Venezuela: Politics, Society, and Reality
Documentaries that examine Venezuela from the inside.
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 I AM THE PEOPLE: VENEZUELA UNDER POPULISM / CARLOS OTEYZA / 87 MIN
An archival exposé of the skillful mechanisms of authoritarian power in the government initiated by Hugo Chávez and continued by Nicolás Maduro.
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| |  VENEZUELA: COUNTRY OF LOST CHILDREN / JUAN CAMILO CRUZ, MARC WIESE / 74 MIN
In Venezuela’s failed state, two single mothers struggle to survive amid violence and hunger. As one flees with her children, her son faces deadly gang threats.
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 IT’S ALL GOOD / TUKI JENCQUEL / 70 MIN
As the health system collapses, Venezuelans experience severe medicine shortages and have to cope with the country’s brutal reality.
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| |  TUPAMARO: URBAN GUERRILLAS / MARTIN MARKOVITS / 58 MIN
A raw look at the infamous leader of one of Venezuela’s ‘colectivos,’ armed leftists who fight drug-traffickers, political opponents, and even each other.
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Contemporary Venezuelan Cinema
Narrative films that showcase the artistic vitality of Venezuelan cinema.
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 LA SOLEDAD / JORGE THIELEN-ARMAND / 89 MIN
Facing eviction from a decaying Caracas villa, a handyman searches for a way to protect his daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums.
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| |  EL AMPARO / ROBER CALZADILLA / 99 MIN
When soldiers kill a group of fishermen near the Colombian border, the two survivors must confront the official lie that brands their friends as clandestine guerrillas.
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 BAD HAIR / MARIANA RONDÓN / 93 MIN
A boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
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| |  THE KID WHO LIES / MARITÉ UGÁS / 99 MIN
Wandering alone after Venezuela’s devastating 1999 mudslides, a young boy searches for the mother he believes is still alive.
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U.S. Intervention in Latin America
A critical exploration of U.S. political and military interventions across Latin America.
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 A HISTORY OF AN ASSIGNMENT / VLADIMIR NEPEVNY / 52 MIN
This visual report documents the negotiations between the USSR, the U.S., and Cuba to prevent the imminent nuclear crisis of 1979 during the Cold War.
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| |  THE DAY THAT LASTED 21 YEARS / CAMILO TAVARES / 77 MIN
A journalistic look at how and why the United States supported a conspiracy to overthrow the Brazilian elected President Joao Goulart in 1964.
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 INVASION: A DIARY OF PANAMA’S U.S. INVASION / ABNER BENAIM / 94 MIN
Revisiting the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, this documentary explores how a nation remembers, reshapes, and suppresses a traumatic past.
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| |  MAGNICIDES: SALVADOR ALLENDE / LUZ LÓPEZ MAÑÉ, INTI NIETO / 29 MIN
The rise and violent fall of Salvador Allende, whose socialist government was destabilized by U.S. intervention and overthrown in a military coup.
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 COMING SOON TO SPANISH FILM CLUB:
ZAFARI / MARIANA RONDÓN / BRAZIL, MEXICO, PERU, VENEZUELA / 100 MIN
As a hippopotamus is lavishly fed in a nearly abandoned zoo, Ana and her family struggle to survive shortages of food, water, and electricity inside their once-luxurious but now decaying high-rise, scav marking daily life. Blending allegory and realism, director Mariana Rondón delivers a haunting portrait of inequality, fear, and forced migration that resonates powerfully with Venezuela’s present-day crisis.
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