Ava 2023 · 18 min · Documentary Directed by Mabel Lozano · Written by Mabel Lozano + My List Mark as watched ↗ Share Your Rating ★★★★★ Make it a double feature 19m together Ava + The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat A close match in mood and era. More from Mabel LozanoSee all →‹Biografía Del Cadáver De Una Mujer · 2020Biografía Del Cadáver De Una Mujer★ 7.02020MovieDocumentaryA woman, victim of human trafficking, shot to death. She looks at us. She speaks to us. She is our responsibility.▶+Abril, It's Not Winter Today · 2026Abril, It's Not Winter Today2026MovieThrillerDocumentaryÁngeles Blanco is the lawyer of an association that helps people with cerebral palsy. One day she receives a message on her phone, saying: SOS. Nothing else. Ángeles immediately replies. She asks for more information, insistently, but to no avail. After several days without news she receives another message: yet another SOS, this time followed by a crying emoji. Ángeles knows that somebody on the other side of that telephone needs her, but if they want her to help they’ll have to find a way to communicate with her.▶+Tribus de la Inquisición · 2016Tribus de la Inquisición2016MovieDocumentarySix men burn like a medieval torch in the plaza of Ivirgarzama, the coca leaf producing capital and center of drug trafficking in Bolivia. Hundreds of neighbors beat them with sticks before pouring gasoline on them and setting them on fire, accusing them of having stolen a truck from the last century. Bolivia holds the macabre ranking of lynchings at the hands of civilians. It is a state where justice and citizen security are assumed on their own and by force of the herd.▶+›More Like This‹The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat · 1896The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat★ 7.11896MovieHistoryDocumentaryA group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.▶+Land Without Bread · 1933Land Without Bread★ 7.11933MovieDocumentaryAn exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.▶+›
