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Title: CASAS DE PABLO NERUDA, LAS
Description: The collections of the poet, the world that surrounds his creative work. This film is an intimate tour of the three houses that Neruda built, accompanied by his words and presence
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Manuel Basoalto
Country:
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length:

Title: AGUAS BAJAN TURBIAS, LAS
Description: Based on the novel of Alfredo Varela, El r�o oscuro, this film has been called the last great social-folkloric film produced in Argentina before filmmakers turned to nuevo cine, and the cine de liberaci�n in the 1960s.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1952
Director: Hugo del Carril
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length:
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length:

Title: ALLA LEJOS Y HACE TIEMPO
Description: A moving story about growing up in the pampas, based on the famous autobiographical novel of the same title. Through his deep friendship with an old "gaucho," a boy coming of age becomes fascinated with nature and the mysteries of the human soul.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1974
Director: Manuel Ant�n
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 91 minutes

Title: ARGENTINA: GROWTH OR DISAPPEARANCE
Description: This documentary discusses Argentina�s current economic crisis by focusing on the effects of neoliberal economic policies implemented in the early 1990s. Subjects such as the �corralit�, pesification, devaluation, piqueteros, neighborhood associations, mass movements, occupied factories, and the effects of the crisis on education, and heath care are all covered in this thorough look of present-day Argentina.
Subject: Economics/Development
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Luciano Zito
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 55 minutes

Title: CAMILA
Description: Based on a true story from the 1800s, the film relates the tragic story of two young lovers: Camila, from a wealthy traditional family, and a young priest. They both defy family, church, and state in order to pursue their happiness. This is Maria Luisa Bemberg's most acclaimed film, earning an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.
Subject: History, Drama, Classic, Colonial
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1984
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 108 minutes

Title: DIA QUE ME QUIERAS, EL (THE DAY YOU'LL LOVE ME)
Description: El D�a que Me Quieras is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors. Freddy Alborta, the photographer of the famous image, gives an interview as part of this documentary investigation of the power of photography. The film provokes a sense of loss and mourning, grounded, however, in Che�s placement in the context of Latin American intellectual life.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Leandro Katz
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 30 minutes

Title: EVA PERON: THE TRUE STORY
Description: A film biography about Evita Per�n, the work seeks to portray the political acumen and skill of a consummate politician--"the power behind the throne"--of the populist Argentine, Juan Per�n. The film represents an Argentine perspective grounded in history rather than treatments of Evita such as Andrew Lloyd Weber musical and Madonna versions.
Subject: History, Biography
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1996
Director: Juan Carlos Desanzo
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 114 minutes

Title: GUERRA DEL CERDO
Description: The generation gap is taken to the extreme by a group of young people. They have decided to exterminate all senior citizens. Isidro Vidal, the protagonist, is a middle-age man thrown in the midst of this absurd and merciless war. Ultimately, the love of a woman shows him that happiness is possible only for those who show the courage to live fully to the end of their days.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1975
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilson
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: GUERRA GAUCHA, LA
Description: After Argentina declared its independence from Spain in the mid-19th century, Spain fought back by sending its armada across the Atlantic to crush the revolution. To repulse the Spanish, a guerrilla movement sprang up among the gauchos, led by Mart�n G�emes. This legendary moment in Argentinian history was captured on an epic scale.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1942
Director: Lucas Demare
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 95 minutes

Title: HIJO DE LA NOVIA
Description: Rafael Belvedere makes his living running a restaurant and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions are wearing him down to a frazzle. It's been almost a year since he last paid a visit to his mother, who is battling Alzheimer's in a retirement home. When his father decides that he wants to renew their wedding vows the affair turns out to be far more complicated than Rafael imagined.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2001
Director: Juan Jos� Campanella
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 124 minutes

Title: HISTORIA OFICIAL, LA (THE OFFICIAL STORY)
Description: Set in the 1980s, the film follows the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman who finds herself face to face with a legacy of terror as she begins to discover that her adopted daughter may have been stolen from a family "disappeared" during the Argentine military dictatorship in the 1970s.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, Drama, History
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1985
Director: Luis Puenzo
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 Minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes

Title: HISTORIAS MINIMAS
Description: Three people travel along the lonely roads of Patagonia. Don Justo (80), the retired owner of a warehouse, flees to look for his long-missing dog. Roberto (40), a traveling salesman, follows the same road with an awkward load: a birthday cake for the son of a recently widowed. And, traveling with her young daughter, Mar�a Flores, a poor woman who has won the draw on a TV program. Through traveling on their own, their paths eventually cross one another.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002
Director: Carlos Sorin
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 93 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 93 minutes

Title: HOMBRE MIRANDO AL SURESTE (MAN FACING SOUTHEAST)
Description: Argentine director Eliseo Subiela's stunning and powerful masterpiece. A man named Rantes suddenly appears in a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital expertly playing the organ. But who is he --this man with no recorded identity? Beatriz, his only visitor, sees him as an intimate and knowing companion. The other patients, intrigued by his mysterious intelligence, see him as their only source of hope.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1987
Director: Eliseo Subiela
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 105 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 105 minutes

Title: LADO OSCURO DEL CORAZON, EL
Description: A parable about a narcissistic young poet in search of the perfect woman. Claiming he will not �tolerate a woman who cannot fly,� Oliverio ejects non-flyers from his bed and spouts poetry to potential pick ups in bars. Expanding his quest from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, he meets a prostitute named Ana who can actually fly but prefers to keep their relationship a business arrangement. Tormented and lovelorn, Oliverio must face the consequences of pursuing his dream.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Eliseo Subiela
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 127 minutes

Title: MADRES DE LA PLAZA DE MAYO, LAS
Description: This Academy award-nominated documentary about the Argentinean mothers' movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 "disappeared" sons and daughters is extraordinary. As well as giving an understanding of Argentinean history in the 70's and 80's, it shows the empowerment of women in a society where they are expected to be silent.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1985
Director: Susana Mu�oz and Lourdes Portillo
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 64 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 64 minutes

Title: MISS MARY
Description: Between pre-war Buenos Aires and the turbulence of Peron's Argentina are remembrances of things past. This is the story of Miss Mary (Julie Christie) the compassionate English governess and the wealthy family that lives and dies by their inflated sense of tradition and of the broad political events and intimate personal dramas that will carve their destinies.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Jos� Luis Orbegozo
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 100 minutes

Title: MUERTO, EL
Description: Based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. This is the anecdote of the inescapable destiny of Benjam�n Ot�lora, a man from the suburbs of Buenos Aires who became a leader of a band of smugglers in the Brazilian frontier.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1975
Director: H�ctor Olivera
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 105 minutes

Title: NADIES, LOS
Description: This documentary deals with the development of the life of a group of children living in the street. It reflects diverse individual and group stories revealing the codes that exist between them. The film was shot with two cameras, one of them used by the children and the other by the directors.
Subject: Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Ramiro Garcia and Sheila Perez Gimenez
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 50 minutes

Title: NI�A SANTA, LA (HOLY GIRL)
Description: After choir rehearsals, two teenage girls, Amalia and Josefina, get together in the parish church to discuss faith, vocation and kissing. Not far from Josefina's house is the run-down Hotel Termas, owned by Amalia's family, where she lives with her mother Helena. A chance encounter between Amalia and Dr. Jano, who is attending a medical conference at the hotel, allows the young girl to at last find her vocation.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 100 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 100 minutes

Title: NINE QUEENS
Description: A polished, vastly entertaining and elaborate caper film, as well as a sharp character study that examines the question of honor among thieves. Juan is a small-time crook who gets caught conning a convenience store clerk, and Marcos is a big-time swindler who steps in to "arrest" him with the hope of recruiting him for a bigger job�obtaining a counterfeit collection of some extremely rare stamps known as the Nine Queens.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: NO HABRA MAS PENA NI OLVIDO
Description: Petty rivalries erupt into a local civil war in this satire of political and human follies. Based on the novel by Osvaldo Soriano.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1985
Director: H�ctor Olivera
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: NOCHE DE LOS LAPICES, LA
Description: The brutal kidnapping, torture, and killing of six out of seven high school students in 1976 is the subject of this powerful docudrama, a highly-charged, emotionally gripping condemnation of Argentina's military rulers at that time. One of the students survived the ordeal, and this story is based on his experiences and knowledge of the tortures they endured under a military government that laid down oppressive restrictions on student activities
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1986
Director: Hector Olivera
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 95 minutes

Title: PAMPA BARBARA
Description: Towards 1830, during the govrernment of Juan Manuel de Rosas, the head of a Pampan bunker accompanies a group of women destined to his troops. The main is upset at the presence of women in the frontier territories, remembering the loss of his mother in the hands of an Indian. This classic film depicts the trials and tribulations in this situation.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1945
Director: Lucas Demare & Hugo Fregonese
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 98 minutes

Title: SI SOS BRUJO, UNA HISTORIA DE TANGO (SI SOS BRUJO, A TANGO STORY)
Description: With the old maestros of the tango on the verge of dying off, a young musician, Ignacio Varchausky, forms the Tango School Orchestra to ensure that the true spirit of the music is passed on to the next generation. This engaging film documents the efforts of Ignacio and Emilio Balcarce, a retired legendary violinist, bandoneonista and composer. Emilio collaborates with notable figures such as Pepe Libertella, Ra�l Garello, N�stor Marconi and Ernesto Franco, amongst many more.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2005
Director: Caroline Neal
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 79 minutes

Title: TANGO
Description: One of the most purely joyful pieces of cinema in year. A tango dancer falls in love with his beautiful partner and clashes with her gangster boyfriend. Using a variety of tempos, pairings, and rhythms, the many breathtaking tango numbers illustrate the complexity and depth of the dancers� emotions as well as the tango�s lush appeal.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1998
Director: Carlos Saura
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: TIRE DIE (THROW A DIME)
Description: This film was a major watershed for the New Latin American Cinema, the source of a renovating movement that some years later spread throughout Latin America. With a new documentary style, the film focused on the undeveloped suburbs of a city, Santa Fe, Argentina. Birri and his crew succeeded in filming a moving document about extreme poverty, and the main protagonists were children with no future. One of its main sequences � in which children run barefoot beside a train and along a very narrow and dangerous bridge begging for a dime (�tire di�) � is one of the most memorable scenes.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1958
Director: Fernando Birri
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 33 minutes

Title: TREN BLANCO, EL (THE WHITE TRAIN)
Description: Every night a special white train makes its way from the Tucum�n province to Buenos Aires. Its passengers are an alternative army of workers who make ends meet by collecting paper and cardboard. The directors observe their engaging protagonists busily going about their work to try to make a living in a country wrecked by financial chaos and economic instability.
Subject: Economics/Development, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Ramiro Garc�a, Nahuel Garc�a, Sheila P�rez Gim�nez
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: VERONICO CRUZ: LA DEUDA INTERNA
Description: The most honored Argentine film of 1990, directed by Miguel Pereira won four Silver Condors and a Silver Bear. It is the story of the life of an Indian boy from birth in one of the most remote parts of Argentina, the province of Jujuy, until his death in the far-off south Atlantic during the Malvinas/Falklands War. Veron�co's mother does not survive his birth and he is left in the care of his grandmother to grow up in solitude and isolation. How Veron�co's dreams affect his fate forms the crux of this beautiful film.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Miguel Pereira
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: YO LA PEOR DE TODAS
Description: Based on the novel by Octavio Paz, Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz: Las trampas de la fe, deals with the life of this Mexican nun. Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz remains in many ways an enigma to those who read her poetry and essays.
Subject: History, Biography, Colonial, Drama, Religion
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Luisa Bemberg
Country: Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 101 minutes

Title: TAKE, THE
Description: In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale. With The Take, director Avi Lewis, one of Canada's most outspoken journalists, and writer Naomi Klein, author of the international bestseller No Logo, champion a radical economic manifesto for the 21st century.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Avi Lewis
Country: Argentina/Canada
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 87 minutes

Title: DE ESO NO SE HABLA
Description: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film by the late Maria Luisa Bemberg, one of Latin America's greatest directors. Mastroianni plays Ludovico, a sophisticated world traveler who retires to a small town and is drawn to the most intelligent woman in the village, a dwarf who has been sheltered by her overprotective mother. A charming fable about love and the intrusion of society.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Country: Argentina/Uruguay
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 102 minutes

Title: AJAYU
Description: Death in the Aymara culture is an experience in which the mourners, the community, the souls participate together. Age-old rituals, mixed with Catholic symbols assimilated by the people, frame the story of Andres and his young daughter Leonora. Upon drowning in Lake Titikaka, they must find their way to Korimarca (the Aymara Heaven) with help from the members of the community to which they belonged.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Social Life and Customs, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Francisco Ormachea G.
Country: Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 29 minutes

Title: AMERICAN VISA
Description: Based on the best-selling novel by Juan De Recacoechea, about a Bolivian high school teacher who is trying to gain entry into the United States to reunite with his son in Miami. Along the way he falls for a beautiful prostitute, while his passion for detective novels encourages him to turn to crime and cross paths with corruption.
Type: Feature Film
Year:
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia
Country: Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 90 minutes

Title: CUESTION DE FE, UNA
Description: In this lively road picture, three friends are contracted by a notorious gangster to create a carved statue depicting the Virgin Mary for a religious celebration in Bolivia. Domingo is the one commissioned to carve the life-size figure. After carving it, Joaquin, a gambler manages to procure a truck to transport it. They are also joined by Domingo's only friend Pepelucho. Loading the statue upright in the truck they set off on an incredible adventure.
Subject: Religion, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1995
Director: Marcos Loayza
Country: Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 86 minutes

Title: ORO MALDITO
Description: Themes of greed and redemption weave through this story of a young man's obsessive search for gold. His quest takes him deep into the jungle and into fateful encounters with other "beings" in Bolivia's tropical region of Cochabamba.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Marcelino Pinto
Country: Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and Quechua Subtitles: English Length: 35 minutes

Title: QATI QATI
Description: This is a fiction film based on a short-story from Bolivian Andean region. Fulo, a man from a small village in Bolivia not believe old traditions regarding the existence of souls and spirits. He has to face his wife�s mysterious disappearance as a punishment for challenging these ancient beliefs. Winner of the best scenic production award at the 1999 Latin American Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Communities.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Reynaldo Yujra
Country: Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Aymara Subtitles: English Length: 35 minutes

Title: DEVIL'S MINER, THE
Description: This film is a portrait of two brothers who work deep in the silver mines of Cerro Rico, Bolivia. Raised without a father and living on the slopes of the mine, 14-year-old Basilio and his 12-year-old brother must work to support their family and afford supplies vital to their education
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Country: Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 82 minutes

Title: PAULINA Y EL CONDOR/EN CAMINO
Description: These are two short animated films set in Bolivia, one made in Bolivia and the other in Switzerland. In �Paulina,� a condor saves an Aymara girl from being obliged to become a maid in La Paz. In �En camino,� a highland family moves to the big city to find a better life, but ultimately settles in the jungle, growing coca. (En camino is a silent film, with the German title Unterwags.)
Subject: Animated, Indigenous Peoples, Shorts, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Marisol Barrag�n; Jes�s P�rez
Country: Bolivia/ Switzerland
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish/Silent Subtitles: English Length: 9 min; 10 minutes

Title: ABRIL DESPA�ADO (BEHIND THE SUN)
Description: The Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the 20 years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny traveling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2001
Director: Walter Salles
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 92 minutes

Title: ART OF ELIZABETH BISHOP, THE
Description: Documentary on a symposium of the arts held in Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Art and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, literary discussions and some presentation material included. UNC-Chapel Hill Brazil, 1999. Documentary on a symposium of the arts held in Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Art and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, literary discussions and some presentation material included. UNC-Chapel Hill Brazil, 1999. Documentary on a symposium of the arts held in Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Art and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, literary discussions and some presentation material included. Documentary on a symposium of the arts held in Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Art and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, literary discussions and some presentation material included
Subject: Art, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: AUTO DA COMPADECIDA, O
Description: The lively Jo�o Grilo and the sly Chic� are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small Northeast Brazil town. But when they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary, before they are admitted to paradise.
Subject: Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Guel Arraes
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 104 minutes

Title: BAILE PERFUMADO
Description: The inhospitable backlands, or sert�o, of northeastern Brazil was home to a fearsome group of social bandits - the cangaceiros. Among the most infamous of these outlaws, known by their hats covered with mystic talismans, was the bespectacled Lampi�o whose depredations became legend in the 1930s. The film portrays the filmmaker and photographer Benjamin Abrah�o, a Lebanese immigrant, who captured the elusive bandits with his camera.
Subject: Drama, History, Biography
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: L�rio Ferreira & Paulo Caldas
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 93 minutes

Title: BENEDITA DA SILVA
Description: A profile of the first black woman ever to be elected city councilor and member of the Brazilian Parliament from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Bene, as she prefers to be called, has lived her entire life in the favelas and worked for twenty-five years as a domestic servant before beginning her public life in 1982, when she won a post as city councilor and was elected a federal MP in 1986. She now devotes her efforts to fighting the racism and discrimination faced by Rio's slum dwellers, and comments from community leaders and residents show the love and respect she has earned.
Subject: Biography, History, Women's Studies
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Director: Eunice Gutman
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 29 minutes

Title: BESO DE LA MUJER ARA�A (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN)
Description: Political prisoner Valent�n Arregui and homosexual pederast Luis Molina share a Brazilian prison cell in this fantastical drama from Manuel Puig�s book by the same title. Molina helps pass time by recounting memories from one of his favorite films, a wartime romantic thriller that just may also be a Nazi propaganda film, in order to spur Valentin�s imagination and distract him from the brutal realities of political imprisonment and separation from his love.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1985
Director: Hector Babenco
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 119 minutes

Title: BISPO DO ROSARIO
Description: This docudrama about the life and art of the Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Ros�rio takes the artist's imagination as its viewpoint. Bispo spent 50 years in a psychiatric hospital in Rio and his art was almost completely unknown before his death in 1989. He is now considered one of Brazil's most important artists.
Subject: Art, Biography, Docudrama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Miguel Przewodowski and Helena Martinho da Rocha
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 46 minutes

Title: BYE BYE BRASIL (BYE BYE BRAZIL)
Description: A small-time travelling sideshow plays over 9,000 miles of backcountry Brazil, a mixture of primitivism and progress. One of the most original and entertaining films of recent years, it is an exotic, entertaining Brazilian films, exuberant, and often very moving film by Carlos Diegues.
Subject: Comedy, Classic
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1980
Director: Carlos Diegues
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: CANUDOS: PAIX�O E GUERRA NO SERT�O DE CANUDOS
Description: Produced by Ricardo Gaspar and Selma Santos under the auspices of the University of Bahia and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, this video depicts the history of the 1897 massacre of thousands of followers of a millenarian movement in the backlands of Northeastern Brazil.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Antonio Olavo
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: None Length: 90 minutes

Title: CASA GRANDE & SENZALA (MASTERS AND SLAVES) PARTS I-IV
Description: A discussion of the 1933 text Casa Grande & Senzala(Masters and Slaves) by Brazilian anthropologist and historian, Gilberto Freyre, this documentary consists of four 1-hour segments. The camera follows Prof. Edson Nery, friend and biographer of Freyre, on an exploration of Brazil�s colonial past that blurs the lines between history, art, and the social sciences. In addition to explaining the circumstances of colonization it also examines the darker, sensual side of Brazil�s past in an attempt to define what the country is today.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 120 minutes

Title: CENTRAL DO BRASIL
Description: One of Brazil�s most acclaimed films and winner of a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Inside Rio de Janeiro�s Central Station, two very unlikely souls are about to become inextricably linked. When a young boy witnesses his mother�s accidental death, a lonely retired schoolteacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1998
Director: Walter Salles
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: CHILD OF THE DARK
Description: Back in the 1960s, Carolina Mar�a de Jesus became famous in Brazil after publishing her diary Child of the Dark. In this video, the director Robert Levine introduces this book about the daily life of poor people in Brazil, using images (mainly pictures and pieces of art) of the favelas. Not very good sound quality.
Subject: Biography, Social Issues, Literature
Type: Documentary
Year: 1972
Director: Robert Levine
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 15 minutes

Title: CIDADE BAXIA (THE LOWER CITY)
Description: Deco and Naldinho are best friends in a constant struggle to earn an honest living in the gritty world of Salvador de Bahia�s Lower City. When a beautiful prostitute named Karina asks to hitch a ride, the twosome quickly becomes a threesome. To survive life in the Lower City, the trio must learn to accept each other as lovers, friends and enemies.
Subject: Drama, Social Issues
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2005
Director: Sergio Machado
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 97 minutes

Title: CIDADE DE DEUS (CITY OF GOD)
Description: In the midst of the streets of the world�s most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro�s �City of God,� a frail and scared young boy will grow up to discover that he can view the harsh realities of his surroundings with a different eye: the eye of an artist. In the face of impossible odds, his brave ambition to become a professional photographer becomes a window into his world and ultimately his way out.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2003
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 130 minutes

Title: CINE MAMBEMBE (CINEMA DISCOVERS BRAZIL)
Description: A pair of filmmakers journey to the interior of Brazil, screening short films to audiences in town squares. From Bah�a to the Amazon, they discover a vast country going to the movies, seeing themselves on the big screen for the first time.
Subject: Social Issues, Cinema/Theater
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Lais Bodanzky & Luiz Bolognesi
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 56 minutes

Title: COMO ERA GOSTOSO O MEU FRANC�S (HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCHMAN)
Description: This delicious black comedy, set in the jungles of Brazil, tells the story of a French explorer who in vain tries to be accepted by the tribe of cannibals who has captured him.
Subject: History, Drama, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1973
Director: Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: French and Tupi Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: DEUS E O DIABO NA TERRA DO SOL
Description: This richly allegorical film, set amid bandits and prophets in arid Northeastern Brazil of the early twentieth century, is a classic work of cinema novo by one of Brazil's premier directors, Gl�uber Rocha.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1964
Director: Gl�uber Rocha
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length:

Title: DONA FLOR E SEUS DOIS MARIDOS
Description: Funny, sexy, and intoxicating. A ribald folktale about a young widow, her respectable new husband, and her dynamic but dead first husband who refuses to stay buried, featuring the sensual Sonia Braga as Dona Flor.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1977
Director: Bruno Barreto
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: ENTREATOS
Description: This film documents the 2002 presidential campaign of Luiz In�cio Lula da Silvia for thirty days. The film is less focused on the public appearances of Lula and more on the behind the scenes action of the campaign team, including strategy meetings, private conversations, and family interactions. (2 disc set)
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Jo�o Moreira Salles
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English & Spanish Length: 117 minutes

Title: EU, TU, ELES
Description: Based on a true story, this film is set in the beautifully majestic landscape of rural Brazil. Darlene, a determined woman, abruptly uproots herself from her small town to find a man who can fulfill her desires. Three years later and still single, Darlene returns to her hometown and accepts a modest marriage proposal from her humble neighbor Osias. Before long, Darlene finds herself in a grueling work routine while Osias oversees from the comfort of a hammock. The film portrays Darlene�s struggle to find happiness and love in this isolated town in Brazil. Best Pictures and Best Actress at Cinema Brazil Festival. Official Selection 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 107 minutes

Title: FIVE T.V. DOCUMENTARIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Description: Made by Lia de Souza, Brazil. Portugese. 1.CUL GERAI-Historias da Pedra Furada 2.Especial Ianomami 3.Waret� 4.Ant�rtida 5.Alcatrazes
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: None Length:

Title: FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (O QUE E ISSO COMPANHEIRO?)
Description: This thriller is based on the true-life events in which, in 1969, the MR-8 urban guerrillas kidnap the US Ambassador to Brazil (Alan Arkin) to demand the release of prisioners held by the military junta. The dictatorship's secret police close in on the bungled operation while time runs out. Now, the diplomat�s life hangs in the balance, caught between a government unwilling to cooperate and his fear for the captors themselves.
Subject: History, Biography, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Bruno Barreto
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese and English Subtitles: English Length: 107 minutes

Title: HAIL UMBANDA
Description: This view of Brazil�s fastest growing religion shows both the public and private sides of Umbanda, a mix of Catholicism and African/American Indian spiritualism. However, the main focus of the film is a renowned Umbanda priest, also known as the Pai de Santo (father of the gods), and his explanation of the aspects of his religion.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2008
Director: Jose Araujo
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 54 minutes

Title: HORA DA ESTRELA, A
Description: In this film based on the book by Clarice Lispector, Macabea is a young woman from the countryside of northeast Brazil who lives in the sprawling city of Sao Paulo. The mixture of bitter reality and gentle, humorous fantasy has been compared with the works of Fellini, Chaplin and DeSica, and earned Suzana Amaral's first feature status as an instant cinematic classic.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Suzana Amaral
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 96 minutes

Title: HORA DA ESTRELA, A (Hour of the Star)
Description: In this film based on the book by Clarice Lispector, Macabea is a young woman from the countryside of northeast Brazil who lives in the sprawling city of Sao Paulo. The mixture of bitter reality and gentle, humorous fantasy has been compared with the works of Fellini, Chaplin and DeSica, and earned Suzana Amaral's first feature status as an instant cinematic classic.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Suzana Amaral
Country: Brazil
Copy: M1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 96 minutes

Title: I WAS BORN A BLACK WOMAN (NASCI MULHER NEGRA)
Description: This film recounts the remarkable life of Benedita da Silva, the first Afro-Brazilian woman to be elected to Brazil's senate. Her long history of struggle in the shantytowns, the women's movement and the black movement created the base for her enormous popularity as an organizer, a politician and an international role model.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Maria Luisa Mendonca
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese and English Subtitles: English Length: 44 minutes

