@ “BAD HOMBRES” Stef Biemans / Netherlands / 2020 / 54 min https://pragda.com/film/bad-hombres Spanish with English subtitles Bad Hombres explores the most heavily used migration route on Earth. Dutch journalist Stef Biemans travels between Guatemala and the U.S. during the first months of the Trump Administration, to see what the so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find […]

@ “8 HISTORIAS SOBRE MI HIPOACUSIA” Charo Mato / Argentina, Uruguay / 2021 / 86 min https://pragda.com/film/8-stories-about-my-hearing-loss Spanish with English subtitles Comments by prof. Marcelo Nogueira, Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Charo Mato’s autobiographical documentary is a poignant exploration of her life journey. Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in […]

@ “EL CASO PADILLA” Pavel Giroud / Cuba, Spain / 2022 / 78 min https://pragda.com/film/the-padilla-affair Spanish with English subtitles In the spring of 1971 in Havana, poet Heberto Padilla is released from prison and attends a Cuban writers’ guild meeting. During the gathering, he delivers what he describes as a “heartfelt self-criticism,” admitting to being […]