La Frontera En Llamas

Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.

A French National Treasury van is assaulted and they steal the gold bullion it was carrying. According to confidences received by the Police Headquarters of Barcelona, it seems that part of the gold is clandestinely introduced into Spain through the Pyrenees. In order to discover and eradicate such smuggling infiltration, an agent pretends to be a day laborer at a farm located on the border and in a suspicious area.

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.

Eager to reunite with their young daughter after being deported, a married couple enlist the help of a coyote to get them across the border.

A silent short film following two immigrants as they attempt to make their way past the border into the United States.

Women working in factories (Maquilas) at the border, a look into their working conditions and worries (fiction film) and their use of video to document their situation.

Amid a political crisis, on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, an Andean woman, her husband, and brother live on looting travelers. However fate pushes her to the brink of illusion and getting lost in mysterious dreams.

De Armas' last production, La frontera (1967), is a cartoon with an implausible plasticity recreated from geometric figures. This anime evokes the geopolitical conflicts of “the border and ends up turning the disputed land into the space of both opponents. However, even though it is less introspective than other of his materials, La frontera is also a trigger for artistic experimentation.

Lucia and her family face the consequences of living in the lake that joins the border of Michoacán and Guanajuato, in a war unleashed by drug trafficking and the State Government.

Short documentary chronicling the life of Eva Canseco, a maquiladora (factory worker) from Oaxaca living in the border town of Tijuana.

A man and his dog cross the desert in search of La Frontera, a mighty river that represents the geographical limit with the neighboring territory. Exhausted, they manage to see their goal, but they must cross other obstacles before conquering its waters.

A young officer recently arrived from Buenos Aires takes charge of a military base on the edge of the desert.

Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.

Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.