Title: ILHA DAS FLORES
Description: This is an hilarious but devastating film about values, the food chain, and the human condition. Ultimately, a Brazilian island where pigs eat first, and the people are fed what the pigs leave over provides an example of how arbitrarily we have arrived at the human food chain and system of exchange that we now know.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 15 minutes

Title: LUZIA
Description: Set on the vast and beautiful plains of central Brazil, LUZIA is a movie in the tradition of the American western. Luzia is a cowgirl caught in a clash between squatters and the powerful ranch owners. Her extraordinary rodeo skills and stunning beauty attract the attention of the landowners whose history of marauding returns to gain revenge.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Director: Fabio Barreto
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes

Title: MASSACRE DO CORUMBIARA, O
Description: "O Massacre de Corumbiara" advocates the need for radical agrarian reform in Brazil through an emotional examination of a massacre of peaceful, landless rural laborers by the military police in the Amazonian state of Rond�nia in August 1995. It includes testimony from witnesses to the massacre and provides a side of the story ignored or simplified by most of the mainstream press. Filmed by Georges Bourdoukan and the Chico Mendes Committee three days after the killings, the video brings the plight of landless Brazilians to non-Brazilian eyes.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Georges Bourdoukan
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 16 minutes

Title: ODO YA! LIFE WITH AIDS
Description: A poetic documentary exploration of efforts by members of the Afro-Brazilian communities in S�o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil to combat the spread of AIDS by drawing from their own cultural and religious traditions.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: T�nia Cipriano
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: ONDA NO AR, UMA (SOMETHING IN THE AIR)
Description: A comedy drama that captures the joy and sadness of life in much of South America. Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called R�dio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2003
Director: Helvecio Ratton
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 93 minutes

Title: ORFEU
Description: The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The story is enhanced by brilliant performances, thrilling music, and magnificent color photography.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Carlos Diegues
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes

Title: ORFEU NEGRO (BLACK ORPHEUS)
Description: The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The story is enhanced by brilliant performances, thrilling music, and magnificent color photography.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1959
Director: Marcel Camus
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese or English Subtitles: English Length: 107 minutes

Title: PE�ES
Description: Workers from the Brazilian ABC are interviewed twenty-three years after their first strike organized by their leader Luis In�cio "Lula" da Silva. In 1979 Brazil lived a dictatorship and the metallurgic were the first class of workers, under the command of the president of their union, Lula, to organize a strike in the military regime and face the police and the dominant class (entrepreneurs). The workers that participated in this movement and worshiped Lula, are interviewed together with footage of their conventions and inter-titles explaining the political and economical situation of Brazil in that moment. A couple of months later, Lula was elected President of Brazil.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English & Spanish Length: 84 minutes

Title: PIXOTE
Description: Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for �Peewee�) is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the tranvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school and embarks on a life of violence and crime.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1981
Director: Hector Babenco
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 127 minutes

Title: QUANDO O CRIOULO DAN�A
Description: This film by a young Brazilian woman deals with racism as it impacts and is expressed through the daily lives of black Brazilians. It demystifies the idea that Brazilian society is without racial prejudices. Bronze medal winner at the International Film and TV festival of New York.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 50 minutes

Title: QUILOMBO
Description: A handsome tale of revolution and conflict, set in the mid-1600s. Disgruntled slaves in northeastern Brazil leave their plantations and form Quilombo de Palmares-their own democratic nation in the jungle. This doesn't sit well with the Portuguese landowners, who send in their troops to restore control. This historical saga is a stirring fusion of folklore, political impact, and dynamic story-telling, realized in vibrant colors and set to the pulsing beat of Gilberto Gil's musical score.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Indigenous Peoples, Drama, Classic
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1984
Director: Carlos Diegues
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 114 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 114 minutes

Title: QUILOMBOS DE BAHIA
Description: Fantastic documentary about black communities in the State of Bahia. The Brazilian concept of Quilombos has come to mean the communities that were constituted out of the struggle of rebel slaves during the centuries of slavery, as territories of housing, resistance and social organization. These communities represented the enjoyment of autonomy by rebel slaves, as a reaction to white domination. Many communities now are impoverished and struggle to gain a suitable standard of living.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Antonio Olavo
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: None Length: 127 minutes

Title: REGINA VATER: SIX VIDEOS ON BRAZIL
Description: This video contains six segments in Portuguese with no subtitles. "Turning Sadness Inside Out" (1985, 18 minutes) is about Rio's Carnival. It is basically a musical where the lyrics somehow cements the images. "From Brazil by Brazilians" (1993, 20 minutes) is an experimental video of interviews with five Brazilian intellectuals, mixed with street and country scenes. This segment also shows how Brazilians see themselves and how they feel about the European and American perception of them. "Tupi or not Tupi" (1988, 18 minutes) contains fragments of interviews with filmmaker Vera Figueredo, famous theater director Jos� Celso Martines Correia, writer and scholar Antonio Medina, and American composer John Cage, regarding their feelings about Brazil and Brazilian culture. "Nature Still Alive" (1993, 5 minutes) is a short work about ecology and conscience, computer edited. This segment works in analogical and metaphorical discourse, and is the result of edited images of animals with Regina Vater's "Nature Mortes" (collection of photographs). "Green" (1991, 30 minutes) is a film made for a video installation in the Royal National Museum of Antwerp in 1992. This film is about the destruction of America's ecology and culture by the Europeans. At the same time, it deals with the foods America provided Europe with the discoveries. The last segment of this video (1993, unfinished) contains a fragment of an hour video recording most of Regina Vater's art works from 1979 to 1993. In this video the artist reads a statement on her ideas about art.
Type: Documentary
Year: Various Years
Director: Regina Vater
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: None Length:

Title: ROMANCE DA EMPREGADA (THE STORY OF FAUSTA)
Description: Betty Faria stars as Fausta, a quirky cleaning lady whose sexy swinging hips open the door to a more comfortable life. When an old widower breaks the ice and buys Faust perfume and a drink, she sees a way out of her dead-end marriage and the shanty town that traps her. The bawdy sitcom hilarity of Fausta and her relationships are infused with a deeper message in the film�s startling conclusion.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Drama, Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1998
Director: Bruno Barreto
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: SATORI USO
Description: A poet from the shadows, a filmmaker with no films and an enigmatic muse. Inspired by the work of Brazilian writer and poet Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, it is a sort of "false documentary" about the poet�s time in the city of Londrina in the fifties as told through the eyes of American filmmaker Jim Kleist. Neither the poet nor the filmmaker actually existed � they are both fictional characters. Satori Uso, the poet, was invented in 1986, and his haikus were published in the literary section of local Brazilian newspaper Folha de Londrina.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2007
Director: Rodrigo Grota
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portugese Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes

Title: SAVAGE CAPITALISM
Description: This blockbuster Brazilian feature uses soap-opera melodrama to tell the story of a beautiful romance between a reporter and a mining company executive. But the romance crumbles when the executive's wife, long presumed dead, returns and drives the couple, the company, and the country to the brink of a national disaster.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Andre Klotzel
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 86 minutes

Title: SHOESHINE PRESIDENT, THE (O PRESIDENTE ENGRAXATE)
Description: Shot in streets of Sao Paulo, THE SHOESHINE PRESIDENT asks Brazilians what they think about their new president, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva. From the heart of the celebrations, this film captures the heady atmosphere of history in the making--the most important chapter in Brazilian history for a generation.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes

Title: SOY CUBA (BONUS DISC 1)
Description: "The Siberian Mammoth" A documentary on the making of "Soy Cuba," with various interviews and old footage both from the film and from the early revolution.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese and Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: STORIES OF MY GRANDPARENTS, THE
Description: The Stories of My Grandparents is a long-term project that brings to life the Mayan legends that are such an important part of the Yucatec Maya oral tradition. The project is inspired in Ana Rosa Suarte�s first attempts to put the stories that she heard as a child in video.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Byrt Wammack
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Yucatec Maya Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes

Title: TEMPTATIONS OF BROTHER SEBASTIAN, THE
Description: The story of a Brazilian monk's quest to be ordained as a priest against a backdrop of personal crises, war, and social collapse. Brother Sebastian confronts numerous obstacles, including his guilt at being raped as a child, his attraction for the beautiful, adrogynous Gabriel, doubts about his faith, the torments of a mysterious demon, and the growing jealousy of the man who raped him, now a fellow brother in Sebastian's order. The year is 2030.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2006
Director: Jose Araujo
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 147 minutes

Title: TERRA EM TRANSE
Description: One of the great art films of the Brazilian Cinema Novo, director Rocha's 1967 work is a meditation on the ambiguities of political power, revolutionary ideologies, and the transformative potential of art. It is a satirical film, based on a real life politician. The political allegory follows its protagonist narrator, a fictional poet, as he recalls the events leading up to his demise.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1967
Director: Glauber Rocha
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: TIETA DE AGRESTE
Description: A story about a young girl, Tieta thrown out of her house for sexual indiscretions, only to return 26 years later triumphantly as the rich and powerful widow of an industrialist. Tieta and Leonora, whom she introduces as her stepdaughter, inspire an upheaval in the Life of Sant�Ana. In the midst of all the uproar, the darkest secret of Tieta�s life is revealed and she is forced to leave the village once again. Feature.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1996
Director: Carlos Diegues
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: TREM PARA AS ESTRELAS, UM
Description: A young musician from the poor suburbs of Rio searches for his lost love. From Guadalupe to the cosmopolitan south zone, Vinicius embarks on an almost mythic urban odyssey. Vinicius' journey, both tragic and comic leads ultimately to redemption. For having lost all innocence, he is redeemed by the irrepressible life-forces of poetry and the wailing of a single saxophone in a Brazilian night.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1987
Director: Carlos Diegues
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 103 minutes

Title: VERA
Description: After having spent part of her life in an orphanage/reform school (where she learned that this is a man's world), Vera attempts assimilation into polite Brazilian society. However, by the time she leaves the orphanage she is convinced that she is a man inhabiting a woman's body. A movie about gender formation and deformation.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1987
Director: Sergio Toledo
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 87 minutes

Title: VIDAS SECAS
Description: This film takes place in the years 1940 to 1942, between the two great droughts that devastated the Brazilian Nordeste (Northeast). The movie, based on a novel by Graciliano Ramos, is a meditation about the agrarian question and the problem of migration to the Northeast regions of Brazil.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1963
Director: Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: None Length: 105 minutes

Title: VIDEO NAS ALDEIAS
Description: A project organized by the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista in which different indigenous groups in the Amazon have been provided with video training and equipment. Uses include recording ceremonies for future generations, taping political discussions, recording the promises of government officials, and documenting their struggles for the environment and their lands.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Director: Vincent Carelli
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 10 Minutes

Title: VIDEO NAS ALDEIAS (VIDEO IN THE VILLAGES)
Description: A project organized by the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista in which different indigenous groups in the Amazon have been provided with video training and equipment. Uses include recording ceremonies for future generations, taping political discussions, recording the promises of government officials, and documenting their struggles for the environment and their lands.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Director: Vincent Carelli
Country: Brazil
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 10 minutes

Title: XICA
Description: A diamond rush in the 1700s transformed Brazil's interior into a place of fabulous wealth and excess. In this unrestrained atmosphere, the slave Xica uses her iron will and her unique sexual talent to seduce her way into becoming the unofficial Empress of Brazil, lording it over her former masters and gleefully emptying the crown's treasury.
Subject: Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1976
Director: Carlos Diegues
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 109 minutes

Title: YAKWA: O BANQUETE DOS ESPIRITOS
Description: Documenting the most important ritual of the Enau�ne-Naw� Indians, the seven months every year that the spirits of the dead are venerated with offerings of food, song, and dance so they will protect the community and bless it with an abundant harvest and great quantities of fish.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Culture/Festivals/Food, Drama, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Virginia Valad�o
Country: Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Enau�ne-Naw� and Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 75 minutes

Title: NI�OS DE ZAPATA
Description: A documentary about the Zapatista National Liberation Army's struggle to attain justice for the Maya Indians of Chiapas. The film includes footage of various figures in the movement, including the elusive subcomandante Marcos. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Country: Canada/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 24 minutes

Title: ARDIENTE PACIENCIA
Description: A young man is in love with the daughter of a local bar owner in a Chilean village. The young man enlists the help of the famous poet Pablo Neruda to woo his beloved.
Subject: History, Biography, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1983
Director: Antonio Skarmeta
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 76 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 76 minutes
Copy: 3 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 76 minutes

Title: CASO DE PINOCHET, EL (THE PINOCHET CASE)
Description: This film investigates the origins and development of the international legal prosecution of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. It explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for his arrest. After Pinochet�s arrest by Scotland Yard, the film follows the workings of the British legal system that ensued. The film also movingly incorporates the stories of many Chileans who traveled to Madrid to testify, including relatives of the �disappeared� and others who survived horrifying torture in secret prisons.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, History, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Patricio Guzman
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 109 minutes

Title: CHACOTERO SENTIMENTAL, EL
Description: This film centers around a young and eccentric radio show host who has a successful program on the air. His anonymous callers tell their stories of love, entanglements, misunderstandings and passionate affairs.
Subject: Comedy, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Cristian Galaz
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: CHILE, LA ALEGRIA YA VIENE
Description: Documentary on the political situation before the Chilean plebiscite made for Chilean TV. Filmocentro Distribuci�n Ltda., Chile.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 53 minutes

Title: CHILE: MEMORIA OBSTINADA (CHILE: OBSTINATE MEMORY)
Description:
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: Patricio Guzm�n
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 58 minutes

Title: CIEN NI�OS ESPERANDO UN TREN
Description: Critically acclaimed film about a cinema workshop that works with poor children in the slums, many of whom have never seen a film before, to understand cinema as a mode of expression.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1987
Director: Ignacio Aguero
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: CORONACION (CORONATION)
Description: A beautifully photographed and haunting tale of obsession and repressed desire played out against the backdrop of a decaying mansion in Santiago. Glum, middle-aged bachelor Don Andres hires Estela, a 17-year old country girl, to care for his wealthy and abusive grandmother. He grows increasingly obsessed with her, blinding himself to the threats around him and his own mental breakdown. Based on the novel by Jose Donoso.
Subject: Literature, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Silvio Caiozzi
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 140 minutes

Title: ESTADIO NACIONAL
Description: After the coup d�etat that occurred on September 11, 1973, the Chilean government initiated an atrocious pursuit against former allies of the overthrown Socialist President, Salvador Allende. A series of house raids were conducted and thousands of people were arrested. This documentary tells how more than 12,000 prisoners were confined, tortured and some were killed at the National Stadium�making it the largest concentration camp in Chile.
Subject: History, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Carmen Luz Parot
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 90 minutes

Title: FRONTERA, LA (THE EXILE)
Description: During the Pinchet Regime, opposition politicians were often sent into internal exile to small rural towns. This film tells the story of such a relegado in a remote southern fishing village (Puerto Saavedra) where he finds mystery, love, and a new way to see the world. La Frontera is the most awarded Chilean film in history.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Ricardo Larra�n
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 120 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 120 minutes
Copy: 3 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 95 minutes

Title: GYPSIES WITHOUT TENTS (GITANOS SIN CARPAS)
Description: This documentary portrays the lives of Chile�s estimated 15 � 20,000 Romanies (Gypsies) by documenting the stories of three families and their everyday struggles to reconcile their traditional culture with the advantages offered by cultural assimilation. The film brings us into the families� homes, their places of worship, the children�s schools, and the markets where the men trade, where the protagonists speak, in the Romani language as well as Spanish, about their lives and their concerns as Chileans and as Romanies.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Ivan Tziboulka
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 62 minutes

Title: HISTORIAS DE FUTBOL (SOCCER STORIES)
Description: This film includes three stories about football, one of the most important twentieth-century rituals. A third division player from Santiago de Chile is bribed, but does not realize that his behavior betrays more than the loyalty of his team-mates. A boy from Calama, Chile wins the local derby pichanga, a soccer match that can last all afternoon, but he loses the few pesos he acquired by pawning his mother's last possessions. Francisco, a boy from the city, is stuck in a remote corner of the southern island of Chilo� on the day that Chile has to play its qualifying match for the World Cup. The only TV is in the house of the Ser�n sisters. While the local male population gathers to watch the match, the sisters decide which of them will initiate the young Francisco into love.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Gender/Sexuality, Politics/Human Rights, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Andr�s Wood
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 87 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 87 minutes

Title: I LOVE PINOCHET
Description: How can it be that after Pinochet's repressive regime the former general can still count on the uunconditional support of so many Chileans? Constructed of a series of portraits that reveal the breadth and complexity of Pinochetism in Chile, I LOVE PINOCHET offers a unique look at the social and political system left by Augusto Pinochet, as seen from his follower' point of view.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Marcela Said
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 52 minutes

Title: MACHUCA
Description: Set in 1973, in Santiago, Chile, Machuca is a poignant coming-of-age film, drawn from the filmmaker�s childhood. Two boys from different economic backgrounds become great friends, while the conflicts on the streets lead Chile to the bloody and repressive military coup, changing forever their lives, their relationship and their country.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Andr�s Wood
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: NUESTRA SIGLO: LA HISTORIA DE LOS CHILENOS EN EL SIGLO XX
Description: This successful television series is the story of how the big changes and events of the century have affected our lives. It is a story told from the experiences of the people. It is a story of big people who left footprints and of the people who participated or witnessed the significant Chilean historical events.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Claudio Marchant, Jaime Sep�lveda, Felipe Vera, An
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: aprox. 4 hours.

Title: NUESTRO SIGLO (PARTS 1-4)
Description: The first half (1900-1945) of the twentieth century through the eyes of the Chilean people. The documentary is largely concerned with Chilean culture, though it also addresses historical and political changes in the Chilean nation.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Claudio Marchant, Jaime Sepulveda
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: NUESTRO SIGLO (PARTS 5-8)
Description: The second half (1946-1999) of the twentieth century told through the eyes of the Chilean people.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Claudio Marchant, Jaime Sepulveda
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: WICHAN: EL JUICIO (WICHAN: THE TRIAL)
Description: A short drama set in the past tells a story of how the Mapuche dealt with wrongdoing in the community.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1995
Director: Magali Meneses
Country: Chile
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Mapuche Subtitles: English Length: 27 minutes

Title: SWEET COUNTRY
Description: The director of Zorba the Greek provides a drama about one family's reactions to the events in Chile in 1973.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Country: Chile/Greece
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Subtitles: Length:

Title: DANCE OF HOPE
Description: To call attention to the absence of their loved ones, "disappeared" during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean women perform the cueca, Chile's national dance of passion and courtship, poignantly and without partners.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Women's Studies, History, Music/Dance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Director: Deborah Shaffer
Country: Chile/USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 100 minutes

Title: BOLIVAR SOY YO
Description: The actor, Santiago Miranda, abandons the set of a soap opera that he thinks fails to illustrate the real vision and dream of Bolivar. Miranda is determined to finish Bolivar�s dream of creating the �Great Colombia.� Wrapped in his own delirium, he kidnaps the President of Colombia and tries to start a revolution. However, Miranda�s beloved Manuelita Saenz intervenes in his dreams.
Subject: History, Biography, Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002
Director: Jorge Ali Triana
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 108 minutes

Title: COMUNIDADES DE PAZ
Description: In the late 1990s and early 2000s the internal conflict in Columbia between the government, military groups and armed forces displaced many communities, mainly made up of peasant farmers. These farmers were forced to leave their homes. This documentary follows the stories and lives of some of the people from San Francisco de Asis. It lets us into their personal thoughts and opinions on the conflict, war, and their way of life.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Colbert Garcia
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 54 minutes

Title: CONFESION A LAURA
Description: An emotionally gut-wrenching drama from Colombia set during a violent civil war which occurred after the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Gait�n in 1948. Three people are trapped in Laura's house during the Bogotazo riots, setting the scene for an unforgettable night.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Jaime Osorio Gomez
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: DESAZ�N SUPREMA, LA: RETRATO INCESANTE DE FERNANDO VALLEJO (THE SUPREME UNEASINESS: INCESSANT PORTRAIT OF FERNANDO VALLEJO)
Description: This riveting documentary about the controversial and very important Colombian author and sometime filmmaker, Fernando Vallejo, begins with a powerful talk he gave to a crowd of youth in which he realistically told them that they were born into the most dangerous place on Earth. His points are illustrated with spliced footage of a country in disarray, full of poverty and assassinations. His speech and writings are laden with strong social and political commentary about his country. Included are home movies, interviews with his siblings, and the interspersing of poetry, politics, and discussion of Vallejo�s homosexuality.
Subject: Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Luis Ospina
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: DIASTOLE Y SISTOLE: LOS MOVIMIENTOS DEL CORAZON
Description: Includes thirty-five interesting scenes and situations from a love story where the heartbeat ups and downs of a couple; �Diastole and Cistole� is a creative sample of couple�s relations; their happy moments, misfortunes and the games we play. Humor, jealousies and crazy ideas are the main ingredients of this funny and awarded comedy.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Harold Trompetero
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: GOLPE DE ESTADIO
Description: The title of this film is a play on words. By adding an "i" to the expression for coup d'etat in Spanish, its meaning has now been changed to �stadium over throw.� The film is full of satire that is easy to understand, intelligent, and hilarious. Soccer, as the usual common denominator of people worldwide except in the US, serves as the pretense to dish out some of the most notorious social problems in the country. Exploitation by multi nationals, companies� complicity with guerrillas and thus with the drug lords, the innocence of the common people, corruption, prostitution, poverty, are all actually made quite funny. Serving as comic relief, this movie is a scathing political and social satire of all the parties involved in the nation's problems. What brings the people "together" is their passion for soccer, and in this film, finding a way to watch the 1994 qualifying match between the Colombian national team and Argentina rises above all differences, to become top priority.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1998
Director: Sergio Cabrera.
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: MARIA
Description: Based on a novel by Jorge Isaacs. This third cinematographic version of the famous story is a classical representation of Latin American melodrama. Maria is the story of Efra�n, a young men who returns to the Valley of Cauca after having spent six years in a college in Bogot�. In his hometown he is pleasantly surprised by his cousin Mar�a who has become a beautiful adolescent.
Subject: History, Literature, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1971
Director: Tito Davison
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 120 Minutes

Title: MARIA CANO
Description: When Mar�a Cano (Maria Eugenia D�vila) was recruited into the labor movement in Colombia in 1925, she was prepared for the revolution to come. She worked strenuously to organize workers becoming something of a folk hero. What she was not prepared for, after her five years of imprisonment (beginning 1928), was that the whole movement would lose steam and that she would have to live the rest of her life with her lost dreams of what might have been. These feelings are very strongly represented in her poetry. This biographical movie shows her life during those years, and considers her bitterness in later life
Subject: Biography, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Camila Loboguerrero
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: MARIA LLENA DE GRACIA (MARIA FULL OF GRACE)
Description: Maria Alvarez, a bright, spirited 17-year-old Colombian is desperate to leave her job stripping thorns from flowers. Maria accepts a lucrative offer to transport packets of heroin � which she must swallow � to the United States. The ruthless world of international drug trafficking proves to be more than Maria bargained for. This dramatic thriller builds toward a conclusion so powerful and revealing it could only be based on a thousand true stories.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2003
Director: Joshua Marston
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 101 minutes

Title: RODRIGO D: NO FUTURO
Description: The brutal tale of a teenager making a go of it in one of the world's toughest town's: Medellin, Colombia. Rodrigo dreams of playing rock and roll. He rallies his friends into a punk band. From a web of violence, fear, aimlessness, drugs, and jail, rock and roll emerges as salvation, escape hopy--and agony.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1989
Director: Victor Gaviria
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 91 minutes

Title: SOPLO DE VIDA (BREATH OF LIFE)
Description: Ex-cop turned private eye Fernando Sol�rzano gets roped into investigating the murder of unidentified hooker Flora Mart�nez at a cheap Bogot� hotel; and, as the flashbacks unreel in classic film noir fashion, he starts to piece together her life through her relationships with a failed boxer, a blind lottery salesman, a cowardly bullfighter and a corrupt politician. However, as her real identity starts to emerge, Sol�rzano gradually realizes that he will have to take a personal interest in the case.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Luis Ospina
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: WAR TAKES (TOMAS DE GUERRA)
Description: For over four years, three Colombian filmmakers turned their cameras on themselves, using personal stories to expose the tough reality in their violent, war-ravaged country. Their portrayal does not aim to confirm the image the outside world has of Colombia as a hotbed of excessive political violence and drug traffic, but instead draws out the beauty and warmth of the people amidst the larger turmoil within their homeland.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Patricia Casta�o and Adelaida Trujillo
Country: Colombia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 78 minutes

Title: VENDEDORA DE ROSAS, LA
Description: Thirteen year-old Monica survives the urban Columbian streets by selling flowers to couples at local bars and restaurants. She is befriended by 10 year-old Andrea, who left her home to flee from her abusive mother. Together, with other friends, they sniff glue and puff cigarettes and marijuana. The film is a portrayal of 24 hours of Monica�s life--on Christmas Eve--as she dreams of spending Christmas with her boyfriend. In reality, it is just another day of misery lost in the swirl of glue intoxication.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1998
Director: Victor Gaviria
Country: Columbia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 116 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 116 minutes

Title: ADORABLES MENTIRAS
Description: Enchanting, playful, and outrageous, this film presents two unsuccessful people who each adopt fictional personae in order to escape the doldrums of their daily lives. It is a web of adorable little lies told to brighten their otherwise gray existence creating a complicated and ambivalent love story.
Subject: Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Gerardo Chijona
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 100 minutes

Title: ALEIDA GUEVARA REMEMBERS HER FATHER, CHE
Description: Aleida Guevara talks fondly about her father, the world famous Che. Aleida talks about the real Che, separating the myth from the man. This bilingual DVD contains a Spanish language version, and another version in Spanish with English subtitles.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Carlos Allberto Garc�a
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 31 minutes

