Pragda | Religion and Spirituality

The Companion

El acompañante

Drama, Fiction, Thriller Cuba

Set in 1988 Cuba as the government dispatched HIV patients to AIDS centers under military rule, The Companion narrates the unlikely friendship between a boxing champion and a conflictive patient.

Killa

Drama, Romance, Fiction Ecuador

The first feature in Kichwa, the indigenous language of Amazonian Ecuador, following a photojournalist who becomes entangled in government corruption.

Indigo

Añil

Documentary El Salvador, Mexico

Three young actresses recreate testimonies of Salvadoran civil war sexual assault victims in a fable guided by the history of Indigo.

In Havana

Documentary The Netherlands

Three kids in Havana introduce their friends and family, showcasing wildly different lifestyles. We learn their beliefs, dreams, and hopes.

Hijab

Hiyab

Drama, Fiction Spain

The director of an institute tries to persuade a new pupil to remove her hijab but the young woman resists.

Heritage

Herencia

Documentary Spain

A showcase of modern Cuban culture and the centuries of history that precede it.

Extra Terrestres

Extra terrestres

Comedy, Drama, Fiction, Romance Venezuela, Puerto Rico

Teresa, an astrophysicist, goes back to her family in Puerto Rico to invite them to her wedding. This is not an easy task after years of tension, but a star 2.5 million light years away will help to bring them all together again.

Europe in 8 Bits

Animation, Documentary, Musical Spain

Europe In 8 Bits explores the world of chip music, revealing how to reuse old videogame’s hardware like Nintendo’s GameBoy, NES, Atari ST, Amiga, and the Commodore 64 and turn them into a tool capable of creating a new sound, a modern tempo, and an innovative musical style.

City of the Dead

Ciudad de los muertos

Documentary Spain

By exploring the interactions of a group of cementery workers, we not only discover the unknown world of death, but also the personal stories of its inhabitants.

Diaspora Drums

Tambores da diáspora

Documentary, Musical Brazil

Using stories, batucadas, and songs, Diaspora Drums addresses a political and cultural vision embedded in the course of two African drums and their ramifications in Brazil.

Memory and Beyond

La memoria y después

Documentary Argentina

After surviving the Holocaust, Sara emigrated to Argentina where she again survives intolerance and hatred after the disappearance of her son Daniel.

The Cathedral

Documentary Spain, Slovakia

After expulsion from a monastery, a Spanish monk dedicates 60 years to building a cathedral from discarded and recycled materials. Madman or a genius?

Carretera Cartonera: Discover the World of Cartonera Publishers

Carretera cartonera

Documentary Italy

Carretera Cartonera travel across Latin America to understand Cartonera book production. What they find is a diverse and vast array of citizens and cooperatives committed to using literary production as a means of fighting for social justice, economic equality, and a more sustainable world.

Burn Them

Quémenlos

Documentary Argentina

The order to burn books was only a warning of what thousands of men and women who resisted the prevailing dictatorship in Argentina would face.

Brickmakers (Chircales)

Chircales

Documentary, Classic Colombia

An essential and highly influential classic, Chircales is the product of two of the most prominent and rebellious voices of the New Latin American Cinema: Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva.

Boreal

Fiction, Drama Paraguay, Mexico

Benjamin is having trouble adjusting to barbed wire work. Left by The Boss in a desolate spot, he and other workers feel that the Paraguayan Chaco is getting strange and tiring.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 04 - Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet

Documentary, Series United States

In Mexico and Peru, Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of slavory and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 03 Brazil: A Racial Paradise?

Documentary, Series United States

In Brazil, Professor Gates goes behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this “rainbow nation” is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 02 - Cuba: The Next Revolution

Documentary, Series United States

In Cuba, Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music are linked to slave labor, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.

Siembra

Fiction, Drama Colombia

Colombian fisherman Turco yearns to return to the land he abandoned years ago due to an ongoing conflict. When his son is killed, it shatters Turco's dreams of returning.

On Suspicion: Zokunentu

Bajo sospecha: Zokunentu

Documentary Chile

A journey through the works of Mapuche artist Bernardo Oyarzún, exploring identity, spirituality, territory and racial justice in contemporary Chile.

The Year of the Radio

El año del radio

Animation, Fiction, Drama Mexico

Mexico in the '90s. Seven-year-old Alex and his little siblings are left in the care of their senile Aunt Lola, while their mother works as a host on a radio station.

Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine

Chico ventana también quisiera tener un submarino

Comedy, Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction, Experimental Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, The Netherlands, The Philippines

On a cruise ship off the Patagonian coasts, a crewman discovers a magical portal leading into a woman's apartment.

Wiñay

Drama, Fiction Bolivia

Two women journey to the jungle for an Ayahuasca ritual; their challenges lead them to self-discovery through spiritual transformation and resilience.

The Visitor

El visitante

Drama, Fiction Bolivia

A somber meditation on class, family, and the increasing power of Evangelism in Latin America, reflecting on the region’s legacies of colonialism.

Vicenta B

Drama, Fiction Cuba, France, United States, Colombia, Norway

A gifted Afro-Cuban woman with the unique ability to see into the future finds herself in a crisis when her only son decides to leave the country.

