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The ICA’s FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020 is taking place online, via their new digital programme platform Cinema 3, from 27 November – 13 December. Filmed in collaboration with indigenous communities in Guna Yala, Panama, Panquiaco is a poetic fable of melancholy and belonging.
‘Clinch’ is an intimate portrait of a group of Mixed Martial Artists, struggling together during the Covid-19 quarantine in São Paulo, Brazil - a tricky situation that remains only partially resolved today.
For our latest Top Docs we’ve teamed up with French wildlife photographer Matthieu Courdesses to bring you 10 of the best wildlife documentaries ever made.
We’ve spent the past week delving into this phenomenal collection and have emerged to bring you 10 stunning must-see films.
At the ripe old age of 97 (95 in the film), Diana is still a force to be reckoned with. Be it on a brisk walk in the hills of Michoacan or speaking from the podium of a trendy LA food conference, her rock star charisma commands respect and interest in equal measure.
In 2018 Latin America’s largest collection of natural and scientific history, the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, burned to the ground in a what is now known to have been a wholly preventable fire. Director Marta Miskaryan became fascinated by this tragedy which has had a traumatic effect on the people of Rio, not only wiping the building from the map, but also taking with it generations of emotional attachment and fond memories.
IN CINEMAS
Juan’s family operate a private ambulance in Mexico City. They do this because, without them, 9,000,000 people - as many as live in London - are cared for by only 45 government-funded emergency ambulances. That’s one ambulance for every 200,000 citizens. Families like the Ochoas help to fill the gap; they try to save lives. But it’s not charity.
At this year's International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), we sat down with directors Rica Saito and Caio Castor to discuss their short film “Batalha” or “Battle”.
The Kogi are the last surviving civilisation from the world of the Inca and Aztec. Their cities lie untouched, deep in the jungle of the world’s highest coastal mountains, an area nicknamed “hell” by local Colombian authorities and cocaine-farmers alike. They’re now communicating with the civilised world to deliver a dire ecological warning.
Director Armin Thalhammer and his crew risked their lives to make “Cerro Rico”, a haunting dive into the depths of the famed Bolivian silver mine, estimated to have cost the lives of up to 8 million men to date.
“With Diego, I would go to the end of the world. But with Maradona… I wouldn’t take a step”
