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CATALOGUE
NINXS · Kani Lapuerta · Mexico, Germany · 2025
At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztlán. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla's body and mind are undergoing a revolution. While Karla navigates her transition, Kani shapes eight years of footage into a joyful film, as they handle the vagaries of a rural trans adolescence together.
MAMA · Ana Cristina Benitez · Ecuador · 2025
At 36, Ana faces a diagnosis of advanced breast cancer. Reflecting on her life and finding refuge in her camera, Ana confronts her scar and a broken, exhausted body, deeply connecting her with herself, her family, her past and her roots - and discovering that the healing process goes beyond the physical.
MUNDURUKUYÜ – The Forest Of The Fish Women - Aldira Akay, Beka Munduruku, Rilcélia Akay · Brazil · 2025
On the banks of the Tapajós River, in the Amazon, the forest of fish women reflects Munduruku mythology, where humans, at the origin of the world, transformed into forest, plants and animals. In the daily life of the Sawre Muybu village, the spirits of the forest are not only ancestral spiritual forces, but part of the family.
I Died · Ana Ts'uyeb · Mexico · 2024
Li Cham is the rebirth of three tsostil women. After losing the lives of their babies and family members to patriarchal violence, part of each of them dies. With the arrival of the Zapatista movement, their dreams flourish and they defend what is most valuable to them: their land and a life of freedom and hope.
Toroboro · Manolo Sarmiento · Ecuador, Brazil · 2024
Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
Missing Rio Doce · Claudia Neubern · France, Brazil · 2024
Nine years after the biggest environmental disaster in Brazil, Claudia Neubern travels to the affected area to meet locals. She finds people who are resolute and resilient, but nonetheless powerless against a mining company that shirks its responsibilities.
Naima · Anna Thommen · Switzerland · 2024
Naima, a 46-year-old Venezuelan, lives in precarious conditions in Basel and, after many years in the low-wage sector, she secures a traineeship in nursing. However, her happiness collides with a harsh reality: patients love her
A New Dawn · Priscila Padilla · Colombia · 2024
Due to a great coincidence of fate, I, a child then, did not go to a meeting with War. Other women did complete that meeting and joined the guerrilla.
Relentless Memory·Paula Rodriguez·Chile, Argentina·2024
Margarita, a Mapuche academic, discovers in an unknown archive in Berlin the testimonies of Mapuche prisoners who were expelled from their territories during the military invasions that founded Argentina and Chile.
Bad Reputation · Marta García, Sol Infante · Argentina, Uruguay · 2024
Karina makes her living as a sex worker on the road and she is an outspoken activist. Now at the age of 45, and with her itinerant life, she begins to imagine life working in another field and she starts the way to organize her colleagues for their labor rights. Both challenges are difficult for a woman with a bad reputation.
The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine · Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza · Chile, Netherlands · 2024
Toto, one of the last gold diggers in Tierra del Fuego, is 60 years old and he is no longer the same as before. After 40 years working in the mine, he is tired and his health is at risk. But he just can’t retire, because he doesn’t qualify for social security. His son Jorge, a young cowboy, will endeavor to solve this problem by designing and building a gold harvesting machine that should bring them a better future.
The Soul Of The Bossales · François Perlier · Haiti, France · 2024
The “Bossales” were the African slaves who won the Haitian war of independence. This term now qualifies as a rebellious person, like the protagonists of the film. Charlotte, a human rights defender, Foukifoura, a satirical columnist, Edris, a filmmaker of the insurrection, Michou, a worker struggling to survive, Ramoncite
This Is Ballroom · Juru and Vitã · Brazil · 2024
In Rio de Janeiro City and its outskirts, LGBTQ+ youth of color recreates Ballroom culture on their own terms. A portrait of the dramas, the voguing performances, and the art of shade, 50 years after its inception in New York. Rio is burning!
Night Of The Coyotes · Clara Trischler · Germany, Austria · 2024
To prevent their village from extinction, Mexican residents simulate an experience they all know: crossing the border illegally into the US. They disguise themselves as border police and human traffickers so that tourists can feel like migrants for one night.
Canuto’s Transformation · Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho · Brazil · 2023
In a small Mbya-Guarani community between Brazil and Argentina, everyone knows the name Canuto: a man who many years ago suffered the dreaded transformation into a Jaguar, and then died tragically. Now, a film is being made to tell his story.
Bila Burba · Duiren Wagua · Panama · 2023
The Gunadule, the original inhabitants of northern Panama, reenact their successful uprising in 1925 against the repressive Panamanian government every year. Keeping this past alive is crucial for the preservation of collective identity.
Behind Closed Doors · Joao Pedro Bim · Brazil · 2023
In 1968, Brazil’s military government passed a law that ushered in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades. The documentary combines these audio tracks with propaganda films of the time.
Neirud · Fernanda Faya · Brazil · 2023
Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving behind no trace of her past. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an underground all-female circus troupe throughout the 60s and 80s. As she investigates Neirud’s
This Is Our Everything · Frederik Subei · Germany · 2023
The Guajajara people in the Amazon forest fight to protect their land.
La Guardia Blanca · Julien Elie · Canada · 2023
The Mexican landscape fades away, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Forests are stripped bare, rivers diverted. Raised barbed wire fences divide the land while people are silenced and killed - here, necropolitics reign supreme. Mexico has the highest number of defenders of the land assassinated.
Rosinha And Other Wild Animals · Marta Pessoa · Portugal · 2023
In 1934, the Portuguese New State displayed, at the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition, the ultimate symbol of its virility in Rosinha, a native of what was then Portuguese Guinea. The film questions the idea of Portugal's so-called "gentle racism", by looking back at more than a century of colonial discourse.
Incompatible with life · Eliza Capai · Brazil · 2023
From a personal experience of a pregnancy that had a diagnosis of fetal malformation incompatible with life, director Eliza Capai spoke with other women who had gone through a similar situation, creating a powerful and touching choir of voices that reflects on universal themes: motherhood, prenatal grief and abortion. They are all from Brazil, a place where abortion in these cases can lead to up to three years in prison.
The Bilbaos · Pedro Speroni · Argentina · 2023
Iván Bilbao, 33 years old, walks down the corridor of a maximum-security prison to finally arrive at the prison gate. On the other side, a shattered family waits for him, after five years of absence. Back in his hometown, a confused Iván wanders between his home, and the possibility of recovering a lost version of himself. His wife, Yamila, and his daughter, Luz, will put Iván to the test in his search for a better destiny, which is glimpsed by the arrival of a son.
The Invention of the Other · Bruno Jorge · Brazil · 2022
In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.
Kenya · Gisela Delgadillo · Mexico · 2022
After witnessing the murder of her friend, Kenya, a trans woman sex worker, embarks on a path of struggle and search for justice that leads her to face the fear and pain of seeing herself reflected in that tragic ending.
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