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Hacia rutas salvajes 2007
Película
A principios de los años noventa, el joven e idealista Christopher McCandless adopta el nombre de Alexander Supertramp, deja sus posesiones y sus ahorros a la beneficencia y abandona el mundo civilizado con rumbo a la salvaje Alaska para entrar en contacto con la Naturaleza y descubrir el verdadero sentido de la vida. Adaptación del best-seller de Jon Krakauer, basado en las notas del diario de McCandless.
Las caras de Hacia rutas salvajes
- Un graduado que lo regala todo
- Un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos
- Un autobús abandonado en Alaska
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los grandes paisajes y la vida salvaje.
- te gusta un joven en busca de sentido.
- te gusta la historia real de un graduado que regaló sus ahorros y viajó a dedo hasta Alaska.
Mala para ti si
- dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
- no soportas ver sufrir a unos padres. Su familia espera dos años sin noticias suyas.
Temas: la libertad · la familia · la naturaleza
Powaqqatsi 1988
Documentary
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
The sides of Powaqqatsi
- Workers of the developing world in slow motion
- A Philip Glass score
- No words at all
Good for you if
- you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying a whole film.
- you like feeling the scale of human labour across continents.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves forward.
- you need the images explained, and no one says a word.
About: labour · modernity · tradition
Honeyland 2019
Documentary
When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
The sides of Honeyland
- Hatidze, a wild beekeeper in North Macedonia
- Her old, bedridden mother
- A nomadic family moving in next door
Good for you if
- you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.
- you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.
- you're moved by Hatidze caring for her mother alone.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need momentum. The film follows the bees season by season.
About: balance · solitude · greed
Shoah 1985
Documentary
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
The sides of Shoah
- Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
- The sites of the camps filmed decades later
- No archive footage at all
Good for you if
- you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
- you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
- you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.
Bad for you if
- you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
- you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
- you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.
About: memory · testimony · genocide
Nostalgia for the Light 2010
Documentary
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
The sides of Nostalgia for the Light
- Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
- Women searching the sand for their dead
- Pinochet's political prisoners
Good for you if
- you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
- you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
- you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.
Bad for you if
- you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.
About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice
Heima 2007
Documentary
Ethereal post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós play a string of impromptu gigs in their native Iceland after finishing a world tour in 2006. As they travel through the country, the band visits a wide variety of venues, from a large outdoor festival to a coffee shop.
The sides of Heima
- Sigur Rós playing free shows across Iceland
- Gigs in village halls, a coffee shop and outdoors
- Icelandic landscapes between songs
Good for you if
- you love Sigur Rós and slow, soaring music.
- you want Iceland's landscapes on a big screen.
- you like a quiet, unhurried film.
Bad for you if
- you want talk and story, and this is mostly songs and landscapes.
- you won't read subtitles. The band talks in Icelandic between songs.
About: home · community · stillness
Lessons of Darkness 1992
Documentary
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
The sides of Lessons of Darkness
- Kuwait's oil fields burning after the Gulf War
- Firefighters capping the wells
- Werner Herzog filming Earth like another planet
Good for you if
- you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.
- you like images carried by Wagner and Verdi.
- you like Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum. Long shots of burning wells glide by with barely a word.
- you want things explained. Herzog never lays out the war and narrates it like science fiction.
About: war · apocalypse · landscape
Waste Land 2010
Documentary
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
The sides of Waste Land
- One of the world's largest landfills near Rio
- Pickers of recyclables who become portrait subjects
- The artist Vik Muniz
Good for you if
- you want real people from Jardim Gramacho telling their own lives.
- you like being moved by people seeing their portraits in a museum.
- you like giant portraits made from garbage.
Bad for you if
- you can't take hard stories of poverty and the loss of a child.
- you won't read subtitles for the Portuguese.
About: dignity · art · hope
The Alpinist 2021
Documentary
The life of Canadian mountain climber Marc-André Leclerc as he pushes the boundaries of climbing while on an expedition to Patagonia.
The sides of The Alpinist
- A young climber who avoids cameras
- Solo climbs without a rope
- A winter expedition to Patagonia
Good for you if
- you love huge mountains, ice and rock walls.
- you like climbing footage shot from impossible angles.
- you like watching someone alone on a wall, one move at a time.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a real family live with what solo climbing might cost.
- you want a relaxed outdoor film. Every climb here is a life or death risk.
About: freedom · risk · solitude
One More Time with Feeling 2016
Documentary
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
The sides of One More Time with Feeling
- Nick Cave recording an album after losing his son
- A studio filmed in black and white
- A family living with grief
Good for you if
- you like watching songs take shape in the studio.
- you like a film that sits quietly with real grief.
- you like stark black and white images.
Bad for you if
- a parent's grief is too much for you.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: grief · creation · fatherhood
Interstellar 2014
Película
En una Tierra moribunda, un antiguo piloto de la NASA deja atrás a sus dos hijos para cruzar un agujero de gusano y buscar un planeta donde pueda vivir la humanidad.
