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Verdens centrum - i Mayalandet

Lasse Spang Olsen, 1992

The Maya Indians have no doubts as to where the centre of the world is. In the light of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in America Ib Spang Olsen, writer and illustrator, gives his warm and masterful, very personal version of the Indians' meeting with a foreign culture and tells with solidarity about the past, the present and the uncertain future of the Mayas.

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La rumba

Oscar L. Valdés, 1980

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Cuba va - The challenge of the Next Generation

Vicente Franco, Gail Dolgin, 1993

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Kaffens fagre riger

1969

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La mujer de Benjamin

Carlos Carrera, 1991

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Don Saturnino og cocakrigen

Steffen Viteri Knudsen, 1995

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Nelvys og ånderne

Anja Dalhoff, 1998

The Afro-Cuban religion Santeria is worshipped as an integrated part of daily life in Nelvys' family who live on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. Nelvys is a cheerful and active 12-year-old girl, who suffers from asthma. Parallel to the medical treatment her father weeds out the evil through rituals and in dialogue with the African gods.

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Stemmer fra Bolivia

Niels Boel, 2005

A poetic portrait of everyday life in a remote area of Bolivia as told by Mayda, a nine year old girl from the village of Azurduy. Once a year the village is wrested out of its torpor. During a week-long market the village is inundated by itinerant tradesmen, fortune-tellers and Indian peasants who ride into town or walk down from the wide-spreading mountains.

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Cien niños esperando un tren

Ignacio Aguero, 1988

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Fredens port

Thomas Stenderup, 1996

»Portal to Peace« is a film about a ritual with a very practical background: in a culture where cremation is unusual, cemeteries fill up rapidly. In Latin America and in some other places, to solve the problem, remains are frequently exhumed. In Cuba, two year after interment.

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Drømmepigen

Frode Højer Pedersen, 1998

'Dream Girl' - on street girls in Brazil. The 11-year-old Tatiana has run away from home. Now she lives on the street with Paloma and a group of children.

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Metaal & Melancholie

Heddy Honigmann, 1993