Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces. XIII Encuentro Hispanoamericano De Cine Documental Independiente (13)

Globalization and neoliberal policies are accompanied for deterioration and marginalization of large sections of the population in the economic, political and social, producing challenges to the prevailing development models encourage the emergence of non-governmental organizations and movements alternative struggling to end this situation. In this category you can register works that have for theme, an event or series of events of the past or present, or a character or more whose stories reflect processes of struggle and social organization.

It is understood human rights as the set of prerogatives inherent in the nature of the person, whose effective realization is essential to the integral development of the individual living in an organized society, it is obliged to respect the rights of its members. In this category are the documentaries that relate to the protection or violation of human rights; to the specific circumstances of the subject in each country and the multiple actions and achievements in relation to the right to life, liberty, peace and legal security, health, education, the choice of religious creed and sexual orientation, freedom of opinion and expression of ideas, to a level of adequate and decent life, and a healthy environment.

The current border and immigration disputes highlight a number of unresolved dilemmas. Economic, political and cultural differences from nation to nation, define the border areas as a kind of social laboratory where relationships are constantly reinvented. The situation on the border of Mexico and the United States is a very specific case, in which transculturation is manifested not only in the border strip, but somehow permeates the culture of both countries. Meanwhile, international migration is the subject of increasing interest to scholars, given the complexity of the phenomenon that is increasing by socioeconomic factors and aspects of migration flows related to its incorporation into receiving societies and the vicissitudes that the newcomers have clashed with authorities and cultural practices of these societies. The exiles, in turn, are situations that have led to the integration of foreigners into social formations different to yours, through construction processes and, in some cases, destructive to both the individual and for the community that receives it. The works participating in this category will relate to the matters described above.

In recent decades man has damaged the planet on which he lives, destroying the flora and fauna, reducing forests, polluting rivers, seas and altering the functioning of ecosystems, regardless have into account that life itself depends on the human relationship with nature. Today we face the need to put a limit to the indiscriminate depletion of natural resources that are finite and is necessary preserve their delicate balance to is required to preserve existence. In this category participating the works that present both the severity of the problem, like as those described efforts to promote successful management of natural resources through activities that promote both conservation and sustainable development present and future, in issues like evaluated such as water, forests, waste and recycling; sustainable agriculture; climate change, energy; biodiversity and biosafety, sustainable agriculture; climate change, energy, biodiversity and biosafety.

In recent years there is a tendency to look at society from the perspective of the individual, their achievements, their problems and concerns. In this category will be accepted documentaries that address problems related to the individual and his surroundings, with identity, religion and current philosophical discussions, like the modifications have been brought to everyday life with the rapid technological change we have experienced in the last 20 years. All those problems that manifest from the individual and are not considered in the rest of the categories to which we call come to compete in this category.

The resurgence of ethnic conflicts and movements in the socio-political context in Latin America, says the rethinking of the situation associated with the historic demands of regional autonomy, self-governance and respect for their cultural systems, especially if because of their ethnicity protagonists they are under the domination and exploitation of the powerful classes. Moreover, in Latin American countries where indigenous people are taking strength documentary about their realities, their lives and their expectations, by the protagonists themselves. The documentaries that will be witness and interpret these processes and struggles form part of this category.

In an increasingly materialistic and individualistic world, where we have been sold the idea that consumption, fashion and brands determine our position in society; a world dominated by de facto powers ranging from large multinationals to the so-called organized crime. In this world the role of art and culture highlights and becomes more important as a means to socialize and create community to improve our quality of life, to prevent violence we suffer in different ways and to restore the social fabric, as a means economic and social development, and to express protest against injustices and to propose a better world. All the documentaries that address this subject will be accepted in this category.

Women
The movements that pursue the full emancipation of women through legal equality, economic, political and social within society, have been a constant in the recent history of mankind. This category is dedicated to the works that tackle themed stories like changing Social Status of Women, of forms organizational, their actions around the education, labor, fighting poverty and discrimination, as well as found ways the forms to fend of Expressions of violence. Also, will be accepted documentaries that deal with the issues that daily face and inequity that they live in different levels.

Sexual Diversity, with the aim of giving voice to the different struggles that have been carried out around the visibility of sexual orientations, preferences and identities and the way in which multiple battles against discrimination and violence have been carried out, mainly in Latin America.
It is a space that aims to bring together the multiple efforts in favor of equality and inclusion, in which all the possibilities that exist to live and assume sexuality are integrated.