Insurgencia por la paz

Chiquinquirá, May 15th

In 1998, the President of Colombia dared to demilitarise a zone to carry out peace negotiations with the FARC-EP guerrilla group, but chaos erupted. A pivotal 2000 attack shifted the tide. Crafted solely from news archives, this film presents the atrocious event that changed the country's destiny.

Voices of Kidnapping

Ghostly images of Colombia’s jungle landscapes are set to radio transmissions sent by family members to their kidnapped loved ones—heartrending messages of grief, support, and, against all odds, hope.

Colombia in My Arms

After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion of the poor. Ernesto is one of them. The much celebrated Colombian peace agreement throws Ernesto and the polarised society around him into chaos in which everyone is afraid of the future and their own survival.

Hostage in the Jungle

Ingrid Betancourt was the world’s most famous hostage. On February 23rd 2002, Ingrid, a presidential candidate in Columbia’s elections, was kidnapped by the left-wing FARC rebel group along with her assistant and friend Clara Rojas. She was held for over six years in the jungle. This is the first documentary account of what happened in the jungle in her words and those of fellow hostages. In a truly remarkable interview Ingrid relives stories of escape and betrayal, love and hate, terror and extraodinary courage.

Colombie : la paix confisquée - Paroles d'otages

La Flor de La Lengua de Vaca

Camila lives her last days in the jungle as a guerrilla of the FARC-EP at the crossroads between an uncertain future of peace and the lingering memory of a childhood severely punished. Sent to a war hospital in the middle of the jungle, Camila begins a journey into her past, to the depths of an old wound that needs to be healed. A journey that ends up leading her to an unexpected reunion with her friend Ricardo, a young guerrilla recently amputated due to a mine.

Falsos Positivos

The "Falsos Positivos" scandal that exploded on October 2008 revealed how and why ranks of the Colombian Army started to kill innocent people. Lured by money prizes given by the President Uribe's policy called "Seguridad Democratica", the Colombian Army dressed the bodies in military fatigues to claim the rewards for the fight against the FARC guerrilla. "Falsos Positivos" follows the trip of two families to retrieve the rests of their beloved, along with shocking interviews to activists, a former General, political analysts and witnesses of this huge scandal.

White Guitar

The story of an unfinished documentary about Alfredo Zitarrosa and that of his director, Francisco "Papico" Cibils.

Akwaaba: The Awakening

A documentary film chronicling the lives of African-Americans from Los Angeles, CA, traveling to Africa The Motherland for the first time.

Blake and Gwen: Now and Then

Follow the offstage, unlikely romance of the king of country, Blake Shelton, and pop princess, Gwen Stefani. Both stars braved their share of challenges on the way to writing their own love song.

bOObs: The War on Women's Breasts

Investigates the controversy swirling around the breast cancer screening test mammography.

Territorio natural Casanare

Through the reflections of a father and daughter about themselves and their close relationship with their natural environment and the animal world, we embark on a journey deep into the Altagracia Reserves in the Colombian Orinoco region.

Dog Days of Winter

In the mountains of 1960s America, thrill-seeking skiers quit toeing the line and began carving out new ways of making it down the mountain in style. They established a community of athletes, living for the creative freedom of hot dog skiing.This look back on the origins of the now Olympic discipline reveals its carefree beginnings, and the showmen who took this dangerous sport to the big time.

The Survivalists

This documentary talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run schools for mercenary killers, and to self-appointed clergy who say their native America has "gone soft on the Devil and the Reds" and has become a "Disneyland for Dummies".

Narritjin at Djarrakpi

In 1974, Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakpi, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory.

Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up

Despite the mantra of 'live fast, die young', Britain's first rock 'n' roll generations are now enjoying old age. What was once about youth and taking risks is now about longevity, survival, nostalgia and refusing to grow up, give up or shut up. But what happens when the music refuses to die and its performers refuse to leave the stage? What happens when rock's youthful rebelliousness is delivered wrapped in wrinkles?

Russell Brand on the Road

Russell Brand sets out across America's vast heartland in homage to one of his literary heroes, Jack Kerouac, and his classic novel, On the Road. Travelling with his friend and co-host of his Radio 2 show The Russell Brand Show, he sets off on a coast-to-coast adventure that becomes a journey of self discovery.

Invisible Film

Invisible Film reimagines Peter Watkins’s Punishment Park (1971), a radical anti-war film banned in both the UK and the US after the Vietnam War. Melik Ohanian replaces its images with a single static shot of a 35mm projector screening the censored film in daylight in the San Bernardino desert—its original location. Projected without a screen, the image disappears into the desert air, turning cinema itself into both subject and ghost.

Paralelas

But when it rains

The city of Alicante (southeastern Spain) experienced catastrophic floods in 1982 and 1997. Locals share their memories from the floods, and their concerns for the present.