O Porto do Rio ( The Port of Rio) is a 85' documentary movie directed by Pedro Évora and Luciana Bezerra that shows the transformation of the port area of Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the urban renewal works promoted by the City for the Olympic Games. The film narrates through interviews with residents and technicians the cultural aspect of samba in the region to tell the story of the main port of slaves in the Americas as discuss ways to develop the region, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro.
The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been called a geological scandal due to its mineral rich soil. Unfortunately, those minerals, necessary to sustain today's technology, are funding the deadliest war since WWII.
Itso, about 35, drives a special ambulance called a 'corpse-van'. His job is to pick up the bodies of the recently deceased and transport them to the morgue.
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
A documentary chronicling the events surrounding three Americans arrested and held as political hostages in Iran and their families’ campaign to free them.
