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This documentary explores the development and survival of a small, yet highly active, metal scene in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Heavy metal music seems completely out of place in this setting when examined in the context of the island’s culture and history. Still, a local metal scene has existed during the past 30 years despite the challenges faced, and continues to thrive. How have they done it? That is what the film explores by focusing on the role of their strong communal ties that help them critically assess questions related to national identity, language, colonial politics, religion, gender, social transgression, and survival. You will never see the Caribbean in the same way...

Claudio Sapiain, who lived with his family in Sweden during his exile after the coup in Chile, describes what it was like to return to his homeland.

On April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for the crimes of “rebellion, sabotage and terrorism”. A few days later, the National Mining Company entered the area accompanied by a squad of at least 200 policemen to carry out studies related to the Llurimagua mining project, in the Íntag cloud forest. Javier with I, Íntag collects Javier Ramírez's reflections after his release, his feeling of condemned innocence, the pain of living in a divided, busy and frightened community, with its social fabric destroyed.

Murcia, Spain, 2016. An eccentric and humorous journey, on the shoulders of ironic giants, in the search of the most enigmatic places of this Spanish region: considering different hypotheses, the possibility of the existence of pyramidal structures is investigated, crossing sometimes the border of the chimerical and exploring beyond the limits that were previously considered impassable.

Examines the work of the DanzÉ group, by DanzActiva, in which the dancer Paulette Beauchamp, through an artistic proposal, directs a group of people with Down Syndrome in bomba dance shows. The documentary presents the experiences of these dancers, the concerns of the parents, and documents the cultural exchange of the group with a group of the city of Seville, Spain.

When we depend on others...

Movie-album by the band Cenicero.

In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belonging and struggle against a system that threatens their model of association.

Director Ian Padrón follows the internationally famous and beloved orchestra Los Van Van on their last tour in Cuba, which was attended by over one million people. Learn more about the history and future of this iconic musical act, and get ready to fight the urge to bust a move or two!

A film that observes the human and morphological connection between two rivers, the Ganges in India and Biobio in Chile. From their origins in the mountain range until their deltas in the ocean, this documentary proposes a game of mirrors between both civilizations, creating a poetic journey through the flow of one single great river.

About the life and thoughts of Sahrawi refugees.

Women who did not accept the established order. Women who participated in the creation of a fairer, more equitable world, building the world of hope we are heirs. Women whose spirits were forged by the oppression and yet took the floor. What they proclaimed has value not only for the past but for the present and the future because it represents the voice of millions of women who came together, unite and continue joining this struggle. They were not content to look, to let do or let pass; but they engaged in their daily work against injustice, misery, poverty, inequity and lack of equality. Women who have fought tirelessly for economic, social, legal and civil equality for all. Because the personal is political. So they lived so and that is why they fought participating in the construction of the Second Spanish Republic, the most democratic period of Spanish past history.

From how social media can ruin relationships to the perils of buying a gift for a woman, comic Ricardo Quevedo dissects life's trials and tribulations.

Collects and documents all aspects of tobacco processing.

In July 1965, the Beatles visited Spain to give only two concerts: one at the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas, in Madrid, on June 2, and the other, the following day, at the Monumental in Barcelona. It was a quick and unexpected visit that the Franco regime did not take kindly to, and which gave rise to succulent anecdotes.

After fifteen days of quarantine for the coronavirus, a couple reflects on the daily challenges of confinement, with their four-year-old daughter.

Dogs is a short film that shows five ways of life in Havana through five different dogs and their relationships with their environments.

Many recognize and admire the work and voice of Pablo Milanés. Few know the story of how he became an emblematic figure of Cuba and Latin America.This is a portrait of the artist, the battles he had to fight and the complex time he went through and how he enriched it with his singing.

A people who lived on the brink of the abyss and buried their dead on sheer cliffs, defying all logic. The Chachapoya culture flourished between 800 and 1500 AD in northern Peru, at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. No one knows for sure whether the Chachapoyas came out of the jungles or the mountains, but they settled in a place that seems impossibly difficult to live in: the mountainous fringes of the Peruvian jungle.

Embracing four years recorded on a digital camera to reminisce the teenage years

Karen, a former professional soccer player born in Puente Alto in the southern part of Santiago. Rosa, her grandmother, assumes the role of mother and becomes a fundamental piece in Karen's life and career. In 2008 Karen begins a love relationship with her neighbor Mariel, a year later they get married in the company of family and close friends. Coto, Mariel's father, never questioned the relationship and accepts that Mariel and Karen move in with him. They will share, joys, fears, life and also death. A record that moves between madness and lucidity, an invitation to feel the heroic act of simply being and being. To resist.

Explores a nation constantly questioning its identity, where production and sensitivity of painter Daniel Lezama are the backbone of a story of survival and reconciliation. A confessional essay that moves toward the inner region; where the social history, the Mexican nation, the existential territory and the sphere of the body are the eyes and the pulse of one of the most important artists of the Mexican art scene.