Title: ALICIA EN EL PUEBLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS
Description: In this groundbreaking satirical film about the Cuban Revolution, the craziest situations are seen as normal by most of the inhabitants of Wondertown. Alicia, however, struggles to make sense of what is happening around her from the moment she arrives. This film by Daniel Diaz Torres mixes absurdity, humor and horror, and was banned because it was believed to be anti-revolutionary.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Daniel Diaz Torres
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: BARRIO CUBA
Description: The second in a trilogy, Barrio Cuba tells a trio of stories, all dealing with commonplace Cuban social struggles. Sol�s and his superior cast pay tribute to the authentic slums of the Havana suburbs, stripping away the sheen of a world previously glamorized by touristy stereotypes.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2005
Director: Humberto Sol�s
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: BARROCO
Description: An impressionistic journey through the music of Cuba, Spain and Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present, on the occasion of the Fifth Centenary of the Conquest.
Subject: History, Art, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Paul Leduc
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: No dialogue Subtitles: None Length: 111 minutes

Title: BELLA DEL ALHAMBRA, LA
Description: A period musical, based on the novel The Song of Rachel by Miguel Barnet, the film concerns a young woman who uses everyone to attain her dream of being a singer at the Alhambra, Cuba's top burlesque theatre in the 1920's.
Subject: History, Art, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1989
Director: Enrique Pi�eda Barnet
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 108 minutes

Title: BOW WOW
Description: This creative film is shot from the perspective of a German shepherd on the streets of Havana. It is a comic portrayal of the idiosyncrasies, foibles, and hypocrisy of the human species, as seen from the obviously superior point of view of a dog. Interspersed interviews highlight people�s strange and excessive behavior toward their pets.
Subject: Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Enrique Colinas
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 22 minutes

Title: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
Description: The German filmmaker Wim Wenders directs a documentary about the Cuban musicians in the group Buena Vista SocialClub. This group has toured the U.S. and their albums have been best sellers for months. The elder members have many unique stories to tell from a country that has been sealed off to American citizens for decades.
Subject: Music/Dance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Wim Wenders
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 101 minutes

Title: BUTTERFLIES ON THE SCAFFOLD (MARIPOSAS EN EL ANDAMIO)
Description: A rare view of what day-to-day life is like for the gay and drag community in modern Cuba. This award-winning documentary is the first since the 1959 revolution to examine the issues gays and transvestites face in the context of evolving attitudes towards homosexuality in Cuba, where people are judged first on what they achieve for their country.
Subject: Gender/Sexuality
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Margaret Gilpin & Luis Felipe Bernaza
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 74 minutes

Title: CANDIDA ERENDIRA, LA
Description: Avant-garde performance art / play performed by the Buend�a theatre group in 1992
Subject: Cinema/Theater
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: Flora Lauten & Carlos Celdr�n
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length:

Title: CECILIA
Description: Loosely based on the classic nineteenth-century Cuban novel, Cecilia Vald�z by Cirilo Villaverde. The movie is a reflection on the birth of Cuban nationality. A beautiful mestizo woman struggles to become a part of the world of the white aristocracy. She chooses Leonardo to accomplish her goals. Their tortuous passion is juxtaposed against the emergence of the nation and the struggle for independence.
Subject: Drama, History
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1981
Director: Humberto Sol�s
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 120 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: CON DIOS Y CON LA PATRIA
Description: A documentary portraying the 1990 dialogue between Fidel Castro and a large representation of diverse Cuban ecumenical and evangelical denominations. The film presents a mutual spirit of justice, love, fraternity, comprehension, and solidarity among Castro and the spiritual leaders.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Mundo Latino Production
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 90 minutes

Title: CUBA 15
Description: With passion and uncertainty, Tzunami, a smalltown Cuban girl prepares her quincea�era, the celebration of her fifteen birthday �the official crossroads between innocence and maturity. This short film won 9 awards in international film festivals including the 1998 Berlin Jury Prize for the best short fil
Subject: Social Life and Customs
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Elizabeth Schub
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes

Title: CUBAN EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS
Description: This is a collection of five short experimental videos made by Cuban directors. Here is a brief description of each film: DeMoler (12 min) is a short documentary directed by Angel Gonz�lez about a small sugar mill and its meaning to its workers; Horizontes (3 min) is a silent animated film directed by Yemel� Cruz Revero and Adanoe Lima Cruz; 25 KM (19 min) is a film directed by Jeffery Puento that follows the journey of two Cuban women on their way to church; Freddy o el Sue�o de Noel (7 min) is an experimental film directed by Waldo Ramirez that shows short clips of men fishing; Todo Por Ella (20 min), directed by Pavel Giroud, tells the story of a 19 year old male who is caught up in the world of sex, drugs, and debts.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002-2004
Director: Various
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 62 minutes

Title: DE CIERTA MANERA
Description: A fascinating cinematic mix of documentary and fiction, G�mez (who died just before completing work on the film) looks at the marginal neighborhoods of Havana shortly after the triumph of the 1959 Revolution. With Mario Balmaseda and Yolanda Cuellar.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1974
Director: Sara G�mez
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 79 minutes

Title: D�AS DEL AGUA, LOS
Description: A provocative artistic film about a Cuban woman, Anto�ica, possessed by a deity, or orisha. Set in Pinar del R�o in 1936, first the local clergy and doctors conspire to remove her and her followers. A politician comes to their defense to project himself into power, only to call in the army later. Please note that this film is not subtitled.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1971
Director: Manuel Octavio Gomez
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: ELPIDIO VALDES CONTRA DOLAR Y CA�ON
Description: Elpidio Vald�s is an animated film which deals with the risky mission of bringing from Tampa, Florida, a shipment of arms for the freedom fighters of the Ej�rcito Libertador. With Captain Mar�a Silva, his horse Palmiche, and his compatriots of the Partido Revolucionario Cubano, they confront their enemies, the Spanish colonialists and the Yankees.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Juan Padr�n
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 80 minutes

Title: ESTUDIOS DE ANIMACION ICAIC
Description: Compilation of short animated films not meant for younger audience because of their political propaganda upholding socialist ideals. These films were produced for the Cuban government to educate people on the values of the Revolution and/or to educate on certain governmental programs such as agricultural reform. Directors include Jesus de Armas, Harry Reade, Luis Rogelio Rodriguez, Hernan Henriquez, Juan Padr�n, Mario Rivas, Tulio Raggi, Rayner Vald�s Padr�n, Tony Nodarse, Nelson Serrano, Jose E. Garcia, Isis Chaviano, and Johanhn Ram�rez.
Type:
Year:
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 85 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 85 minutes

Title: FIDEL (1968)
Description: This documentary is a personal profile of Fidel Castro and a view of the developments since the revolution 10 years before. There are a lot of images of Fidel: listening to complaints, arguing, laughing, and philosophizing. There is beautiful footage of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and of Fidel and Che Guevara in the mountains. Also there are interviews with political prisoners.
Subject: Biography, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1968
Director: Saul Landau
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 96 minutes

Title: FOTO QUE RECORRE EL MUNDO, UNA (THE PHOTO THAT WENT AROUND THE WORLD)
Description: A single, iconic image of Ernesto �Che� Guevara has been remembered, revered and reproduced over the years. In this documentary, photographer Alberto Korda recounts his feelings at the moment he snapped the world famous photo. A fast-paced collage of images follows, showing how this photo was used internationally as a symbol of inspiration in liberation and human rights struggles.
Subject: History, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1986
Director: Pedro Chaskel
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes

Title: FRESA Y CHOCOLATE
Description: This award-winning raises issues of tolerance and diversity by presenting sexual, artistic, and ultimately political struggles in Cuba through the story of several individuals. Through the touching relationship of a middle-aged gay artist and a young idealistic student, Alea portrays many of the current debates and ideologies impacting the lives of Cubans.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea, and Juan Carlos Tab�o
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes

Title: GAY CUBA
Description: The treatment of gays and lesbians in Cuba after the Revolution has been a topic of great controversy. This film depicts, through personal experiences, the conflicts arising in this marginalized sector of Cuban society.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Sonja de Vries
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 57 minutes

Title: GUANTANAMERA
Description: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea's last film before his death, Guantanamera is a romantic, fluid road-trip movie set in contemporary Cuba amid economic crisis and crumbling infrastructure. In a tribute to the resilient spirit of Cubans in trying circumstances, and a sly critique of the regime, Alea masterfully weaves in tributes to Death of a Bureaucrat and other works.
Subject: Social Issues, Comedy, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 104 minutes

Title: HABANA BLUES (HAVANA BLUES)
Description: Cuba is a land of music and consequently a land of musicians. Habana Blues is full of lots of extraordinary music, but what makes it so special is the way Zambrano details the lives of the protagonists and the choices they are forced to make regarding their music, their families and their country. Cannes Festival Official Selection, 2005.
Subject: Music/Dance, Politics/Human Rights, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2005
Director: Benito Zambrano
Country: Cuba
Copy: 2 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 115 minutes

Title: HASTA LA REINA ISABEL BAILA EL DANZON
Description: A woman in Havana has had visions of Queen Isabel and considers herself to be a medium who has regular contact with the fifteenth-century monarch.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Felipe Bernaza
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 20 minutes

Title: HAVANA TODAY: IMPRESSIONS OF A CITY IN 16 CHAPTERS (LA HABANA HOY)
Description: What is life in Havana for its residents? Daily life in this multifaceted city, crucible of history and living community, is impossible to describe in a single narrative. And so, Havana Today weaves together a love song to Havana from sixteen juxtaposed fragments that unite to make a whole. With a rippling soundtrack and scores of evocative images and testimonies, Havana Today is a sketch of the beauty, struggle, hope, and love of the remarkable people of Havana, Cuba.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Cecilia Ricciarelli and Diego Malquori
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 29 minutes

Title: HELLO HEMINGWAY
Description: Set in pre-revolutionary Cuba (late 1950s), this winner of the 1990 Grand Coral Prize in Havana deals with the inner conflicts of a young girl's coming of age, her identification with a Hemingway she never meets, and a society she finds confining.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Fernando Perez
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: HISTORIAS DE LA REVOLUCION
Description: Documentary including three dramatic stories about the insurrection struggle in Cuba during the 50�s. The saga of young people, who lived, loved and fought with the hopes of a better future.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1960
Director: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 81 minutes

Title: HOMBRE DE EXITO, UN
Description: With C�sar Evora, Jorge Trinchet, and Daisy Granados. A young ambitious man begins climbing the social and political ladder in Cuba in the 1930s. After the fall of Machado in 1933, his political career takes off, his ethics and scruples continue to decline, and his connections to family and friends deteriorate.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama, History
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Humberto Sol�s
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: LEJANIA
Description: A dramatic and sensitive analysis of the lejan�a, the distance or separation among members of the same family, created by the Cuban revolution. A Cuban mother, now living in Miami, returns to visit her son whom she abandoned 10 years earlier.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1985
Director: Jes�s D�az
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: LISTA DE ESPERA
Description: A diverse group of Cubans finds itself stuck at a remote bus station. Their shared situation brings them together such that they transform the bus station into a kind of socialist utopia, and when they can finally leave, they don�t want to.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Life and Customs, Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Juan Carlos Tabio
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: LUCIA
Description: A classic of Cuban cinema, which looks at the lives of three women, an upper class Luc�a in the 1890s, a middle class Luc�a in the 1930s, and a working class Luc�a in the 1960s.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Women's Studies, Classic, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1968
Director: Humberto Sol�s
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 160 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 160 minutes

Title: LUMINOUS SHADOWS: THE ARTISTS OF EASTERN CUBA
Description: Breaking new ground in the world of Cuban art, this is the first documentary to focus exclusively on the art and artists from Cuba's easternmost region: Oriente. This film takes the viewer on an insightful journey where one will be introduced to Eastern Cuba's most highly acclaimed painters in this culturally rich region by way of studio visits and interviews as well as excursions into the countryside. A unique and delightful brand of Cuban humor often permeates the content and adds to the emotional and intellectual impact of the story.
Subject: Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Clyde Hemsley
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 43 Minutes

Title: MADAGASCAR
Description: Nominated for best film award and recipient of the Special Jury's Prize in Havana's 1994 film festival, this movie tells the story of a Havana University teacher's relations with her daughter. It portrays generational conflict amid Cuba's current economic crisis.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1994
Director: Julio Garc�a Espinosa and Fernando P�rez
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: MANUELA
Description: The story of Manuela, a mulato guajira (peasant woman) who is transformed into a revolutionary guerrilla fighter. With little dialogue and the use of hand held cameras Solas manages to convey the message and engage the viewer emotionally. A collaboration with cinematographer Jorge Herrera. Note: on the same tape as POR PRIMERA VEZ.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1966
Director: Humberto Solas
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 41 minutes

Title: MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESAROLLO
Description: Set in the early 1960s, the film centers on the Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic (or lazy) to leave Miami, but too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society. Both a critique of Revolutionary society, and a critique of that critique. The first film from post-revolutionary Cuba to be released in the U.S.
Subject: Social Issues, Classic, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1968
Director: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 97 minutes

Title: MIAMI-HAVANA
Description: This documentary depicts the story of the two Cuban worlds of Miami and Havana, and the social, cultural, and political processes that have created this divide since 1959. It provides many touching moments that portray the difficulties of this fragmentation, as well as the ideological struggles in both communities. An excellent point of departure for considering the Cuban Revolution, migration, and communities of exile. Produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, USA
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 52 minutes

Title: MIEL PARA OCHUN
Description: Taken from Cuba as a child by his father, Roberto returns to the island 32 years later in search of his mother. He soon finds his American customs in conflict with those of his birthplace. Also, he discovers new revelations about his family history: though told his mother had abandoned him, Roberto learns from his cousin Pilar that his wealthy father had kidnapped him when fleeing the Revolution- leaving behind his poor black mother. Roberto, Pilar, and a driver named Antonio then take up a journey through Cuba to track her down, only to make more shocking discoveries along the way.
Subject: Social Issues, Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002
Director: Humberto Sol�s
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 123 minutes

Title: MUERTE DE UN BUROCRATA
Description: The story of a young man's attempt to fight the system is an entertaining, hilarious account of galloping bureaucracy and the tyranny of red tape.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1966
Director: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 87 minutes

Title: MY FOOTSTEPS IN BARAGUA
Description: On the history in Cuba of an extensive West Indian community (consisting of people from Jamaica, Barbados, & many others)
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Gloria Rolando
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 53 minutes

Title: NA-NA
Description: The charming story of the brief meeting of two children from opposite socioeconomic status. One is a girl from the countryside, the other, a boy from the city on his way to the United States.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2003
Director: Patricia Ramos
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes

Title: OGGUN, AN EXTERNAL PRESENCE
Description: In Oggun, Gloria Rolando relates the mythical story of the Yoruba god Oggun, the tireless warrior who, enamored of his mother, decided as punishment to imprison himself in the mountains: Only Ochun, goddess of love, succeeded in captivating him when she let fall a few drops of honey on the lips of the god of metal, war, progress, and civilization. This documentary includes chants, dances, a "tambor" (Yoruba religious ceremony with the bata drums), and the experiences of L�zaro Ros, a legendary Akpwon, or lead singer in the Yoruba tradition, who not only made his the beauty of the African chants, but had the opportunity to sing them in trips throughout the world.
Subject: Religion, Music/Dance, Gender/Sexuality
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: Gloria Rolando
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 55 minutes
Copy: m Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 55 minutes

Title: OTRO FRANCISCO, EL
Description: An impassioned exploration of the roots of black rebellion in nineteenth-century Cuba, based on a famous Cuban anti-slavery novel of the period.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1975
Director: Sergio Giral
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 97 minutes

Title: PAJAROS TIRANDOLE LA ESCOPETA, LOS
Description: A humorous portrayal of romance, this light comedy presents a typical young Cuban couple, sexually liberated, who nonetheless cannot cope with the affair between his mother and her father. A commentary of the generation gap and machismo.
Subject: Social Issues, Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1984
Director: Rolando D�az
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: PAPELES SECUNDARIOS
Description: Awarded best film in 1990 at the New York Festival Latino. A theater group in crisis is the setting for this story. Its aging actors, on stage as in life, confront their fears and failures. The story take a new twist when a group of young actors join the group, unleashing a chain of unexpected events.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1989
Director: Orlando Rojas
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: PLAFF!
Description: This comedic film gives us a nonconformist view about everything. The heroine (Daisy Granados, in the role of a lifetime) is constantly attacked by a mysterious hand that throws eggs at her house. Limited by her prejudices and fears and incapable of finding a way out of her internal conflicts, she comes to a tragic and unexpected end. Tab�o also shows and criticizes real characters and situations of contemporary Cuban society.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Director: Juan Carlos Tab�o
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 98 minutes

Title: POPULAR RELIGIOSITY
Description: This documentary offers a look into the practice of santer�a and people's opinion of these practices in Cuba. Directed by Adriana Paris.
Subject: Religion
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Adriana Paris
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 18 minutes

Title: POR PRIMERA VEZ
Description: A documentary in which the crews of ICAIC�s Moving Cinema visit �Los Mulos,� in the mountains of Baracoa. There, they observe and interact with the peasants of the area who are seeing film for the first time. Note: on the same tape as MANUELA.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1967
Director: Octavio Cortazar
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 10 minutes

Title: QUIEN BAILA AQUI?
Description: A documentary about the Congo or Bantu religion in Cuba.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 35 minutes

Title: RETRATO DE TERESA
Description: Shot in fluid v�rit� style, the film focuses on the stubborn survival of deeply-ingrained traditions of machismo and sexism in post-revolutionary society. Teresa is a housewife and mother whose involvement in political and cultural groups incurs the displeasure of her husband.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1979
Director: Pastor Vega
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: Spanish Length: 115 minutes

Title: SE PERMUTA
Description: A comedy about the politics of exchanging residences, which reveals the practical problems of everyday life and the conflict between traditional and revolutionary values in modern Cuba.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1984
Director: Juan Carlos
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 105 minutes

Title: SI ME COMPRENDIERAS
Description: A film director embarks upon a search for black women actresses to play the central dramatic role in his next project ? a musical comedy. Rather than opt for an experienced actress, he searches for the freshness and spontaneity of inexperience. By way of interviews with candidates, and the film crew, we are drawn to the underlying conflicts inherent in Cuba today.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Rolando D�az
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 87 minutes

Title: SIN EMBARGO
Description: After the revolution of 1959 and the U.S. embargo that followed, the people of Cuba were left to defend for themselves. Deprived of even the most basic goods, they scavenge the alleys and scrap heaps, giving new vitality to the discarded. Their recycled products are often remarkably ingenious and creative. For Andrs the sculptor, Tomas the canary breeder, and the other subjects of Sin Embargo, even the greatest pressure � whether levied by government or circumstance � cannot crush the spirit nor quash the desire to forge a better life for themselves and their families. Shot entirely in Cuba, Sin Embargo is a look into the hearts and dreams of struggling peoples and a tribute to their optimistic and resourceful determination to survive.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Judith Grey, Katherine Cheng & Eva Orner
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 49 minutes

Title: SOY CUBA (I AM CUBA)
Description: A visually stunning film that was made between 1961 and 1964 in Cuba by the acclaimed Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying), with a screenplay by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Enrique Pineda Barnet. The camera work is amazing in this propaganda epic that portrays four vignettes of Cuba in the period immediately prior to the 1959 Revolution. The film is a rivetingly beautiful examination of the social and economic conditions in Cuba during the Batista era.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1964
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish and Russian Subtitles: English Length: 141 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish with Russian voice-over Subtitles: English Length: 141 minutes

Title: SUITE HABANA
Description: Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music. The film documents a day in the life of Cubans who struggle with the harsher side of life in revolutionary Cuba. The adults do not smile or utter a single word throughout the film.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002
Director: Fernando P�rez
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish captions Subtitles: None Length: 84 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish captions Subtitles: None Length: 84 minutes

Title: TROPICAL, LA
Description: This black and white documentary travels to La Tropical, a Cuban dance club just outside of Havana, where dance, passion and music take precedence over the politics of the nation.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: David Turnley
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 93 minutes

Title: ULTIMA CENA, LA
Description: Based on an incident in Cuban colonial history, this masterful film tells the story of a pious 18th century slave owner who reenacts the last supper, portraying himself as Christ, and with twelve slaves selected to play the disciples. He selects a rebellious slave to be Judas, leading to the brilliant supper scene with ominous undercurrents of imminent reckoning.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1976
Director: Tom�s Guti�rrez Alea
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: VALS DE LA HABANA VIEJA
Description: A critical comedy of the pain and frustration encountered by a mother of a low income family when she attempts to throw a costly party for her daughter's fifteenth birthday. The father's objections (he sees such celebrations as antiquated and petit bourgeoisie) highlight the contradictions of family and social relations in modern day Cuba.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1984
Director: Luis Felipe Bernaza
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 84 minutes

Title: VAMPIROS EN LA HABANA (VAMPIRES IN HAVANA)
Description: This hilarious animated spoof of horror and gangster movies, presented in an outrageously caricatured style reminiscent of Fritz the Cat, features Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist who leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. The action escalates crazily with bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters all caught up in a crazy chase.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Juan Padr�n
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 75 minutes

Title: VIDA ES SILBAR, LA
Description: An absurd, slyly critical film in which Bebe takes us on a taxi ride through Havana on the day of Santa B�rbara/Chango. Set to the music of Bola de Nieve and Benny Mor�, the characters of Mariana, a ballerina, Julia, a middle-aged woman, and Elpido, a musician, intersect in a surreal, dazzling slice of life.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1998
Director: Fernando P�rez
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: VIDEO DE FAMILIA
Description: A raucous home video is the focus of this hilarious film. What begins as a simple taped message to an expatriate son unveils the complexity and often humorous travails of a contemporary Cuban family. On the eve of Raulito�s birthday, his family decides to send a videotaped greeting from Cuba to his home in the United States. Everything goes well with the videotaping until his sister reveals a secret: Raulito is gay. Family chaos ensues, and as the videotape rolls Raulito�s outing brings forth his father�s bitterness toward his son for leaving Cuba.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2001
Director: Humberto Padr�n
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 47 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 47 minutes

Title: VIVA CUBA
Description: Jorgito (age 12) and Mal� (11) are neighbors, classmates and best friends. When Mal�'s mother decides to marry a foreigner so she can leave Cuba Mal� is deeply upset and hopes to reach her father before he signs an agreement allowing her to emigrate. She runs away from her home with Jorgito, her traveling companion. Thus begins their adventure. The film was shown in the San Francisco International Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2006 Oscar
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2005
Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: VIVA LA REPUBLICA
Description: The history of Cuba told through a collage of photos and other archival materials.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1972
Director: Pastor Vega
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 100 minutes

Title: WAR OF THE CIA IN CUBA
Description: This documentary denounces the CIA's involvement in internal Cuban affairs and its active aggression against the Cuban government. This film offers a straightforward presentation of facts, and contains footage of actual espionage activities as well as a reading of names of CIA agents known to be active in Cuba. Produced by Cuban television.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Director: Christian Science Monitor Production
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 33 minutes

Title: ZONA AFECTADA / MOSQUITOS, EL DOCUMENTAL
Description: Two short documentaries by Asori Soto about life in Cuba. Zona Afectada,� illustrates the hard physical work involved in securing water in Havana, Cuba in order to take a bath. �Mosquitos� tells the story of how the government deals with the mosquito problem.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Asori Soto
Country: Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 8 minutes; 6 minutes

Title: QUIEN DIABLOS ES JULIETTE? (WHO IN THE HELL IS JULIETTE?)
Description: Shot in Cuba and the US over a period of three years, this film features remarkable cinematography by first time director Carlos Marcovich. Winner of the Latin American Cinema Prize.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Carlos Marcovich
Country: Cuba/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 91 minutes

Title: GUEVARA: ANATOMIA DE UN MITO
Description: Various interviews with former comrades of Che Guevara who voice anecdotes that for many years fell outside the official mythology of Che�s historical role in the revolution. Their stories present a cruel, vindictive side of Che�s personality responsible for a number of botched revolutionary ventures, including the campaign in Bolivia that led to his death. Far from the selfless hero of official Cuban history, viewers are presented with a cowardly, incompetent ideologue whose disregard for the views of others led to his own downfall.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Luis Guardia
Country: Cuba/United States
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 71 minutes

Title: AZUCAR AMARGA (BITTER SUGAR)
Description: This visceral, energizing look at contemporary Cuba is an impassioned love story set against the political and economic tensions of Havana. Gustavo, an idealistic young Communist with a glorified vision of the Castro regime, falls in love with Yolanda, a disenchanted dancer who longs to escape to Miami. Despite their radically opposed beliefs, the young couple are inseparable. The city begins to erupt around Gustavo when his rebellious musician brother injects himself with the AIDS virus in suicidal protest, and his father realizes that he will earn more money as a hotel bar pianist than as a doctor.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1996
Director: Leon Ichaso
Country: Cuba/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 102 minutes

Title: BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (ANTES QUE ANOCHEZCA)
Description: Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reynaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. By 1964, he is in Havana where his writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends L�zaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge."
Subject: Social Issues, Politics/Human Rights, Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Julian Schnabel
Country: Cuba/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English or Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 113 minutes

