Ditadura & Desaparecidos Políticos

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.

A woman married to a former politician during the military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's witnessing the return of those same practices.

After accepting a colossal bribe, a powerful TV conglomerate gins up fake news stories to enhance the image of a notoriously corrupt politician.

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.

The story of the Salvador Allende, former president of Chile, from his presidential campaign to the day of his death on 11 September 1973.

1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."

1936. A country taken by fascism. A husband marked for death. A wife ready for anything to save him. An endless incarceration in his own home.

Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime.

A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life.

Based on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.

Colonel Ustra was the only military man convicted of torture in Brazil. For some he is considered a torturer, to others a hero. What is the truth?

Through a personal investigation of her niece, Mariana Pamplona, the film recover the life of the guerrilla Iara Iavelberg. She was a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life, opting to engage in an armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. Living in hiding, in on routine of kidnappings and armed actions, she became the companion of the ex-army caption Carlos Lamarca, sharing whit him the post of one of the most sought after targets of the military regime. The film dismantles the official version of the dictatorship, which attributes Iara's death in Salvador in 1971 to a suicide.

December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political prisoners. The documentary find those prisoners 40 years later. Who are they? How they pass trough prison, torture, exile. How they manage to live?

Former political activist receives compensation money for her husband's disappearance, during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). She is now able to afford a new home. While moving in, a visitor forces her to review her entire history.

A historical review of the military dictatorship in Brazil only trough images and sounds from films that belong to the pornochanchada genre, a kind of erotic film that was the most seen and most produced during that period.

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Vlado is the fictionalized portrayal of the night before real-life Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog, turned himself in for questioning to the Brazilian police and was never heard from again. Set in Sao Paulo in 1975, in the context of the Brazilian military dictatorship, the story sets to illustrate one man's final moments and the build-up to a decision that would eventually change the course of an entire country.