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1) Chile '76
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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...
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"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.
4) No
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An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
11) Oye, Trump
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"Desde hace más de medio siglo, la migración de mexicanos ha sido parte fundamental de la fuerza laboral que impulsa a nuestro vecino del norte. Estos compatriotas no han figurado en las agendas de los políticos en México, ni siquiera cuando Donald Trump alentó el racismo y la "hispanofobia" en Estados Unidos. Entre enero y marzo de 2017, Andrés Manuel López Obrador visitó varias ciudades en la unión americana para mostrar su solidaridad...
12) Falling star
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Spanish feature film. "At the end of 1870, with Spain embroiled in a struggle pitting Carlists against Bourbonists, republicans against monarchists, Amadeo, duke of Aosta, second son of Victor Emanuel II of Italy, was nominated as the Spanish king. He was sworn into office in January 1871 and abdicated in February 1873, following a reign stymied by political chaos and the knowledge, from all sides (himself included), that his time on the Spanish throne...
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