Title: CUBA: THE BROKEN IMAGE
Description: This program gathers together the most representative of exiled Cuban filmmakers, who recount their personal experiences of having to abandon their work and start a new life away from their country, culture and natural environment. The program features clips of their film and photographs as it takes viewers on a journey from Cuba in the late 1950s to the lives of the filmmakers today. Although Castro encouraged the development of a state sponsored cinema in Cuba, opening doors for many talented filmmakers, his policies towards intellectuals led many of these same filmmakers to abandon the island, leaving behind a broken image, an interrupted flow of creativity which some were able to find again abroad but others were not.
Subject: Cinema/Theater
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: 199
Country: Cuba/USA
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 46 minutes

Title: DANZA DEL ESPEJO, LA (MIRROR DANCE)
Description: Identical Twins, Margarita and Ramona de Sa�, grew up to become acclaimed ballerinas with the National Ballet of Cuba. Once inseparable, their relationship deteriorated as one sister left for America and the other embraced the Cuban Revolution. Mirror Dance is the story of two women forever linked by birth and dance but struggling to overcome a deep rift between sisters and nations alike.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Frances McElroy & Mar�a Teresa Rodr�guez
Country: Cuba/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English or Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 54 minutes

Title: MUJERES CUBANAS: MARCADAS POR EL PARAISO
Description: They were the women a man would silence. Robbed of their dignity and hope, they became his anonymous victims. Political prisoners, wives, mothers, writers, artists, children, lost at sea�Forgotten over and over. Once deprived of their voices, they now speak.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Rodr�guez Ichaso
Country: Cuba/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: CUBA VA: THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEXT GENERATION
Description: A fast paced weaving of sound bites and interviews that lets young Cubans speak and argue for themselves. What they have to say or sing or rap suggests that everyone born after the revolution has an opinion. Directors/Producers: Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco. USA (the filmmakers consulted with many Cubans, and filming is entirely in Cuba, but production was done in San Francisco),
Subject: Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Country: Cuba/USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: HAVANA NAGILA: THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN CUBA
Description: This documentary traces the history and presence of the Jewish community in Cuba. It explores the impact of the 1959 Revolution on the five percent of the original community, the community's recent resurgence, and the international issues that affect its future. Rich in footage of Cuba, archival material and interviews, this film depicts an important history of Jewish immigration, with a focus on the particular experience of Cuban Jews. Edited by Vicente Franco and narrated by Isabel Alegr�a.
Subject: History, Migration/Immigration
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Laura Paul
Country: Cuba/USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 57 minutes

Title: NUEBA YOL
Description: In this comedy, a Dominican widower, Balbuena (Luisito Mart�), decides to leave the economic strictures of island life behind for the streets-are-paved-with-gold promise of the Big Apple.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1996
Director: Angel Mu�iz
Country: Dominican Republic
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 104 minutes

Title: TRUJILLO, EL PODER DEL JEFE
Description: The complete story of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina and his thirty year dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, in a series of three documentaries: El Poder Del Jefe I, II, and III, with each documentary following the rise, career, and assassination of Trujillo.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Rene Fortunato
Country: Dominican Republic
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: Part 1 - 75 min; Part 2 - 95 min; Part 3 - 80 min

Title: ELLAS HACEN HISTORIA
Description: This film documents the women�s movement in Ecuador and women�s increased importance in the community and the economy in which they live. This film explores how women�s roles have increased by forming organizations and by obtaining jobs previously only open to men such as teaching and medicine.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Cieme
Country: Ecuador
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 20 minutes

Title: JUSTICIA ESTA CON ELLA, LA
Description: Laws against the violence towards women and their families. Prod: Dinamu-SNV.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Dinamu-SNV
Country: Ecuador
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 7 minutes

Title: TRINKETS AND BEADS
Description: This film reveals the story of how the Huaorani--known as the fiercest tribe in the Amazon--are attempting to survive in the Petroleum Age on their own terms, and to outwit and outfight the forces of change.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Christopher Walker
Country: Ecuador
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Huaorani Subtitles: English Length: 52 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Huaorani Subtitles: English Length: 52 minutes

Title: EL SALVADOR: NOT FOR SALE (EL SALVADOR NO SE VENDE)
Description: A portrait of a country under assault from Washington and the World Bank. This documentary shows the impact of structural adjustment, privatization and the global sweatshop economy on the people of El Salvador. It also explores the posible alternatives through interviews with activists in the women's movement, labor leaders and the FMLN. Historical footage takes you from the start of the civil war in 1980 to the economic war of the '90s, including new and inspiring images of strikers inside a Free Trade Zone.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Victoria Maldonado
Country: El Salvador
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 30 minutes

Title: STATE OF SIEGE
Description: In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1973
Director: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, Costats Gavras
Country: France/West Germany/Italy
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: French Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: CIVILIZADORES: ALEMANES EN GUATEMALA, LOS
Description: German colonizers dominated many coffee estates in Guatemala during the early twentieth century. This documentary takes us through the old coffee baron?s plantations, and examines a new generation of entrepreneurs in key posts within the government behind anonymous company names. Maya peoples continue to contest the concentration of land, and military and police abuse.
Subject: History, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Uli Stelzer & Thomas Walther
Country: Germany
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and German Subtitles: English Length: 139 minutes

Title: CONQUISTADORS(PART I)
Description: The conquest of the New World in less than 50 years is one of history's most profound events--and remains one of its greates adventures. British historian Michael Wood captures the bravery, endurance, greed, cruelty, and suffering involved in these 16th-century explorations. Wood turns his attention to the Americas to follow four amazing tales: Cortes' dramatic conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico; Pizarro's daring overthrow of the Incas in Peru; Orellana's obsessive search for El Dorado and discovery of the Amazon; and Cabeza de Vaca's pivotal crossing of the North American continent. Great Britain/Latin America.
Subject: History, Biography, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Country: Great Britain/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: CONQUISTADORS(PART II)
Description: The conquest of the New World in less than 50 years is one of history's most profound events--and remains one of its greates adventures. British historian Michael Wood captures the bravery, endurance, greed, cruelty, and suffering involved in these 16th-century explorations. Wood turns his attention to the Americas to follow four amazing tales: Cortes' dramatic conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico; Pizarro's daring overthrow of the Incas in Peru; Orellana's obsessive search for El Dorado and discovery of the Amazon; and Cabeza de Vaca's pivotal crossing of the North American continent. Great Britain/Latin America.
Subject: History, Biography, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Country: Great Britain/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: GUATEMALA POR DENTRO
Description: Part I-Documents religious paintings in the Merced Iglesia, a colonial church in Antigua. Part II-Documents retablos in the Merced Iglesia. Part III-Documents the rich history of the church of Santo Domingo and the feast of the patron in San Mart�n Obispo and San Mart�n Chile Verde.
Subject: Religion, Art, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1984
Director: Sobral Segovia
Country: Guatemala
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: SILENCIO DE NETO, EL (THE SILENCE OF NETO)
Description: The first Guatemalan feature film. Neto is the eleven year old son of a Guatemalan official in the mid-fifties, during a period of turmoil when the elected government was threatened by a U.S. backed invasion. While political unrest forms a tense background, Neto - with only a child's understanding of the adult world - tries to enjoy his youth anyway. He naturally gravitiates toward his flamboyant, irresponsible uncle more than his plodding, earnest father.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1994
Director: Luis Argueta
Country: Guatemala
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: CENTRAL AMERICA CLOSE-UP
Description: This film contains two episodes from The Children of the Earth Series. GUATEMALA: Natividad Hern�ndez is a 14-year-old Maya girl, called �Nati� by her friends. Her isolated mountain village retains many traditions which strengthen its sense of identity. But Nati�s world is changing. A recently constructed road brings new influences to the community; and farm land is growing scarce. Soon she will make important choices about the direction her life will take. EL SALVADOR: Jos� Marvin Ben�tez is 15. Everyone calls him Marvin. A child of refugee parents, he was born in Nicaragua during the civil war of the 1980s. After years of uncertainty, Marvin�s family has returned to El Salvador to sink roots in Nueva Esperanza, a jungle cooperative village of 200 refugee families. He shows us his family, school and village.
Subject: Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Maryknoll World Productions
Country: Guatemala and El Salvador
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 14 minutes each

Title: ELVIA: THE FIGHT FOR LAND AND LIBERTY
Description: This powerful and personal documentary tells the story of Elvia Alvarado, a peasant woman who has been struggling for years to enforce an agrarian reform law that has been in the books since 1972. The video provides historical background about the need for agrarian reform in Honduras, explaining the dependence on export crops, the powerful military, and control by U. S. aid. It also gives a perspective on other social issues in the country.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1988
Director: Rick Tejada and Laura Rodr�guez
Country: Honduras
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 27 minutes

Title: WOMEN'S CONSTRUCTION COLLECTIVE OF JAMAICA
Description: Explains how a group of about fifty-five black women from the poor neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica have broken tradition by establishing their own carpentry and construction business. Shows how they are trained and how the business has prospered, resulting in contracts with commercial businesses.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1986
Country: Jamaica/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 14 minutes

Title: ABORTO SIN PENA
Description: In Mexico, the voices of the woman who have chosen to have an abortion are virtually absent from public debate. Aborto Sin Pena will introduce you to three of these women, from distinct cultural backgrounds. What they say will surprise you.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Greg Berger
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 20 minutes

Title: ACOSADA: DE PIEL DE VIBORA (CORNERED: MADE OUT OF SNAKESKIN)
Description: Eugenia Ram�rez, a young dentist, returns home from a congress, only to find that her apartment has been ransacked. Furious, she tries to recover her childhood photo album at any cost, demanding that justice be done. However, she is unaware that this interferes with the interests of a gang of delinquents who turn her into the pursued instead of the pursuer.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002
Director: Marcela Fern�ndez Violante
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 101 Minutes

Title: AMORES PERROS (LOVE'S A BITCH)
Description: This film is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, Amores Perros explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Gonzalez Inarritu
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 153 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 153 minutes
Copy: 3 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 88 minutes & 70 minutes

Title: ANGEL DE FUEGO
Description: A tragic urban story about the unfortunate life of a 13-year old circus girl in Mexico City. She is expelled from her job when the official of the circus finds out she is pregnant. She meets a troupe of travelling puppeteers preaching the word of God and joins them, eventually entrusting her son to God.
Subject: Women's Studies, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Dana Rothberg
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: BATALLA DE TEPOZTLAN, LA
Description: This documentary is not only a chronological description of the controversy between the town and the group KS but a much more complex and critical description. It is a contrast between modernity and backwardness, richness and poverty, and what is legal and what is not in present civilization.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Economics/Development, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Oscar Menendez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 57 minutes

Title: BETTY & PANCHO
Description: A portrait of the 50 year marriage of Elizabeth Catlett, the renowned African American sculptor, and the Mexican painter, Francisco Mora. Now in their eighties, the couple share the same studio in Cuernavaca, and exhibit their work in New York, Mexico City, London, and Berlin. The granddaughter of North Carolina slaves, Catlett has been presented the key to the city of New Orleans on the occasion of its bicentennial, and won many other awards. Some of her work is included in the Museum of Art at NC Central.
Subject: Art, Music/Dance, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Juan Mora Catlett
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English and Spanish Length: 57 Minutes

Title: BODA, LA (THE WEDDING)
Description: You are invited to the wedding of Elizabeth and Artemio in Nuevo Le�n, Mexico. The video introduces a young couple whose lives and community have roots in Mexico while they encounter the challenges of migrant life in the United States.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Migration/Immigration, Border
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Hannah Weyer
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 53 minutes

Title: BULTO, EL
Description: El Bulto is a young photographer who is beaten and loses consciousness during a 1971 student protest. He wakes up twenty years later to find a new and different world of computers, new illnesses, and the absence of Communism. His family has also changed, and he is no longer 20 years old. Trying to make up lost time, he learns that his long sleep may have been for the best.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Gabriel Retes
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 114 minutes

Title: CABEZA DE VACA
Description: Freely adopted from the book Naufragios by Alvar N��ez Cabeza de Vaca (written in 1542). The film portrays the saga of the adventures of a group of Spanish soldiers in Mexico. Their leader, Cabeza de Vaca, is considered to be one of the first Spaniards to come to some appreciation of the native Indians.
Subject: Drama, History, Biography, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Nicol�s Echevarr�a
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes

Title: CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS, EL (MIDAQ ALLEY)
Description: Film adaptation of the Naguib Mahfouz novel. Set in downtown Mexico City, the film portrays three neighbors: Rutilio, whose emerging homosexual orientation destroys his marriage; Susanita, an old maid who falls prey to a thief; and Alma, a virgin (Salma Hayek) who becomes a cocaine addict and prostitute. The film is among the most awarded films of Mexican cinema, having received some 49 international prizes.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1995
Director: Jorge Fons
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 140 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 140 minutes

Title: CANANEA
Description: Story of the revolt at the American owned Cananea mine in the years preceding the Mexican revolution. This revolt led to the eventual nationalization of Mexican mines. Told from both the miners' viewpoint and the American viewpoint as personified by Colonel Green, the mine owner.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1976
Director: Marcela Fern�ndez Violante
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 124 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 124 minutes

Title: CANOA
Description: One of the first powerful statements about the repression of the student movement in 1968 in Mexico. This documentary-style film depicts the case of five young employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla attacked in the small town of San Miguel Canoa by locals who believed the group were dangerous Communist agitators given the anti-student propaganda circulating at the time. Villagers killed two of the students, and almost burned the remaining three alive, while the September incident itself was overshadowed by the Tlatelolco massacre on October 2, 1968. Produced by CONACINE
Subject: History, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1975
Director: Felipe Cazals
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: None Subtitles: Spanish Length:
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: None Subtitles: Spanish Length:

Title: CARACOLES: NEW PATHS OF RESISTANCE
Description: This is a celebration of the death of the �Aguascalientes� and the birth of the Caracoles and the Good Government Assemblies. Zapatista leaders discuss how changes will affect internal political and economic processes, gender relations, and their relationship to international civil society. The video is an open call to join the Zapatista communities in their struggle for recognition of their autonomy and in their fight against neo-liberal economic policies and globalization.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Chiapas Media Project
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 42 minutes

Title: CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA, EL
Description: An educated man tries to keep his family closed off from the outside world. While he goes mad from the ideologies contained in books. Based on a true story related to the suppression of the student movement in Mexico in 1968.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1972
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 110 minutes

Title: CASTRO PACHECO, EL ARTISTA
Description: Part of the series "Races and Expressions of the Yucat�n" produced by the Autonomous University of the Yucat�n. This film portrays Yucatecan culture through the paintings of Fernando Castro Pacheco, the Yucat�n's most celebrated painter.
Subject: Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: B�rbara Burton Gonz�lez,
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: CHIAPAS: EL SURESTE EN DOS VIENTOS
Description: This video describes Chiapas through the eye of Subcomandante I. Marcos from the Selva la Candona, August 1992. It is a journey into the region where 3.5 million Chapanescos live, describing their living conditions, and their movement for peace and justice. Text by Subcomandante I. Marcos.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 35 minutes

Title: CIUDAD DE MEXICO IMAGINADA POR LOS VIAJEROS, LA
Description: One could never admit to having seen enough of Mexico City." This innovative documentary is a collection of photographic images from Mexico City newspapers of the last ten years which people who travel through Mexico City daily identify as those which best typified the City. Using Nahuatl texts from Montezuma and, the poetry and music of Jim Morrison, the video explores the history of the use of Mexico City by its inhabitants. A collaboration by Nestor Garcia Canclini and researchers at UNAM.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: None
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 32 minutes

Title: COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 1
Description: This collection of short films is part of the series �Corto metraje, m�s que un instante� from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: La suerte de la fea a la bonita no le importa; Benjam�n; Adi�s mama; Noche de bodas; Esp�as en la ciudad; Sr. X; Hombre que no escucha boleros; Pasajera; Ligerita.
Subject: Social Issues, Women's Studies, History, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 5 to 20 minutes

Title: COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 2
Description: This collection of short films is part of the series �Corto metraje, m�s que un instante� from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: De mesmer, con amor � t� para dos; S�stole di�stole; El agujero negro del sol; �Que hora es?; El milagro; De jasm�n en flor.
Subject: Social Issues, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 9 to 22 minutes

Title: COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 3
Description: This collection of short films is part of the series �Corto metraje, m�s que un instante� from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: La maceta; La historia de I y O; Sus demonios; A la otra; Circuito interior; El columpio del diablo; Gertrudis Blues.
Subject: Social Issues, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 5 to 21 minutes

Title: COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 4
Description: This collection of short films is part of the series �Corto metraje, m�s que un instante� from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: Azar; Rogelio; Ponchada; E pur si muove; Me voy a escapar; Una bala; Malos presagios; Peor es nada; El pez dorado; Juego de ni�os.
Subject: Social Issues, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 5 to 14 minutes

Title: COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 5
Description: This collection of short films is part of the series �Corto metraje, m�s que un instante� from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: �Qu� me va a hacer?; Cita en el para�so; Oto�al; Malos h�bitos; El �rbol de la m�sica; El valor de la amistad; Brusco despertar; La cumbre; Mantis religiosa.
Subject: Social Issues, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 5 to 19 minutes

Title: COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 6
Description: This collection of short films is part of the series �Corto metraje, m�s que un instante� from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: Veneno; La tarde de un matrimonio de clase media; L�velo y �selo; Un arreglo civilizado para el divorcio; D�a de suerte; Encrucijada; El h�roe; Contratiempo; El excusado; Pronto saldremos del problema.
Subject: Social Issues, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 2 to 16 minutes

Title: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE
Description: From the literary world of magic realism, this award-winning film adapted from the book by the same title chronicles life in Mexico near the Texas border in the early twentieth century. Unrequited passions, changing political situations and even madness emerge in this highly entertaining and endearing story. The cooking scenes and the portraits of food are spectacular, as are the romantic scenes.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Alfonso Arau
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 102 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 102 minutes

Title: COMPADRE MENDOZA
Description: This rare example of classic Mexican cinema examines the corrupted ideals of the Revolution in the story of an opportunistic landowner who faces the choice of remaining loyal to a general in Zapata�s army and being financially ruined or saving his own skin. The character of the general is clearly modeled on Zapata himself.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Classic, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1933
Director: Fernando De Fuentes
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: CORAZON INDIO
Description: Part of a video series of the Taller Miradas Antroplogicas, which seeks to recognize the indigenous peoples of Mexico and their participation in Mexican society. This episode documents the presence of indigenous youth in university life.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Mirandas Anthropological Workshop
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: CORAZON SANGRANTE / CUERPOS DE PAPEL
Description: Corazon Sangrante is a short film that uses various mythic elements of gender - the sacred heart, saints, la china poblana - all set to the music of an old Mexican ballad. Cuerpos de Papel, also set to music, explores the relationship between two lesbians.
Subject: Women's Studies, Religion, Gender/Sexuality, Music/Dance, Shorts
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Ximena Cuevas
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 3 minutes each

Title: CRIMEN DE PADRE AMARO, EL
Description: Father Amaro is a new priest assigned to the small rural town of Los Reyes, Mexico. He soon discovers that a conspiracy of corruption, sex, and lies has consumed the local parishes. Though he tries to resist falling into the corrupt actions of his colleagues, temptation eventually draws him in.
Subject: Drama, Religion
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2002
Director: Carlos Carrera
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish or English Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 102 minutes

Title: CRONOS
Description: An ingenious alchemist creates a device that grants him eternal life. Four hundred years later an elderly antique dealer discovers the properties of this unique invention. Though he grows younger every time he uses the device, there is a terrible price to pay.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: DANZON
Description: Julia, played by Mar�a Rojo, works by day as a telephone operator in Mexico City and at night turns to her real passion, which is dancing. Once a week she goes to a ballroom to dance with Carmelo, a fifty-year-old, well-groomed man and excellent dancer of danz�n. One day Carmelo disappears and Julia's search for him is transformed into a search for her own self-identity.
Subject: Women's Studies, Drama, Music/Dance
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Mar�a Novaro
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 120 minutes

Title: DAY OF THE DEAD IN JANITZIO, THE
Description: Experience the ancestral rituals of the Day of the Dead as it takes place in the mystic atmosphere of Jantzio. Watch as the people prepare themselves to receive their dead relatives as they clean and decorate graves and they set beautiful tables or altars in which they place offerings of food, liquor, cigarettes and flowers for the enjoyment of the visiting dead. In the evening the people go to the cemetery to bid farewell to the dead using thousands of candles to guide them on their long journey back.
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: May Herz
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 21 mins

Title: DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN, A
Description: "A Day Without a Mexican" is a "mocumentary" - a real documentary about a false event! California is shocked. One third of its population has disappeared and they are all Hispanics. Reporters take to the streets to capture the immediate effects of the crisis: "The Mexicans disappeared? That's great!" Have you been to the store...$6 for a head of lettuce, $8 for a pound of tomatoes." The film mixes facts and fiction with a touch of humor. Fact and fiction quickly begin to look alike, calling into question the idea of "objectivity" and "documentary as the truth." Fiction.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: Yareli Arizmendi & Sergio Arau
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: DE FLORIDA A COAHUILA (FROM FLORIDA TO COAHUILA)
Description: This documentary tells the remarkable story of a rebel people � the Mascogos, known in the United States as the Black Seminoles. This exceptional community, is descended from escaped slaves who made common cause with the Seminole Indians of Florida. The exceptional Mascogo/Black Seminole culture combines African-American spirituals, Indian fry-bread, and Tex-Mex cowboy culture. Filmed on both sides of the border, this video documents the complex history of people of African descent caught between national boundaries, and the efforts of their descendants to maintain their culture.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Rafael Rebollar
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 50 minutes

Title: DE NADIE
Description: Individuals who leave their countries in hopes of a better life in the United States have a rough road ahead of them. Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal follows a number of refugees in a South-Mexican refugee center, from where they hitch illegal rides on freight trains to the northern border.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Tim Dirdamal
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 84 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 84 minutes

Title: DEVORADORA, LA
Description: Diana is a 'Devoradora,' a man-eater. Men who fall in love with her get chewed up and spit out without any regard for their feelings. Diana an ambitious and frivolous woman, committed a crime and tried to blame some one else for the murder, and succeeds in some way, but she never thought her punishment would be just as big.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1946
Director: Fernando de Fuentes
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 117 minutes

Title: DIABLO NUNCA DUERME, EL
Description: When Lourdes Portillo receives a phone call informing her that her uncle was found dead she returns to Mexico. Her investigation of the circumstances of her uncle's death takes us deep into the land of Northern Mexico, inside the life of her family and her community, to a place between reality and fiction.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Social Issues, Docudrama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Lourdes Portillo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 82 minutes

Title: EISENSTEIN EN M�XICO: EL C�RCULO ETERNO (EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO: THE ETERNAL CIRCLE)
Description: The great Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein went to Mexico in 1929 to shoot the film Qu� vive M�xico using surrealist and muralist influence. The project was never finished. However this documentary film follows the work of Eisenstein including stills of footage, interviews with collaborators, and photographs and studies of the project.
Subject: Cinema/Theater, Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996/1930
Director: Alejandra Islas
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 90 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: EN EL HOYO (IN THE PIT)
Description: In Mexico City, a second layer is being built atop the Perif�rico freeway, which inscribes a massive circle on the metropolis. Despite the project's enormity, the workers who are building the freeway are barely noticed by drivers who roll by endlessly. Rulfo's film places us among these workers. The film chronicles long days of arduous work, risk taking, joking, swearing, and philosophizing.
Subject: Social Issues, Economics/Development
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: ENAGUA LLENA DE MARIPOSAS, UNA
Description: The story of five women's lives interwoven with festivities, music, poetry, and art in the historically matrifocal Zapotec region of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Ellen Osborne & Maureen Gosling
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and Zapotec Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes

Title: ERENDIRA
Description: Based on a short story by Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez. A teenage girl is exploited as a sexual slave by her greedy grandmother. An erotic black comedy laden with sexual fantasy, bawdy humor and sly political allegory.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1983
Director: Ruy Guerra
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 103 minutes

Title: FABULA DE LA BELLA PALOMERA
Description: Based on a fragment from his novel Love in the Time of Cholera, this film was conceived and co-written by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez. It tells the story of Orestes, a wealthy factory owner who falls madly in love with a married pigeon breeder. Part of the film series Amores Dif�ciles.
Subject: Drama, Literature
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Director: Ruy Guerra
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 73 minutes

Title: FOOD FOR THE ANCESTORS : THE MEXICAN CELEBRATION OF THE DAYS OF THE DEAD
Description: This film documents the weeklong Mexican celebration known as Days of the Dead. This festival honors the memories of loved ones who have died. Food for the Ancestors explores this festival as it takes place in the culturally rich state of Puebla. The program is also very focused on the special food that is made for this celebration. The climatic portion of the film, and of the festival, occurs on November first when family members spend the entire night sitting at self decorated gravesites waiting for their ancestors to return.
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Jan Thompson
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: FRIDA KAHLO
Description: Visually depicts the life of Frida Kahlo through her own paintings and the surroundings of her home in Coyoac�n, Mexico City.
Subject: Art, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1976
Director: Marcela Violante
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 16 minutes

Title: FRIDA: NATURALEZA VIVA
Description: On her deathbed artist Frida Kahlo (played by Ofelia Medina) conjures up images and memories of her life as a painter, revolutionary and woman of the world. Her stormy relationship with muralist Diego Rivera, her tender hospitality for exiled Leon Trotsky, her struggle for acceptance as an artist, and the travail of her illnesses and injuries are all recalled in a style reminiscent of her own work, simultaneously sophisticated and primitive, flamboyant and delicate.
Subject: Art, Biography, Women's Studies, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1984
Director: Paul Leduc
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 108 minutes

Title: GALLO DE ORO, EL
Description: Based on a story by Juan Rulfo. A poor man is given a near-dead fighting cock and he nurses him back to life. While this brings him life, he finds that when he forgets his roots and he soon runs out of luck.
Subject: History, Classic, Social Movements/Resistance, Comedy, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1964
Director: Roberto Gavald�n
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 105 minutes

