Chile, el gran desafío

Compromiso con Chile

1972

Made by Fernando Balmaceda in 1972, it is a documentary that shows the presence of the State Technical University throughout Chile through its provincial headquarters, with teaching, scientific research, technological development, cultural extension and the relationship with the historical moment of the country.

Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason

1973 · ★ 7

An interview with the president of Chile conducted by Roberto Rossellini in 1971, but broadcast only after his death.

The Pearl Button

2015 · ★ 6.9

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn & The CIA Coup in Chile

2021

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized economy undertaken in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende.

Con Los Ojos de Hoy

2023

Documentary that reviews Salvador Allende's last speech through various voices of today to think about the present and the future.

Perros Bastardos

No synopsis available.

Picturesque New Zealand

1952 · ★ 5

This Traveltalk series short visit to New Zealand starts in Auckland, a bustling, modern city. Next is Christchurch, home of Canterbury University, where rowing teams participate in a regatta. Nearby is Lake Wakatipu, which inspires artists to put their impressions on canvas. We then visit Rotorua, a city famous for its geysers, hot springs, bubbling mud pools, and other geothermal activity. At Ferry Springs there is lots of trout for fishing. Later, a group of natives performs a canoe dance.

The Farthest

2018 · ★ 7.8

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

Miriam: Home Delivery

2014 · ★ 10

'Miriam: Home Delivery' is a feature length documentary following one of the longest-practicing midwives in New York City. Miriam has a 'voice and a mission'. We are with her as she drives through the city, enabling those women who have made choices about how and where they give birth, against the cultural norm.

Countdown

2004 · ★ 5

Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obscurity and has now been relegated to the margins of society, as a result of specific political circumstances. Countdown is a film about the limits of memory, the effects of the implacable passage of time, and a hope that surpasses time.

Spring in Carpathian Ruthenia

1929 · ★ 6.2

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge, every shot is working on its own, such as photographs, paintings and poetic complement intertitles in this short. From the perspective of nature and the perspective is shifting to the people and their habits, work and clothes. Peculiar documentary shots underscore Ruthenians (men, women and children) who are interested in looking into the camera and the curious "eye" showing off their habits.

Antigravitation

1995 · ★ 5.2

An isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside. Seated in her house, an elderly woman recites an old folk story. Then she climbs up the tall ladder that takes her to the rooftop of the church.