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“I have a problem. I could never tell my left from my right.” Convinced that this inaptitude comes from a childhood trauma, Guadalupe Pérez Garcia returns to her country of origin, Argentina, that she left with her family during the financial crash of 2002. With a great sense of burlesque, she start...

It's dawn and there are already more than a hundred, apparently healthy women from all walks of life, waiting outside the Santa Casa de Misericordia, one of the oldest health institutes in Brazil. Why are they here? The queue goes on forever… They are waiting for the doors to open on the Plastic ...

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of Guano, the birds' excrement that can be used as a fertiliz...

17-year-old Rosa Jiménez came to the USA to help provide a better life for her family back in Mexico. She found work in Texas, got married and had her first baby. But several years later the dream turned to a nightmare when the two year-old boy in her care died tragically. Accused with his murder b...

The story of how one small amazon tribe is fighting furiously to defend their future - and ours... 70% of Ecuador’s Amazon, home to some 12 tribes, has been divided into oil blocks, polluting one of the most biodiverse rainforests of the planet. Only one small tribe, the Waorani, have successfully...

The revolutionary fervor that swept through Latin America in the 20th century owes much to the participation of millions of Christians who engaged in political struggles in the name of their faith. Driven by liberation theology, they paid a heavy tribute for undermining the traditional relationship ...

Andres Retamal is a famous rodeo champion and has been training and riding wild horses all around Patagonia for many years. At forty he is thinking about retiring but for his last season, he has decided to compete in the only rodeo that he hasn't won, in the little town of Gobernador Costa, two thou...

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, th...

Zona Franca is a large outdated shopping district at the heart of the Chilean province located near the Strait of Magellan. Everywhere this area shows the scars of the upheaval which transformed the last wild place of the original America into a window display of today’s commercial society. Among t...