Title: GERTRUDIS BOCANEGRA
Description: Gertrudis Bocanegra Lazo de la Vega--played by award winning actress Ofelia Medina--a criollo woman who participated in the Mexican war of independence, is the central character of this film. Gertrudis becomes acutely aware of the social injustice prevalent in Mexico in the late Colonial period and gets involved in the Hidalgo's movement for independence. Using the technique of flashback, she tells her story from her prison cell in P�tzcuaro, Michoac�n.
Subject: Biography, History, Colonial, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Ernesto Medina
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 98 minutes

Title: GOLPE DE SUERTE
Description: A tragicomedy about the foibles of a petty Government official, who becomes a casualty of consolidation under the Salinas administration.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Marcela Fern�ndez Violante
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 108 minutes

Title: GRITO, EL: OJOS DE PERRO
Description: Coerced into rebellion against the tyrannical regime of a ruthless landowner, the laborers of a sugar plantation form the first union in the country. The whole town faces the brutal repression of the ruling power headed by a young lawyer, who sacrifices his lover, his life and that of those who surround and support him, in his struggle for justice.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1982
Director: Alberto Durant
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 84 minutes

Title: HISTORIAS DE GENTE GRANDE
Description: Based on the research of Felipe V�zquez Palacios and his team in the state of Veracruz. This documentary depicts the daily life of those whom society considers to be �old.� The testimonies of these men and women teach us that the process of growing old is a construction that combines biology with work, family and society. Due to their diminishing status and lack of social support, these older adults invent survival strategies while they wait for their death.
Subject: Social Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Biography, Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Andres Villa
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 27 minutes

Title: IMAGES OF THE REPRESSION IN OAXACA (IMAGENES DE LA REPRESION EN OAXACA)
Description: Six short documentaries about the protests and populist movement taking place in Oaxaca. Interviews, photographs, and documentation of particular events, like the attempted takeover of Benito Juarez Autonomous University by the Federal Police on November 2nd 2006 are included. Various struggles and themes are analyzed in these short productions that document and present images of the current repression of Oaxacan citizens.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Mal de Ojo Productions
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 5-12 minutes

Title: IMPERIO DE LA FORTUNA, EL
Description: Based on a short story El Gallo de Oro by Juan Rulfo, this film tells the story of Dionosio Pinzon, a Mexican peasant living with his mother. Born with a deformed hand, and living a very meager life, Dionosio's luck turns around when he is given a losing gamecock which he nurses back to health. He trains the bird for fighting, begins to make money, and begins a relationship with a gold-digging singer. As he makes money, though, he begins to become more and more corrupt--and it becomes apparent that his winning streak will not last. Remake of the 1964 film El Gallo de Oro.
Subject: History, Comedy, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 130 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 130 minutes

Title: IN SEARCH OF THE MAYAS
Description: Deep in the rainforest of Mexico�s Yucat�n Peninsula are the lost Mayan Cities of Chichen Itz� an Palenque. Discover their magic and learn about the Mayan culture while exploring some of the region�s most exquisite examples of pre-Hispanic American architecture.
Subject: Anthropology/Archaelogy, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 Minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN CHICH�N ITZ�
Description: This oringinal ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archeologists all contend to �clear� the site of the antique Maya city of Chich� Itz� in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of �Maya� while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: Jeffrey Himpele and Quetzil Castaneda
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 90 minutes

Title: JULIO Y SU ANGEL
Description: An eight-year-old boy tired of living in an orphanage and working in a tortilla factory decides to search for the guardian angel his mother promised to send. The angel appears to him as a grumpy old Mexican man who teaches him the values of life, work, family, and friendship while they embark on an adventure through tropical paradises.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1996
Director: Jorge Cervera
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 98 minutes

Title: KNOROSOV: THE DECIPHERMENT OF THE MAYAN SCRIPT
Description: This documentary retraces the decipherment of the ancient Mayan codices by an unknown Russian scholar, Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov. Due to the political tensions of the Cold War, Western scholars ignored his linguistic breakthrough. This film recounts the personal and intellectual journey that led to his discovery, and the subsequent struggle for recognition.
Subject: Biography, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Tiahoga Ruge and Eduardo Herrera
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 57 minutes

Title: LACANDONA : THE ZAPATISTAS AND RAINFOREST OF CHIAPAS MEXICO
Description: This is a film that documents the struggle of the people of Chiapas to reclaim their land and rights that were promised to them by the Mexican Constitution. Their land is full of natural resources, such as oil and precious wood. Their belief that they have a right to their land initiated a revolution. This is a brief overview of their struggle and conflict in Chiapas Mexico. Produced by Native Forest Network, Eastern North American Resource Center.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Bran Taylor
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 26 minutes

Title: LAND BELONGS TO THOSE WHO WORK IT, THE (LA TIERRA LE PERTENECE A QUIENES LA TRABAJEN)
Description: This documentary discusses the situation in the town of Bolon Aja�aw, located in the north of Chiapas near the famous Agua Azul river system. The federal government sold the land in Bolon Aja�aw to a private company to create an eco-tourism center without the permission of the community members. The video documents a meeting between Zapatista authorities and Mexican Government functionaries, and offers a critical look at the practical implication of so-called eco-tourism.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Chiapas Media Project
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish and Tzeltal Subtitles: English Length: 15 minutes

Title: LAND OF MENONITES
Description: The Mennonites who arrived in Mexico in 1922 after a lengthy stream of immigration, converted the desert into farmable land, and were rewarded with an economic boom. Today 30,000 Mennonites live in Northen Mexico, and are caught in a struggle between isolation and opening up to the world. Through the testimonies of various Mennonites, we are given an insight into a community that is full of contradictions and conflicts, and in which the importance of tradition is questioned by voices of change and dissidence.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Adele Schmidt
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 55 minutes

Title: LEY DE HERODES, LA (HERODS LAW)
Description: La Ley de Herodes is a hilarious, outrageous satire set in a tiny Mexican town in 1949. Dami�n Alc�zar stars as Juan Vargas, a junkyard operator is recruited as a temporary mayor following the demise of the latest corrupt town leader. At first, Vargas is the ideal politician: he�s honest, desperate and not terribly ambitious � or so it seems. But eventually, Vargas gives in to overwhelming temptation, bribery, and even violence in this brilliant, tongue-in-cheek story about government treachery.
Subject: History, Politics/Human Rights, Comedy, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Luis Estrada
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 122 minutes

Title: LIFE AND WORKS OF FRIDA KAHLO, THE
Description: This Masterpiece Series provides a triple treat � a close-up look at the lives and works of the world�s most famous artists plus three art lessons that focus on the style of each. These lessons reinforce the techniques and skills that the artist used and students will experience hands-on learning.
Subject: Art, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Art Video Productions
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes each segment

Title: LINEA DE 3: ATENAS 2004
Description: This is a series of short film clips that tell stories about people who, in one way or another, are affected by the Olympics. These 11 short stories bring out a lot of different emotions in the viewer; they are comical, sad, and informative. The �cortometrajes� range in length from 4 to 20 minutes.
Type:
Year: 2004
Director: Various
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 77 minutes

Title: LOLO
Description: Dolores Chimal--known as "Lolo"--lives on the outskirts of Mexico City. He lives a normal life with his family, until one day he is assaulted upon leaving the factory where he works. As a result of the beating, he remains in the hospital for a week and loses his job. This unleashes a series of violent events which causes "Lolo" to lose his sense of right and wrong.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Francisco Athi�
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 88 minutes

Title: LONG JOURNEY TO GUADALUPE, A
Description: The mystical story of the Virgen of Guadalupe unfolds as Huan Francisco Urrusti identifies an explores an important cultural aspect of Mexico. Through interviews with historians, priests, anthropologists, and psychologists the role of religious syncretism is analyzed in Mexican culture explaining the relationship between the collective unconscious and the history of the country.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Juan Francisco Urrusti
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 96 minutes

Title: LOS QUE HACEN NUESTRO CINE
Description: A collection of video shorts that examine the history of Mexican cinema. This volume examines recent movies that have addressed issues concerning power, analyzing particularly the movie Morir en el Golfo (1989).
Subject: Cinema/Theater, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Director: Alejandro Pelayo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: LOS QUE HICIERON NUESTRO CINE
Description: A collection of short videos (los or�genes del cinemat�grafico, cine mundo, Eisenstein en M�xico, etc.) that examine the history of Mexican cinema--from the Lumi�re brothers' first screenings in Mexico City at the turn of the century, to the development of a national cinema in the 1940s.
Subject: Cinema/Theater, History
Type: Documentary
Year: Various Years
Director: Alejandro Pelayo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: MACARIO
Description: The talents of top director Roberto Gavaldon, novelist B. Traven (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa combined to produce this gentle, moving fable on human morality. Macario is a young peasant, despondent over his inability to provide for his family. On the Day of the Dead, he meets Death, disguised as another peasant, who trades him the power to cure the dying for a portion of turkey. Macario�s fame spreads around the country, and he soon has a flourishing business until a local doctor decides to call in the Inquisition.
Subject: Drama, Classic
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1958
Director: Robert Gavald�n
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 91 minutes

Title: MARIA CANDELARIA
Description: This classic of Mexican cinema begins when a young woman reporter interviewing a world-famous artist, asks him about a painting of a nude Indian girl he had done years before and which he never revealed. The painter replies that it was the cause of a tragedy and proceeds to tell its story. Maria, a woman who lives in Xochimilco, struggles with the owner of the general store, to whom she owes money, her love for Lorenzo, and the artist who tries at all costs to paint the portrait of the beautiful woman who he had noticed at the market.
Subject: Classic, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1943
Director: Emilio Fernandez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 97 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 97 minutes

Title: MASKS OF MEXICO: THE ART OF AN ENDURING CULTURE
Description: This documentary goes on location to rarely seen gatherings in remote villages where masks are still an essential part of festivals such as Day of the Dead, Corpus Christi and Winter Clebrations. This video traces the ritual use of masks, beginning with Aztec priests and warriors, and explores the influence of Spanish friars who used masks to spread the teachings of Christianity. The result is a vibrant blend of indigenous and European traditions that gives this art form its distinctive flavor.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: KNVE-TV/ Albuquerque
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: MAYA, THE
Description: This great exhibit shows the expressive aesthetic language and historical testimony of an admirable civilization. This is the first presentation of the maya civilization that has covered all the regions of their geographical extension, all the periods of its history and all the diversity of the people who forged it.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Michael Vetter
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 52 minutes

Title: MEMORIAS DE UN MEXICANO (MEMORIES OF A MEXICAN)
Description: The pioneer film maker Salvador Toscano portrayed the key events and figures of the Mexican Revolution from 1904 to 1924. Capturing the flavor and reality of war-torn Mexico, the film presents the political and military upheaval that shaped present day Mexico using exclusive, authentic footage. It also describes the women's role in Mexico during this period.
Subject: Literature, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: Salvador Toscano
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes

Title: MEXICO FOR CHILDREN (VOL1 THE CULTURE OF MEXCIO)
Description: This volume focuses on the rich cultural heritage of Mexico and how it affects the daily lives of its citizens. Students will find that Mexico�s indigenous people and Spanish rule have influenced the ceremonial dress, folktales, foods and holidays of Mexico. Explored topics include the music of Tejano bands, the artwork of Diego Rivera and Talavera pottery from Puebla.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Schlessinger Media
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 24 minutes

Title: MEXICO FOR CHILDREN (VOL2 THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEXICO)
Description: This volume focuses on how Mexico�s geography has shaped its history, society and culture. Travel through a variety of land formations and regions from the desert in Sonora to the lush rainforests of Chiapas, and see how location and climate have impacted the settlement patterns and lifestyles of Mexicans. Learn about the major industries like silver mining and tourism, and appreciate the exceptionality and diversity of the Gulf Coast region�s animal and plant life.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Schlessinger Media
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 24 minutes

Title: MEXICO FOR CHILDREN (VOL3 THE HISTORY OF MEXICO)
Description: This volume focuses on the obstacles that Mexico has overcome throughout history to become an independent, self-governing nation. Explore history topics from the time of the Olmec through the time of independence fights as well as other more contemporary events. Understand the Father Hidalgo and Benito Juarez, and see why freedom has been so important to this proud nation.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Schlessinger Media
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 24 minutes

Title: MI NI�O TIZOC
Description: Based in Mexico, a poor man struggles to make ends meet while facing the adversity of socioeconomic prejudice. Finances become worse once his ten-year-old son becomes seriously ill, and the man must find the means to heal his son.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1971
Director: Ismael Rodriguez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 95 minutes

Title: MIL NUBES DE PAZ (A THOUSAND CLOUDS OF PEACE)
Description: Gerardo, a gay teenager, roams the streets of Mexico City in search of someone able to reveal the secret, hidden between the lines of a goodbye letter from his ex-lover. In his journey through barren alleys and roadways, he is haunted by images: each masculine body he sees reminds him of his lover.
Subject: Social Issues, Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Julian Hernandez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: MILAGRO DE TEPEYAC, EL
Description: Released in 1917, this silent film focuses on the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico. Lupita, a young woman in Mexico is concerned about her fianc�e�s trip to Europe because of the war. The woman asks for the intervention of Guadalupe to protect him.
Subject: Art, Cinema/Theater, Classic, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1917
Director: Carlos Gonzalez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Silent Subtitles: Spanish Length:

Title: MUJER DE BENJAMIN, LA
Description: Seventeen-years old Natividad is bored with her life in her village, Benjamin, fiftyish, fat, and considered the fool of the village is in love with Natividad and, incited by his friends, decides to kidnap her. Leandro, Natividad's boyfriend interferes in the triangle and unleashes a violent episode which determines the fate of Natividad and restores the deteriorated image of Benjamin in the eyes of the villagers.
Subject: Gender/Sexuality, Social Life and Customs, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Carlos Carrera
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: MY FILMMAKING, MY LIFE
Description: An intriguing documentary on the life of the renowned and vibrant filmmaker. Landeta is seen in her 70's remembering her productive years. Includes interview with filmmaker Marcela Fernandez Violante.
Subject: Biography, Cinema/Theater
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Patricia D�az
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 30 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 30 minutes

Title: NAZARIN
Description: Bu�uel's greatest depiction of religious hypocrisy. This adaptation of the novel by Benito Perez Galdos Nazar�n tells the story of a simple priest who tries to live by Christian precepts and becomes an outcast and an outlaw. Considered one of the most controversial of Bu�uel's works.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1959
Director: Luis Bunuel
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 59 minutes

Title: NEGRA ANGUSTIAS, LA
Description: Daughter of a rebel, Angustias is ostrasized for her refusal to marry, her independence, and her scorn for men. She falls in love, only to be rejected because of her race and class which cause her to return to her role as a revolutionary.
Subject: History, Gender/Sexuality, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama, Classic
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1949
Director: Matilde Landeta
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 85 minutes

Title: NOSOTRAS TAMBIEN
Description: This is a story based on real testimonies about women and AIDS.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Mari Carmen de Lara
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 40 minutes

Title: NOVIA QUE TE VEA
Description: Two young Jewish girls, born Mexican, shape their lives under the pressures of the early sixties and their own awareness of conflicting loyalties. The subject of the life of the Jewish community within the ethnic complexity of modern urban Mexico is new to the Mexican cinema. Novia que te vea reveals the cultural diversity of the Jewish community and the social and political attitudes that flourish in it.
Subject: Gender/Sexuality, Religion, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Guita Schyfter
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 115 minutes

Title: OAXACA
Description: The video collection that takes you on a trip to Oaxaca to see the sites of the immensely beautiful country of Mexico.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Harry M�ller
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 60 Minutes

Title: OLVIDADOS, LOS
Description: This 1950 masterpiece, directed by Luis Bu�uel, portrays the misery of poverty with an astounding starkness. Poor children of Mexican slums are the primary subjects of this unconstrained vision of poverty. In many big cities, behind the large buildings are areas of complete misery. Children are malnourished, there are no schools, sanitation is not up to par and delinquents abound. Los Olvidados has been called a work of free art, a testimonial, an aesthetic expression of moral conscience. The film is an effective protest against human cruelty.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1950
Director: Luis Bu�uel
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: OTRA CONQUISTA, LA
Description: The synthetic cultural identities resulting from the forcible conversion of Mexico�s indigenous people by the Spanish are explored through the eyes of Cortez�s mistress Tecu�chpo and a fictional half-brother, the illegitimate son of Montezuma II.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, History, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Salvador Carrasco
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: PASADO VERDE 1850-1915
Description: The story of the Henequen plant and its practical uses, including fiber for clothing. The documentary begins with the incidental discovery of the Henequen and moves forward in time to the development of factories for mass production of fiber.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: PEDRO PARAMO
Description: Based on one of the masterpieces of Spanish American literature, the novel by Juan Rulfo was adapted for the screen by Carlos Fuentes. Juan Preciado travels to the town of Comala to find his father, Pedro P�ramo (John Gavin); instead he finds a phantom town where death is the reigning presence.
Subject: Classic, Literature, History, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1966
Director: Carlos Velo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 104 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 104 minutes

Title: PERFUME DE VIOLETAS
Description: This film portrays the true story of Yessica and Miriam, two teens from Mexico city that start a profound friendship in middle school. The friends share notebooks, games, likes, make-up, and perfume� until Jorge and El Topi, two violent accomplices, kidnap Yessica. The indifference and selfishness of the adults break the friendship of the two young girls and carry them to the brink of tragedy.
Subject: Social Issues, Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Maryse Sistach
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 88 minutes

Title: PERLA, LA
Description: Based on The Pearl by John Steinbeck, who also assisted with the cinematography, this stunning film portrays the struggles of a poor Mexican family. Set in a community in Baja, the film centers around the family's efforts to survive and save their baby by diving for pearls. A disturbing vision of poverty and racism, and a visual masterpiece, due to the direction of Emilio Fernandez and the photography of Gabriel Figueroa.
Subject: Literature, Classic, Indigenous Peoples, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1948
Director: Emilio Fernandez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 77 minutes

Title: PROYECTO VIDEOASTAS INDIGENAS DE LA FRONTERA SUR
Description: Five short documentaries created by the the Indigenous Video Makers Project of the Southern (Mexican) Border: "Te xa wuil a va (Que tengas el poder de mirarte a ti mismo)," directed by Linda Lothe, Cecilia Monroy Cuevas and Roberto Chankin Ortega (10 minutes, Spanish). "K�in santo ta sotz�oleb (Dia de muertos en la tierra de los murcielagos)," directed by Pedro Daniel Lopez Lopez (33 minutes, Tzotzil). "Sq�uinal Ixim (Fiesta del Maiz: El Tercer Encuentro del Maiz Maya-Zoque)," directed by Jose Angel Lopez Dominguez and Roberto Alejandro Corzo Leon (16 minutes, Spanish). "Mas de mil a�os despues...," directed by Pablo Chankin Najbor, Axel kohler and Tim Trench (19 minutes, Lacandon Maya). "La tierra es de quien la trabaja: Keremetik busca autonomia," directed by Pedro Daniel Lopez Lopez and Jose Miguel Hernandez (10 minutes, Spanish).
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish, Maya, and Tzotzil Subtitles: Spanish Length: 88 minutes

Title: PU�O DE HIERRO, EL
Description: This is a silent film that focuses on opium addiction in early twentieth century Mexico. It is combined with stories of bandits and a poor detective who strives to be like the then famous Nick Carter. EL PU�O DE HIERRO was the first movie that touched upon the issue of drug addiction in Mexico.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1927
Director: Gabriel Garc�a Moreno
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: RADIO CHANUL POM, FROM THE HEART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF CHIAPAS
Description: From the heart of the Altos in the Chiapaneco province of Chenalho, this community and indigenous oriented radio station broadcasts in Tzotzil and Tzeltal. The radio is an effort to strengthen their fight for justice and defend their culture and dialect. This documentary will take us on a journey through the Chiapas mountains with indigenous voices
Subject: Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Jose Alfredo Jimenez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish, Tzeltal, Tzotzil Subtitles: English Length: 19 minutes

Title: RECUERDOS
Description: A remarkably complicated documentary that took more than five years to complete, Recuerdos centers on Luis Frank, a Lithuanian immigrant who serves as an American spy in Paris during WWI and a republican militant in the Spanish Civil War before seeking exile in Mexico. Taking a detailed journey through Luis Frank's rich and varied past, the film offers a remarkably personal journey through a century marked by war, remembrance, and rebirth.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Marcela Arteaga
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 86 minutes

Title: REED: MEXICO INSURGENTE
Description: A dramatization on John Reed�s newspaper account of the Mexican Revolution. This film explores the young journalists adventures with Pancho Villa�s army in 1913-1914. Through encounters with Generals Villa and Urbina as well as ordinary soldiers, Reed sheds his journalistic impartiality and becomes a potent advocate of the Revolution.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1973
Director: Paul Leduc
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 104 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 104 minutes

Title: REINA DE LA NOCHE, LA
Description: Fictionalized biography about life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes. Lucha Reyes was an unconventional and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, when at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, then she marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter, who becomes her only source of lasting love.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1994
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 117 minutes

Title: RETORNO A AZTLAN (RETURN TO AZTLAN)
Description: A depiction of the Aztec myth of the creation of the Fifth Sun. It also explains why the Aztecs were cast out of their "Eden" resulting in their eventual conquest.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 199-
Director: Juan Mora Catlett
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Nahuatl Subtitles: English Length: 81 minutes

Title: RIO ESCONDIDO
Description: The cruelty of one Mexican cacique has left his village completely without water, and the population is living in misery. The people of Rio Escondido will have to struggle for justice, and a newly arrived schoolteacher will help them find the courage to do so.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1943
Director: Emilio
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 110 minutes

Title: RITES OF THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Description: Every November the Mexican people clean and decorate the graves of their loved ones, set beautiful tables or altars in which they place offerings so the visiting dead enjoy them. Experience these and other ancestral rituals of the Day of the Dead.
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food, History, Art, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 20 minutes

Title: ROJO AMANECER
Description: A film about a forbidden subject: October 2, 1968, Mexico City -the day of the massacre of students in Tlatelolco--the Plaza of the Three Cultures. The story begins with two students returning to their apartment carrying a wounded friend. From that point, evolves a plot impregnated with anguish and fear that culminates in a heart-breaking end.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Jorge Fons
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 95 minutes

Title: SAASTAL: THE CHILDREN OF THE SACRED GRACE
Description: Alicia returns to the pueblo where she spent her childhood and adolescence after an absence of 15 years. Despite the many changes that her pueblo has undergone, she finds that everyday life remains much the same as it was when she left.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Byrt Wammack Weber
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Yucatec Maya Subtitles: English and Spanish Length:
Copy: 2 Format: DVD Language: Yucatec Maya Subtitles: English and Spanish Length:

Title: SAN PATRICIOS, LOS
Description: This documentary narrates the story of Los San Patricios, a Irish battalion in the war against Mexico in 1843 that deserted the United States army and joined the Mexican side. They are celebrated every year in Mexico, Ireland, and in the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York. This video explores who they were and what convinced them to change sides by tracing their story from their origins in Ireland.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Mark R. Day
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 49 minutes

Title: SANTITOS
Description: Based on the novel by Esperanza�s Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon. Santitos is a character-driven comedy about a young Mexican woman who has to come to terms with the loss of her teenage daughter. Esperanza's daughter Blanca suddenly and mysteriously dies in the hospital where she was having her tonsils removed. Shortly afterward, the vision of a saint appears on the greasy glass door of the oven, telling Esperanza that Blanca is not dead. Despite warnings from her best friend and the local priest, she embarks on an incredible journey across the country and over the border that helps her shed her inhibitions one by one. Out comes a different Esperanza, a liberated independent woman who is also sexually uninhibited.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Alejandro Springall
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 105 minutes

Title: SECRETO DE ROMELIA, EL
Description: Three generations of women reflect the spiritual and social differences among traditional Mexico, the period of the L�zaro C�rdenas regime, and Mexico today. Based on Rosario Castellanos' short story El Viudo Rom�n.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Director: Busi Cort�s
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 100 minutes

Title: SERPIENTES Y ESCALERAS
Description: This drama centers around the friendship of two young wealthy provincial girls of the 1950s to depict a tale of seduction and infidelity, intimacy and melancholy. Through the classic Mexican game of "chance and destiny," this film by the acclaimed director Busi Cort�s seeks to portray women of another time.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1992
Director: Busi Cort�s
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 86 minutes

Title: SIN DEJAR HUELLA (WITHOUT A TRACE)
Description: Hoping to outrun a serial killer who�s attacking people at the factory in which she works, Aurelia, a young mother of two, steals some cash from her drug-dealing boyfriend and heads south. She comes across Marilu, who�s beautiful, well-educated, and a master at selling fake Mayan art. Embarking together on a trip to Cancun they realize their shared purpose in seeking a better life.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: Maria Novaro
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 110 minutes

Title: SIXTH SUN, THE
Description: This chronicle of NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising includes interviews with key figured and grounds the conflict in questions of democracy and social change.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Saul Landau
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 56 minutes

Title: SOLO CON TU PAREJA
Description: Tom�s loves women and they love him. However, Tom�s has problems -he lives in the times of DC-10's, microwave ovens and AIDS, and this modern Don Juan doesn't use condoms! A wonderfully funny comedy faintly reminiscent of Almod�var.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1991
Director: Alfonso Cuar�n
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: Spanish Length: 94 minutes

Title: SOUNDS OF MEXICO
Description: Music is an important expression of Mexico's cultural richness, and has always accompanied mostly all the activities of the Mexican people. Get to know through this program the most representative music, complemented with typical handicrafts and regional dresses of Mexico, in a magnificent colonial setting.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: None
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 45 miutes

