O Sistema

El Sistema is a network of childrens and youth orchestras, music centres and workshops in Venezuela, in which more than 250,000 children and young people are currently learning to play an instrument. It was set up over thirty years ago by José Antonio Abreu, who was driven by the utopian vision of a better future. In the dangerous and poverty-stricken shanty towns of Caracas, Abreu lifts children out of poverty through music, changing both people and structures. The film El Sistema shows how Abreus astonishing ideas have led the way out of the vicious circle of poverty - and how the power of music has been able to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people.

This film portrays the life of Osvaldo, the screenwriter behind the most delirious presidential speech in Argentine history. Fiction is combined with real historical events that occurred in the Argentine Republic during 1996.

Belgrano neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Someone is watching Fernando Berlasky from one of the countless windows in front of his apartment and sending him e-mails.

Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.

Hector Pelegrin, an unsuccessful insurance agent is admitted to the prestigious school Ferran as a gym teacher. The only problem is that he completely lacks the necessary skills for the job. He organizes a game between the football team at his school and another center, a historic rival, resulting in a surprise full of humorous criticism to our society. Pelegrin tries to convince everyone that football is just a sport

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

The Dessola family, who has never met in the past two years, has finally gathered together on Christmas Eve this year. Leonardo is a politician who has been busy with work for many years and neglects his family. On Christmas Eve, he took his girlfriend back to his hometown and his family reunion - son Pavel, daughter Adul and 9-year-old grandson Buri, what is it, His current girlfriend is Pavel's ex-girlfriend. The rare reunion has gradually become a battlefield of new hatred and old hatred, and every family member has something to say. The night is still very long, how should the Dysola family end this rare Christmas Eve in this chaos?

A couple of tough girls from the Brazilian countryside race their pickup truck to win a bet and prove that they're better than the boys.

Alain has been summoned to resolve a complaint he has filed against the public administration. He believes he is right and his rights protect him, so he feels confident. However, his conversation with the official reveals to him the extent to which he lives enslaved by a system that is more concerned with directing his thoughts than protecting his free will.

Brash, disrespectful, impudence, violent and urgent entertainment called Gore. Gorevision explained and exhibited.

Off The Beaten Track is the documentary that tells the incredible story of four unlikely musicians over the past year, as they travel to Luanda, Caracas, Paris, India, London and the Lisbon suburb of Amadora to show how these cities, as well as their sounds, people, colours and movement helped create the phenomenon that is Buraka Som Sistema. With the full support of Red Bull Music Academy and the talented illustration work of artist Kate Moross, join Lisbon’ most unusual band on a trip around the world and back to the studio. Directed by João Pedro Moreira, Off The Beaten Track brings together all of the elements that make Buraka’s story so unique and blends them with exclusive international, never-before-seen footage for an incredible, wild ride that offers an insiders view of life in one of the most colourful and innovative bands around. (Source: LFF programme)

Loser clown Andrius becomes principal of the school and fights the iron fist system of his deputy Stefanija, to help kids overcome their complexes and free their inner powers.