Digitalia Film Library – New titles May 2020

DIGITALIA FILM LIBRARY presents
NEW DOCUMENTARIES AND FILMS

We added to our database more than 60 documentaries and films from all over the world.

In this newsletter we present a selection from Latin America (Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic and Bolivia) and Europe (Spain, Portugal, Holland, United Kingdom and Italy). And also titles from Thailand, Iran, South Korea, Philippines, Canada and the United States.

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Country: Uruguay
Directed by: Juan Álvarez Neme
Year: 2014
Genre: Arts documentary
Synopsis: A forgotten national ballet company is shook up with the arrival of Julio Bocca, one of the best dancers in history. After his retirement, he tries to find a new place in the dance world and accepts the challenge of running this company and throw them to an international competition level.
Awards and acknowledgements:
ITVS R&D, DOCMontevideo 2010.
DocMeeting 2010, selected directly to participate in the event during DOCMontevideo 2010.
ARTE France for the best creative documentary during DOCBsAs 2010.
Ibermedia Development 2010.
Selected for DOCSBarcelona 2011.
Selected for Online Pitching Forum of EDN 2011.
Selected for Latin American Village, Sunny Side of the Doc 2011.
Selected at Mar del Plata Internarional Film festival.
Selected at La Habana Festival.

Country: Guatemala
Directed by: Javier Briones
Year: 2016
Genre: History documentary
Synopsis: In 1976, the military government of Guatemala decided to build at the Chixoy river the first hydroelectric barrage in the country. The village of Río Negro was against this construction and the government invaded the village and killed 177 women and children. The Earth Did Not Speak tells the incidents at the massacre in Río Negro, the tenacity and the courage of the survivals building their village 30 years later on their flooded lands.
Awards: Official selection Chicago Latino Film Festival 2017
Official Selection Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival 2016
Official Selection Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2017

Country: Brazil
Year: 2008
Genre: Anthropology documentary
Synopsis: The Guajará community was formed more than 200 years ago by slave descendants who found their freedom there. Since then, the inhabitants of this place located on the Brazilian Amazonia stayed unconnected to the city and its progress. But their way of living is threatened when the construction of a new bridge connecting the community with the city is announced.
Awards: Special Jury Prize, Santiago Intl Documentary Festival (FIDOCS), Chile.
Nominated to Pedro Sienna Award, Best Documentary 2009, Chile.
Nominated to ALtazor Award, Best Documentary 2009, Chile.
Best Film Mostra Amazonica Do Filme Etnografico, Manaus Brazil.

Country: Canada
Directed by: Mike Sass
Year: 2018
Genre: Arts documentary
Synopsis: Epic Fantasy Painting in Oils is the only produced film showing artworks of the videogame industry in a traditional way. These techniques line the edge between fine and commercial art and are valuable lessons for any drawer searching realism.

Country: United States
Directed by: Steve Jarvis
Year: 2018
Genre: Social documentary
Synopsis: Two old fighters from the Timbisha tribe fight against the government of the US and against their own government for justice while they also fight for saving their ancient culture at the hottest place in the world, Death Valley, CA.

Country: Dominican Republic
Directed by: Leticia Tonos
Year: 2011
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: María is alone after the death of her mother and decides to look for her irresponsible father who never recognized her. He lives in a superstitious and forgotten village in the Dominican Republic. This is the story of their first meet and how they manage to make peace with the ghosts from the past who harass them in the old house where they live by an understanding deeper than the complexity of love.
Awards: Audience award, Chicago Latin Festival 2011.

Country: Honduras
Directed by: Oscar Estrada
Year: 2008
Genre: Social documentary
Synopsis: El Porvenir tells a story of fighting for the truth and justice against a government unable to face the problem of the gangs. But above all, it shows a society who condemned a men and women generation to the extinction, a country who learned to forget at the expense of their own future.

Country: Bolivia
Year: 2019
Genre: Anthropology documentary
Synopsis: This documentary shows one of the fundamental pillars of the shared economy of the Aymara and Quechua communities: the exchange, the trade or chhalaqu of farm products, which allows the families from many regions to get food without using money.