Title: Tlatelolco: Las Claves de la Masacre
Description: This documentary gathers footage on the events of October 2, 1968 when the Mexican government and military forces repressed student movement.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 57 minutes

Title: TODOS SOMOS MARCOS
Description: A documentary about Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: None
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: Spanish Length: 45 minutes

Title: TRES GARCIA, LOS
Description: Ruled by a tough grandma (Sara Garc�a), the Garc�as (Infante, Salazar and Mendoza) are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita (Marga L�pez) and fight for her love until grandma quiets them. It is a Mexican classic.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1947
Director: Ismael Rodriguez
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length:

Title: TURIX VIDEOREVISTA #5
Description: When someone makes a brief visit in the Yucatan Peninsula, it is called a visit of a �turix.� When one sees a dragonfly, it is considered good luck. The videomagazine TURIX is like the dragonfly; it is an open space for creative, audiovisual expression of the indigenous inhabitants of south-southeastern Mexico. This video is divided into eight short sections, each one the work of independent film makers and rural media workshops with children and adolescents of rural communities. They are produced by and for the people of these communities and spoken in the languages of the region.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish, Maya, Zapotec, and Mixe Subtitles: English Length: 35 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish, Maya, Zapotec, and Mixe Subtitles: English Length: 31 minutes

Title: UY IN T' AAN
Description: This is a film about Mayan communities and the languages spoken in them. This movie shows the journey children make to become fluent in both Mayan and Spanish. True to its Mayan title, this move is about a community�s efforts to teach its children Mayan and to break the barriers the adults have of people who speak different languages.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Edwin Diaz May
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish and Mayan Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: VENTANA A MI COMUNIDAD (WINDOW TO MY COMMUNITY)
Description: This documentary narrated by three small children examines different aspects of indigenous communities within M�xico. The indigenous groups portrayed are the Lancadones, Maxahuas and Otomies. In each community the children narrate their surroundings, traditional ways of making a living and other aspects specific to their communities, including how to make tortillas, how to make paper, etc.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Joaquin Berruecos, Quetzalli Sotelo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 6 minutes; 13 minutes; 12 minutes

Title: VERANO DE LA SENORA FORBES, EL
Description: Written by Nobel Prize winning Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, this is a wickedly black comedy about two children plotting to kill their authoritarian nanny, reminiscent of the work of the legendary film maker Luis Bu�uel. Directed by Humberto Hermosillo. Part of the film series Amores Dif�ciles.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Director: Humberto Hermosillo
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 85 minutes

Title: VIAJE AL CENTRO DE LA SELVA, MEMORIAL ZAPATISTA
Description: This documentary explores from the beginnings of the Zapatista uprising until the National Democratic Convention that took place in Aguascalientes, Chiapas in 1994. This periodistic documentary attempts to capture, form the middle of the jungle, a moment of contemporary Mexican history.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Epigmenio Ibarra
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 95 minutes

Title: VIDA SIGUE, LA
Description: A docudrama originally produced for Mexican television. Based on true stories this beautiful film traces the life of a Mexican woman in a small town faced with the realization that she has AIDS. The film deals with the stigma attached to AIDS in contemporary Mexican culture and the efforts of the medical system in dealing with this growing crisis
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Maria del Carmen de Lara
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: YANCO
Description: In this tale of fantasy and folklore, Yanco, a small Indian boy, is considered bewitched because of his hypersensitivity to sound. When his music teacher dies, the boy begins to play mysterious melodies during the night. His talent reaches such a peak that the villagers feel that it is the old teacher coming back to haunt the village.
Subject: Art, Cinema/Theater, Classic, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1960
Director: Servando Gonzales
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: No dialogue Subtitles: None Length: 85 minutes

Title: YUCATAN: MAS OTROS 4 LUGARES DEL PAIS
Description: A fascinating travel view of the legendary ruins of Chichen Itza, Tulum, Uxmal and many other ancient Mayan sites, including visits to Merida, a city of contrasting sights, cultural blends and people.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length:

Title: ZAPATA'S GARDEN
Description: In 1994 the Zapatistas reclaimed land in Chiapas�s Lacandon jungle in southern Mexico to found the Autonomous Municipality of Emiliano Zapata. Since then, they have been building a new society in which there are neither servants nor bosses. Members of the community ensure their autonomy by tending to an organic vegetable garden and working collectively in all endeavors.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Chiapas Media Project
Country: Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Tzeltal and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 19 minutes

Title: JOURNEY, THE: OXKUTZCAB - SAN FRANCISCO
Description: This movie is about the Maya people and how they travel to the US to receive better health care. It starts off showing the Maya culture and their traditional way of life. When they reach San Francisco, California, they fall into drugs and prostitution. Life in the US is much harder for the Maya people mainly because of the language barrier. Is the journey worth it?
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Country: Mexico and USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 54 minutes

Title: JESUS
Description: This feature film tells the story of the life of Jesus in Yucatec Maya language. It is a great resource for those who want to practice and master the language.
Subject: Religion, Indigenous Peoples, History, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1979
Director: None
Country: Mexico/Canada
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Yucatec Maya Subtitles: None Length: 120 Minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Yucatec Maya Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: QUE VIVA MEXICO!
Description: Sergei Eisenstein's lost masterpiece documents the history of Mexico and its people. With sequences devoted to the Edenic land of Tehuantepec, the savage majesty of the bullfight, the struggles of the noble peon and the hypnotic imagery of the Day of the Dead "Qu� viva M�xico!" is a vivid tapestry of Mexican life. The film was shot on location in Mexico by Edouard Tisse and financed by American novelist Upton Sinclair. It was later reassembled and restored by Grigory Alexandrov.
Subject: History, Art, Cinema/Theater, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1979
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Country: Mexico/Russia/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Russian Subtitles: English Length: 85 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Russian Subtitles: English Length: 85 minutes

Title: ASALTAR LOS CIELOS (STORM THE SKIES)
Description: The documentary about Jacques Monard/Ram�n Mercader, the KGB agent that assinated Le�n Trotsky in Mexico. An account from the people who knew him from his childhood up to and after the crime. This film reconstructs his motivations and his destiny. Starring Elena Poniatowska, Carlos Moniv�is, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Jos� Luis Lopez-Linares and Javier Rioyo
Country: Mexico/Spain
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 99 minutes

Title: CHAC, THE RAIN GOD
Description: This film, based on ritual and legends from the Popul Vuh, as well as Tzeltal and Mayan stories, and shot in the Chiapas region of Mexico, focuses on a small Tzeltal village during a terrible draught. Desperate for relief, thirteen men set out on a quest to save their people from starvation.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 1974
Director: Rolando Klein
Country: Mexico/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Yucatec Maya Subtitles: English Length: 95 minutes

Title: CROSSES (CRUCES)
Description: In 1995, the U.S. Border Patrol instituted Operation Gatekeeper, which has caused the death of about 1800 migrants since its implementation. CROSSES documents the efforts of artists and activists to bring the disastrous effects of Operation Gatekeeper to the conscience of the people of both the U.S. and Mexico, and to pressure the governments of both countries. By representing every death with a cross bearing the name of the victim, mounted directly on the border wall, they keep the issues alive. Crosses are still visible today.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Border
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Laura Irene Arvizu
Country: Mexico/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 18 minutes

Title: GRINGOTON (GRINGO-THON)
Description: During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a misplaced gringo in Mexico City helplessly watches the atrocities through Mexican television news. Taking a tip from his local neighbors, he begins to sell chewing gum and wash car windows in the streets...to raise money for a guerrilla army to take out Bush. "Gringo-thon" is a personal expression of protest of an expatriate living abroad and a meditation of the complexities of �gringo� identity.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Greg 'Gringoyo' Berger
Country: Mexico/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes

Title: ON THE CASE OF ROSALIE EVANS
Description: A historical discussion among North American and Mexican historians about the diary and life of Rosalie Evans, a disgruntled North American property owner who lost her land during the Mexican Revolution
Subject: History, Gender/Sexuality
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: John Mraz
Country: Mexico/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
Description: Released in 2001 in Mexico, where it broke box-office records, director Alfonso Cuar�n's sexy comedy follows two teenage boys who go out on the road with an older Spanish woman they both lust after. Sumptuous cinematography, wonderful performances by the young cast and a subtle glimpse into Mexican life and its politics.
Subject: Social Issues, Gender/Sexuality, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2001
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Country: Mexico/USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 100 minutes

Title: ALGO QUEDA (SOMETHING REMAINS)
Description: They are the ordinary Nicaraguans who narrate the story of 22 turbulent years (1979-2001) in their nation�s history, from the triumph of the Sandinistas, to the day they were voted out of office in 1990, to the tumultuous years since. This film, beautifully shot among the wreckage of Nicaragua�s disastrous war, the abandoned properties of its old landholders, and the urban slums of Managua, presents the story of Nicaragua from a variety of perspectives.
Subject: History, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Luciano Capelli and Andrea Ruggeri
Country: Nicaragua
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 51 minutes

Title: ALSINO Y EL CONDOR
Description: An allegory about an idealistic ten-year-old peasant who dreams of flying like a condor. He eventually learns to fly when he joins guerrillas fighting in an imaginary Central American country.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Economics/Development, Religion, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1983
Director: Miguel Litt�n
Country: Nicaragua
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION
Description: Photographer-filmmaker Susan Meiselas returns to Nicaragua to find out what happened to the people she photographed years earlier at the height of the civil war. Meiselas and her collaborators capture the shattered lives and broken dreams of people on both sides of the conflict.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, Art, Drama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Director: Susan Meiselas, Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti
Country: Nicaragua/USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 93 minutes

Title: BOCA DEL LOBO, LA
Description: La boca del lobo is fiction inspired by the Peruvian army's November 1983 massacre of 47 men, women and children suspected of terrorism. When the news of the massacre came out, the army blamed Shining Path for the atrocities, but one eyewitness testified to the contrary. The movie portrays the moral and emotional disintegration of the members of a small army detachment sent away from any world they know to root out Shining Path missing in a remote mountain village.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Economics/Development, Religion, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1989
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 122 minutes

Title: CAMINO A LA ESCUELA (WALKING TO SCHOOL)
Description: Camino a la Escuela shows the journey of six kids and a teacher to the education center in the one of Peru�s most highest and iciest points.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Humberto Saco
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes

Title: CIUDAD Y LOS PERROS, LA
Description: A story about how cadets rebelling against authority in a military academy end up forming a junta with its own hierarchy and rules. Based on the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Subject: Drama, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1985
Director: Francisco Lombardi
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 138 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 138 minutes

Title: FESTIVAL OF MAMACHA GRANDE, THE
Description: Every year on July 16th the town of Paucartambo celebrates the festival of the Virgen del Carmen, Mamacha Carmen. According to tradition, the beauty of this festival arise from the competition between it and the Virgen del Rosario, the former celebrated by mestizos and the latter by Indians. Dance groups provide ways for the inhabitants of the town to identify themselves as individuals, as well as relate with one another as a single mestizo identity.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Gisella Canepa Koch
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 34 minutes

Title: MURALLA VERDE, LA
Description: A young family, determined to escape the pressures of life in Lima, struggles to exist in the exotic, overgrown Peruvian jungle. Godoy's autobiographical story is perhaps the most honored Peruvian film of all time.
Subject: Social Issues, Biography, Environment/Geography, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1970
Director: Armando Robles Godoy
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 112 minutes

Title: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND GENRES OF PERU LAMBAYEQUE
Description: The musical panorama of the region of Lambayeque shows the role placed by musical instruments and genres in delineating different cultural spheres, as well as in the conflict between traditional and modern expressions. Two large areas can be distinguished: those of the coast and of the mountains. Each expresses itself in music differently, even when both use the same musical instruments. The coastal town draws on African traditions. Communications and popular urban music have also influenced this area, significantly changing Lambayeque's musical panorama.
Subject: Music/Dance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Gisella Canepa Koch
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 27 minutes

Title: PEOPLE OF THE SHINING PATH, THE
Description: A short documentary made by British TV focusing on the Shining Path movement within the city of Lima and a few villages. There are extensive interviews with members of this guerilla movement. Knowledge of the present situation in Peru is necessary before showing this film to students.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 41 minutes

Title: PERU, COUNTRY OF DIVERSITY
Description: This is a promotional travel documentary about Peru and its resources.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 10 minutes

Title: PERU, NEW AGE
Description: This is a wonderful travelogue about Peru.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Manfred Einsedler
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 8 minutes

Title: PERU: BETWEEN THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL
Description: From 1979 to the early 1990s, a guerrilla war in Peru took a huge toll on the country�s economy, and an even greater one on its poorest people. This documentary probes the economic and political roots of the conflict and examines the post?war struggles of Peruvians as they strive to reconstruct their lives. The plight of rural populations displaced by the violence�committed by both sides and presented in graphic footage�is recounted by volunteers currently working to resettle them. A Free-Will Production.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 52 minutes

Title: TINKA DE ALPACA
Description: At the end of the alpaca's bearing season, the shepherds of Tata Wara-Wara, a highland village in the region of Arequipa, get ready to perform a deeply rooted Andean tradition known as the tinka de alpaca. This ceremony, in which the animals are paid homage and counted, is accompanied by rituals giving thanks to Pachamama, the earth goddess. The force of her fertility is sought to secure the abundance of pasture and an increase in livestock.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1988
Director: Gisella Canepa Koch
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 17 minutes

Title: TREASURES OF PERU
Description: Textbooks tell the dramatic story of the imprisoned Inca who paid a ransom of a roomful of gold to the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro and, for most people, this event in 1532 and the subsequent fall of the Inca empire, marks the beginning of the history of Peru. However, Dr. Dwayne L. Merry, noted anthropologist and archaeologist, demonstrates that the Incas built their civilization on previous cultures dating back more than 3,000 years.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Nomad Films
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 75 minutes

Title: TREASURES OF SOUTH AMERICA
Description: Tour the natural and historical treasures of one of the world's most diverse continents, including a meeting with two unique creatures of the Galapagos that intrigued Charles Darwin. Viewers will also travel to the ruins of the ancient Inca city of Cuzco, Peru, and see the majestic cataracts at Iguacu Falls, where water and gravity collide.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Discovery Channel
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 26 minutes

Title: WYLANCHA
Description: In the Andes, the time for celebrating propitiatory rituals coincides with the carnival season. One such ritual is the wylancha; in which members of the community of MOLLOKO, in the Acora district of Puno, offer their alpacas to the mountains and the earth, their protecting divinities.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Director: Gisella Canepa Koch
Country: Peru
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes

Title: ALPACAS: AN ANDEAN GAMBLE
Description: A documentary about the efforts to bring alpacas, indigenous animals of the Andes who were sacred in Inca culture, to a community in Northern Peru. Populations of alpacas were devastated during the Spanish conquest. The film depicts this cooperative project, which was initiated in the small Andean community and sponsored by the Interamerican Foundation.
Subject: Anthropology/Archaelogy, Indigenous Peoples, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1988
Country: Peru/USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes

Title: DIOS LOS CRIA
Description: Five stories about the contradictions and ironies of human conduct, combining satire, tragi-comedy and unexpected conclusions.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1979
Director: Jacobo Morales
Country: Puerto Rico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: LINDA SARA
Description: Linda Sara is the first Puerto Rican film to be nominated for an Oscar. This film is about a love that transcends time and a family about to loose the only thing they own: the house they have lived in since their birth.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1995
Director: Jacobo Morales
Country: Puerto Rico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 107 minutes

Title: LO QUE LE PASO A SANTIAGO
Description: A song for love and hope. Santiago is retired by the company to which he has dedicated forty years of his life. He is a widower, his children have problems, and he is bothered by materialism and the crisis of values in society. His life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a beautiful and enigmatic woman.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Jacobo Morales
Country: Puerto Rico
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 105 minutes

Title: NICOLAS Y LOS DEMAS
Description: A simple story about complicated people, this movie is about the casual meeting of two friends who have not seen each other in twentysome years. While beginning with humorous satire and irony, the story takes a dramatic turn.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1986
Director: Jacobo Morales
Country: Puerto Rico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 95 minutes

Title: SOY CUBA (BONUS DISC 2)
Description: A documentary about Mikhail Kalatozov, with interviews and old footage.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: Russia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Russian Subtitles: English Length:

Title: BODAS DE SANGRE
Description: An adaptation for ballet by Antonio Gades, Spain's leading ballet and flamenco star, of Federico Garcia Lorca's famous folk tragedy, performed in full costume in a bare Madrid rehearsal hall.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1981
Director: Carlos Saura
Country: Spain
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 71 minutes

Title: CARMEN
Description: A modern dance company rehearses a flamenco-ballet version of the Bizet opera, and the principal performers commence living out the scenario in the reality of their own daily lives. It is passionate, pulsating and beautifully danced: Gades is one of Spain's most famous flamenco dancers the former director of the National Ballet.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1983
Director: Carlos Saura
Country: Spain
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 99 minutes

Title: COSAS QUE DEJE EN LA HABANA
Description: Nena, Rosa and Ludmilla are three Cuban sisters that arrive in Madrid looking for a better life than the one they left behind in Havana. Their aunt, Maria, has lived in Spain for many years and has a business in which she intents to exploit her nieces for a roof to live in. A whole world of conflicts, deceits and comical situations face them, soon realizing that Madrid is not the paradise they intended to find.
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Manuel Guti�rrez Arag�n
Country: Spain
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 100 minutes

Title: EL
Description: The psychological study of a man who pursues and marries a young woman only to become obsessed with insane jealously over her supposed infidelity. As in other Bu�uel films, beneath the calm and predictable world presented is the surreal logic of a dream which becomes a nightmare.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1952
Director: Luis Bu�uel
Country: Spain
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 88 minutes

Title: FLORES DE OTRO MUNDO
Description: The story of relationship struggles between men and women in the small town of Santa Eulalia, in Spain. Among them are Patrica, the Dominican woman, and Milady, the Cuban woman.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1999
Director: Iciar Bllain
Country: Spain
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 106 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 106 minutes

Title: HOMBRE MUY VIEJO CON ALAS ENORMAS, UN (A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS)
Description: Amid the debris of a Colombian cyclone lands an old man with enormous wings, whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical "creature" is housed in a chicken coop as his host and the onlookers wait for his heavenly message, which turns out to be a mixed blessing. Original story by Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Part of the film series Amores Dif�ciles.
Subject: Literature, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Director: Fernando Birri
Country: Spain
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: WHISKY
Description: This film is a look at the decline of Uruguayan middle class through the life of Jacobo, a lonely sock factory owner in Montevideo. When he hears about the impending visit of his irritatingly cheerful brother, he enlists his faithful assistant Marta to pretend to be his wife.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll
Country: Uruguay
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 94 minutes

Title: DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN, A (UN DIA SIN MEXICANOS)
Description: The California Dream suddenly becomes a hilarious nightmare when the entire Latin American population of the Golden State vanishes. For most �the disappearance� forces the cracks in their private lives wide open, including news reporter Lila Rodriguez, the state�s last remaining Hispanic, and senator Steven Abercrombie III, who becomes governor pro tem despite his anti-immigrant stance. Confusion, misunderstandings and humorous situations abound, making this film a comedic satire and a modern fable with a very current message. This is the full-length feature film based on the 1997 short film of the same name.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Sergio Arau
Country: US
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: Spanish Length: 98 minutes

Title: NUEBA YOL 3
Description: In this comically-numbered sequel, Balbuena (Luisito Mart�) returns to New York, where he must marry an American citizen to remain in the country legally.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Comedy
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1995
Director: Angel Mu�iz
Country: US
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 117 minutes

Title: ADJUSTING IN NICARAGUA: THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Description: A documentary about the effects of IMF and World Bank policies on the economy and society of Nicaragua, and the efforts to counteract the negative results of such policies through cooperative and community development efforts. Based primarily on oral interviews with representatives from development agencies.
Subject: Economics/Development, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 50 minutes

Title: AIDS IN THE BARRIO: ESO NO ME PASA A MI (THIS ISN'T HAPPENING TO ME)
Description: This film by Francis Negr�n and Peter Biella examines the impact of AIDS within Hispanic-American communities, focusing on the specific economic, social and cultural factors which influence perception of the AIDS crisis.
Subject: Social Issues, Gender/Sexuality, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Francis Negr�n and Peter Biella
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 29 minutes

Title: AND THE EARTH DID NOT SWALLOW HIM
Description: A moving and powerful portrait of the life of a poor Mexican American boy and his migrant farm worker family, as they struggle to adapt to life in American society. Adapted from the novel �...y no se lo trago la tierra� by Thomas Rivera. Through its many human stories of growing up as a Mexican American the story exposes the rich cultural traditions which have given shape to life in the American Southwest
Subject: Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1994
Director: Severo P�rez
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 100 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 100 minutes

Title: BANANA SPLIT
Description: Documentary that delves into the history of the banana. The film starts by explaining the globalization of the banana and its effects on the economy of Honduras. It shows the viewer the hardships and difficulties faced by the common banana workers and their relationship with the fruit corporations.
Subject: Economics/Development, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Ron Harpelle and Kelly Saxberg
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 46 minutes

Title: BORDER BRUJO
Description: The acclaimed performance artist Guillermo G�mez-Pe�a directs himself in this video focusing on issues of cross-culturalism along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his performance he switches in and out of various characters reflecting different aspects of border culture.
Subject: Art, Cinema/Theater, Migration/Immigration, Border, Docudrama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Guillermo G�mez-Pe�a
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes

Title: BORDERLINE CASES
Description: Nearly 2000 maquiladoras have been built in Mexico by companies from the US, Asia and Europe. As a result, the border became ?a 2000 mile long open sewer, a vast toxic waste dump.? Filmed in three border regions, (Matamoros and Brownsville; Tijuana and San Diego; Ciudad Juarez and El Paso), Borderline Cases reveals the complexity and magnitude of the cleanup, and gives a sense of energy and imagination found in the diverse mix of people of both countries, from grass-roots, governments, academia and industry, who are re-thinking traditional notions of borders as they engage in the search for solutions.
Subject: Border, Politics/Human Rights, Economics/Development
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: Lynn Corcoran
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 65 minutes

Title: BORDERS
Description: Borders tells three small stories to illuminate a much larger one: the consequences of a world order in which products freely cross borders that people may not. Borders is a succinct and powerful meditation on the contradictions of U.S. border and trade policy. PART 1: LOVE ON THE LINE: Families divided by the U.S./Mexico border reunite for transnational picnics. PART 2: CONTAINER CITY: The metal containers that bring products to the US make Newark, New Jersey a different kind of bordertown. PART 3: A VISIBLE BORDER: An x-ray image shows the way 21st century workers are responding to borders that are open to products but not to them.
Subject: Migration/Immigration
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Alex Rivera
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 2-3 minutes each
Copy: 2 Format: DVD Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 2-3 minutes each

Title: CAF� CON LECHE: VOICES OF EXILE'S CHILDREN
Description: An introspective look at young Cuban-Americans, the now-adult children of the first wave of Cuban exiles that came to the U.S. This documentary focuses on the fusion of traditional, old world values of yesteryear and modern, American culture, as the young Cuban-Americans comment on their experiences growing up bi-culturally.
Subject: Social Issues, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: Joe Cardona
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 85 minutes

Title: CELEBRATING CINCO DE MAYO
Description: This educational video aimed at children is separated into three sections. The first section explains what Cinco de Maya is, why it is celebrated and its importance. The second section talks about the history of Cinco de Mayo. The third section talks about how the holiday is celebrated. It includes music, arts and crafts, food, parades and general festivities that take place on Cinco de Mayo.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Sue Russell
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 17 minutes

Title: CHOCOLATE: PATHWAY TO THE GODS
Description: Our universal passion for chocolate goes back over 3,000 years. This documentary explores the history of this divine substance through artifacts, ritual, and obsession and takes the viewer in a journey from ancient Mesoamerica to Europe�s finest chocolate houses. The first documentary of a series focusing on four ritual foods of the Americas, chocolate, tequila, corn and potatoes. Produced by ArcheoProductions.
Subject: Anthropology/Archaelogy, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Meredith Dreiss and Grant Mitchell
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: CIUDAD, LA (THE CITY)
Description: Four fictional stories set in New York City, but common to many other places United States or the world. Filmed in black and white, the program depicts Latin American immigrants living in New York: day laborers paid to gather brick from an abandoned lot struggle to save one crushed when a wall collapses; a young man from Mexico meets a girl from his home village at a quincea�era, then loses her in the maze of a housing project; a homeless puppeteer dreams of a better life for his daughter, but cannot enroll her in school; a sweatshop seamstress needs money for her daughter?s medical treatment, but her employer has not paid her in more than a month. Most of the actors are nonprofessionals and are themselves struggling immigrants, bringing understanding and realism to the film
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Social Issues, Migration/Immigration
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: David Riker
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 83 minutes

Title: CUBA: THE FORTY YEARS WAR
Description: This documentary follows two Cuban exiles, Bay of Pigs invasion veterans, upon their return to their native island. As attendees of a conference discussing the invasion, they interact and attempt to reconcile the past with former battlefield adversaries, including Fidel Castro. Narrated by Martin Sheen. United
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Peter Melangro and Jim Burroughs
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 52 minutes

Title: CUBAN ROOTS / BRONX STORIES
Description: This documentary traces the tangled paths and multifaceted identity of a black Cuban family in the Bronx. Both working-class and professional, black and Latino, foreign and native, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking, the family is shown in the constant process of negotiating its identity. On their arrival in Miami, the family immediately encountered racial segregation, and they were forced to choose their identity: �Are you black or Spanish?� The film explores the various experiences that each family member had in dealing with the realities of life as black Cuban-Americans in the Bronx.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Pam Sporn
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 56 minutes

