Chavela 2017 ( 6.9)

Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided by her unique voice, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti 1983 ( 5.3)

An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergent themes and styles of two contemporary and radical women artists working in the upheaval of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.

Detroit's Rivera 2017 ( 7)

A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Frescoes and the murals' agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression. The documentary's remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor, public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism.

Aphonia of Santo Domingo City 2024

Beatriz is a film student who is working with a young man she finds to be very attractive, and would like to go out with him, but the author of the short film has different plans for her.

Nostos Algos 2021

Going through his memories, Adrian faces a series of feelings and family difficulties linked to the lack of support he receives throughout his life from his father, towards his choice to be a theater actor.

El Arte de los Incomprendidos 2020

Documentary about the art movement in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo.

Flor de España o la leyenda de un torero 1921

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell 2000 ( 5)

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.