Dictatorship Movies

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry produces this short film that tries to explain the causes of the coup, anchoring them in debt...

In the late ‘70s, in the midst of the military dictatorship, a surrealist literary work- shop is the oasis of Martín, a tormented young...

An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.

Manuela dreams of winning the "best folkloric dress" contest in the commemoration of Independence Day at school. Meanwhile, her brother Gabo takes...

Córdoba, Argentina, 1976. It was an August night when soldiers dressed as civilians broke into Pablo and Vera's house. They must do everything...

A documentary made with homemade videos of the spanish exiled due to the dictatorship in Spain from 1939 to 1977.

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching for something better. The movie follows the last...

This film is a rare glimpse into one of the most secret places of the world, Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Slowly, an unexpected natural...

The recent democratic revolutions throughout Eastern Europe—Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and the Ukraine in 2004—all seemed to follow...

The marks of the violence of the Chilean state, against its own compatriots. Flicker Film. 35mm B & W Still Photography. Silent.

A documentary about the sea and memory. Its movement is its form. Its strength.

In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their...

Marcelo was taken to Paris, where he has lived since he was 12. After the sudden death of his mother in 1992, he returns for the first time to the...

Audiovisual experiment, on the role of photography and its authors, during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina. A documentary that...

Demonstrations, confrontations, parties and divisions marked one of the most important university campaigns of the decade: the 1968 student elections.