Riot Movies

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that...

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural...

A young balladeer raised in the United States returns to Colombia to continue her career. Her plans do not align with her mother's, a famous singer...

In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.

Jan 6th, a violent attack against the US occurred at the Capitol. Five people died and 140+ injured. Before the dust had settled and with strict...

An in-depth analysis on the 40th Anniversary of the life and untimely death of Arthur Lee McDuffie at the hands of Miami Dade police officers.

A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film...

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of...

A young man is charged with statutory rape.

A man fixates on the TV screen, trying to uncover the cause of the riot shaking the nation.

This visceral cinematic snapshot is an inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera. Using different video and film...

They were called ‘the golden generation’, the young Yugoslavian soccer players who won the Junior World Soccer Championships in 1987 in...

A Swiss political documentary about the Zurich youth unrest of 1968

Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working...

6 December 2008, few minutes after 9 pm - Time Zero of the December Revolt. Two policemen shoot against a group of youngsters hanging out on a...