The Guardians

Documentary Mexico, United States

An indigenous Mexican community and millions of monarch butterflies are under threat of extinction in the ancient forest they call home.

The Travel Agent

Pequeñas mentiras piadosas

Documentary Cuba, Spain, Italy

From her tiny office overlooking the U.S. Interests Section, 58-year old Lourdes counsels thousands of Cubans seeking a U.S. travel visas. She coaches them on answering tricky questions, fine-tuning their stories so they have a better chance of succeeding.

Spain in Crisis: A Collective Response

Documentary, Experimental Spain

This crucial collection offers a fresh and much-needed perspective from artists and activists alike on the current Spanish fiscal crisis and the 15M movement, which influenced popular protests around the world, including the USA’s own Occupy Wall Street.

Black in Latin America, Ep. 01 - Haiti & Dominican Republic: An Island Divided

Documentary, Series United States

In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed, while In Haiti, hear the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic.

Samadhi Road

Documentary Brazil, Portugal

From the directors’ childhood in India to interviews with worldwide personalities, the film promises an immersive experience in the human experience.

Poets of the Sky

Poetas del cielo

Documentary Mexico, Brazil, France

In the sky, for just a few seconds, sounds and shapes of one of the strongest artforms: fireworks. After, it all vanishes but remains in our mind.

The Parabolic Dish

La parabólica

Drama, Fiction Spain

During the broadcast of the Pope`s visit, Vicente’s television is broken. Desperate, he decides to make a homemade parabolic dish.

Pakucha

Documentary Peru

In a Peruvian Andean community, a family celebrates rituals evoking alpaca spirits. Immersed in Andean mysticism, they embrace new beginnings.

Obra

Drama, Fiction Brazil

In the heavily populated city of São Paulo, a young architect discovers a clandestine cemetery underneath the construction site of his latest project.

The Naked Screen

La pantalla desnuda

Drama, Romance, Fiction Nicaragua

Octavio, the son of a poor family, and Alex, the son of a wealthy family in northern Nicaragua, are best friends. Octavio’s fascination with Alex turns into an obsession, and he is quick to sideline anyone or thing that gets in between them.

Mataindios

Drama, Fiction Peru

Villagers organize a festival to honor a patron saint, hoping for closure to unresolved trauma of multiple disappearances and years of mourning.

Matachindé

Documentary Colombia

In the Afro-descendant village of Juntas de Yurumanguí, Holy Week is celebrated far from clerical control and with religious autonomy.

The Awakening of the Ants

El despertar de las hormigas

Drama, Fiction Costa Rica, Spain

Isa finds herself at a breaking point awakening to the possibilities of a life lived on her own terms, in this engrossing and intimate feature debut from writer/director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.

Alice Júnior

Comedy, Fiction Brazil

Alice Júnior is a celebration of rebellious youth that offers the potential for future generations to rethink outdated perspectives of gender, sexuality, and differences as a whole.

Alegria

Alegría

Drama, Comedy, Fiction Spain

A story of reconciliation told by a Jewish woman, a Muslim, and a Christian living in Morocco.

7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)

7 Raons per Fugir (de la Societat)

Comedy, Fiction Spain

Seven darkly humorous stories whose protagonists are downright detestable. Seven characteristics that make us unbearable. Seven reasons it’s best to avoid people altogether. Seven surrealist visions of a dysfunctional society.

5105, A Story of an Escape from Mauthausen

5105 Historia de una fuga de Mauthausen

Documentary, Animation Spain

In 1942, three Spanish prisoners created a plan to escape the Mauthausen extermination camp. Nobody had escaped alive until that moment.

A Place Called Music

Un lugar llamado música

Documentary Mexico

The captivating musical encounter between American composer Philip Glass and Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina.

Albertina and the Dead

Albertina y los muertos

Documentary Chile

Albertina, the spiritual leader of a village built over indigenous tombs, is in charge of communicating with the Ño, a deity whose physical form is a rag doll.

Arid Zone

Zona árida

Documentary Brazil

Brazilian director Fernanda Pessoa was 15 years old and experienced being a foreign exchange student for one year in conservative Mesa, AR. Now she’s back to try to understand her experience.

Atempa, Dreams by the River

Atempa, sueños a la orilla del rio

Documentary Mexico

Tino considers herself neither male nor female, but rather a “muxe,” a third gender that has been integrated into Zapotec culture.

Ayahuasca: Expansion of Consciousness

Documentary Brazil

This is a comprehensive view of Ayahuasca use, blending scientific, religious, and anthropological perspectives with the director's personal healing journey.

Bad Hombres

Documentary The Netherlands

Journalist Stef Biemans travels between Guatemala and the U.S. during the first months of the Trump Administration, to see what the so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find in the U.S.

Between Fire and Water

Entre fuego y agua

Documentary Colombia

Camilo is a young black man adopted by an indigenous couple in rural Colombia. Supported by his adoptive father, Camilo embarks on a journey to find his true identity and understand his two races.

