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The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the ancient, narrow streets of the Old Town in time-honored ritual. But for one celebrant this Holy Week is different. For him Semana Santa is a time to kill. As the death toll mounts, it falls to detective Maria Delgado - mistrusted outsider from Madrid - to stop the bizarre killings.

Chávez, Dali and Pepe belong to a middle class family who spends the Easter holydays at the beach.

Father, forgive them as they don't know whay they do!

An emotional trip through the most relevant aspects of Seville's Holy Week, released for the 1992 Universal Exhibition held in Seville. Music played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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In the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro is the Tolimán community, which wants to integrate all its inhabitants into the celebration of Holy Week. It is a time of coexistence and unity. The particular way in which the Otomíes celebrate Holy or Passion Week is shown.

A narrative feature/documentary transporting you to the streets of Seville, Spain during its most iconic celebration: SEMANA SANTA. Spanish-American filmmaker Marcos Ortega-Morales invites you to experience the passion, love, and respect that the city feels for the tradition that began in the 1300’s.

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Documentary about Tarahumara religious observances around Easter time.

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Images of the traditional celebrations of the "Semana Santa" (The Holy Week) in the small basque town of Azkoitia.

Report produced by the Propaganda Section of the Government of Euzkadi. Made before Bilbao fell to Franco's forces, it focuses on the religious question, attempting to demonstrate the compatibility of respect for religious worship with fighting alongside the Republic and national consciousness.

Short film.

Description of Holy Week traditions in Catacaos.

Documentary.

Produced by Esso for the documentary series Tempus, Peru of yesterday and today.

Short film.

A newsreel from the 1940s about the activities carried out in Ayacucho during Holy Week, such as the procession of the Lord of the Resurrection, the official attendance of the political authorities and prominent families of the district at the mass and the Chupas Fair, where the trade of the morochucos is observed in detail.

Filmed between March and August 1970, the film presents the Catholic festival from its performative dimension. Residents of the region reveal a certain nostalgia for the spectacle, which, according to them, have been lost over time. It is in the search for a theatrical revival that the film operates, reactivating the historic city as a large open-air stage.

Holy Week in the community of Porcón de Cajamarca is one of the manifestations that reflect the religious syncretism and magic inherent to the Andean being.

A story based on true events. When Antonio receives a diagnosis that threatens to tear his family apart, his daughter and granddaughter return to Málaga to be with him. There, Lucía, determined to save her grandfather, clings to her faith and makes a promise to the Cautivo: to play music in his footsteps in exchange for her life. Through music, sacrifice, and hope, the granddaughter embarks on a journey that will transform not only her own life, but also that of her entire family.

In Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, tradition, memory and folklore, walk the streets on the shoulders of a people who proudly displays a legacy rooted in their culture for centuries.

Religious-based images and traditions permeate the lives of all the people who inhabit Seville. Historically, the city's mariquitas ("sissies") have also assimilated them in their childhood and, through them, have been creating their own encounter spaces and their own codes. Nowadays, new dissident identities continue to respond to them: they participate or distance themselves, they continue what exists or transform it. This film looks at these traditions from a perspective always relegated to the margins.

Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.

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