Lessons for a War

Each year, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans enter Mexico illegally trying to reach the United States. At each stage of the journey, their words express determination, hope, a journey without end.

Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.

The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is a film that celebrates the everyday life of a group of Indigenous people, exiles from Canadian reserves, who, over a fleeting summer, hang out in a contested park in Vancouver. Through direct participation in the filmmaking process, the day to day becomes a ceremonial space in the ongoing confrontation against law and order.

While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.

Among old books and forgotten papers emerge the "guts" of Mrs. Tagle: clippings, letters, notes and diary fragments that survive as remnants of a life.

As a child, Harley Prosper was chosen and trained to be the Shaman of a Cree community in Canada. Growing up, Harley rejects this responsibility and flees to Vancouver, defying the spirit that chose him. Confined in a hospice for the terminally ill, the film follows the life of a man willing to desecrate his sacred mission.

A journey inward that delves into female identity, fragmenting and reinterpreting its representations, intervening in the images through stop-motion collage in search of freedom.

What does the land of a community ravaged by war save? In the orchard of Juana López, in the Ixil Community “31 de Mayo”, in Guatemala, opening a furrow becomes a song of hope.