Etiqueta: Immigration
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A Silence Full Of Whispers (Un silencio lleno de murmullos)
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The Garden of the Verelli Women (El jardín de las mujeres Verelli)
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I crossed the border in high heels (Crucé la frontera en tacones)
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The Unknown Blood (La sangre desconocida)
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That place we call home (Ese lugar al que llamamos casa)
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Sand Promises (Promesas de arena) (TV Series)
Available on TVE A la carta Lucía just finished her degree and travels to Palestine as a cooperator in a NGO. She is filled with excitement and good intentions, but what she finds in the refugee camps shatters all her preconceived ideas. In the camps, there are not only altruistic interests; political religious factions keep a…
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We Saw Better in the Dark Saga (Bilogía Nos veíamos mejor en la oscuridad)
Una madre y una hija separadas por el exilio. Cuatro décadas atrás, los padres de Milena decidieron abandonar su país natal, con sus dos hijos pequeños, en busca de una vida mejor en Estados Unidos. Ahora, Milena y su hermano residen en Barcelona y hace años que no ven a su madre. El paso del…
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The Bridesman
El pasado llama a tu puerta. Micha es un expatriado israelí residente en Los Ángeles, donde lleva una vida tranquila y trabaja como escritor fantasma. Un día recibe una inesperada invitación. Adella, la esposa de su tío, le ha enviado un billete de avión a Israel y una reserva en un hotel para que se…
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Thermal Sensation (Sensación térmica) (Film)
Some people fall into the trap with a smile on their faces. Lucía is a young girl who takes advantage of a literature scholarship at CUNY to escape from her native Mexico and her dysfunctional family. Despite the cold, the rats infesting her small East Village apartment, and the consequential insomnia, Lucía can finally have…
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Favaloro: The Great Operator (Favaloro: El gran operador)
The Argentine doctor who transformed and democratized surgery worldwide. René Favaloro is the most transcendental Argentinean doctor of the 20th century for his contribution to humanity and the lives that have been saved as a result of the surgical procedure he systematized in 1967; a procedure that would transform world medicine forever with his bypass technique. This is a journey through his life, from his origins, his training, his influences and his experiences that shows the process that delineated his way of thinking and understanding the country where he lived. It is a journey through the ups and downs that marked the life of the heart surgeon committed to guaranteeing access to highly complex medical procedures even for those who could not afford it. Since his arrival to his country of origin (Italy) to the tragic afternoon of his suicide. Along the way, he deals with his childhood; the fanaticism he inherited from his uncle for gymnastics; his time at the Rafael Hernández National School, where he received a humanistic education from teachers such as the essayist Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, the Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña or the art critic Jorge Romero Brest; or at the University of La Plata in Argentina. There was also his ideological distance from Peronism; his time as a rural doctor in the Argentiean town of Jacinto Arauz; his settlement in the United States, where he perfected his skills as a surgeon specializing in coronary diseases at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic and established the definitive procedure for the coronary bypass, which since 1968 has saved millions of lives around the world. And, of course, his return to Argentina, where he created the foundation that bears his name and from which he tried to provide high quality medicine for all. Like no other figure in the medical field in Argentina, the surgeon René Gerónimo Favaloro managed to exceed his academic prestige to become a public figure of the highest profile and an ethical reference for millions of people. RELEVANT DATA: Pablo Morosi, a researcher and author of Favaloro. The Great Operator, spent two years conducting an in-depth research and more than 140 interviews that immersed him in the world of one of the most important doctors in the history of Argentina. What the critics have said: “A complete, detailed…
