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Sami Kafati dies (1996) leaving unfinished the first Honduran fiction feature, "No hay tierra sin dueño". His son Ramsés and Chilean editor Carmen Brito finish the film. This documentary reconstructs the years that Kafati dedicated to making possible a Honduran feature, which 7 years after his death finally arrives at Cannes (2003).
The assassination of Berta Cáceres shook the world on March 2, 2016. Mexican activist Gustavo Castro, a witness to the crime, survived the horror of that night and was trapped in Honduras. The defense of the river Gualcarque, sacred to the Lenca people, against the installation of a hydroelectric plant, is the preamble of a story in which we follow Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda, friend and companion of Berta. Their struggle for decolonization is the same, in a country that is sold to transnational capital and takes lives in many ways.
Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores the challenges Reagan faced to define himself as a leader. Meanwhile, an aimless and deranged Hinckley is unraveling, leading to the fateful day in March 1981 when these disparate figures collided.
Portrays the violence of the coup d'etat in Honduras last June 28, 2009, making use of the voices of people resisting in the streets. Through commercials, news, real-time shots and interviews with Honduran scholars, the documentary puts in historical and political context the consequences of the capture of President-elect Juan Manuel Zelaya.
Hours before her assassination, Indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Cáceres wrote down the names of those aiming to kill her. Using these clues, her friends and family seek to find the perpetrators.
In the midst of Juan Orlando Hernández’s dictatorship, Whitney (23) covers the first migrant caravan of 2018 on foot. More than ten thousand, almost all Hondurans, determined to reach the United States together. Crossing Mexico there is no return, but Whitney doesn´t quit. Her lens is witness of the terrible expression of a failed regime: the exodus toward Trump’s wall. Whitney no longer cares about risking her graduation and her life, her empathy with the others suffering is stronger.
