Esta película narra las luchas sociales en los grandes ingenios azucareros del norte argentino. La leyenda de “EL FAMILIAR” habla de un demonio que a cambio de la prosperidad de la fábrica exigía a los patrones la sangre de uno o mas trabajadores aborígenes o criollos.
“Casualmente” aquellos que desaparecían eran quienes cuestionaban el sistema de explotación extrema al cual eran sometidos.
El filme recorre un período que va desde principios de siglo hasta la actualidad, desde las migraciones obligadas de los aborígenes hasta los cortes de ruta de los desocupados.
“Diablo, familia y propiedad” fue estrenada el 7 de noviembre de 1999 en el Cine Cosmos manteniéndose en cartel 5 semanas apoyada por las críticas favorables de los medios. En el circuito no convencional (escuelas, universidades, cine clubes, centros culturales, festivales, etc.) fue vista por mas de 10.000 personas en todo el país y el exterior.

“L’hachumyajay” is a word of Wichi origin which means “Our way of doing things”.
Without the traditional “voice off” of an announcer, this documentary shows aborigines of various ethnic groups – Wichi, Chorote and Toba – who live in the Great Chaco on the banks of rivers Pilcomayo and Bermejo, retelling their customs, traditions and struggles.

A different point of view of the people’s rebellion on December 19th and 20th, 2001 in Argentina, which made the administration of Fernando De la Rúa, Rodríguez Saá and three other interim presidents collapse.
More than fifteen independent cameramen, members of the Argentine Documentary Makers’ Association, founded on December 19th, 2001, and many of whom are feature film cameramen, joined together to produce this collective material, which offers a point of view of the rebellion different from the one shown by mass media corporations directly related to the economic and political power. Selected Official Documentary Competition 24th International New Latinamerican Film Festival La Habana – Cuba.

“The reason why a country is in state of siege is that the leaders are afraid of the people in demonstrations. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo warn the corrupt political leaders that the people should have the right to fight against oppression and to exert the justice they are denied.”(December 22nd, 2001. Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.) Selected Informative Section 24th International New Latinamerican Film Festival La Habana – Cuba.

This material was collectively accomplished during both the 1997 Resistance March and the blocking of roads in La Matanza, actions that wanted to impress a militant nature to the C.G.T.-ordered strikes (General Confederation of Labour) of the same year.
Hebe de Bonafini follows the revolutionary example of the generation of the seventies, while the people’s struggle is taking over the streets.

Through the story retold by three retirees, “Third Time” follows the struggle which began about ten years ago, during Carlos Menem’s administration in Argentina (at present Menem is prosecuted for several offences).
A struggle with clear aims: dignity and social justice for the excluded of this society, the elderly who raise their arms in protest and take over the streets every Wednesday to demonstrate, in front of the National Congress building.

Stories of a boarding house in Buenos Aires. César, an 18-year-old Peruvian immigrant tells the story of himself and other immigrants like him while he is cooking one of the typical Peruvian meals, ceviche (raw fish marinated in lemon juice), on a Sunday in July 2000.

It contains 6 reports made by Cine Insurgente during the year 2002, for the community of counter-information Argentina Arde:

1.MEMORY, VACCINATES AGAINST DEATH

Remembering March 24 of 1976, when in Argentina was settled the military dictatorship, the necessity arises of making memory and to meditate so that the history won’t be repeated.

2.GIVING TURNS

A brief report in format of video clip that narrates the days of December 18, 19 and 20 of 2001, that put an end to the murderous government of Fernando de la Rúa.

3 –BRUKMAN

The workers that have occupied the factory from December 18th of 2001, suffer a levelling at half of 2002, they are taken out of the factory but they are able to recover it.

4 - ESCRACHE A LOS MEDIOS

The Massive Communication Networks are denounced as accomplices of thesystem by the assembly movement.

