El circo mágico

Ignacio is known as El Iluminado de la Esmeralda (The Enlightened One of the Emerald) for his healing powers. Urged by the eviction of the house where he lives, he decides to charge for his services with an illusionist. What he ends up with is being mistreated and taken advantage of by others, even ending up in jail. After regaining his freedom, he goes mad.

Documentary on the Panamanian struggle for the rescue of the lands of the so-called Canal Zone, militarily occupied by the forces of the American army.

The Cooperative Movement in Barquisimeto (CECOSESOLA) emerged as an alternative to the outrages against the people and their inability to afford a decent burial for their relatives.

Short that tells the history of Campoma, a small Venezuelan town founded by black slaves.

Documentary about Venezuelan writer and intellectual Orlando Araujo.

Evocation of the human presence and art of the painter Bárbaro Rivas.

Life in the slums of Caracas: misery, violence, unemployment, strength, vitality.

Through the testimony of Manuel Taborda, a pioneer of labor organizing in Venezuela’s oil fields, this documentary revisits the experiences of oil workers between 1920 and 1936. Their memories reveal a world marked by corporal punishment, exploitation, racial segregation, and disease, alongside the emergence of collective resistance against the American and British oil companies that controlled the industry and the government that enabled them.

Demonstrations, confrontations, parties and divisions marked one of the most important university campaigns of the decade: the 1968 student elections.

Short film by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

Documentary about Venezuelan poet Juan Sánchez Peláez.

Migrants from the countryside and unemployed people from neighbouring cities take over some unused land and establish a neighbourhood in the industrial zone of Maracay. The event coincides with a presidential election campaign, which motivates political demonstrations in that town.

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.