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- An 11-year-old and her mother are separated as the try to eke out a life on Nicaragua's largest landfill.
- When Alan's wife flakes on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, he's joined by his all too eager brother-in-law Mike on a trip to Nicaragua's 'Mercado Village,' a hipster resort for American tourists. As the two settle in, they meet Barbara, an American ex-pat who co-founded Mercado Village years earlier as a utopian haven for artists and free spirits. As Alan's relationship with Barbara evolves, his friendship with Mike takes an unexpected turn.
- An emerging crisis in one of the last remaining rainforests in Central America ignites a heroic mission in PATROL. When illegal cattle ranchers decimate large swaths of rainforest, indigenous rangers join forces with an American conservationist and undercover journalists to expose the dark world of conflict beef.
- LAS SANDINISTAS. uncovers a watershed moment in history when a group of Nicaraguan women shattered barriers to lead rebel troops in battle and reshape their country with landmark social reforms during 1979's Sandinista Revolution and the ensuing US-backed Contra War - only to face renewed marginalization by their male peers once the wars ended. Now, 35 years later, amid the worst levels of violence against women in Nicaraguan history, these same women take to the streets to lead the popular movements for equality and democracy once again.
- This is the story of Yuma a strong-willed and rebellious girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua who dreams of being a boxer.
- All over the world, love stories are written on the screens of mobile phones, but what happens when your privacy becomes public?
- Amanda convinces her friend to go on a blind date instead of her. The pair hit it off unexpectedly but things get complicated when Amanda decides that she wants him back.
- Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
- Ecotourist couples visiting the 500 year old Colonial City in Nicaragua check into the wrong hotel.
- Anything can happen to Nicaragua's youth. Here's a tiny preview of their realities, their dreams and experiences. Everything was built from real Nicaraguan young men and women.
- Exploring the steps necessary to save and understand cultural heritage that has been long forgotten in rural Nicaragua.
- A rural community called Loma Verde will be shock while their residents worked through domestic struggles and family life, facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors.
- Three teenage firefighters in a small, rural city in Nicaragua decide to break the mundanity of their everyday lives by starting their own emergencies. After one of their fires gets out of hand and the higher-ups begin to suspect foul play, they realize they're in way over their heads.
- A California family returns to a vibrant pueblo in the highlands of Central America, in order to create an 'International Film Festival' from scratch. In one week, Barrio Linda Vista Sur unveils hidden talents capturing poetry, humor and dance that transcend the tough conditions of post-war Nicaragua. Includes a moving cameo by an internationally renowned novelist-poet.
- The lives of Nicaraguan exiled students in Costa Rica.
- The life and story of Father Rafael Maria Fabretto
- El Pueblo Unido (The People United) is a visceral & emotionally resonating documentary that chronicles the Nicaraguan people's historic fight to overthrow President Daniel Ortega's regime in an on-going conflict that has claimed nearly 500 lives and counting.
- A documentary about the life of Blessed Sister Maria Romero.
- Xibalba, the Mayan netherworld, appears to a Mesoamerican woman in her dreams. Xibalba scrutinizes Hispanic religiosity and the exaggerated ultra-modernity present life. Woman's ancestral mothers send their messengers, the Zompopos, to help the souls to re-connect with their inner pre-Hispanic strengths. The mothers invite the woman to learn about ancestral wisdom erased or hidden by religious colonialism and an irrationally super technological society. The mothers invite the woman to learn about ancestral wisdom erased or hidden by religious colonialism and an irrationally super technological society. As the women transform to the goddesses of corn, cacao and water, the revelation of the Mayan past invites the present to start the dance of the Zompopos.
- Having lived only twenty years, they are sentenced to another thirty in prison. The Island of Lost Children is the story of ten young inmates who participate in a video course inside the largest prison in Nicaragua.
- Ben Emory awakes in a foreign land, unaware of where he is and in desperate search of his family. It quickly becomes obvious he is not the only one looking for someone....
- 'Thank You, Surf Again' chronicles the activities of non-profit 'Surf For Life', a voluntourism organization that takes teams of volunteers to impoverished coastal communities. The film documents the building and completion of a high school in Nicaragua and relief efforts in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Challenging the stereotypes of surfers as self serving thrill seekers, 'Thank You, Surf Again' profiles several surfers who dedicate themselves to community development in the areas that they visit. Professional surfers Chadd Konig and Holly Beck are joined by the core Surf For Life team and other surf-centric organizations to launch education, clean water and relief programs throughout the developing world. Shot with RED cameras, the production involves the expertise of many veterans in both the non-profit and media production worlds. The impressive growth and success of Surf For Life is a testimony to the timeliness of the volunteer ethic emerging in international travel. This film serves as call to action for travelers to deepen their cultural experiences through volunteering at their destinations.
- Sandra Arana lived in comfort and affluence in beloved Nicaragua. In 1979, the Sandinistas radically changed her homeland. The uncertainties of the post-revolutionary period forced her and her children to flee. In dealing with the hardships associated with living in a new land, she must recreate herself.
- Vietnam veteran S. Brian Willson pays the price for peace by calling attention to the US government's defiance of international law through endless illegal wars.
- When Rosa came to this place the earthquake had just happened and the building was one enormous ruin. People say it was a cinema, but Rosa, who has lived here for many years, has never seen a film in her life. So many things happen in "Cinema Alcazar" that it's all Rosa can do to keep up.
- Mysterious trees planted by the Sandinista government are changing more than the landscape in Nicaragua.
- Jessica's world is drastically rattled when her mother decides to take her back to Nicaragua. Richie appears. A charming man that seduces, deceives and blackmails her to enter the world of commercial sexual exploitation.
- Nicaragua's exceptionally high number of women filmmakers is a legacy of the revolution. This documentary explores their stories.
- Happy Chocolate in Nicaragua
- Sixteen female sex workers have been named judicial aides by Nicaragua's Supreme Court to facilitate the resolution of conflicts that come up in their work. It is the first time in the world that sex workers have had access to this function. The film accompanies some of these women in their mediation work and in the actions they promote through their association, Girasoles (Sunflowers) of Nicaragua, to gain recognition and regulations for autonomous sex work.
- Does madness exist? A group of people suffering psychosocial disability express their views on what it's like to live with mental problems during a music workshop.
- Film production in Nicaragua prevails despite the lack of a film industry. This documentary explores the role of women filmmakers in continuing this art form and their passion to mobilize production efforts since the end of Incine, the only film industry ever established in the country.
- A documentary on the role of the Catholic Church during the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, it shows clergy members serving as government officials, and parishioners who testify to the inspirational and unifying force of Christianity in the national reforms.
- A small shoe shiner who meets a newlywed couple, an Army captain and his beautiful wife. When the troops go mountain under Captain, He decides to follow them . But the war is not as he was imagined.
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- A young boy gets sidetracked when visiting his grandmother at a Center for the Elderly. When he doesn't arrive, his grandmother searches for him on the streets. She finds him passed out from sniffing glue and wheels him back to safety.
- Direct and painful portrait of Palosmas, a marginal neighborhood in northen Nicaragua. The ?hell where lives are enclosed and tells us stories that reborn the value and dignity of the human beeings.