5.TAKEN UNIVERSITY

The Faculty of Social Sciences of the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) questions the concentrated university power, and claiming basic rights, it exercises the taking off of the office of the universities principal for more than 30 days.

6.THE PIQUETEROS METHODS

Video clip of the most combat rock band of Argentina, Las Manos de Filippi.

From 1998, five Cubans were confined in the United States federal prisons, victims of unjust condemnations that are up to the double life imprisonment. They have been prosecuted because of their struggle, even taking to risk their lives, against terrorist groups that operate freely in Miami. The wife of one of them and a Cuban jurist visited Argentina to relate the bad treatments that receive, the impossibility that the relatives have to visit them and the illegal traps of the trial. The film "For the five", combine the judicial infamies to those that were subjected, the support manifestations that they received in Argentina and the personal life of these five heroes of the Cuban Revolution.

The secret Center of detention Athletic Club worked from 1976 to December of 1977. During their operation it housed more than 1500 people. The personnel, integrated by forces of security acted in contact with other centers. The procedure of kidnappings was of 6 or 7 per day, although they sometimes arrived up to 20. To regular intervals, an important group of detainees, left with unknown destination. "The Athletic" investigates the excavations of recovery of the former secret Center from the optics of an anthropologist and an architecture student, both relatives of missing detainees.

Raúl Gomés de Olivera “The Teacher” has been camping at the door of the Buenos Aires Regional Information Office since September 11th, 2000.
Ruckauf and the conspiratorial leaders of S.U.T.E.B.A. (Education Workers’ Union of the Province of Buenos Aires) say he is insane, people walk past uninterested. But the Teacher, with his struggle, proves that the Province’s school boards are the place where the leaders of the Justicialist Party use in order to finance their mobs, at the expense of hungry children who see the school dining halls empty.

A documentary which looks for the real combatants 20 years later. The soldiers, “colimbas”, retell their story, one about hunger, cold, daily death...
They explain, without a voice off, that at 18 years old and without any preparation they were sent to a war against Great Britain and NATO and then they came back and were treated indifferently by a society that considered them as the “weirdoes back from the War”.

During the year spent working in the Audiovisual Education Workshop, it is intended to deal with the subject of the resistance in various groups nationwide. 5 short films express this concept:

In an in-depth interview, Javier Calderon (F.A.R.C. – E.P.) analyses the Colombian situation after the revolutionary offensive and the imposition of a 42,000 square kilometre demilitarised zone. The history of F.A.R.C. – E.P.’s successes can be summarised in the words of Calderon: “We always knew who the people’s friends are and who the foes are”.

After the popular rebellion of the 19 and 20 of December of 2001, the neighbours began to join spontaneously in the most important corners in the neighbourhoods, around the watchword “All leave”
This way assemblies were constituted in the whole country. Some decided that as part of the fight they should recover spaces that belonged to them, with the purpose of organizing dining rooms, libraries and cultural spaces.
The Assembly of Villa Crespo, the 13 of July of 2002, after six months of meeting in the street, decides to occupy a branch property of the bank of Province of Buenos Aires, abandoned, that has been used as a political centre of Duhalde, in that moment interim president, after the escape of Fernando de la Rúa.
This way the assembly is able to face the government in its I legitimate right.
This documentary done from the interior of the assembly and tollen by it’s own main characters.
Also, it is the only one that registers a pursuit of the assembly movement after the social explosion of 2001 and narrates the continuous fight in Argentina against the neoliberal system.

Idea y Dirección: Lorena Riposati
Producción: Grupo de Cine Insurgente
Asistentes de Dirección: Natalia Polito y Héctor Rivero
Asesoramiento en Guión: Fernando Krichmar
Iluminación y cámara: Lorena Riposati y Natalia Polito
Animación: Vicky Biagiola y Rubén Lezcano
Edición: Omar Neri y Lorena Riposati
Durción: 74 minutos
Formato: Mini DV.
Año de Producción: 2006