Margarita Cadenas

ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.

After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does not know that by accepting to go to Venezuela, her life as a woman and engineer will change. Through a great love story she will assert herself despite all the pitfalls on the way.

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Fourth episode: in Cuba, the ICAIC, created in the aftermath of the Castro revolution, is at once a film school, a production company and a state cultural branch. Cuban filmmakers testify to the situation and themes specific to their national cinema.

Five Venezuelan women, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of their collapsing country that faces possibly its worst social, economic, power and political crisis in its 200-year-history.

Through the streets of Paris, a group of childhood friends will lift the veil on buried secrets, deep guilt and damning revelations.

Macondo was the name of the house where the Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva lived for many years until his death. It was located on the slopes of Ávila and used to be a must for the most famous intellectuals who visited Caracas. But one fine day, not long ago, the house was demolished. Macondo is the title of the documentary by Margarita Cadenas that collects the memory of the disappeared building.

Based on the passion for the Yanomami Indians of the 1960s from the different currents of anthropology and anthropologists, this documentary allows us to meet Jacques Lizot, since he arrived in the Venezuelan Amazon in 1968, where he lived for more than twenty years until his return to his native country, France.