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A experimental video work of multi-layered and very complex structure, built, shaped and reshaped in the search for adequate means of personal union of visual fixation and effects in real contexts in which they materialize and are shown.

A shady former lawyer and a film director decided to introduce a new political party called - New Country -, reflecting their dreams for the future.

'Shoot the Freak' has shocked and delighted Coney Island Boardwalk visitors for over a decade. In this short doc, barker and occasional freak Jay guides us through a life he has shared with his friends every summer since the attraction opened and gives us a glimpse of his evolving world on the outside.

The recondite story of Ian Guest told through confidences, indiscretions, feats, refuges, memories, wanderings, verses, compositions and toccatas that inhabit the everyday and imaginary world of an immigrant who survived the 2nd World War and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 to transform the teaching of popular music in Brazil. In short, a documentary in diverse settings (Hungary, Colombia, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais), with soundtrack by and provoking testimony that illuminates the plural trajectory of the biographee, a restless IMPERFECTIONIST.

The violent overreaction to 9/11 and the revolutions of the 1960's cannot be explained only with fear and politics. Franz Hinkelammert, a German-born liberation theologian, economist and philosopher, brings religion front and center to the discussion in a unique way. The emptiness and senselessness felt by those at the margins of a free-market Utopian ideology has been filled by an extreme millenarian Christianity and other fundamentalist religions that justify murder and torture as preemptive self-defense. In place of a suicidal theology of death based on defeating or marginalizing others, Hinkelammert advocates an economics that promotes coexistence by looking towards liberation theology and the preferential option for the poor.