Title: DAY OF THE DEAD: SAN FRANCISCO (DIA DE LOS MUERTOS)
Description: This film captures the beauty and richness of San Francisco�s annual Day of the Dead celebration. Enjoy scenes from this cross-cultural Mexican tradition that honors ancestors and families. People of all ages celebrate with a festival of marvelous costumes, reflective altars, live music and a neighborhood procession, all while exploring the relationship between the living and the dead. View all these aspects of the Dia de los Muertos holiday along with interviews with artists and participants.
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 14 minutes

Title: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES)
Description: The Motorcycle Diaries is an adaptation of a journal written by Ernesto Che Guevara when he was 23 years old. He and his friend, Alberto Granado are typical college students who, seeking fun and adventure before graduation, decide to travel across Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru in order to do their medical residency at a leper colony. The two best friends start off with the same goals and aspirations, but by the time the film is over, it's clear what each man's destiny has become.
Subject: Biography, Literature, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2004
Director: Walter Sallese
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 128 minutes

Title: DRUG WARS: FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY(PART I)
Description: Despite America�s 30-year war on drugs, the use of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana remains essentially unchanged. This two-part documentary presents a television history of America�s war on drugs from both sides of the battlefield. The first episode examines the impact of crack cocaine on our city streets and our criminal justice system. The report also investigates Mexico�s role in supplying drugs for American demand. The second episode recounts the origins of the drug campaign, from the Nixon administration�s drug control efforts to the rapid rise and fall of the Colombian drug cartels. PBS documentary from Frontline.
Subject: Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: DRUG WARS: FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY(PART II)
Description: Despite America�s 30-year war on drugs, the use of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana remains essentially unchanged. This two-part documentary presents a television history of America�s war on drugs from both sides of the battlefield. The first episode examines the impact of crack cocaine on our city streets and our criminal justice system. The report also investigates Mexico�s role in supplying drugs for American demand. The second episode recounts the origins of the drug campaign, from the Nixon administration�s drug control efforts to the rapid rise and fall of the Colombian drug cartels. PBS documentary from Frontline.
Subject: Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 120 minutes

Title: ESCUELA, LA
Description: There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. "Escuela", the sequel to Hannah Weyer�s critically acclaimed documentary "La Boda", personalizes these glaring statistics through the honest portrait of a teenage Mexican-American farm worker, Liliana Luis.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Hannah Weyer
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 52 minutes

Title: FAVELA RISING
Description: Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many friends, Anderson S� is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro�s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance, he rallies his community to counteract the violence and oppression.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: FLIGHT OF PEDRO PAN, THE
Description: Experience the heartache and uncertainty of the 1960s flight of more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States. The children of Operation Pedro Pan share their personal stories of the sacrifice, survival, broken hearts and new beginnings through interviews and archival footage.
Subject: Religion, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Joe Cardona and Mario de Varona
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: FRESCOES OF DIEGO RIVERA, THE
Description: "An artist must be the conscience of his age." In this way Diego Rivera, a leader of the Mexican mural renaissance movement of the 1920's and 1030's expressed the philosophy behind his work; in particular the spectacular series of murals he created for public buildings in the US and Mexico. Vividly exploring Rivera's evolution as an artist, his use of the fresco technique, and his explosive political beliefs; this stunning documentary reveals one of the true geniuses of the twentieth century. Actor Michael Moriarty narrates. From the "Portrait of an Artist" series.
Subject: Art, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1986
Director: Michael Camerini
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 35 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 35 minutes

Title: FRIDA
Description: Taymor recreates the tactile passion and beauty of Frida Kahlo�s art as a backdrop for her life of romance and revolution. Frida chronicles the life of artist Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame. The film shows the turbulence and controversy that surrounded both Frida and her husband, Diego Rivera, throughout their lives as political activists, artists, and lovers. Frida received a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Oscars.
Subject: Art, Biography, Women's Studies, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2003
Director: Julie Taymor
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 123 minutes

Title: FRIDA KAHLO: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Description: A documentary about Frida Kahlo's painful life and creative process. Part of the series "Portraits of an Artist."
Subject: Art, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1983
Director: Eila Hershon, Roberto Guerra, and Wibke Von Bonin
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 62 minutes

Title: GREAT MOJADO INVASION, THE
Description: The director narrates this pseudo-documentary, fantasizing an invasion of mojados (wetbacks) who reconquer lost Mexican territory to create the �U.S. of Aztl�n.� This new regime propagandizes by portraying Anglos with the same stereotypes employed against Latinos. Directed by Gustavo V�squez and Guillermo G�mez-Pe�a.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Gustavo valquez and Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 30 minutes

Title: GREENER GRASS: CUBA, BASEBALL, AND THE UNITED STATES
Description: While unfolding the story of the Cuba vs. the Baltimore Orioles games, this documentary develops a narrative of the history of baseball as an element of Cuban national identity, and the impact the sport has had on both the United States and Cuban relations. Especially interesting is the story of African Americans playing for Cuban teams, and both white and black Cubans playing in the early American Negro Leagues when baseball was segregated in the United States
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: HEAVIER THAN AIR
Description: This documentary challenges the popular understanding that the Wright brothers were the �first in flight.� It treats the life of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont and his mission to create �heavier than air� flying technology.
Subject: Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Simone Keith
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 38 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 38 minutes

Title: HOTEL CUBA
Description: A documentary about the Cuban-Jewish community in South Florida, with interviews from both Cuban-Jewish and Non-Jewish members of the community. Robert Levine began the documentary after realizing the effects of the generation gap between Cuban-Jewish teenagers and their parents and grandparents, who were originally from Cuba. Robert Levine, joined with Mark D. Szuchman, a colleague at Florida International University, began to record their interviews with the community members to reflect the views of the community members.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1999
Director: Robert Levine
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 27 minutes

Title: LAGOS, RICARDO (VISIT TO UNC)
Description: Filmed on November 9, 2001, when Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Escobar received the Honorary Doctor of Laws from UNC-Chapel Hill. The film includes the introduction by deans and Lagos� speech upon acceptance of the award.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: LAST REVOLUTIONARY, THE
Description: CBS Reports with Dan Rather presents a biography of Fidel Castro.
Subject: Biography, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: LIFE AND DEBT
Description: A real world look at how the policies of globalization and free trade devastate places. Director Stephanie Black focuses on Jamaica, which has been virtually destroyed from twenty-five years of �help� from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. An important hit at the 2002 Human Rights Watch Film Festival, with a soundtrack by Ziggy Marley and a narration written by Jamaica Kincaid from her book A Small Place.
Subject: Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Stephanie Black
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 86 minutes

Title: MORRISTOWN: IN THE AIR AND SUN
Description: This film is the working classes� response to globalization. It engages the audience in the issues of immigration, factory flight, and the organized demand for economic justice. Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, this documentary is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hope. These conversations are combined with scenes in factories, fields, union halls, Mexican stores, city parks, and employment agencies. The documentary travels to the U.S.-Mexican border (El Paso � Juarez) to create deeper understanding of factory flight out of Morristown, and to interior Mexico to look at the forces that cause immigration. The film ends with a stunning union victory at a large poultry processing plant in Morristown, Tennessee.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Anne Lewis
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: English & Spanish Length: 60 min

Title: NORTE, EL
Description: Mayan Indian peasants organize in an effort to improve their lot in life. After the army destroys their village and kills their family, a teenage brother and sister decide they must flee to �El Norte�. After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling through Mexico, they arrive in Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Border, Latinos/Chicanos, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1983
Director: Gregory Nava
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 139 minutes

Title: NUESTRA COMUNIDAD
Description: This film is an hour-long video documentary that looks at the impact on communities in North Carolina brought about by the rapidly increasing Spanish-speaking population in the emerging �New South.� The documentary focuses on personal life experiences, the dimensions of cultural encounters, and prospects for the future of these new �Southerners.�
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Joanne Hershfielf and Penny Simpson
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes
Copy: 3 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: Numeros y Colores
Description: Two children stories to teach children how to identify numbers, colors and figures in Spanish.
Subject: Animated
Type:
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 20 minutes

Title: OTRO LADO, EL
Description: Americans simply pass through the turnstiles for cheap thrills in Tijuana. Mexicans on the other side, however, face endless barriers of barbed wire, attack dogs, and armed border patrols. Alex Webb captures the odd panorama of the border.
Subject: Border, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Alex Webb
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 10 minutes

Title: OUR BRAND IS CRISIS
Description: For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections around the world. This documentary is an astounding look at one of their campaigns and its earth-shattering aftermath. With flabbergasting access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, we watch how the consultants�, including James Carville, marketing strategies shape the relationship between a leader and his people. The film is a shocking example of how the all-American art of branding can affect the �spreading of democracy� overseas
Subject: Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Rachel Boynton
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 87 minutes

Title: POPUL VUH
Description: The Popol Vuh, the religious book of the Maya, is the longest existing poem in an American Indian language. It stands as an extraordinary monument to the accomplishments of the Maya and their ethical, spiritual, and philosophical beliefs. This animated version begins with the account of the gods' several creations and destructions of the world, tracing the cosmological beginnings to the awakening of the Maya civilization.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Religion, History
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: Patricia Amlin
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 58 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 58 minutes
Copy: 3 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 58 minutes

Title: POWER OF THE COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL
Description: With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 Cuba lost half of its oil imports and survived. The economy shifted from large farms or plantations and reliance on fossil-fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers, to small organic farms and urban gardens, converting Cuba from a highly industrial society to a sustainable one. This documentary shows Cuba�s success in this transition and is aimed at giving hope to a developed world hooked on oil and to lift American's prejudice against Cuba by showing the Cuban people as they are.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Faith Morgan
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 53 minutes

Title: SALUD
Description: Beautifully filmed in Cuba, South Africa, Gambia, Honduras and Venezuela, Salud reveals the human dimension of the worldwide health crisis, and the central role of international cooperation in addressing glaring inequalities. The film examines the remarkable case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with �one of the world�s best health systems,� and accompanies some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals now serving in 68 countries.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Connie Field
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: SAVING ELIAN
Description: The political, social, and international implications of the custody battle over five-year-old Eli�n Gonz�lez pitted the U.S. Department of Justice, the Miami Cuban exile community and the Cuban government in a new acrimonious struggle. Documentary footage from Miami, and some from Cuba, along with interviews and observations from participants, legal observers, and US- Cuban experts. The film explores how Eli�n became a metaphor over the future on both sides of the Florida strait. A PBS Frontline Documentary.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS: AN INSIDER SPEAKS OUT
Description: Major Joseph Blair, a former instructor at the School of the Americas, provides a fact-filled and informative portrayal of US military training and doctrine imparted to Latin American armed forces at Fort Benning, GA. Couched as a modernizing influence, the program has elicited a storm of controversy over the years because of human rights violations committed by many graduates.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Linda Panetta
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 16 minutes

Title: SERTAO DAS MEMORIAS, O
Description: This film tells the story of two Sertanejos, the inhabitants of Sert�o. Maria is the female reincarnation of Jesus, representing the strength of the Sartanejo women. She invites the Beatas (holy women) on a mission of prayer for which they journey through the countryside, witnessing social unrest among the population. Maria meets the hero of the peasants, the strong worker Antero whose history intermingles with hers. Through mythical dreams, visions, and stories heard along their journey, we witness the unfolding of Biblical prophecy in which Old Testament texts mingle with the folktales of the Sert�o
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Jos� Ara�jo
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 102 minutes

Title: TUNE IN TOMORROW
Description: Based on the novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa.When radio reporter Martin (Keanu Reeves) falls for his sexy aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), the station�s zany soap opera writer Pedro (Peter Falk) decides to play cupid � and broadcast the details! Courtship soon turns to chaos with Martin�s love life in the shambles, Julia in disgrace and irate listeners rioting in the streets. Everyone will have to tune in tomorrow... to discovers how it all turns out.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1990
Director: Jon Amiel
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: English Length: 108 minutes

Title: VIDA NO ES FACIL, LA
Description: Documentary focusing on various issues affecting Latinos in North Carolina through interviews. Topics covered include in-state tuition and education, misconceptions of the Latino community, permanent residency, and the impact of Latinos on the economy
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Maurice M. Martinez
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: YO SOY (I AM)
Description: Features interviews with three artists instrumental in the Chicano art movement: Juana Alicia, Jose Montoya, and Malaquias Montoya. The three describe their early influences and inspirations, and discuss their philosophies on art and life.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Hispanic Research Center ASU
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 75 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 75 minutes

Title: YOUNG BULLFIGHTER, THE
Description: An EVA film intended for younger audiences. Short documentary traces the career of a young Mexican man trying for a career as a torero in the ring.
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: ZOOT SUIT RIOTS
Description: In August 1942, the murder of a young Mexican American man ignited a firestorm in Los Angeles. The press claimed Mexican youth � know as �zoot-suiters� for the clothes they wore � were terrorizing the city with crime. The police arrested 600 Mexican Americans while seventeen were found guilty for murder despite a lack of evidence. With stunning film noir recreations, evocative original photography and moving interviews, this documentary tells the story of the trial and the resulting violent events of the summer of 1943.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 2002
Director: Joseph Tovares
Country: USA
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: CHE: THE BOLIVIAN DIARY
Description: On October 9, 1967, Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army, aided by the CIA. Che�s diary, a detailed, personal account of his futile 11-month attempt to spark a revolution in Bolivia, is the basis of this intimate filmed portrait.
Subject: Biography, Social Movements/Resistance, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Richard Dindo
Country: USA/Bolivia
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 94 minutes

Title: FRONTEIRA, A (THE BORDER)
Description: The story of two Brazilian families who put everything at risk to cross the border into the United States from Mexico, in search of a better life. Having gotten over the first leg of their journey, they all confront unexpected obstacles as they struggle to both reach their goals and adapt to their new reality. They fight for their dreams with the same courage and determination with which they cross new frontiers that appear on their way. Entirely based on true stories that were compiled to make up this beautiful and moving story.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2003
Director: Roberto Carmenati
Country: USA/Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 106 minutes

Title: BREAK OF DAWN
Description: Oscar Chavez, a great Mexican singer and actor is the leading actor of this story about the life of Pedro Gonzalez, the host of a radio show in 1930s Los Angeles. His life was filled with romance and music until he challenged a powerful and corrupt political system.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1988
Director: Isaac Artenstein
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 100 minutes

Title: CHICANA
Description: Made by Sylvia Morales. Chicana traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. A classic film by a leading Latina filmmaker.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Women's Studies, Docudrama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1979
Director: Silvia Morales
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 23 minutes

Title: CHULAS FRONTERAS Y DEL MERO CORAZ�N
Description: Documentary films of the borderland between Texas and Mexico. Norte�a music filled with the poetry of daily life-love songs, passion, death, humor, and loss is explored from dancehalls, small towns, and family gatherings.
Subject: Music/Dance, Cinema/Theater
Type: Documentary
Year: 1974
Director: Les Blank
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 90 minutes

Title: COUPLE IN THE CAGE
Description: This film documents the travelling performance of Guillermo G�mez-Pe�a and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibit themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island, providing a vivid and provocative interpretation of cultural encounters.
Subject: Art, Cinema/Theater, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Docudrama
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Coco Fusco and Paula Eredia
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: CRUCEROS Y CAMINOS
Description: Like many communities across the Southeast, the town of Clinton, North Carolina, has become home to a vibrant and growing Spanish-speaking community. This diverse community of newcomers, who are attracted to the area by jobs in the agriculture and livestock industries, are struggling to honor their cultural and religious identities while making new lives. This short video documentary, made by a graduate student from UNC- Greensboro in collaboration with Clinton's Immaculate Conception Church and local Latino leaders, consists of still and moving images of community meetings, religious ceremonies, and cultural festivals which are narrated by a mosaic of voices from the community.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Literature
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: Shane Nye
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 17 minutes

Title: EDGE WALKER: A CONVERSATION WITH LINDA SCHELE
Description: Documentary tribute to the late Linda Schele, among the leading scholars of Maya civilization, who in January 1998 gave a long, filmed interview in which she talks freely and frankly in her own inimitable style about her life, work, and philosophy.
Subject: Anthropology/Archaelogy, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: None
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: English or Portuguese Length: 50 minutes

Title: I AM JOAQUIN
Description: This work by Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino marked the emergence of film as a distinct cultural and aesthetic practice within the Chicano Movement. In the film, Luis Valdez gives a dramatic interpretation of Rudilfo "Corky" Gonzalez's epic poem: I Am Joaquin, which was often distributed through mimeographed booklets to be read at rallies. This powerful film delineates all the contradictions of the Chicano experience over a 500-year genealogy of mestizo resistance.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 1969
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 20 minutes

Title: LOW'N'SLOW: THE ART OF LOW RIDING
Description: Filmed in San Jose, CA, this work by Rick Tejada Flores documents the art and culture of the low riders, and includes an animated title sequence by Chicano artist Rupert Garcia and music by Jorge Santana.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 1987
Director: Rick Tejada Flores
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: MARIACHI, EL
Description: The critically-acclaimed film debut from Robert Rodr�guez, shot with no second takes using borrowed equipment and a talented cast of unknowns. A case of deadly mistaken identity leads the protagonist, who aspires only to be a mariachi, to trade his guitar for a gun and play for his life in this vision of bandido violence in Mexico.
Subject: Border, Social Issues, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Robert Rodr�guez
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and French Subtitles: English Length:

Title: MAYAN VOICES: AMERICAN LIVES
Description: Set in Indiantown, Florida, a small, agricultural town 30 miles west of West Palm Beach, this film illustrates the challenges of a totally alien environment, exploring issues of identity, cultural integration, migration, and social change. It also demonstrated the impact 5,000 new immigrants with a foreign language and culture is having on the still predominantly white community.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Olivia Carrescia
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 56 minutes

Title: MERIDA PROSCRITA
Description: Made by Raul Ferrera-Balanquet. An exceptionally lyrical and visual video about the encounter of two young gay Mexican men in the city of M�rida,
Subject: Gender/Sexuality
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 7 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 7 minutes

Title: OFRENDA, LA: THE DAYS OF THE DEAD
Description: Made by Lourdes Portillo and Susana Mu�oz. The very young, the old, and the deceased are all represented in this personal and affectionate filmmaker's relationship to the history, and present-day celebrations of the Day of the Dead.
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food, Religion, Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes

Title: REVELACIONES / REVELATIONS: HISPANIC ART OF EVANESCENCE
Description: Dircted by Edin Velez, Produced and written by Chon Noriega. A documentary about the work, cultural expressions, and recent exhibits of 8 latino artists, this film also provides a means to think U.S. latino identity and history.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Edin Velez
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes

Title: SANDRA HAHN: REPLIES OF THE NIGHT; SLIPPING BETWEEN
Description: In Replies of the Night, Sandra Hahn uses computer animation to activate a photograph of her grandfather who died a violent death during the Days of the Dead in 1946. In Slipping Between, she creates a �visual poem� by using another member of her family that died from cancer. The video projects a palette of images transmitting an array of feeling and emotion.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Director: Sandra Hahn
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 12 minutes

Title: SEAMS
Description: Directed by Karim Ainouz, a young Brazilian American filmmaker, who traveled back to his home in Brazil to interview on film his five delightfully eccentric unmarried or widowed aunts on their views of love, family and marriage. These women all in their eighties or nineties seem more liberated and more at ease with certain issues than many people of today.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1993
Director: Karim Ainouz
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 27 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 27 minutes

Title: SELENA
Description: The story of the legendary Tejana singer, Selena, who was tragically murdered by the president of her fan club. Jennifer L�pez and Edward James Olmos star in this movie about he talents ,triumphs,and tragedies of the Quintanilla family.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1997
Director: Gregory Nava
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English or Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 127 minutes

Title: STREET ART
Description: The first and last documentary by 18-year old Ben Gutierrez is a highly informative look at graffiti that breaks the art form down into four distinct categories: "peacing," gang style, tagging, and mural art. Gutierrez was shot and killed in the winter of 1990.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Ben Gutierrez
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 5 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 5 minutes

Title: SUPER, EL
Description: A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York, El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland and stubbornly refuses to assimilate into the new culture.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1979
Director: Leon Ichaso and Orlando Jimenez-Leal
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 80 minutes

Title: VANESSA, THE ORANGE THROWER (VANESSA, ARROJA NARANJAS)
Description: A view into the family values and Catholic guilt in a Latino community. This film examines the tragic-comic problems that a Puerto Rican teen creates for herself when she decides to take attention by saying that she is pregnant.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1994
Director: Kimberly Caviness
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 29 minutes

Title: ZOOT SUIT
Description: Adapted from the 1978 stage play by the preeminent Chicano playwright Luis Vald�z, Zoot Suit is a musical drama of racism and intolerance in the culture of Los Angeles. It begins in 1942 with the death of a young Chicano (Mexican-American) which directly leads to the infamous "zoot suit riots."
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, History, Music/Dance, Drama, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1979
Director: Luis Vald�z
Country: USA/Chicano/Latino
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: Spanish Length: 103 minutes

Title: FIDEL (2001)
Description: This film is an intimate portrait of the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Filmmaker Estela Bravo presents rare interviews with Castro and footage of him swimming with bodyguards, visiting his childhood home and school, and trading jokes with his friend Nelson Mandela. It introduces a positive portrayal of Castro rarely shown in the US media.
Subject: History, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Estela Bravo
Country: USA/Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 91 minutes

Title: ZAFIROS: MUSIC FROM THE EDGE OF TIME, LOS
Description: A musical phenomenon in 1960's Cuba, Los Zafiros� brilliant mix of American-inspired Doo-Wop and traditional Latin forms caused an international sensation. �Music from the Edge of Time� explores the memories of Manuel Galban and Miguel Cancio, the two surviving members of Los Zafiros, as they are reunited in Havana. The film also features the perspectives of numerous Zafiros family members in Miami and Havana, international musicologists, and musical colleagues of the group. In evoking the Cuban post-revolutionary epoch of the 1960�s, this feature-length documentary presents a vivid, moving, and balanced portrait of the remarkable musical success story that was Los Zafiros.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Lorenzo DeStefano
Country: USA/Cuba
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 84 minutes

Title: SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE
Description: Silent motion picture footage of the Spanish-Cuban-American War and the subsequent Philippine insurrection produced by Edison pictures between 1898 and 1901. The two conflicts were the first in which the motion picture camera played a role. Most footage is staged for the hand-cranked camera, but views of ships, parades, and notable figures is also included. Silent with English captions
Type: Documentary
Year: 1898-1901
Country: USA/Cuba/Puerto Rico/Phillipines
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Silent Subtitles: English Length: 70 minutes

Title: ROMERO
Description: Incisive, quietly powerful drama chronicling the last three years of the life of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador. The focus is on the way in which he became an outspoken defender of human rights and was eventually assassinated.
Subject: Biography, History, Social Movements/Resistance, Drama
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1989
Director: John Duigan
Country: USA/El Salvador
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English or Spanish Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 102 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 10
Description: "The Americans" The Americans return to the United States to profile California's Mexican-American population and the Latin American and Caribbean communities of Miami and New York City. This final episode poses questions about assimilation, national identity and how these communities are changing what it means to be an American.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 7
Description: "Builders of Images" This program explores the arts throughout the Americas, celebrating the extraordinary creative ferment that has attracted global acclaim and given rise to a distinct and increasingly influential Latin American and Caribbean artistic voice.
Subject: Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: APPROACH OF DAWN
Description: An informative and sensitive documentary that tells the story of Mayan women activists and their courageous fight for indigenous rights in Guatemala. Featuring several outstanding women that are playing an important role in this struggle, including 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Mench�.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Women's Studies
Type: Documentary
Year: 1997
Director: Gayla Jamison
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 50 minutes

Title: ART AND REVOLUTION IN MEXICO
Description: Part I is a documentary dealing with the art of the Mexican revolution as a political movement and a revolution in art. Text by Octavio Paz. Part II examines these monumental creations not only for their great aesthetic value, but also as an essential and fascinating part of Mexico's history. The murals are examples of the marriage of art and political thought. Includes works by Rivera and Siqueiros. Part III is an insight into the elements of the life experiences of Tamayo, a Zapotecan Indian and a famous Mexican painter.
Subject: Art, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes; 30 minutes; 28 minutes

Title: BRAZIL
Description: This film is intended as an introduction to Brazil, for people of all ages.
Subject: History, Music/Dance
Type: Documentary
Year:
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: BUENAVISTA VASE, THE: ARCHEOLOGY VS. LOOTING
Description: The Buenavista Base was produced in 1994 at Duke University Museum of Art for the exhibit Painting the Maya Universe. Dorie Reents Budent, curator of the exhibit and curator at DUMA explains in this video the importance of this Maya case and other objects pertaining to the show.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Art, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 15 minutes

Title: BURIED MIRROR, THE(PART I)
Description: (five part series) A co-production of Spanish television and the Smithsonian Institute, this Quincentenary series, narrated by the well known Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, is an excellent historical analysis and creatively filmed story of the encounter of two worlds in 1492 and the aftermath of this encounter. 5 hours in total, it can be shown separately or individually. The parts are titled: "The Virgin and the Bull", Conflict of the Gods", "The Age of Gold," "The Price of Freedom," "Unfinished Business."
Subject: History, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes each

Title: BURIED MIRROR, THE(PART II)
Description: (five part series) A co-production of Spanish television and the Smithsonian Institute, this Quincentenary series, narrated by the well known Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, is an excellent historical analysis and creatively filmed story of the encounter of two worlds in 1492 and the aftermath of this encounter. 5 hours in total, it can be shown separately or individually. The parts are titled: "The Virgin and the Bull", Conflict of the Gods", "The Age of Gold," "The Price of Freedom," "Unfinished Business."
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes each

