Dictatorship Movies

In 2019, Nicolás was archiving photographs for J.M. Blanch when he discovered a secluded, uncataloged image depicting an artifact that...

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

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

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

Five bricklayers work to construct and subsequently demolish a monument under the direction of a pseudo-architect. As they toil, the workers succumb...

A short film produced between September and October of 1969, during the course of the Brazilian military dictatorship. It's authorship remained...

Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power,...

This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim....

In Maija Blåfield’s documentary, eight former North Koreans talk about what it was like to watch illegal films in a closed society. In...

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...

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

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a...

Containing rare footage and recorded conversations, this documentary about "the plunder of a nation" hosted by ABS-CBN's Angelo Castro, Jr. looks...

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history...

21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the...

A middle class couple in Chile at the night that Cecilia Bolocco becomes Miss Universe. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.