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The Latin American Studies Collection

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The Latin American Studies Collection collection includes the following titles:

100 Children Waiting for a Train - image100 Children Waiting for a Train

Filmmaker Ignacio Aguero poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.

Icarus Films | 1988 | 55 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
108 (Cuchillo de Palo) - image108 (Cuchillo de Palo)

An investigation into the shadowy circumstances of  the death of Rodolfo Costa's, a persecuted gay man; and Paraguay's terrifying "108" homosexual blacklists that ruined lives, careers, and families.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 91 minutes
10th Parallel - image10th Parallel

A voyage deep into the Amazon to explore the implications of Brazil's policy on uncontacted indigenous tribes.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 87 minutes | 9-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
A Better Life - imageA Better Life

Returning to Todos Santos after 30 years, a look at the profound economic and social changes that have transformed this Guatemalan Mayan village.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 52 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
A Bold Peace - imageA Bold Peace

Almost 70 years ago Costa Rica abolished its army and committed itself to fostering a peaceful society. It has been reaping the benefits ever since.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 89 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
A Bridge Over the River - imageA Bridge Over the River

Profiles Lency, a man who lives in Cuba's central mountains who has a creative solution to all of life's daily problems there.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 30 minutes
A Crushing Love - imageA Crushing Love

A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera - and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.

Women Make Movies | 2009 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
A Massacre Foretold - imageA Massacre Foretold

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous people by paramilitary troops in Chiapas, Mexico.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
A Thousand Pines - imageA Thousand Pines

A Thousand Pines shows the lives of migrants who depend on the controversial guest worker visa program.

Collective Eye Films | 2023 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Absences - imageAbsences

ABSENCES, by award winning filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (The Tiniest Place), exposes the ever-intensifying phenomenon of enforced disappearance in Mexico and the ways it affects women.

Women Make Movies | 2015 | 26 minutes

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