This documentary follows mural artists of different cultures and styles as they live together for several weeks ahead of an exhibition in Barcelona.

A film in which an account by Baño’s grandmother opens the door to an associative, heterodox exploration of historical memory.

It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and indigenous communities united in protest. In The Rebellion of Memory we follow the events through their eyes, as the country’s capital, Quito, descends into smoke-filled chaos.

Amanerado, fairy, zapatão, truck driver, affected, faggot, tomboy, campy. How can we define this "being like that"? The expression that sets us apart, that bothers others, that attracts their attention, that is known as "flamboyant," that makes that external gaze a reality.

“Northern Rain” is a documentary that stems from the experience of the Moroccan association Assaida Al Horra and was made in collaboration with them. One of the association's many current projects is to recover the stories of some Moroccan women who participated in the struggle for the country's independence in the 1950s. The documentary focuses on these particular stories that make up Morocco's recent history. “Northern Rain” aims to show today's Moroccan women who seek their image in the mirror of time and who gratefully recover for the collective memory the history of struggle, risk, and courage of other women who until now remained hidden.

Based on 'Frank Kafka"s Metamorphose story, the documentary presents 2 metamorphosis of the present society: anorexia, as an disruption of our self-perception; depression, as an isolating illness ; and physically handicapped conditions, as mobility problems.

An intimate look at Enriquelo, the queer owner of a flea market, devout Catholic, and street artist.

Documentary that narrates the struggles of Chilean women's movements to obtain the political vote. The thread of this documentary video is determined by an interview with the lawyer Elena Caffarena, one of the most active fighters of the cause and a sharp protagonist of her time.

In Rivera 2100, a corner house facing a railway’s warehouse in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a young newlywed couple built, with its own hands, a house that was the beginning of their own cultural zeitgeist; a safe haven that irradiated music, art and freedom, in the midst of a country that was living its darkest and most violent time.

One more year is the particular portrait of the painter Paco Bernal, decided in spite of the adversities that are presented and their different abilities, to celebrate his 54th birthday party. Paco Bernal has one more chromosome in PAR 21 that makes him a unique individual, with a unique appearance, personality and abilities. And the film proposes to analyze: what makes us different? Our qualities or our physical trait?

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a rare earth mineral that is essential in the production of technologies. In this hybrid documentary, South African artists Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson, together with Congolese historian Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol, trace the trans-continental journey of this precious metal: from its violent extraction in the mines of DRC to its sale on global stock markets. The Rock Speaks weaves a complex contemplation on an urgent ecological crisis that is fuelled by obscene labour practices that our technological systems demand.

Arturo, Wendy and Amílcar, live in a volcanic lake in El Salvador. Ancestral lives converge in their inner transformation, from the sport of sailing, learn to dominate nature, stand out internationally, overcome violence and adversity.

Video installation that shows the historical disagreement between the indigenous world -the Mapuche ethnicity- and the Chilean hegemony. Differences that seem unavoidable. A cultural and political war that has lasted for more than five centuries.

Underwater, there's a world of sounds: whale songs, echoes, clicks... This is how many species communicate and how the balance of the marine ecosystem is maintained. But what happens when the noise we humans make starts creeping into that environment?

A documentary about Basque Radical Rock. Its name comes from a song by the well-known and successful band Hertzainak, which is also referenced in the documentary, along with the work of other rock bands and singer-songwriters. The documentary features interviews with musicians who played rock from mid-1975 to 1990. There are 23 interviews in total, with musicians from bands such as Barricada, Hertzainak, Itoiz, Zarama... In addition, the documentary includes spectacular images from that period, as the rock boom was linked to different movements in the Basque Country: gaztetxes (youth clubs), free radio stations, and fanzines. The documentary is a portrait of the youth who had just emerged from the dictatorship.

The documentary show us their hard work in order to live with dignity and the importance of education and the position of woman, both key facts in Sahrawi’s surviving in such a hard environment.

Uprooting is the starting point for this idea of a collective memory project by Azucena Carbajosa in Pobladura de Sotiedra.

A journey through different places in 1930s Mallorca, the coast, the countryside, the city, in the company of the evocative music of Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), to whom homage is paid.

This documentary follows 76-year-old nomadic musician Miguel Del Morales during his travels throughout Cuba, Guantanamo and Trinidad. Amid his journey, he meets up with some long-lost friends and makes brand-new ones. This engaging film was shot with just one hand-held camera and was a Director's Fortnight feature at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. French filmmaker Karim Dridi directs and co-writes.

A group of friends decide to watch The Oscars together.

MAMADI is trying to reorganize his life after a very turbulent past, the estrangement from his mother in Africa, and a troubled relationship with his father. He does not regret the way he has been, nor is he afraid to face the near future; he knows he still has a mission to fulfill.

Karla is 26, the only female heir of a long tradition of Basque farmers and the first to leave the country in search of a different life. But when her mother dies, she has to come back and decide what to do with her future and the family legacy.