and societal taboos surrounding the fema
The fourth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Amani.
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they
This film dives into the world of Amazon, its story and view of the world. It offers a large social fresco backed up by an in-depth investigation where private lives meet the mega-machine.
Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as
Amandine is a kind, extroverted Postdoc student who is living temporarily at a student residence. Oscar is the doctor who works at the infirmary, as well as her friend. As the rest of the students leave the residence for
Four down-on-their-luck friends in Nairobi attempt an absurd and chaotic heist on a bank truck, but their lack of experience and endless blunders turn the high-stakes operation into a hilarious disaster that puts their f
Lost Dora FIlm based on the novel "Il barcaiulo d'Amalfi" (1882) by Francesco Mastriani
Cargo boats form a non-lieu, a space of transition for the traveler staking journeys that can last days, as well as for the indigenous communities living on the edges of the Amazon River, fighting for the survival of the
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stoc
Meera is beautiful, pregnant and in search of some spice in her life. Mohit is young, idle, and lives next door with Devki, his abusive mother. Meera has a boring and absent husband. But wait to see what the guy is hidin
The film focuses on the site of Kut al-Amara, an important episode in the war between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire in 1916 during World War I.
Three young men are putting up an antenna for their amateur radiostation in a city tower block. They want to connect to the ISS space station, which orbits the globe, which they succeed in doing. In return the astronauts
A mute boy and his older brother are planning an escape from their refugee center in fear of being returned, but things take a sudden change when a bird crashes into their window.
Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down th