Pragda (Firm)

Beautiful, joyful, and informative, the film explores the unknown tradition of flamenco art in the U.S.: its origins, protagonists, and identity as a nomadic and hybrid art form. With performances by Jose Greco, Carmela Greco, Dame Libby Komaiko, and the Ensemble Español, the documentary offers an intimate view of their creative process.. Official Selection at the Three Rivers Film Festival, the Boston Latino International Film Festival, and the...

Despite being declared enemies by their countries, people in the Rock of Gibraltar and La Linea depended on each other, got married, and lived with their bilingual children. But Franco’s decision to close entrance to the British territory forced the separation of thousands of mixed families. This documentary examines the lasting effects of Franco's decision, which haunts Spain to this day.. Winner of the Golden Giraldillo for Best European Documentary...

Flamenco is passed on within the family of Carmen Amaya, the greatest flamenco dancer in Spain. Her niece and grandniece pick up her trail in Barcelona, joining a show with the city’s biggest talent. Together they discover the spirit of Bajarí, the name the Gypsies give to the city of Barcelona.. Nominated for Best Documentary at the Gaudí Awards.

This festival favorite documentary explores the world of chip music, a new musical trend that is growing exponentially throughout Europe. The stars of this musical movement reveal to us how to reuse old videogame’s hardware like Nintendo’s GameBoy, NES, Atari ST, Amiga, and the Commodore 64 to turn them into a tool capable of creating a new sound, a modern tempo, and an innovative musical style.. This is a new way of interpreting music performed...

Presented by Isabel Coixet, DROWNING LETTERS goes beyond traditional storytelling to reflect on the plight of migrants and Europe’s refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of people cross the sea in search of a better life. We follow the letters written, from mothers to sons, as we accompany the Spanish NGO ship Open Arms struggling to save 550 people from shipwreck. We will come to forget that this is a true story, the situation will...

The Amazon is a vast laboratory for sustainable experiments that are revealing new relationships among human beings, corporations, and the natural heritage crucial for life on the planet. This is where the guidelines are being drawn up for a new global economic model: the green economy. With an astonishing soundtrack and cinematography, Eternal Amazon presents a critical analysis of how the world’s largest tropical rainforest is understood and utilized.....

Forty-five years after the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, top Secret CIA and White House telegrams reveal how U.S. Ambassador Lincoln Gordon propped up the longest military dictatorships of South America, with the support of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.. Winner of Best Documentary from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards. Winner of Best Foreign Documentary at the St. Tropez International Film Festival.. “Excellent...

Erfan is a poet and musician. From his small car, he guides us through Tehran, where the contrast between the tradition-bound and the culturally rich Iran emerges along the way and where music and stories are closely intertwined. Each episode is preceded by a piece of music introduced and performed in its entirety by talented local musicians. It is illegal for women to sing in public, but the youths are burning to express themselves. The same is true...

It has been fifty years since the adventures of Juan Salvo were first published in the science fiction comic El Eternauta. Some time in 1957, Argentine writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld created a highly metaphorical and political graphic novel. El Eternauta introduced a new way of understanding comic strips: it transcended the limits of mere escapism to become an adult and politically committed story. And to this day, the comic book continues to surprise...

A group of relatives of people who disappeared during the Guatemalan military dictatorship requested and obtained, among many other measures of compensation, the production of a documentary film describing the events by the State. It was in 2012 when the Inter-American Court for Human Rights condemned for the first time the State of Guatemala for the disappearances (more than 45,000 civilians) during the years of the civil war (1960-1996). FEARLESS...