Contactado

Fiction, Drama Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Norway

An aging self-proclaimed prophet revisits his past.

Damiana

Drama, Fiction Colombia

Deep in the jungle, a group of teenage girls are being kept under watch. Despite abandonment and hostility, Damiana hopes to reach her father.

Enlightened

Iluminados

Documentary Mexico

Two people are closely related by unconventional forms of life and vision: Pedro Miranda, a young, blind visual artist; and Iris Palau, a clairvoyant.

Faith and Fury

Fé e fúria

Documentary Brazil

Focusing on evangelical drug dealers in Brazilian slums, the film depicts the rise and power of the evangelical faith and its power in Brazil today.

God

Dios

Documentary Chile

A cinematic mosaic depicting Pope Francis’ 2018 visit to Chile, God explores the constant tension between the social creation of God in different communities and the tensions that define modern-day Chilean society.

Helena from Sarayaku

Helena Sarayaku Manta

Documentary Ecuador

Seventeen-year-old Helena yearns to protect her indigenous community from extractive development and the repercussions of climate change.

La prima cosa

Documentary, Animation Spain

A friendship between Kookoo Rikoo, the only Arab Christian Israeli clown, and a war survivor, a Syrian girl.

Marina Abramovic in Brazil: The Space in Between

Documentary Brazil

Marina Abramović travels through Brazil in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process.

Mrs. Death

Documentary

A documentary revolving around those who collect pictures of the dead.

Nudo Mixteco

Nudo mixteco

Drama, Fiction Mexico

A quietly powerful triptych of stories that speak about the impact of migration and the plight of indigenous women in a rural Mixtec village in Oaxaca.

Ornament of the World

Documentary United States

An exploration of medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common identity that transcended religious differences. What made this collaboration possible and what tore it apart?

Our Song to War

Nuestro canto a la guerra

Documentary, Experimental Colombia, Belgium

Following a massacre by the FARC guerrillas, a Colombian village emerges as a mysterious place where people sing as they guide spirits across a mystic river.

Pan Seco

Pan seco

Documentary

At 93 years old, Justo is taking an unconventional spiritual path. With the asceticism of a monk with the imagination of the architect, he has been building a Cathedral since 1961.

Shakti

Comedy, Romance, Fiction Argentina

Federico decides to separate from Magda but Magda beats him to the punch in this deadpan comedy by Martín Rejtman.

Stigmata

Estigmas

Drama, Fiction, Experimental Spain

Told by a hulking, gentle giant of a man, Stigmata follows Bruno as he wakes up one morning bleeding from mysterious wounds on his hands. A hauntingly beautiful and lyrical tale based on the Italian cult graphic novel by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti.

The Apizaco Shaman

El brujo de Apizaco

Documentary Mexico

The stormy life of Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Rodríguez González and his alter ego "THE PANA," who worked as a baker, gravedigger, and bundles loader before becoming a bullfighter.

The Apostate

El apóstata

Drama, Fiction, Comedy France, Uruguay

An existential comedy about a young man in the increasingly quixotic quest of formally having his name struck from the Catholic church’s baptismal record.

The Communion of My Cousin Andrea

A comuñón da miña prima Andrea

Documentary Spain

Andrea's first communion lacks in glamour. For Andrea, things without sparkles are not things. The only problem is: Does this God exist?

The Eternal Night of Twelve Moons

La eterna noche de las doce lunas

Documentary Colombia

Twelve-year-old Pili is entering womanhood, and as tradition dictates in her Wayuu indigenous community, she must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles.

The German Neighbor

El vecino alemán

Documentary, Fiction Argentina

The German Neighbor follows the steps of Adolf Eichmann’s awkward and unusual life in Argentina, and his remarkable defense at the trial in Jerusalem.

The Man of the Future

El hombre del futuro

Fiction, Drama Chile, Argentina

Michelsen, an elderly truck driver, sets out on his last trip driving freight to the southern tip of Chilean Patagonia.

The Spirit of the Ancestors

Te Kuhane o te Tupuna: El espíritu de los ancestros

Documentary Chile

Three generations of the Pakarati family travel to Europe to reclaim the Stolen Friend - one of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) sacred spirits - which was stolen by colonizers and is one of the countless sacred objects housed in museums worldwide.

The Territories

Los territorios

Documentary Argentina, Brazil

An engrossing exploration into what it means to be a journalist, the film is about how we approach the conflicts and the role the press plays in times of fake news.

Us, Them, and Me

NEY: Nosotros, ellos, yo

Documentary Argentina

Led by insatiable curiosity, Nicolás Avruj's family vacation to Tel Aviv transforms into a months-long journey into Gaza and the West Bank. With only his camera as company, he becomes a guest in the homes of both Palestinians and Israelis, immersing himself in their daily lives without prejudice.

When a Tree Falls (Amama)

Amama

Drama, Fiction Spain

This powerfully visualized drama of generational conflict signals the emergence of a vital Basque regional cinema in Spain.

Yvy Maraey Land Without Evil

Yvy Maraey, tierra sin mal

Drama, Fiction, Adventure Bolivia

A Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the Guaraní people.