Title: BURIED MIRROR, THE(PART III)
Description: (five part series) A co-production of Spanish television and the Smithsonian Institute, this Quincentenary series, narrated by the well known Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, is an excellent historical analysis and creatively filmed story of the encounter of two worlds in 1492 and the aftermath of this encounter. 5 hours in total, it can be shown separately or individually. The parts are titled: "The Virgin and the Bull", Conflict of the Gods", "The Age of Gold," "The Price of Freedom," "Unfinished Business."
Subject: History, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes each

Title: BURIED MIRROR, THE(PART IV)
Description: (five part series) A co-production of Spanish television and the Smithsonian Institute, this Quincentenary series, narrated by the well known Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, is an excellent historical analysis and creatively filmed story of the encounter of two worlds in 1492 and the aftermath of this encounter. 5 hours in total, it can be shown separately or individually. The parts are titled: "The Virgin and the Bull", Conflict of the Gods", "The Age of Gold," "The Price of Freedom," "Unfinished Business."
Subject: History, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes each

Title: BURIED MIRROR, THE(PART V)
Description: (five part series) A co-production of Spanish television and the Smithsonian Institute, this Quincentenary series, narrated by the well known Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, is an excellent historical analysis and creatively filmed story of the encounter of two worlds in 1492 and the aftermath of this encounter. 5 hours in total, it can be shown separately or individually. The parts are titled: "The Virgin and the Bull", Conflict of the Gods", "The Age of Gold," "The Price of Freedom," "Unfinished Business."
Subject: History, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes each

Title: CARLOS FUENTES
Description: An interview with the renowned Mexican novelist for World Monitor--a television presentation of the Christian Science Monitor.
Subject: Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1988
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 7 minutes

Title: CARMEN MIRANDA: BANANAS IS MY BUSINESS
Description: This film relates the intimate saga of the star who captured the world's heart and imagination. It reveals the lasting image of Latin American women she created and serves as a celebration of her glorious talents. Using active footage, film fragments, interviews and dramatic re-enactments, acclaimed director Helena Solberg goes behind the scenes to convey the true life story of the "Brazilian Bombshell."
Subject: Music/Dance, Cinema/Theater, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: Helena Solberg
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English and Portuguese Subtitles: English Length: 90 minutes

Title: CHIAPAS! THE FIGHT FOR LAND AND LIBERTY
Description: Produced by John Alpert and Maryann DeLio; co-produced by the Disarm Educational Fund and the Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean. Through interviews with peasants and peasant leaders, the Catholic Church, human rights workers and victims of Army abuses, and government officials, this documentary attempts to portray the life of the indigenous in Chiapas and show why and how the revolution of the Zapatista National Liberation Front in 1994 makes sense in their lives.
Subject: Social Issues, Politics/Human Rights, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Director: John Alpert and Maryann DeLio
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes

Title: CHRISTMAS IN MEXICO
Description: This film looks at the Christmas traditions of Mexico, which feature influences from both Spanish and Native American backgrounds. Intended primarily for younger audiences, with highlights of the celebrations. Produced by the Educational Video Network
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: CITIES OF THE ANCIENT MAYAS
Description: A documentary by the Educational Video Network. Intended for younger audiences.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 23 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 23 minutes

Title: COLUMBUS DIDN'T DISCOVER US
Description: This documentary features interviews with indigenous activists from North, South, and Central America who gathered at the First Contintental Conference of Indigenous Peoples in July of 1990. Native people speak about the impact on their cultures of the Columbus legacy, contemporary struggles over land and human rights, the importance of reviving spiritual traditions, and the need to alert the world to environmental crises.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: Robbie Leppzer
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 24 minutes

Title: COOPERATIVE WITHOUT BORDERS, A
Description: This informative piece begins with a presentation of the struggle of Mexican men crossing the U.S. border in search for better economic opportunities. It narrates the crossing of U.S. border in search for better opportunities. It narrates the creation and accomplishments of the Cooperativa sin Fronteras, a fund for economic development. Through this fund money is transferred from employers of migrant workers in Arizona to create and encourage the economic development necessary for the amelioration of conditions in 6 Mexican states. In this way, the Cooperative strives to reduce the problem of illegal migration to the United States. Inter-American Foundation.
Subject: Economics/Development
Type: Documentary
Year: 1988
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 22 minutes

Title: CUBA: ISLAND OF DREAMS
Description: Experience a tour through mountains, beaches, and the colorful panorama Cuba has to offer. This video provides pieces of folklore, music, architecture, history, as it shows the major cities of the island. Video Visits.
Subject: Social Life and Customs, Travel
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 52 minutes

Title: CUCARACHA, LA
Description: This very first three-color, live action film production is a comic short about a volatile tempered cantina girl trying to regain the love of a fellow dancer. The piece has lots of dancing and music, marking the debut of glorious Technicolor.
Subject: Music/Dance, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1936
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 21 minutes

Title: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Description: A powerful psychological thriller about one woman's struggle to heal from the effects of torture. Fifteen years after being tortured and imprisoned by a sadistic doctor, Paulina Escobar, played by Sigourney Weaver, faces a man who may have been her torturer. This film reflects the realities of political repression that occurred in Chile during the Pinochet regime. A Roman Polanski film, based on the play by Ariel Dorfman.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1995
Director: Roman Polanski
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 103 minutes

Title: DEDOS DE LUNA
Description: A bilingual unit based on the book Dedos De Luna by Tony Johnston and Leonel Maciel. Through a poetic combination of words and paintings, Dedos De Luna tells the story of To�o and his grandfather, Don Gregorio. They enjoy making masks together, until Don Gregorio dies after making his last mask. To�o must come to terms with the death and decide whether to carry on the tradition of mask making. The unit effectively confronts issues of loss, death, and cultural values through a series of well-organized and detailed lessons. The study of Dedos De Luna culminates in a student fiesta of grandparents, memories, and the future. Accompanied by a book.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: Dana Walker & Mario Huerta
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length:

Title: DRUG WARS: THE KIKI CAMARENA STORY
Description: Parts 1-3 of the made-for-television Tom Brokaw report.
Subject: Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length:

Title: FACES OF WAR
Description: Produced by Neighbor to Neighbor. Host Mike Farrell-Organizing Version.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1985
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 27 minutes

Title: FIVE SUNS, THE: A SACRED HISTORY OF MEXICO
Description: Patricia Amlin, the extraordinary animator who created Popol Vuh has taken authentic images from ancient Maya ceramics and turned them into a riveting retelling of the Maya creation myth. The story tells how Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca create heaven and earth, journey to the underworld to create humans and find sustenance for them, and finally create the sun and the moon.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 1996
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 58 minutes

Title: GRINGO IN MA�ANALAND, THE
Description: This film is a montage of scenes from travelogues, dramatic films, industrial films, newsreels, military footage, geography textbook illustrations and political cartoons. Together they explore the stereotyped image of Latin America in popular US media during the 20th century.
Subject: Cinema/Theater, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: DeeDee Halleck
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 61 minutes

Title: GUATEMALA: THE DREAM OF THE LAND
Description: This television documentary provides a brief history of land distribution efforts in Guatemala and follows a threatened priest leading a landless campesino movement. The program shows the dream of some landless families come true, as they obtain land for the first time through three land distribution programs.
Subject: History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 29 minutes

Title: INCAS REMEMBERED
Description: Explores the mysteries of an advanced civilization's disappearance. The miracles of the Incas are presented in this engrossing special by award winning filmmaker Luch Jarvis. Suitable for all ages, but excellent for elementary-school students.
Subject: Anthropology/Archaelogy, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 1986
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: INNER FORCE
Description: Inner Force visualizes the survival strategies that surge from the love and the talent of women. The 1980's was a decade of extreme poverty, violence, civil wars, state repression, invasions, political crises, and a loss of institutional credibility.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 21 minutes

Title: LEGACY: CENTRAL AMERICA
Description: A six part series produced by Maryland Public Television and the Central Independent Television of the United Kingdom explores the influence of ancient culture on our lives today. In this video -Program Five- host/writer Michael Wood visits the ancient cities of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples. As the world looks toward the new millennium, the West should learn to recognize the value of all traditions and realize that older civilizations still have something to teach us about today.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 57 minutes

Title: MARQUEZ: TALES BEYOND SOLITUDE
Description: In this rare exclusive interview, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia M�rquez speaks about his best -selling novels, his role in the Latin American cinema, and his recent foray into--of all things--melodramatic soap opera. By mixing material shot in Colombia and Cuba, with historical footage and clips from his films, this video paints an impressive portrait of one of South America's most expressive novelists.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1989
Director: Holly Aylett
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 59 minutes

Title: MISSING
Description: John Shea, Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon. A young American journalist mysteriously disappears during the violent 1973 military coup in Chile. When his wife and father attempt to find him, they are confronted with a deeply disturbing political reality relating to their own country and the country they are investigating. A 1982 Cannes Film Festival winner.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, History, Biography, Drama, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1982
Director: Costa Gavras
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 122 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 122 minutes

Title: MOON-WOMAN'S SISTERS, THE: HIGHLAND GUATEMALA WEAVINGS
Description: Several Maya women in the Highland community of Comalapa share their insights into the art of weaving and its place and importance in their lives. Directed by Julia Kellman and Phil Miller and filmed on location in Guatemala and Honduras. Produced by Conejo Productions.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Art
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: Julia Kellman and Phil Miller
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 35 minutes

Title: MUSIC OF THE MAYA
Description: Produced by Samuel Franco, director of the Casa K'OJM, a private non-profit educational research center in Antigua, Guatemala dedicated to the preservation of Maya culture through music this video shows us live footage of music during daily life and special ceremonies throughout Guatemala, particularly in the Highlands. Narrated by Samuel Franco.
Subject: Music/Dance, Indigenous Peoples, Social Life and Customs, Culture/Festivals/Food
Type: Documentary
Year: 1991
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: NATIVES: IMMIGRANT BASHING ON THE BORDER
Description: This film depicts the disturbing increase in racism, violence and intolerance along the US-Mexican border in recent years. NATIVES examines the concerns of some of the individuals involved in San Diego's anti-immigrant movement. Relying principally on a cinema v�rit� style and avoiding explanatory narration, the film seeks to critique the nativist position by contrasting their professed love for their country with their racist and anti-democratic attitudes.
Subject: Border, Migration/Immigration
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Jesse Lerner and Scott Sterling
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: NO NOS TIENTES
Description: This film, narrated by Edward James Olmos, presents a forceful analysis of the possibilities for radical change through Guatemalan student protest. Shot in urban ghettos, rural villages and jungle encampments, this documentary reveals the immediate and personal struggle of a cross-section of the country's population during the forty years of civil war. Recommended for undergraduates and high school students.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1994
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes

Title: ORISHA TRADITION, THE: THE GODS IN EXILE
Description: A documentary about the mixture of Catholic and Afro-Brazilian religious traditions.
Subject: Religion
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: PANAMA DECEPTION
Description: Banned in Panama and labeled "subversive" in the United States, The Panama Deception gives an account of the events of 1989 when 26,000 U.S. government troops invaded the country searching for one man, Manuel Noriega. Made by a group of independent filmmakers, the film documents the atrocities that the official story omits. Includes follow-up interviews with film's creators, and several bonus features concerning Panama, Latin America, and Iraq.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Social Movements/Resistance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: Barbara Trent
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 91 minutes

Title: QUINCEA�ERA, LA FIESTA
Description: This two-part video depicts a young Mexican-American woman's fifteenth birthday celebration. Set in Dallas, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico, the first part consists of a discussion of the preparations, planning, and logistics that have to be considered in planning this important social event. The second part observes the actual ceremony through various stages after the preparations are completed for the mass, the party, and the dance that traditionally follow.
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Border, Gender/Sexuality
Type: Documentary
Year:
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 38 minutes

Title: REAGAN AND SASSER: CONTRA AID
Description: March 16, 1986. Presidential address of President Reagan concerning the controversial issue. Response to the address by Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tennessee).
Type: Documentary
Year: 1986
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: ROOTS OF RHYTHM
Description: This is a joyous and colorful three-part musical odyssey that follows the powerful flow of Afro-Cuban music from its origin five centuries ago in Africa and Spain to the contemporary sound of such exciting popular artists as Gloria Estefan, Ruben Blades, and jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie. Program one traces the African and Spanish roots, Program 2 traces the cultural blending in the Caribbean, and Program 3 traces its popularity in the United States and eventually through the world.
Subject: Music/Dance, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Howard Dratch and Eugene Rosow
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 58 minutes each part

Title: SACRED GAMES: RITUAL WARFARE
Description: Every year in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, in Southern Mexico, thousands of Maya Indians gather to celebrate Carnival, which they call "Festival of Games". This award winning film, which merges Catholicism and ancient Maya rights, beautifully captures the passion and mystery of the event and shows how Maya's symbolic world is renewed each year in the celebrations.
Subject: Anthropology/Archaelogy, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 59 minutes

Title: SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS
Description: Since it was established in 1946, the United States Army School has trained thousands of Latin American and Caribbean soldiers, among them the former dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras and Panama. This program shows how officers who studied at the school are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 18 minutes

Title: SENTINELS OF SILENCE
Description: Filmed almost entirely from a helicopter, this film presents spectacular views of seven of the most important archaeological sites in Mexico: Teotihuac�n, Monte Alb�n, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itz� and Uxmal. Narrated by Orson Welles.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: Directed by Mariano Moreno
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 18 minutes

Title: SHRINE, THE
Description: Explores the traditions and mysteries that surround El Santuario de Chimayo, a small adobe folk church in northern New Mexico. Thousands of people make pilgrimages to see the church and its "holy dirt," which has origins dating back to the ancient Pueblo Indians of the region. Oral interviews and narration trace the history of the church and its connection to New Mexico's Hispanic and Indian cultural heritage.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: Bob Paris and Christiane Badgley
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 46 minutes

Title: STEPAN CHEMICAL: THE POISONING OF A MEXICAN COMMUNITY
Description: The moving account of the people of Matamoros, Mexico after the Chicago-based Stepan plant dumped zylene, a toxic solvent linked to birth defects, into open canals near their homes. The Sanchez family and their community, with the help of the U.S.-based Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, demanded an end to the contamination and a full accounting from Stepan.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1992
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 18 minutes

Title: SWEET SUGAR RAGE
Description: Sistren Theatre's documentary on Jamaican women sugar cane workers, combining theater and interviews.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1990
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 40 minutes

Title: TARAHUMARA: A CRY FROM THE WILDERNESS
Description: A UNICEF style documentary showing the hardships of the Tarahumara Indians and how a local hospital attempts to remedy them.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1979
Director: Ben & Mark Kochis
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 25 minutes

Title: TEMPLES INTO CHURCHES
Description: This is a documentary about the religious life in Latin America. Many of the conquerors saw no contradiction between enslaving the Indians and bringing their souls into Paradise. But turning temples into churches was one thing, and transforming native religions into Christianity quite another. This program shows that, although the religious emblems are Christian in most parts of Latin America, the native people still pray to the "old" gods of pre-Columbian times.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Director: None
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes

Title: TEOTIHUCAN: CITY OF THE GODS
Description: When the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico 600 years ago, they found a mysterious city of great pyramids. With this video students will examine some of the theories and legends surrounding the mysterious civilization of Teotihuac�n, see some of the existing artifacts and ruins of Teotihuac�n, and study some of the unique cultural traits of the Teotihuac�nos, which include their architecture and their religion
Type: Documentary
Year: 1987
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 18 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 18 minutes

Title: TIKAL
Description: A beautiful recorrida of Tikal, Guatemala's most visited archeological site. There are aerial views of the sites, close-ups and excellent photography of the landscape around the site. Tikal is shown in detail from every direction, and good explanations of many of the monuments are included. It also provides good background information on the Maya.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 50 minutes

Title: VOCES LATINAS
Description: Produced by the Latinos in West Michigan Project, this video includes three segments of interviews with Latino citizens from Grand Rapids, Holland, and Muskegon. Featured narrators are: Mercedes Toohey, Marilia Blakely, Jurisa Negr�n from Grand Rapids; Nereida Garc�a and Tino Reyes from Holland; and Connie Navarro, Tomassa Ybarra, and Joe Garza, Jr. from Muskegon.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Country: USA/Latin America
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 1
Description: "The Garden of Forking Paths" This program traces the modern-era development of the nations and national economies of the Americas, with a focus on Argentina that includes the Peron years, the dictatorship of the 1970s and the Malvinas/Falklands War.
Subject: Politics/Human Rights, Economics/Development, History, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Argentina
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 4
Description: "Mirrors of the Heart" This program explores shifting ethnic and racial definitions in the region, looking at Bolivia, a nation with a rich Indian tradition, and Hispaniola, an island divided between two nations --Haiti and the Dominican Republic-- with different cultural heritages and attitudes toward their African roots.
Subject: Social Issues, Indigenous Peoples
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Bolivia/Haiti/Dominican Republic
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 2
Description: "Capital Sins" This program looks at the rapid economic growth in the late 1960s and early 1970s, spotlighting the methods Brazil's rulers chose to develop that country and how their choices affected the lives of ordinary Brazilians.
Subject: Economics/Development, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Brazil
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 6
Description: "Miracles are not enough" This program travels to Brazil and Nicaragua to observe the explosion of theological debate, social activism and spiritual revival that is changing a region where religion has long played an important role in society and politics.
Subject: Religion, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Brazil/Nicaragua
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 5
Description: "In Women's Hands" This program set in Chile, examines the changes women of every social class made when they organized during the Pinochet years to create better living conditions for their families.
Subject: Women's Studies, Politics/Human Rights, History
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Chile
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 8
Description: "Get Up, Stand Up" This program addresses internal and external challenges to sovereignty in the Americas and examines the ways in which the nations of the Americas cope with the dilemma of maintaining economic and cultural sovereignty in the face of strong pressures, both foreign and domestic. The program, set in Colombia, Jamaica and Panama, explores a wide range of threats to sovereignty, from narco-terrorism to foreign intervention.
Subject: Social Issues, Politics/Human Rights, Economics/Development
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Colombia/Jamaica/Panama
Copy: 1 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 9
Description: "Fire in the Mind" This program looks at revolutionaries in the region today, with a special emphasis on the former guerrilla fighters in El Salvador and the current movement in Peru, and links these movements to the revolutions in Cuba and Nicaragua.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/El Salvador/Peru/Cuba/Nicaragua
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: AMERICAS: PART 3
Description: "Continent on the Move" This program examines the causes and effects of one of the most important forces transforming the Americas: the migration of vast numbers of people within the region. The program is set in Mexico, where migration has moved people across borders, and from rural villages to congested cities.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Border
Type: Documentary
Year: 1993
Country: USA/Latin America/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 60 minutes

Title: CRACKING THE MAYA CODE
Description: This documentary tells the story of how, after centuries of uncertainty, the Mayan hieroglyphics were decoded. Through many discoveries by people of all ages, including Michael Coe and David Stuart, the Mayan Civilization is brought to life during this fascinating account of how the Mayan �code� was cracked.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2008
Director: David Lebrun
Country: USA/Latin American
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 54 minutes

Title: BLOSSOMS OF FIRE
Description: This documentary introduces us to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, home to an indigenous Zapotec society where gender and sexual preference are a fluid concept. The women dominate the home and businesses, while the men do much of the heavy hauling and seem happy to let women rule. The matriarchy also fosters the area�s progressive politics, which include standing up to the PRI and warding off the global market.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Women's Studies, Gender/Sexuality
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Maureen Gosling and Ellen Osborne
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 74 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 74 minutes

Title: LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE (CARTAS DEL OTRO LADO)
Description: This film interweaves video letters carried across the U.S./Mexico border by the film�s director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico, giving voice to 4 amazing women who feel the effects of failed immigration and trade policies on a daily basis. Focusing on a side of the immigration story rarely told by the media or touched upon in our national debates, Letters from the Other Side offers a fresh perspective, painting a complex portrait of families torn apart by economics, communities dying at the hands of globalization, and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2006
Director: Heather Courtney
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English/Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 73 Minutes

Title: MAQUILA: A TALE OF TWO MEXICOS
Description: This film examines the impact of corporate globalization on Mexico, focusing on the maquiladoras, U.S.-owned factories employing cheap Mexican labor. Archival footage and interviews provide historical background to the present crisis.
Subject: Social Issues, Economics/Development
Type: Documentary
Year: 2000
Director: Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 55 minutes

Title: NEW AUDIENCES FOR MEXICAN MUSIC
Description: A three-part documentary. Part I describes the phenomenon of banda dance music sweeping the Unites States and Mexico. Part II provides a history of mariachi music and its fusions with country-western and other styles, while Part III profiles Tejano music.
Subject: Music/Dance
Type: Documentary
Year: 1995
Director: None
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 30 minutes

Title: NEW WORLD BORDER
Description: New World Border documents the rise in human rights abuses along the U.S.-Mexico border since the implementation of border blockades, which have been erected in populated areas throughout the border region during the last decade. This film includes interviews with immigrant rights organizers, testimony from immigrants, analysis of �free trade� policies & current efforts to build a vibrant movement for immigrant rights.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes

Title: SECOND VOYAGE OF THE MIMI?, WHAT IS THE
Description: The crew of a converted French traveler studies ancient Mayan civilization and strives to acquire the science and mathematics expertise to understand it. Adventures develop observation, hypothesis formation, data collection, and analysis skills.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1988
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 24 15-minute segments

Title: SE�ORITA EXTRAVIADA
Description: This documentary investigates the kidnapping, rape and murder of over 230 young women in Juarez, Mexico. Using the testimonies of the families of the victims, the film boldly reveals a web of complicity that has contributed to the persistence of the killings. It serves as a frank portrayal of Ciudad Juarez and of the grime of the new global economy.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Director: Lourdes Portillo
Country: USA/Mexico
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish and English Subtitles: English Length: 74 minutes

Title: BALANDRA ISABEL LLEGO ESTA TARDE, LA
Description: Adaptation of a story by the Venezuelan writer Guillermo Meneses. A sharp portrait of the lives of blacks, mulattoes and zambos in an urban Venezuelan scenery narrated through the story of a black prostitute in love with a sailor.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1949
Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 96 minutes

Title: CHAVEZ, VENEZUELA & THE NEW LATIN AMERICA
Description: In 2004, Aleida Guevara conducted an exclusive interview with Hugo Chavez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exploring Venezuela�s explosive revolutionary terrain post-April 2002 � when Chavez survived a coup attempt instigated by the United States. Featuring an interview with Jorge Garcia Carneiro, head of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, and with Venezuelans involved in the country�s many social programs, this film affords a rare opportunity to glimpse through the blockade of information imposed by the United States and into a country rich with hope, dreams and�oil. Ch�vez, Venezuela and the New Latin America" provides a unique insight into the changing political atmosphere in Latin America.
Subject: Biography, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 2004
Director: Aleida Guevara
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 60 minutes

Title: MUSIC OF YARACUEY VENEZUELA, THE
Description: This documentary deals with the rich cultural and musical heritage of the people of the province of Yaracuey in Venezuela. It shows local people's participation in genres as diverse as folklore music and classical and especially emphasizes the strong tradition of music instruction for children in the Casa Yaracuey. There is good footage of local dances, fiestas and interviews with poetas campesinos (farmer poets). Produced by Cart�n de Venezuela.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1980
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 15 minutes

Title: ORIANA
Description: Feature film by Fina Torres, director of the international hit Celestial Clockwork. An important historical milestone in Latin American cinema, Oraine is a film about Marie who returns to her aunt Oraine�s home in the Venezuelan jungle where she spent summers as a child. This visit sparks flashbacks about an emotionally turbulent summer Marie spent at the house.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 1985
Director: Fina Torres
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 88 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 88 minutes

Title: REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, THE (LA REVOLUCI�N NO SERA TELEVISADA)
Description: This daring documentary about political muscle and media manipulation captures the short-lived overthrow of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Two independent filmmakers were present in April 2002, when the president�s powerful political enemies forcibly removed him from office, and when 48 hours later he remarkably returned to power amid cheering aides.
Subject: Social Movements/Resistance, History, Politics/Human Rights
Type: Documentary
Year: 2003
Director: Kim Bartley and Donnacha O Briain
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 74 minutes
Copy: 2 Format: VHS Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 74 minutes

Title: TRES ENCUENTROS
Description: The first segment of this film is about Hispanic art, and it begins with a piece on Peruvian art in the Andes, especially in Cuzco. It also addresses the music played by the indigenous people on flutes, conch shells, and bells. The second segment is dedicated to the Mexican muralists, who like their counterparts in Renaissance Italy, wished to give their country a collective expression and image of art by painting public spaces. This segment offers footage of the murals and is visually very effective. The third portion of the documentary is dedicated to modern art--an expression of the new Latin American art space--found in cities all over Latin America. Directed by Guillermo Fabry, the last segment of this video ("Toros, Caballos y Hombres de Valor") is dedicated to the life and work of the famous Venezuelan painter Armando Rever�n. The film begins and ends in his home in Macuto, a national landmark. Rever�n was a post-impressionist who returned to Venezuela in 1918 after living in Paris. The three periods of his art there--blue, white, and brown--are discussed in some detail. Produced by Bernard Kaufman for Cart�n de Venezuela.
Type: Documentary
Year: 1977
Director: Joseph Fabry
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Subtitles: Length:

Title: TRES NOCHES
Description: The grim and bitter detective Ferran decides the murder of a prominent mobster was not a crime of passion but the result of a deeper conspiracy. He sets out on a journey through the strange universe of Latin American nightclubs to solve the murder.
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2001
Director: Fernando Venturini
Country: Venezuela
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 105 minutes

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