Cristo Negro
History, religion, and colonialism collide with spiritual awakening, miracles, and poverty in Portobelo, Panama, where locals worship a black Jesus Christ. Culminating in the rapturous yearly festival, his most devout fo
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History, religion, and colonialism collide with spiritual awakening, miracles, and poverty in Portobelo, Panama, where locals worship a black Jesus Christ. Culminating in the rapturous yearly festival, his most devout fo
Two air currents create abstract shapes on rows of powder. A subtle and yet powerful interpretation of sex and maybe love.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography"
Driven by an inhuman force, Adrián returns to the city to exact revenge for the murder of his girlfriend. The resurgence of an internal beast will make the city your hunting ground.
The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily lif
After many years, Julian returns to the house where he grew up. He finds a closet that takes him back into the one of his most painful memories, one caused by his father.
In search of his sister, a renegade criminal seeks answers at a sordid hotel where he encounters a sinister guest and romances a mysterious waitress.
In Caracas, a massively built dock-worker has beef with munitions-smuggling gang, and meanwhile he's recruited to perform as a lucha-libre wrestler.
Seeing a black knight, the young man Álvaro runs after him. During the race, the knight falls and he discovers that it is a girl. The two end up falling in love.
Negro explores the roots of candombe culture, trying to understand the why and how of a culture embedded into the soundscape of Montevideo and Uruguay as a whole.
Sixteen young black people talk about the experience of going to university in Brazil after more than a decade of affirmative policies in education.
The villain commits a crime involving a strange drug.