Black Art: In the Absence of Light tells the story of black artists and curators who have created and preserved the heritage of African-American culture. The documentary focuses on how black art has influenced contemporary culture and explores how artists have addressed issues of racism, discrimination, resistance and resilience.

Documentary that tells the story of how Muhammad Ali's death brought the people of his Kentucky hometown - and around the world - together for an unforgettable week.

+Followed by a Zoom conversation with Graham Shelby (Director, City of Ali) and Jonathan McHugh (Producer, City of Ali), moderated by Gabriela Solano and Laura Bermudez.

An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and ecologist who has lived more than 40 years on this remote stretch of sand.

+Followed by a discussion with Rene Pauck, filmmaker and director of the Enrique Ponce Garay Honduran University Cinematheque.

Presented as part of International Canadian Film Day organized by Reel Canada

In this intimate, yet epic love story filmed over two decades, indomitable matriarch Fox Rich struggles to raise her six children and keep her family together, while trying to get her husband released from prison in Louisana, popularly known as Angola.

+Followed by a discussion with Gabriela Solano and Kenia Castillo of the Martin Luther King Foundation Honduras.

A large landfill in the capital of Nicaragua, always covered in fog, is the home of Maria, a special girl with a lot of imagination. She lives with Lilibeth, her mother, and a few dogs and their puppies that are about to be sold. When Maria accidentally poisons them, Lilibeth makes the difficult decision to abandon her at a recycling plant, where she is forced to work alongside other children.

+Followed by a discussion with producer Bruna Haddad (via Zoom) and Gabriela Solano of the Honduran Filmmakers Collective and researcher Helen Ocampo.

"25 Seconds" is a film that documents a director's encounter with her parachutist father's archive. It is a search in the space between the jump from the plane and life on earth, an encounter with ghosts and a farewell to what is no longer there; it is the impossible attempt to retain time, to fold and find something new.

+Followed by a discussion with Juan Pedro Agurcia and Manuel Muñóz

Presented as part of the ATELIER training workshop.

Luisa and Gabino visit her parents in a mining town in northern Mexico. Paco, Luisa's boyfriend, provokes the father's only interest in them by playing the role of a narco. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime. A slyly comic version of how violence has infiltrated Mexico's popular imagination.

+Followed by a conversation via Zoom with the Director, Nicolas Pereda.

Presented as part of the ATELIER training workshop.

In Camouflage, writer Felix Bruzzone plays a runner obsessed with Campo de Mayo, the largest military unit in Argentina. It is also the place where his mother disappeared in 1976 and the main clandestine detention, torture and extermination center during the last dictatorship. The film will follow Felix in his search for characters that will allow him to enter and explore this place so full of history.

Senobia Cerrud found a way to avoid death. Now she remains forever in the universe she created, governed by her desire to live through works of art she collected in her own home, transformed into the Museum of Antiquities of All Species.

Somewhere in the Caribbean, artificial beaches are being built. A young model waits for her friends by the pool, a gardener and a maid fantasize about buying luxurious furniture, a group of street sweepers philosophize about love and amateur golfers try to get the ball in the hole, while tourists, among machines and noise, go for a walk.

Through fragmented glimpses of daily life in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, LANDFALL is a sobering tale for our times. With the protests that ousted the governor of the U.S. colony in 2019 as a backdrop, the documentary offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resilience. While the devastation of Maria attracted much media coverage, the world has paid little attention to the storm that preceded it: a $72 billion debt and fiscal crisis riddling Puerto Rico long before the winds and waters hit. LANDFALL examines the kinship between the two storms-one environmental, the other economic-juxtaposing rival utopian visions of recovery. Featuring intimate encounters with Puerto Ricans and newcomers to the island, LANDFALL reflects on a question of contemporary global relevance: when the world falls apart, who do we become?

The quiet world of a petit-bourgeois family begins to crumble the moment 14-year-old Miriam meets her Internet boyfriend. While her friends are excitedly preparing for the traditional quinceañera, Miriam doesn't know how to explain to her family that her boyfriend is black.

In the 1970s, the peasants fought for Agrarian Reform, which was opposed by the landowners, who used the military to repress them, provoking the massacres of La Talanquera, Santa Clara and Los Horcones.

Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old, they have just immigrated to the United States with their mother, Lucia. Their days are spent inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to return from work, they cling to the hope of traveling to Disneyland.

Guatemala, 2013. The country is fascinated by the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. Victims' testimonies keep coming in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have disappeared. One day, through the story of an old woman, Ernesto believes he has found a clue that will allow him to find his father, a guerrilla fighter who disappeared during the war.

General Enrique Monteverde manages to evade his conviction as responsible for the Mayan genocide, unleashing popular anger. Freed of the charges, he is trapped in his mansion, surrounded by the crowd of the living and the dead. At night, the elderly and ailing Monteverde begins to hear a woman crying. His wife and daughter think they are signs of Alzheimer's, unaware that the spirit of La Llorona has arrived and is ready to take justice into his own hands.

Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old, they have just immigrated to the United States with their mother, Lucia. Their days are spent inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to return from work, they cling to the hope of traveling to Disneyland.

Hector returns from a difficult migration of many years. With a possessive mother, a young wife who despises him for leaving home and a young son who does not know him, Hector tries to adapt, proposing to live as before, making up for lost time, but since he left everything has changed. Neither Hector nor his community are the same.

El Silencio de Otros' reveals the silenced struggle of the victims of Francisco Franco's long regime, who continue to seek justice to this day. Shot over six years in a direct and intimate film style, the film follows the survivors of the regime as they organize the so-called "Querella Argentina" and confront a "pact of oblivion" about the crimes they suffered.

General Enrique Monteverde manages to evade his conviction as responsible for the Mayan genocide, unleashing popular anger. Freed of the charges, he is trapped in his mansion, surrounded by the crowd of the living and the dead. At night, the elderly and ailing Monteverde begins to hear a woman crying. His wife and daughter think they are signs of Alzheimer's, unaware that the spirit of La Llorona has arrived and is ready to take justice into his own hands.

The memorable story of Guatemala's Schindler. In the late 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona, alias El Topo, infiltrated the military government as press chief for the Minister of the Interior. Barahona put his life on the line every day to save dozens of dissidents from the regime. In 2014, El Topo decides to break decades of silence to testify in a state trial. Filmmaker Anais Taracena accompanies him with her camera. A few weeks after testifying, Barahona dies. Taracena gives voice to oblivion and follows in the footsteps of El Topo to recover the silenced memory of Guatemala.

A 16th century Spanish conquistador arrives in Mexico in the middle of 2020, 499 years after the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. He follows the route of Cortés, in an environment as strange as it is familiar, witnessing the reality of the country, meeting migrants, relatives of murdered and disappeared people and questioning the role of the colonizer in the construction of this violence.

As part of "Prismatic Chronicles" we will screen the third and fourth episodes of the documentary series "Equal", about the history of different leaders of the LGTBQ+ movement in the United States.

+Followed by a Q&A with Chapter 2 director Kimberly Reed, and Chapter 1, 3 and 4 director Stephen Kijak, via Zoom with simultaneous translation.

Presented as part of CHRONICAS PRISMÁTICAS: LQBTQ+ History Month, in collaboration with the American Embassy of Honduras and the American Film Showcase.

As part of "Prismatic Chronicles" we will screen the second chapter of the documentary series "Equal", about the history of different leaders of the LGTBQ+ movement in the United States.

Presented with Victoria / William Reyes / 2019 / Honduras / 9 min.

+Followed by a discussion with William Reyes (director, Victoria) and the protagonist, Victoria Sevilla for the subsequent discussion.

Presented as part of CHRONICAS PRISMÁTICAS: LQBTQ+ History Month, in collaboration with the American Embassy of Honduras and the American Film Showcase.

As part of "Prismatic Chronicles" we will screen the first chapter of the documentary series "Equal", about the history of different leaders of the LGTBQ+ movement in the United States.

+Followed by a discussion with Dany Barrientos, creator of the Honduras Cuir Archive, and Abigail Galindo, a survivor of the transgenocide in Honduras and a key part of the Cuir Archive.

Presented as part of CHRONICAS PRISMÁTICAS: LQBTQ+ History Month, in collaboration with the American Embassy of Honduras and the American Film Showcase.