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- In 1980, the capture of the infamous serial killer Pedro Alonso López, also known as the Monster or the Strangler of the Andes, seemed to end his nearly decade-long reign of terror. However, Ecuadorian laws benefited the murderer by giving him a shorter sentence and even the option of leaving in less time. When the Monster's release draws near, a group of family members struggle to find ways to keep him in jail, while he, from the inside, searches through a series of letters to clear his name and unmask the real killer: Jorge Patiño. The problem is that Jorge Patiño exists only in his mind.
- A Hungarian explorer claims to have discovered a "Gold Library" inside a cave. Lacking evidence, he tries to get the recognition he believes he deserves but struggles to get support from the local governments and religious leaders.
- This documentary reflects on the importance of traditional knowledge about medicine and the close relationship that unheard peoples have with the spiritual world of non-humans, this being the strategy with which they have been able to defeat epidemics and pandemics throughout their lives. history.
- Tell Me a Memory is the story of Roger, an old theater actor who recently became a widower. After his wife's death, he realizes how close is he to reaching the end of the road in his own life, and decides to put all his effort in doing one last theater play that might be his big chance for becoming known. While doing so, he starts having the first symptoms of Alzheimers. As the sickness advance, the lines from the play become the only thing that keeps him alive as he wishes to act in this play that means so much to him.
- Throughout history humans have buried their dead-in caves or chambers, in pyramids or in some form of a tomb-but why? Ancient tombs were visual memorials for the dead. In China, a vast necropolis was constructed as a way to connect to the afterlife. Is there an inherit need for us to dig up our past? What is it that we are searching for? And what profound secrets might remain hidden in tombs? That is what we will try to find out.
- For centuries archaeologists and explorers have been obsessed with locating ancient cities lost to time. Some of these places are recorded in historical texts, while others are part of oral traditions and folklore. How does a once-thriving community become a lost city? And if their ruins are found, what secrets might be they reveal about human history?