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Berta, a 34 year old woman, fed up with being battered by her husband Antonio, of about 38, decides to leave her place. Antonio, in a search for a substitute, hires a company that claims to supply “Human-looking automatic devices”, providing him with a nearly perfect replica of his wife. The android doesn’t fully satisfy Antonio, so he decides to take her back. The device company convinces Antonio to keep the device, as they would make her look more real.
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After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she’s pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make.
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Three middle-class teenagers end up on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their Colonial. Siphoning gas from their neighbors' cars, they roam the streets, looking for any and every form of entertainment.
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GIFT OF THE PACHAMAMA

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In the Salar de Uyuni, there is a 13 year-old boy, Kunturi, who lives a life much like any other boy in his village. But when his grandmother dies and his best friend moves away, he decides to embark on a trip with the llama caravan. For three months, he travels throughout the "Ruta de la Sal," exchanging salt for other Andes products, reluctantly bearing witness to an animal sacrifice in the snow-covered peaks and interacting with the indigenous cultures seemingly untouched by modernity.
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MADE IN JAPAN

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A short film about a guy who travels around the world looking for his real father.
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STEREO TYPED

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There is more to people than meets the eye. So many people are still being stereotyped today. A few Latino artists discuss thinking outside the box in the entertainment industry to encourage changing those perceptions.
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SOY ANDINA

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Soy Andina tells the intersecting stories of two New Yorkers - a modern/hip-hop dance dancer raised in Queens, and a folkloric dancer from the Andes - on a dazzling odyssey through Peru in search of roots and a world of folkloric dance.
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TRASH DAY

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A woman longing for the affections of her trash man uses her trash to let him know how she feels. Every Tuesday is the same routine, sit and wait till the sound of the trash truck nears, so she can watch him collect her garbage and gifts.
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ST. MILLY

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At the age of 12, Milagros Cohen has a crisis of identity and faith. She learns from her friends that she is "Nothing". She is half Jewish, half Puerto Rican, and no religion to speak of, Nothing. Her Puerto Rican Grandmother helps to hammer this point home. In a desperate effort to fit in and to earn her salvation, Milly sets out to perform one glorious heaven-worthy Miracle.
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CHOCOLATE COUNTRY

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CHOCOLATE COUNTRY tells the fascinating, triumphant and music-filled story of the struggling Dominican farmers who provide the bulk of the world's chocolate crop. With help from two Peace Corps volunteers, they form a chocolate collective to capitalize on the first-world's demand for "organic" and "fair trade" products.
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WHOSE BARRIO

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Whose Barrio? is an emotionally charged look at the changes in Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem as real estate speculation pushes rents and property values past the point of affordability for most area residents. Author and journalist Ed Morales tells the story of his personal relationship to El Barrio, as well as the neighborhood's history and the real estate forces that threaten it. By digging deep into the flavor of a neighborhood long regarded as a cultural homeland for Latinos and other ethnic groups, the film reveals a complex web of individual and community interests.
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BURIED OVER THE ROOF

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There’s no choice to find a flat in the entire town but three characters will try to find an alternative place to rest in peace. A close dystopia, a stressful quest; an impossible interaction towards a poetic escape.
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SACRED GAME

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SACRED GAME is the moment between life and death. In the midst of fleshing out his latest screenplay, Daniel decides on leaving his wife and infant son to escape for a weekend hunting expedition with his three buddies. But when the men's path crosses a traumatized woman frantically running through the forest, all their destinies are forever altered.
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IN THE APARTMENT

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Pablo and Sara visit an apartment up for rent. When Paula, the girl from the real estate agency, arrives, the situation becomes uncomfortable. Strangely enough, she and Pablo seem to be hiding something.
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ROMPE LA PINATA

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A young girl dreams of exporting her family’s piñata business.
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LA PAJARA PINTA

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The community of the village of El Limón in the mountains of El Salvador teamed up with Salvadoran filmmaker, Paula Heredia to make a film that reflects their life, aspirations and cultural roots. Pinta the Bird is an honest, inspiring and richly authentic film that touches everyone's heart.
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A CLASS APART

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In 1951 in the town of Edna, Texas, a field hand named Pedro Hernández murdered his employer after exchanging words at a gritty cantina. From this seemingly unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A team of unknown Mexican American lawyers took the case, Hernandez . Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.
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TAUGHT TO HATE

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The story of a Hispanic immigrant trying to find a job in America and an American family who's uncle's racial intolerance has a strong effect on his Nephew.
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SECRET LIFE OF COINS

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A quarter dollar tries to find love in the form of a tootsie roll in a local disco populated by a community of inanimate objects under a bed in a New York apartment. What do inanimate objects do when their living hosts are not around? What do coins do when their human owners leave the house? These are questions posed by this whimsical computer animated film short.
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CLEATS

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Each morning, shrouded by early morning fog, two pairs of hands sort through curb-side garbage cans for bottles and cans. Hours before their full time jobs as housekeeper and mechanic, Sr. and Sra. Martinez rise at dawn to gather recyclables destined for the redemption center.
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LITTLE COURAGE

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A six year-old decides to run away from her father and take charge of her life by saving every penny she finds on the street. Can she survive?
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EVER GREEN

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Nicholas is a married man trying to confront his complex childhood past, but in doing so it may be too late to save his marriage.
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PREMATURE

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After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the Bronx, discovers she’s pregnant and receives no support from her community, she has nowhere to turn and is faced with the most difficult decision she will ever make.
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WHEN CLOUDS CLEAR

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When Clouds Clear is about the history and struggle of a remote Ecuadorian community and their radical fight for survival against global mining interest. Set in the isolated cloud forests of the northern Ecuadorian Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junín who depict how the village’s daily life has been affected by copper that were discovered beneath their land.
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WILLETS POINT

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Willets Point, is a family drama that centers on Guillo and Doris Blanco, a young couple living in Queens New York along with their 9 year old daughter. Their financial and personal problems catch up with them when they are threatened with eviction. Their marriage is tested when these unbearable circumstances brings to light a troubled past and threatens the future they all share.
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