After a year and a half of filming, Frederico Füllgraf releases this feature-length documentary focusing on the families displaced from their land, condemned to submersion by the future reservoir of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant. Important records of social movements and the leaders involved in the struggle for life and for productive land for those whose destinies were harshly altered by the plant unfold in a vital journey preserving the memory of one of the greatest disasters in the history of Paraná.
This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attraction of show.
A woman was raped in her school years and broke up with her lover because of it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she had forbidden liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment.
Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, featuring interviews with mercenaries, soldiers, spies and civilian victims.
