A visceral, energizing look at contemporary Cuba, Bitter Sugar is an impassioned love story set against the political and economic tensions of Havana.

Branded by Paradise
Mari Rodríguez-Ichaso |  USA  | 1999 | 113 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

The first documentary to explore the lives of dissident Cuban women in exile, including Fidel Castro`s daughter Alina.

Colombia, the Dirty War
Rob Brouwer | Netherlands | 1998 | 27 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

In Columbia, human right activists are themselves among the most common victims of human rights violations. During the last ten years more than 2000 of them have been murdered in Colombia by members of secret services, paramilitary or by guerilla. This is the personal story of two of them - Mario Calixto and his wife Mireya.

Dirty Secrets
Patricia Goudvis | USA | 1998 | 56 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

Dirty Secrets follows U.S. lawyer Jennifer Harbury´s courageous search for her missing husband Everardo - a Mayan rebel leader - which unexpectedly reveals the dark legacy of CIA complicity in Guatemalan human rights abuses.

Dreams Not Yet Dreamed
Maria José Alvarez and Marta Clarissa Hernández | Nicaragua | 1994 | 42 min. | Documentary | Colour | 16 mm

A group of Nicaraguan girls hangs out on the street around an open fire. Some sniff glue while they tell about their work experience.

La Flaca Alejandra
Erica Chanfreau | France | 1993 | 60 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

La Flaca Alejandra, once a member of the resistance movement, was compelled to become an informer for the Chilean military government. After the dirty war she publicly confessed and asked for forgiveness.

Rezistans
Katharine Kean | USA | 1997 | 156 min | Documentary | Colour | 16mm

Haitians speak out about political events in their country following the rise of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide after Duvalier's exile, through the military coup that sent Aristide Haiti's first elected president into exile, up to the moment when the USA brought him back to his homeland and his presidency.

Ricardo, Miriam and Fidel
Christian Frei | Switzerland | 1996 | 90 min | Documentary | Colour | 35mm

Christian Frei merges painful generational dynamics with the inevitable decay of revolution, to mark the intersection of Castro's faded dream and a daughter's parting from hero-father and homeland.

Talking to the Enemy
Nitza Kakoseos | Sweden | 1994 | 52 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

They were enemies by birth and by class in twelve year long civil war in El Salvador. Today, the former enemies have become friends working together for the future of their country.