Ídolos y Caciques

Raza Brava

Just when Chile was experiencing the last months of the Popular Unity of President Salvador Allende, Colo Colo - the most popular team in Chilean soccer - faced the 1973 Copa Libertadores de América. This benchmark led by footballers Carlos Caszely, Francisco "Chamaco" Valdés and coach Luis "Zorro" Álamos, not only managed to play the final of this competition against Independiente of Argentina, but also, its brilliant game, dynamics and drive popular turned it into the necessary balm for the fans, at a time when the Chilean political and social situation became extremely acute. Thirty-four years later, the protagonists of Colo Colo 73 relive this Copa Libertadores campaign.

Documentary tells the story of the Chilean football club Colo-Colo, exploring its profound impact on popular culture and the everyday lives of its fans. Throughout the film, it shows how the club has transcended sport to become a symbol of resistance, pride, and class struggle in Chile.

Chile's national stadium was the scene of thousands of celebrations for one people, as well as the suffering and torture of thousands more. The CSD Colo Colo reaffirms its position of justice and memory.

Campaign of Colo Colo champion of the 1991 Copa Libertadores narrated by its players and fans

Documentary about the recovery process of the Colo Colo social and sports club, a process in which young people grouped in branches, artists and members of the club decide to organize themselves in order to rescue the memory of the futbol team.

Unpublished images of Colo-colo in the 2008-2009 seasons, intensely experiencing the institutional crisis that the club suffered after Claudio Borghi's brilliant campaign.

Colo Colo went bankrupt in 2002 and its players will once again remember everything that was that season that will remain in history.

The story of Colo Colo 1991, champion of the Copa Libertadores de América, in the voice of its protagonists.

Documentary that explores the history of the Colo-Colo Social and Sports Club, and not only highlights the socio-political significance of Colo-Colo at a national level but also debunks the myth surrounding the relationship between Pinochet and Colo-Colo. It dispels the belief that the former dictator provided funds for the construction of the Estadio Monumental.

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - the world's most popular suicide destination. Interviews with the victims' loved ones describe their lives and mental health.

The Takeover 10-08-74

Michael Klier documents some ideas about Dresden while shooting three short films for the TV channel ARTE.

Los sentidos

Short documentary following poet and pilgrim, Sherman, on pilgrimage from his apartment in Salem to monasteries in Mount Angel, Oregon.

Provincial students of theater schools come to Moscow for a progressive art festival. This is the story of a clash between the capital and the province, young talents and stars, the "old" school and the "new"; a story that is looped - because it is repeated with each generation.

Short movie shows us a life in the Moscow Headquarter of the National Bolshevik Party and contains several interviews with a party members.