Las caras de Interstellar
- El padre y la hija
- Una ciencia en la que puedes creer
- El órgano y el silencio
- La soledad allá arriba
Buena para ti si
- las despedidas te afectan más que las explosiones.
- te gustan los agujeros de gusano, los agujeros negros y un planeta donde una hora cuesta años.
- quieres sentirte muy pequeño en tu butaca.
Mala para ti si
- prefieres no pensar en la relatividad y en el tiempo que se estira para seguir una historia.
- los grandes discursos sobre el amor te hacen poner los ojos en blanco.
- casi tres horas son demasiado para una noche.
Temas: el tiempo · el sacrificio · el hogar · los que se quedan atrás
My Octopus Teacher 2020
Documentary
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
The sides of My Octopus Teacher
- A diver in a kelp forest off South Africa
- A year following one octopus
- A shark hunting her in the shallows
Good for you if
- you like cold water, kelp and the life hidden in it.
- you like seeing how clever an animal can be up close.
- you can be moved to tears by a bond with an octopus.
Bad for you if
- a man's voice-over about his feelings for an animal makes you roll your eyes.
- you need a story that moves. This is slow dives, day after day.
About: connection · healing · the life cycle
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey 2017
Documentary
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.
The sides of Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
- The birth of the universe
- Life appearing and evolving on Earth
- A narrator asking questions to a mother figure
Good for you if
- you like feeling small in front of billions of years.
- you want galaxies, volcanoes and cells as pure images.
- you like the cosmos from its first moment to its end.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves, not a long meditation.
- you roll your eyes at whispered questions to the universe.
About: creation · the meaning of life · time
Life in a Day 2011
Documentary
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
The sides of Life in a Day
- One day, the 24th of July 2010
- Home videos sent from all over the world
- Births, breakfasts, work and goodbyes
Good for you if
- you like feeling how big and varied the world is in one day.
- you want ordinary people filming their own lives.
- you get moved by small moments from strangers.
Bad for you if
- you lose track when a film jumps between hundreds of strangers.
- you need momentum more than a gentle flow of moments.
About: daily life · humanity · time

For All Mankind 1989
Documentary
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.
The sides of For All Mankind
- NASA footage of the Apollo missions
- Astronauts remembering in their own voices
- A Brian Eno score
Good for you if
- you like the trip to the Moon told by the astronauts who made it.
- you like seeing Earth from the Moon in real footage.
- you like Brian Eno's ambient music over space images.
Bad for you if
- you need more drama than a calm, floating journey.
- you find 1960s footage dated.
About: exploration · awe · history
Jane 2017
Documentary
Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.
The sides of Jane
- Jane Goodall in Gombe in the 1960s
- Lost National Geographic footage
- Chimpanzees filmed up close
Good for you if
- you like chimpanzees filmed up close in the wild.
- you want Jane Goodall telling her own story.
- you like a Philip Glass score carrying the images.
Bad for you if
- you need more momentum than long scenes of watching chimps.
- you need suspense to stay with a film.
About: curiosity · nature · a life's work

The Civil War 1990
Documentary
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
The sides of The Civil War
- Archive photographs of soldiers and battlefields
- Letters and diaries read aloud
- From secession to Lincoln's assassination
Good for you if
- you want to understand how the United States came apart and back together.
- you like a haunting fiddle tune that returns through every episode.
- you want the battles told through the people who fought them.
Bad for you if
- you can't give more than ten hours to one documentary.
- you need moving footage, not slow pans over still photographs.
About: slavery · the union · sacrifice
Baraka 1992
Documentary
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
The sides of Baraka
- A monkey sitting in a hot spring
- Pilgrims bathing in the Ganges
- Time lapse of crowds and skies
Good for you if
- you want ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film.
- you want a score to carry you from a temple to a factory.
- you like feeling small in front of deserts, monks and cities.
Bad for you if
- you want people talking and there is not one line in the film.
- you need momentum and not a held shot of a mountain.
About: the sacred · work · the planet
Our Planet 2019
Documentary
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
The sides of Our Planet
- Wildlife from jungles to frozen seas
- Walruses crowding a shrinking shore
- How climate change reaches every habitat
Good for you if
- you like animals in their habitats, from forests to the deep sea.
- you want every shot to look like it took months to get.
- you like being reminded how much life the planet holds.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch animals suffer, like walruses falling from cliffs as the ice melts.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt appeals. David Attenborough's narration keeps pleading for what we are losing.
About: climate change · the living world · conservation
Meru 2015
Documentary
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
The sides of Meru
- Three climbers on the Shark's Fin of Meru
- A first attempt that ends short of the top
- Nights in a tent hanging off a wall
Good for you if
- you like watching people push their bodies past what seems possible.
- you love the Himalayas filmed by the climbers themselves.
- you like the loyalty between Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch people dangling over a huge drop.
- you'd rather not hear about serious injuries and friends lost in the mountains.
About: obsession · friendship · risk