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On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards

Long John Silver forces the Captain to bet his house in a cockfight. It's John's champion rooster, the Honduras Hurricane, versus the Captain's: a scrawny bird with a bad cold. The boys replace the sick bird with a violent baby eagle.

There are cases of exemplary people who, against all odds, go against the current. This film is the the testimony of women that work in the maquiladoras, which not only shows the dark real- ity in the working site, but also gathers the voices that have found a way to change the situation.

Dinora left Honduras for the United States in one of the migrant caravans leaving Central America. Settled in a suburb of Washington D.C., she speaks on social media of the difficulties she has encountered integrating, as well as of the presence around her of a film crew which has thus unwittingly become the subject of its own film.

Based on the book by Jorge Montenegro, the film is composed of four segments of the famous fables: "El cadejo", "La sucia", "La fiesta de ánimas", and "La taconuda".

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Documentary that tells the chronology of the current coup in the Central American republic, the massive resistance in the streets against the repression from the airport to the journey through the jungle on the border with Nicaragua, leaving an open ending that will be defined with the fight of an entire town in the streets.

Portrays the violence of the coup d'etat in Honduras last June 28, 2009, making use of the voices of people resisting in the streets. Through commercials, news, real-time shots and interviews with Honduran scholars, the documentary puts in historical and political context the consequences of the capture of President-elect Juan Manuel Zelaya.

A feature film that revolves around the murder of a Honduran trans woman, and delves into the conscience by making a cross-section of the political and social reality of Honduras. The 2009 coup d'état disarmed Honduras and ended the life of Vicky Hernández. The documentary reconstructs what happened that night when the streets were only occupied by members of the security forces. It also shows how in the years that followed Hernandez's death did not matter to the State. It was only until the case reached international courts, thanks to the insistence of her family and LGBTI activists, that justice was served.

Implemented at the dawn of the 1990s, this model promoted armed conflict between Honduras and neighboring countries.

The documentary tells the story of four LGBTI persons who have suffered persecution, discrimination and violence in Honduras.

Documentary by Liliane Blaser and Lucía Lamanna.

Documentary reporting the plight of the people of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, campaigning for peace and an end to human rights abuses at the hands of the authoritarian state and army.

Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

A naturalistic story about the realities of healthcare and houselessness from the perspective of Ramon Duarte, a houseless welder who receives care from Miami Street Medicine, a street medicine team. In Miami, where rising housing costs are forcing folks onto the streets, the doctor's work is more important than ever.

Sayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Latino American gang members from Mexico, North America who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Brothers Felipe and Eduardo spend a quiet weekend with each other's girlfriend. They like the girls' grandmother's old house. The deceased grandmother's old house plunges them into a nightmare when they discover a dark family secret hidden for generations in The Countess.

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Francisco Morázan has been in Costa Rica for five months where he has been appointed Provisional Chief of State. It has called for elections to install a National Constituent Assembly, which should be a legal structure to the Costa Rican state. The Assembly has decreed the validity of the constitution of 1825, the same as that of the Central American Federation; It has declared the accession of Costa Rica to the Republic of Central America. Two months later Francisco Morazán is shot one afternoon on September 15, 1842.

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-life-of the eponymous Ángel, a kid who's a shoe-shiner.

The women of the first Garífuna community in Honduras work hard for the future of their daughters. Surrounded by a dazzling landscape, they celebrate their identity and the importance of maternal figures.

Through dances and games, migrant boys and girls who live in a shelter in Reynosa, on the US-Mexico border, shared their dreams and stories of hope with us.

In 2009, the first coup d'etat in a generation in Central America overthrows the elected president of Honduras. A nation-wide movement, known simply as The Resistance, rises in opposition. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley centers on the most daring wing of the movement, the farmers of the Aguan. Not satisfied with just marching and blocking highways, 2000 landless families take possession of the palm oil plantations of Miguel Facusse, the country's largest landowner and a key player in the coup. The camera follows three farmers over four years as they build their new communities on occupied land, in the face of the regime's violent response, while waiting for the elections The Resistance hopes will restore the national democratic project.

Honduran immigrants living in Mexico, teenage siblings Rocío and Ale must take over care of their two younger siblings after their mother is sentenced to prison on dubious grounds. Tensions grow between the pair as the decision must be made on whether to stay together in Mexico or split the family up to cross into the US to work.

An experimental documentary short on the late Leonardo Monte de Oca, renowned mime from Honduras, starring his son.

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In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Ah Lun, who has a choice to make in the underworld, decides to be a god of love in Chinese mythology. As he advances with his tasks on Earth, his biggest challenge is to tie a red string with the woman he loves the most.

On the brink of social collapse, the city of Los Angeles is full of protests in favor of immigrants and against deportations under the administration of Trump. On the border with Mexico, thousands of people try to cross every day.