Manuela, Marianne\'s mother, has never really told her the story about why she went to Sao Paulo in search of her sister, Teresa. Why she spent a whole lot of money and time on making several trips from Denmark to Brazil in the nineties, in order to bury the remains of her sister in the family grave in Chile. Neither has Marianne really asked. But during their winter holiday in Italy, in February 2007, Marianne has decided to ask Manuela to tell the full story of her search for Teresa. From a hotel room in Rome, we are brought to Sao Paulo in Brazil, to Curicó in Chile and to Manuela\'s apartment in Copenhagen, Denmark. As the story untangles, a very personal narrative of some of the fates of the political situation in Chile unfolds.
The social treatment of poverty is progressively replaced by repression. The poor, sometimes immigrant, being a victim to start with, becomes a potential criminal. The director observes the social violence and the stigmatisation which keep a whole social class in oblivion. He discovers, far remote from EU's democracy, the reality and the functioning of a social apartheid.
The context around young men refusing to do military service, and their battles.
Entrevista en el Carleton College. Minnesota. ... en torno a la realidad y sus transparencias.
Interview at Carleton College in Minnesota with Toni Serra * ) Abu Ali ... about reality and its transparencies.
La rebelion de las Oaxaqueñas presents a group of women who come together in a social movement in order to change the unfair, oppressive situation in Oaxaca.. The women recount some of their experiences and reflections on being part of this grassroots rebellion. As a result of the popular movement in Oaxaca, thousands of women took to the streets to participate in the marches, the barricades... in the assemblies, on radio and television, in the forums and in all of the projects that the movement created for people's participation.
UntitledWhat is the extent of the FTAA plan? Who does it affect and who gains the most benefits? The application of the FTAA regional plan, or, if it fails, the Free Trade Agreements between individual countries, has tragic consequences for many poor urban and rural (mostly indigenous) people, that is, for the majority of the population in these South American countries.
Chavez, elected president of Venezuela in 1998, is a colourful, unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. they were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man the wall street journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington?s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."
UntitledThree histories, one target: To make the personal wishes a reality, it drives the protagonists to live on the margin of the pre-established rhythms of labour.