La Voluntaria

La Volutaria asks is good a product of people or systems? Marisa is a retired doctor, and comes to volunteer at a refugee camp. Over dinner with the other volunteers, all of whom are in their 20s, they begin to lament the state of the Spanish public health care system. The younger volunteers confidently rattle…

Maixabel

Phhffffftt! This film hits like a sledgehammer. Based on the true story of Maixabel Lasa, whose husband was killed by ETA and whose subsequent work supporting victims of violence led her to meet with her husband’s killers. Now. I am actually a bad one for going into a story like this, because films about the…