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1) Chile '76
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile '76 builds from a quiet character study to a gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman's precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen leads a sheltered upper-middle-class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children, and grandchildren...
2) La soldadera
Description
A simple country girl named Lazara is caught up in the Mexican Revolution when her new husband, Juan, is forced to join the federal army on the eve of their honeymoon. Refusing to be separated from Juan, she chooses to follow him, traveling with the troops. Adoration and money only bring partial contentment for her. Another part of her longs for a life of sanctity and purity that only a life with God can bring.
Description
"Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the democratically-elected government, but he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture, and a place on the map that he never forgot. After covering the North in Nostalgia for the Light and the South in The Pearl Button, his shots get up-close with what he calls 'the vast revealing backbone of Chile's past and recent history'"--from www.imdb.com.
11) Birds of passage
Description
"During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture."--www.imdb.com.
12) Zama
Description
In seventeenth-century South America, Spanish officer Don Diego de Zama awaits a letter from the king that will transfer him from a small rural town to Buenos Aires.
15) La llorona
Series
Criterion collection volume 1156
Description
A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Maya communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for...
17) No
Description
An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Description
As the Spanish Civil War is ending, a young boy is abandoned at a remote orphanage with a resident ghost and an unexploded bomb.
20) El Atentado
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