FILM CATALOGUE
Pragda collection includes films by such notable directors as Julio Medem, Oliver Stone, Fernando Trueba, Carles Bosh and many others. We have a reputation for distributing daring independent non-fiction films and short fictions from Spanish speaking countries. We work with institutions that include high quality and educational media in their programs. This includes media arts centers, museums, galleries, colleges and universities, as well as other agencies.
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SYNOPSIS: In summer 1994, more than 50,000 Cubans took to the sea in a motley array of rafts and floating junk in an attempt to reach the Florida shores. Shot with an intense sense of both immediacy and intimacy, Balseros dives into the difficulties of pursuing the ‘American Dream’. This film is NOT available for sale. For public screenings, request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: This groundbreaking documentary uncovers the forgotten history surrounding Franco’s concentration camps and prisons which were created to deal with the Republican resistance fighters from the Spanish Civil War in 1936. This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: Relations between the USA and Cuba are anything but normal. One of the United States’ most outspoken and controversial directors interviews one of the world’s most outspoken and controversial heads of state –Comandante, Fidel Castro. No prior arrangements were made about what questions should or should not be discussed and Castro responds to each of them. This film is NOT available for sale. For public screenings, request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: A sensitive and thought-provoking documentary that artfully weaves interviews and extraordinary historical footage to tell the story of a hidden part of European history; the officially sanctioned mass exodus of some two million Spaniards to work in European factories in the 1960s. This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: How does a pop duet work out for impulsive and irreverent six-year-old Marina and 75-year-old Marita? Mischievous Marina plays to the camera, ignoring the chiding of her aged grandmother, Marita. Marita’s crumbling house was built by her long-dead husband. She moved in when they married, over 53 years ago, and nothing much has changed since. Now her home is under threat; the neighborhood is being torn down, being replaced with charmless apartments. This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: Flamenco music is the lifeblood of the “Gitanos”, - Spanish gypsies - whose exile has lasted for centuries. In looking for the roots of the so-called "New Flamenco", the film takes you on a journey to “Tres Mil Viviendas”, a rundown estate on Seville’s South Side, and home to many of the city’s gypsy population. This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: “With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, La Pelota Vasca is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region.” - Jamie Russell, BBC Radio This film is available for public screenings. Request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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SYNOPSIS: Candeal is a marginal area in the heart of Salvador, the capital of Bahia and home of Grammy award winning musician Carlinhos Brown. The film is a stunning parable of how a notorious slum transformed itself into a model community through the power of music, pushed along by Brown’s commitment to the local youth. This film is NOT available for sale. For public screenings, request a quote: info@pragda.com |
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