Title: COCKROACH
Director: Ai Weiwei
Editor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2020
Cockroach Trailer from alamraja on Vimeo.
“Ai Weiwei’s “Cockroach” (2020) is a documentary film about the protests in Hong Kong in 2019.
In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill, which would have allowed extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial in mainland China. The controversial bill sparked immediate outrage over widespread fear of arbitrary detention and politically motivated trials that would decimate Hong Kong’s autonomy under ‘one country, two systems.’ Anti-bill protests escalated into pro-democracy demonstrations.
“Cockroach,” filmed during the height of the protests, captures the extraordinary intensity of an unprecedented era in Hong Kong’s history. Spanning the evolution of the protest movement, it captures street demonstrations, police suppression and violence, and key events, such as the multi-day siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Interviews with Hong Kongers feature activists, protestors, politicians, ordinary citizens, and policemen. Prominent legislators, lawyers and activists articulate the perils of intensifying assaults on freedoms and rule of law. “Cockroach” is a poignant and dramatic visual record of the final moments of an independent, democratic Hong Kong. On June 30, 2020, China imposed the National Security Law in Hong Kong, effectively ending Hong Kong’s judicial and political independence and placing the city firmly under Beijing’s control.
“Cockroach” es un registro visual conmovedor y dramático de los momentos finales de un Hong Kong democrático e independiente. El 30 de junio de 2020, China impuso la Ley de Seguridad Nacional en Hong Kong, poniendo fin de manera efectiva a la independencia judicial y política de Hong Kong y colocando la ciudad firmemente bajo el control de Beijing.
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Title: LITA CABELLUT
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2019
LITA CABELLUT from Denis Delestrac on Vimeo.
Lita Cabellut is a contemporary Spanish painter who is best known for her large-scale realistic oil paintings. Throughout her practice, Cabellut meticulously renders portraits of fictional and historical characters utilizing a fresco-like technique to bring a heightened sense of reality to the people she depicts.
Title: EXTINCTION UPDATE
Director: Jean-Marc Joseph
Editor: Àlam Raja / Guillem Comas
Year: 2019
Extinction Update is an environmental watch that investigates some of the ways we are destroying our planet. We will see the effects of throwing condoms, sanitary napkins and wet wipes down the toilet in Barcelona, to later end up swimming in a sea of waste and bacteria on the beaches of La Barceloneta. Below we will witness how illicit drugs are killing our trees, how our forests are increasingly affected by continuous fires and how air pollution is so harmful to children that it could be generating mutations in our DNA. In the end we will find some ideas to help stop ruining the planet. And if you watch the whole episode you can enjoy a wet cloth flying through space.
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Title: NANDO DIXKONTROL: Leyenda viva de la música electrónica
Director: Santi Aguado
Editor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2019
En pleno furor preolímpico, la noche barcelonesa vivió una edad dorada que muchos no olvidarán jamás. Su punto álgido fue a finales de los ochenta, cuando nació Psicódromo,
una mítica sala que se convirtió en el templo de una generación donde la música mákina era el credo. Allí se fraguó la leyenda del genial Nando Dixkontrol, el enfant terrible
de la electrónica española que puso a sus pies a toda esa escena a base de mezclas imposibles, discos en llamas y discursos irrepetibles. Título: SUNKEN EL DORADO
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editing advisor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2019
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Title: CAPTAIN’S DREAM
Director: Denis Delestrac
Montador: Àlam Raja
Year: 2018
"CAPTAIN'S DREAM" Trailer from Denis Delestrac on Vimeo.
The wild Russian artist and captain, Alexander Ponomarev follows his bold dream to create the first Art Biennale in Antarctica.
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Title: FREIGHTENED
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editor Teaser/Trailer: Àlam Raja
Year: 2016
"FREIGHTENED" Trailer from Denis Delestrac on Vimeo.
90% of all goods we consume in the West are manufactured in far-off lands and delivered by ship. The cargo shipping industry is a key player in world economy and forms the basis of our very model of modern civilisation; without it, it would be impossible to fulfil the ever-increasing demands of our societies. Yet the workings and regulations of this business remain largely obscure to many, and its hidden costs affect us all. “Freightened” is an audacious investigation about the mechanics and perils of cargo shipping: an all-but-visible industry that relentlessly supplies 7 billion humans and holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilization.
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Title: BARÇA DREAMS
Director: Jordi Llompart
Editor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2014
The documentary tells the history of FC Barcelona starting from the dream and vision of its founder, Joan Gamper, until its consecration thanks to the successes of recent times, which have made the club one of the most powerful in the world. The narration runs through the testimony of analysts, technicians and players.
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Title: ANGELS & DUST
Director: Hector Herrera
Editor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2014
Angels & Dust Trailer from amiko media on Vimeo.
Music producer Professor Angel Dust and his wife Kene are arrested at Panama airport on their way back to Barcelona. Their daughter is taken into custody by the local social services. Angel's brother Mauricio is in shock.
Forced to park his life in Spain, he flies to Panama to take custody of his niece, find a lawyer and seek protection for his brother in prison. After two months, he succeeds in bringing his niece back home, but has to fly
back to Panama for the trial of his brother and sister-in-law... His journey will become a contemporary 'odyssey' full of overwhelming encounters with characters whose philosophy of life and daily routines illustrate some
of the human paradoxes to their very limits.
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Title: SANDWARS
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editor Teaser/Trailer: Àlam Raja
Year: 2013
Sand Wars” is an epic eco-thriller that takes the audience around the globe to unveil a new gold rush and a disturbing fact: we are running out of sand! A classic in documentary filmmaking, it triggered international public debate, changed laws and reached an audience of over 120 millions viewers worldwide.
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Title: PAX AMERICANA
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editor: Àlam Raja
Year: 2010
Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space is a documentary film with a soundtrack by Amon Tobin. The film examines the origins and today’s reality of the militarization of space, featuring interviews with several key US Air Force Space Command personal, academics such as Noam Chomsky and others, including activist Martin Sheen.
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Title: BANKING NATURE
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editor Teaser/Trailer: Àlam Raja
Year: 2015
"BANKING NATURE" Trailer from Denis Delestrac on Vimeo.
Who is making you buy rainforest and climatic quotas for pollution? Surely, it wouldn’t be the same which made the last financial crises in subprime loans, would it? Banking Nature looks at the growing movement to monetize the natural world and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit.
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Title: 'ONE - STEVE Mc CURRY'
Director: Denis Delestrac
Editor
Teaser/Trailer: Àlam Raja
ONE - Teaser Trailer from alamraja on Vimeo.