Pragda (Firm)
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The village of Tamaquito lies in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the way of life of the Wayúu is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced displacement, the young and charismatic leader Jairo Fuentes sets out to negotiate with the mine’s operators. They’re backed by powerful global resource companies such as Glencore,...
3) Time Theorem
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies.
4) Sediments
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Six trans women travel to a small town in León where they will explore unusual landscapes, as well as the ins and outs of their own personalities. Looking for answers about what connects them as a group, they will learn to deal with their differences.Sediments is an engaging and fun story about empathy, individuality, and the need to belong. It is the present radiography of a collective, which looks into the past and projects itself into the future,...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Caracas, Venezuela, the murder capital of the world, a revolutionary gang enforces justice–eye for an eye. Hailed by some as modern-day Robin Hoods and as ruthless thugs by others, the Tupamaros are an enigma long puzzled over by scholars and the U.S. foreign service. With unprecedented access to these controversial vigilantes, the film chronicles seven turbulent years in the life of Alberto ‘Chino’ Carias, a former guerrilla fighter and...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1942, Orson Welles was in Brazil filming his documentary It's All True about Carnival and the Jangadeiros (Brazillian fishermen). The leader of Jangadeiros, Manuel Jacaré, died during filming. This fact evokes memories of Orson Welles in Brazil – and it changed his life forever.
11) Luchadoras
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
An intimate portrait of three courageous female Luchadoras (wrestlers) from Ciudad Juárez. Despite being surrounded by machismo, they redefine the image of women in Mexico.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Chinese mining in Ecuador’s mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely dramatic documentary.THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE follows Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, who leads the indigenous resistance against the exploitation of their land. Meanwhile, China uses the Ecuadorian government to turn the country into one of its new colonies, having made the country dependent on credit through a series...
13) El Blanco
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
After being forced into marriage with a white foreigner known as El Blanco, Genesis must deal with the unannounced visit of her estranged sister. A feverish love triangle begins to take shape in their isolated cabin on the Dominican hinterland.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
On a cruise ship off the Patagonian coasts, a crewman discovers a magical portal leading into a woman's apartment. Simultaneously, villagers happen upon a frightening concrete hut near their settlement in the Philippines. Two stories are woven into a cinematographic labyrinth where people overlap and lose themselves. Somewhere between dark engine rooms and middle-class living rooms, between the sea and the jungle, individuals observe one another with...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
After numerous rejections, Julia and Antonio, Ema's parents, finally find a safe place for their daughter, who has been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. In the caring community of the new primary school located in a small town on the banks of the Paraná River, Ema can observe and explore the world in silence and at her own pace. The film astutely and tenderly chronicles Ema's small steps, which transform into magical moments, where solidarity appears...
16) The Apostate
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
A young man determined to renounce Catholicism by having his baptismal records excised is thwarted by church bureaucracy and his own inner conflicts.
17) About Thirty
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Buenos Aires in March 2020, just days before the outbreak of the pandemic. A wedding is being celebrated; a car overturns. The guests share joints, kisses, sex, and the memory of a loss. At the center of this comedy of errors is Arturo, who is every bit as drawn to misfortune as he is directionless – qualities he shares with the film's full cast of characters. His faux pas and blunders stand in inverse relation to the finesse with which the film...
18) A Useful Life
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
An art film enthusiast fears that decrease in attendance will force the Uruguayan Cinematheque to close. To save it, Jorge enters a new world and is exposed to an unknown passion. A modern classic film.
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
After his time in the popular boy band Equinoccio, Billy Lozano is now living a tedious life as a married man, in his late thirties, in the suburbs. Frustrated with his lifestyle, he lives with all the necessary pseudo-comforts in the house of his dreams but feels like the biggest loser in the world since his latest entrepreneurial endeavor is a failure. He has no other occupation but to take care of his son and his wife’s dog. His new neighbor...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At a time when there is more and more news in the mainstream media about the U.S.-Mexico border, 100 Ways to Cross the Border (2022) presents the work and philosophical frameworks of an artist who has had a sustained dedication to radical, highly impactful, and innovative artistic interventions on the border. This vibrant documentary explores the 40-year career of prolific Latinx performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña as he enacts his interventions...