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.
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.
Raza Brava
Unpublished images of Colo-colo in the 2008-2009 seasons, intensely experiencing the institutional crisis that the club suffered after Claudio Borghi's brilliant campaign.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.
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.
The story of Colo Colo 1991, champion of the Copa Libertadores de América, in the voice of its protagonists.
Stories of some idols of the Colo Colo Social and Sports Club
Presents highlights of a workshop for young directors conducted by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996) in Amsterdam during the summer of 1994, inclusive of interviews with Kieślowski himself. The theme of the workshop was the direction of actors. For a fortnight, various groups worked every day on a scene from Ingmar Bergman's film, 'Scenes from a Marriage.'
One Hour With Kozintsev
A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.
Few movements in music have gained as much critical mass as house music. Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music is a fantastic 2001 documentary about one of the biggest music groundswells in history, which began in basements and ended up at the forefront of pop culture. The film traces house music from its early days as New York disco to its takeover of Europe’s dance scene through fascinating interviews with the people who propelled the movement and rare footage of the clubs where it came of age.
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
The reasons the Beatles broke up are extremely well documented and even at the height of their animosity none of the band ever blamed Yoko Ono for it - so why is this still a thing?
Canada Mania
Documentary footage capturing a real event of a film student who has just begun hurriedly editing his thesis before the faculty’s screening deadline. Everything seems to be going well, until he realizes that… a crucial audio file for his work has gone missing.
Set during a pandemic, the film tracks the movements of its central protagonist – The Wanderer, a young girl, on an intrepid journey across England. Presented across six chapters, including ‘The North’, ‘The Land of Smoke’ and ‘The Kingdom of the East’, this epic film builds a dialogue around the themes of class and economic exclusion, belonging and displacement, cultural heritage and the meaning of home.
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.