Country: Bolivia
Year: 2018
Genre: Anthropology documentary
Synopsis: Chivé is a product of the indigenous communities of Benil, a legacy of their culture, their knowledge and their ancient wisdom preserved to the present day.

Country: Philipines
Directed by: Ruben María Soriquez
Year: 2015
Genre: Action
Synopsis: Leonardo is an Italian missionary who advices abused women and teaches poor children in Philippines. But problems arise when he meets Merlinda, a young women married to a violent man and mother of a missing 6 year old child.
Awards: Best Film, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards 2017.
Feature, Indian World Film Festival 2017.
Best Narrative Film, International Film Awards Berlin 2015.

Country: Holanda
Directed by: Peter van Houten
Year: 2015
Genre: History documentary
Synopsis: During 6 years, Peter Van Houten follows Jean-Marie Raaymakers, a pastor in 25 villages in the Oriental Pyrenees. Living in Olette, Jean-Marie is both a gardener leading masses or a pastor working on his garden. We follow him among his parishioners, leading masses in villages. We follow him on his decision of loving his neighbor above his garden and parishioners.

Country: United States
Directed by: Lakisha R. Lemons
Year: 2016
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: A young man hits rock bottom and has nowhere to go. Losing all hope, goals and motivation, he builds himself up slowly with faith and trust in God.

Country: United States
Directed by: Rainer Fromm
Year: 2009
Genre: History documentary
Synopsis: Which is the truth about Scientology? Find it out with this convincing documentary based on interviews with current and old scientologists in the United States and Europe, including leaders of the Church, to let the viewer know the history of this controversial organization and see inside their walls.

Country: Thailand
Directed by: Somkait Vituranich
Year: 2009
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: Sangchan works in a factory and falls in love with Rawee, who has to go study abroad. He promised Sangchan that he would come back every year on October 8th . While Rawee is abroad, Sangchan meets Lim, another guy who likes her. This is a love, faith and vow challenge that Sangchan must face.
Awards: Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Script and Best Costume Design, National Film Association Awards, Thailand 2010.

Country: South Korea
Directed by: Donghan Lee
Year: 2017
Genre: Social documentary
Synopsis: The story of a group of teenage boys who do archery and practice to reach the perfect 10 points mark. A story of maturity of a group of boys who decided to follow their own way, unlike most of Korean teenagers, whose only dream is having a safe, monotonous life.

Country: Spain
Directed by: Alejandro Rius Galindo
Year: 2018
Genre: Biographical documentary
Synopsis: The aim of this documentary is to bring back the memory of the genius Narciso Yepes, not only as a remarkable guitar player, but also as an extraordinary man.

Country: Italy
Directed by: Andrea Calderone
Year: 2017
Genre: Arts documentary
Synopsis: Italy’s condition is unique in the world: it has a priceless historic and artistic heritage and also a high earthquake risk. ArtQuake studies this exceptional situation and discusses in depth the relationship between human communities, natural phenomena and artistic creation.

Country: Spain
Directed by: Fernando Pozo
Year: 2016
Genre: Social documentary
Synopsis: Raúl, a teenager with cerebral palsy, shows by a mime his curiosity and thoughts. David, a kid with autism, likes planes and always carries leaflets.

Country: Portugal
Directed by: Marlin Darrah
Year: 2017
Genre: History documentary
Synopsis: By order of the Catholic Church in Lisbon, the members of the Real Association of Archeology and History (RAHA) from Portugal excavate 78 mummies in a crypt under the altar of the Sacramento Church in Lisbon.

Country: Argentina
Directed by: Federico Marcello
Year: 2013
Genre: Social documentary
Synopsis: Two decades after the end of the era of the apartheid, a living story emerges and talks about the distance between human beings. This story invites you to understand, from the interaction with its inhabitants and environments, what was, what meant and how did one of the most trascendent discrimination events in the twentieth century work.

Country: Uruguay
Directed by: Juan Álvarez Neme
Year: 2012
Genre: Social documentary
Synopsis: This is a daily portrait of a group of people who suffer forced disappearing in Uruguay. This documentary walks with them for 5 years from the first winning of the left-wing on the country and explores their reality through their eyes. It practices in this parallel movement the persistence of searching the truth in a divided society between justice and oblivion.