Amazon Sound

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

Don Emilio is a humble, 63-year-old man who lives in the Amazon rainforest, seven miles from the city of Iquitos, Peru. For all of his adult life he has worked as a curandero and vegetalista, a traditional healer. He estimates that in his career he has treated more than 2,500 clients. Through the camera lens of anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna, Don Emilio tells us about his practice, his beliefs, his community, and his life. He shows us how he prepares ayahuasca and other herbal medicines. Finally, we see Don Emilio treat a man who has come to him for help, and hear from a poor woman who has brought her infant son for medical care.

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Cumbia Sinfonica is a volume with the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico City and duets of pop and rock vocalists, which has expanded its audience among the younger generations, which include even children of all social classes.

Cumbias Pa' Gozar: La Cortina, Mi Cucu, Capullo y Sorullo and much more... Difosatv presents LA ORQUESTA DE ANY VELASQUEZ in a live concert, performing cumbias that made the Sonora Dinamita famous.

Difosatv presents in a live concert with LA SONORA DE MAY VELASQUEZ, performing the hits that made La Sonora Dinamita famous. A mix of pure Colombian Cumbia live! A Mover La Colita, Se Me Perdió La Cadenita, Mete y Saca, La Bamba...

Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.

In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.

La Yegros

The story revolves around Evaristo who¸ accompanied by his drum¸ dreams of becoming a great figure and imposing his music on the whole world. Evaristo composes cumbias and more cumbias on his ranch and then in jail¸ where adverse situations take him. Meanwhile his delusions begin to come true¸ and without knowing it¸ his name and rhythm become famous.

Kumbia Kings: Concierto en Monterrey

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The movie recreates the experience of running the race in 2011.

Marcin like every guy in his age is looking for stability. He judges the matches in the lowest leagues, which takes his free time and gives a little money. But when he comes home tired, again meets his mother, it reminds him a world full of problems. It's time to take mature decisions. Work, sports, and finally, love.

Documentary about the architectural evolution of Paris.

Towards the end of the 1970s, when VHS entered the market and video stores were springing up in West Germany, the conquest of the living room began. In 1984, ZDF conducted research into the extent to which brutal films had an influence on children and young people and the extent to which censorship authorities, schools and parents had to counteract this.

Documentary about the Swedish soccer legend Nacka Skoglund.

In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had Down syndrome. For 35 years, which is unique in the Swedish television history, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson has followed Martina's struggles against all odds.

Joakim Alpgård was completely paralyzed after crashing his car for six years and for six years he struggled against authorities in order to live a dignified life.