Writing
In the depths of the missionary jungle, a documentary about the life of some settlers is transformed by the suicide of the protagonist. The director decides to embark on an alchemical exploration, thus questioning herself about the desire to die, to live and about what we cannot understand.
Every day, hundreds of women give birth in hospitals and clinics. One in three babies is born by cesarean section. Vanesa, Mariana, and Nayla are pregnant. Each has a different story, but all three share the same goal: to give birth naturally and enjoy that momentous moment.
Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the young women of the leftist youth against the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez.
Lucía Lubarsky investigates her relationship with the men in her family and her brother's life. What were their desires, their silences and mandates? She interviews different men and meets Bicho, Andrés and Emmanuel, diverse men who seek to build themselves as men far from what was expected of them.
The process of constituent refoundation that the people of Bolivia have undertaken and the secessionist threats that are raised in the name of the autonomies. Filmed during the month of December 2007 in the towns of La Paz, Chapare and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the documentary shows up close the profound changes that have been made since the arrival of Evo Morales to the presidency and, therefore, On the other hand, the racist side of the power groups based in Santa Cruz that resist these changes.
A journey through the ancestry, sorrows, laughter, and loves of Rita Segato. An encounter with the heart of one of the most important contemporary thinkers, a kind of "rock star," renowned for the "uncomfortable" nature of her ideas. Gabriela is a Venezuelan documentary filmmaker exiled in Buenos Aires. Rita lived for over 40 years in exile, beginning in Caracas. This shared sense of displacement is the starting point of a shared journey, in which identity, motherhood, and dreams intertwine in a human narrative as Rita reconnects with her homeland and her loved ones.
Moncha, a cocuy artisan, and Miriam, a notable scientist specializing in botany, undertake a long struggle to legalize the cocuy. The cocuy is an ancestral spirit drink obtained from the agave, the “miracle plant”. This drink was banned in the 50s, which meant decades of criminalization of a people and their traditions. The two women will face large corporations and will manage to transcend the history of a country that is beginning to recognize its cultural value.
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