Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society.

La angustia y la oscuridad que se respira en la ex maternidad del hospital Barros Luco Trudeau a través de su vieja estructura, de sus pasillos infinitos que llenan el vacío del espacio oculto y reprimido. Sus paredes rayadas guardan secretos, cargan a diario con la ausencia y la ilusión de cientos de mujeres que buscan la luz que nunca vieron brillar.

La Guerra de Malvinas comienza el 2 de abril de 1982 con el desembarco argentino en las islas ordenado por Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri y culmina con el cese de hostilidades entre la Argentina y el Reino Unido de la Gran Bretaña, el 14 de junio de 1982. A partir de un montaje dinámico y con la intervención de materiales de archivos el documental piensa la guerra como parte de nuestro pasado reciente pero también abre a múltiples interrogantes y reflexiones sobre la sociedad contemporánea y la proyección a futuro de lo que nos genera tal conflicto a los argentinos.

Un documental dividido en dos partes que narra la historia del fascismo italiano, desde su inicio hasta su desastroso final. Cuenta con imágenes de archivos en color, entrevistas y recreaciones históricas.

The clash of a libertarian school with the military dictatorship in the 60s. An exciting and little-known page in the history of public education in Brazil.

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A young generation was taking the reins in a country of grand utopias. From West Germany alone, 15,000 “brigadists” travelled to help rebuild the war-torn country: liberals, greens, unionists, social democrats, leftists and church representatives harvested coffee and cotton, built schools, kindergartens and hospital wards. No movement has mobilised so many people. What became of the hopes and dreams of the revolutionaries and their supporters?

This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God.

La guerra en Siria parece tan incomprensible como una caja negra: el conflicto comenzó hace casi diez años e incluso hoy en día muchas personas en Occidente tienen la sensación de que ni siquiera entienden exactamente quién está luchando contra quién. PBS presenta este documental en el que se muestra el origen del conflicto, su trascendencia internacional, así como el problema central: la dictadura totalitaria de un clan familiar.

A través del testimonio de expertos internacionales de renombre como el ex embajador de Estados Unidos en Damasco, Robert Ford, el asesor del gobierno turco Ibrahim Kalin, el comandante en jefe de la oposición armada siria Salim Idris, y Sam Dagher, autor de la aclamada "Assad or We Burn the Country", el documental describe las etapas del conflicto y aclara los motivos detrás de esta guerra.

‘El Silencio de Otros’ revela la lucha silenciada de las víctimas del régimen franquista, que continúan buscando justicia hasta nuestros días. Filmada a lo largo de seis años, con un estilo de cine directo e intimista, la película acompaña a víctimas y supervivientes del régimen a medida que organizan la denominada “Querella Argentina” y confrontan un “pacto del olvido” sobre los crímenes que padecieron.

A semi-fictional correspondence between two women: one goes to Iran in 1979 to topple the Shah; the other experiences the onerous years of Ceaușescu’s Romania. Their biographies run in parallel via images of everyday life and videograms of revolution.

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained anonymous for a long time and the precariousness of the production was due because of its clandestinity. The film is a collage of images of popular repression, ruling power violence and its people resistance around the world.

A documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, financing it and participating in the tortures of political prisoners. Those actions later culminated in his assassination in 1971 by members of militant groups opposed to the regime.

Narra la historia de un grupo de soldados, que durante el curso de su servicio militar en 1967 y 68, antes y durante la dictadura militar en Grecia, son asignados para la recién fundada televisión del ejército. Nominada a mejor dirección en el Festival de Berlín y con dos secuelas: "Loufa kai parallagi: Seirines sto Aigaio" (2005) y "I-4: Loufa & apallagi" (2008). (FILMAFFINITY)