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The Haitian Trilogy: Una Sola Sangre by Esery Mondesir
Canada/Cuba, 2018, 40m

Through moments of work, rest, and celebration, the film produces a deceptively profound portrait of a family, a neighbourhood, and a nation. (Jesse Cummings)

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An Excavation of Us by Shirley Bruno
Haiti / France, 2017, 11m

The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through a mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution.

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Myanmar Anatomy by Prapat Jiwarangsan
UAE, Thailand, 2023, 22m

This essayistic exploration of Myanmar’s history is presented in three chapters and rooted in three locations: Yangon Zoological Gardens, the Yangon Circle Railway, and the Drug Elimination Museum.

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El cuarto desnudo (The Naked Room) by Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda
Mexico, 2013, 1h 7m

The Naked Room offers a vision of a world without leaving a single space: the room where doctors visits take place in a children´s hospital in Mexico City.

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Ouvertures by The Living and the Dead Ensemble
UK/France, 2020, 2h 12m

Moving from the frozen landscapes of the Jura mountains to the urban centres of Port-au-Prince, Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life.

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Nosferasta: First Bite by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, Oba
USA, 2021, 33m

Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his “New World”, where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for centuries.

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Los Cimarrones (The Fugitives) by Dami Saínz
Cuba, 2021, 12m

The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother.

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Death to the Sound Man by Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand, 2017, 16m

Two sound recordists are working on the final mix of a short film.

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Diario a Tres Voces (Three Voices) by Otilia Padua
Mexico, 2012, 1h 1m

Three Voices recounts the intimate love stories of three women of different generations: a teenager, a middle-aged divorcée, and a 90 year-old great grandmother.

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Khan-e-Tarikh (House of History) by Qader Tahiri
Afghanistan, 1996, 20m

This short essay film was assembled by director Qader Tahiri from unedited newsreel footage shot by eight Afghan Films cameramen between 1993 and 1995.

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Co-directed with a Ghost by Muhammad Salah
Egypt, 2025, 9m

This visual material was shot with no intention to make a film whatsoever – just simple takes with a non-professional actor.

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Quebranto by Roberto Fiesco
Mexico, 2013, 1h 35m

The memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress.

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El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place) by Tatiana Huezo
Mexico/El Salvador, 2011, 1h 45m

On the surface El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place) is the story of Cinquera, a village literally wiped off the official map during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.

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M by Eva Villaseñor
Mexico, 2018, 52m

Miguel traces his way trying to survive. His reality becomes increasingly labyrinthine until he must eventually face up to his own being.

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Omar y Gloria by Jimmy Cohen
Mexico, 2017, 1h 24m

Omar & Gloria dance Danzon. Gloria who is 80 years old is a woman full of light. For over 15 years Omar has been her accomplice and dancing partner.

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