FiGa Films (Firm)
1) Viaje
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for "Best Narrative Feature" at the Tribeca Film Festival, VIAJE follows two strangers, Pedro and Luciana, on a spontaneous trip into the Costa Rican forest.. Pedro and Luciana meet at a party and end up spending the night together. The next day, Pedro decides to make a trip up to Rincon de la Vieja, a volcano area in Costa Rica, where he's working on his scientific thesis project. Since Luciana is leaving on a trip soon, they may never...
2) Chão
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Since 2015, the Landless Workers Movement has been occupying an indebted sugarcane factory's land to press for its redistribution through land reform. Grandma, P.C. and their encamped fellows struggle to conquer a small share of land where they can settle down and live a self-sustainable life, growing agro-ecological crops in a newly knit peasant community they draw in their dreams.
3) La Arrancada
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Jenniffer is a young sportswoman questioning her career as a national athlete in Cuba. Her mother, Marbelis, is the tough boss of a public fumigation center in downtown Havana. As her brother is getting ready to leave the country, Jenniffer struggles to find her place. This intimate family chronicle, seen from the perspective of two women, unfolds the portrait of a generation unsure of what's next in Cuba.
4) Hopefuls
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning Brazilian drama tells the story of Junior, a young player for Bacaxa A.C., an amateur football team from the city of Saquarema, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. He has to deal with the unexpected pregnancy of his girlfriend Karine, while his childhood best friend, Bento, signs a contract with a professional team. HOPEFULS follows Junior's growing jealousy as it reaches dangerous proportions.. Winner, Best Film and Best Director,...
5) La Paz
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Class, family, and mental illness are among the themes explored in LA PAZ. The story opens with man named Liso leaving a psychiatric hospital to meet his indulgent parents at their comfortable home. After the confines of the institution, he struggles to re-adapt to his middle class life, though slowly, things begin to change. As Liso searches for a new balance, the discomforting aspects of his privileged life slowly emerge.. This affecting and intimate...
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Portuguese
Description
BUILDING BRIDGES is a film that pursues a possible relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Heloisa and Alvaro as they position themselves on opposite sides of the troubling political situation of Brazil.
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A "quasi-musical" approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world. This documentary describes at the same time a place, a neighborhood, a city and a country. The real place, Boa Viagem - Recife, Pernambuco 51111-260, Brazil, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed.
8) Yo
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Francisca, a young Portuguese woman who's living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old acquaintance she'd lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film follows each woman's adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless...
10) Cenizas
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Caridad hasn't spoken to her father in years-not since he left the family under a cloud of suspicion and accusations. But that changes when a long dormant volcano starts spewing ash and Caridad finds herself isolated and trapped within the blast zone. Out of options, she reaches out to her father and confronts the emotions she repressed for so many years.
11) Harpoon
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Mr. Arguello is the principal of the school. Day after day he searches the backpacks of his students, looking for a latent threat. Cata, a 14-year-old student, has an accident by the lake. Arguello takes care of her for a few hours while waiting for her parents to arrive. This wait will unleash the most important story of their lives.
12) Nudo Mixteco
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Three stories that intertwine during the patron saint's celebration in the village of Mixtec Oaxaca. María buries her mother, her father rejects her and, in uncertainty, she proposes to Piedad, her childhood love, to leave with her. Esteban returns after three years to discover that Chabela, his wife, is living with another man; enraged he calls the village people to prosecute her in an assembly. Toña relives her own pain in the face of the abuse...
13) Enigma
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Nancy receives an offer to participate in an episode of a tv show about unsolved mysteries. The episode will tell the story of her daughter, a young lesbian brutally murdered decades ago. As she decides whether or not to be a part of the show, she confronts her family and their versions of the events that occurred, learning more about the person her daughter was.
14) Riscado
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Bianca is an excellent actress, but theater doesn't pay the bills yet. In order to make a living, she impersonates movie divas and promotes events. Bianca auditions for a big international production and gets the part. The director of the film, inspired by her work, changes the character he wrote into a version of Bianca. Is this the chance of a lifetime?
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Portuguese
Description
An elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Margô, a train traffic controller. Both Juvenal and Margô live in a state of deep solitude, each in their unique ways. Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, THE MAN OF THE CROWD is a reflection about different forms of loneliness and friendship set in the Brazilian urban universe. Official Selection: **Berlin...
16) Russian Red
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
17) La Vida Útil
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
An art film enthusiast, Jorge fears that the decrease in theater attendance will force the Uruguayan Cinematheque to close. In an effort to save the theater, Jorge enters a new world where he is exposed to an unknown passion. Elegantly framed and brilliantly underrated, this is a universally attractive and loving tribute to the soul of cinema.
18) Castanha
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
19) Unicórnio
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A 13 year old girl lives with her mother on an isolated cottage in the country while they wait for the return of the girl's father. The relationship between mother and daughter changes with the arrival of another man. Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst, Unicorn mixes fantasy and fairytale, delivering stunning visuals through saturated landscapes in a beautiful anamorphic format.
20) Tesoros
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Jacinta guides us through the story of siblings Dylan, Andrea and Lucas who arrive in a fishing community on Mexico's Pacific coast to set off with their new local friends on a journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot left back by Francis Drake, centuries ago. In sunny and lively images, a story of children confidently indulging their lust for life and curiosity. Armed with their intelligence, a Tablet, and some maps, these children...
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