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Si me Comprendieras refers to the tradition of Bolero, as the original intention of the director was to make a musical film. This proved to be difficult for a Cuban living in Spain, as the search for appropriate dancers revealed the grim realities these black women lived each day -- oppressive family relationships, unemployment which forces them into prostitution, the general hopelessness of young Cubans and the subtle racism which is officially denied. In this docu-drama, a Cuban director and scriptwriter embarks upon a journey to search for a black or half-caste dancer and singer to play the central role in his latest film, a musical comedy. The audience witnesses the experiences of the film crew from their point of view, behind the camera. Through the questions they pose to the auditioning actresses and their responses, the reality of Cuba is revealed.

Every bureaucracy has its own unfathomable logic, and the Costa Rican immigration department is no exception. The lines out front are long, and once you get indoors, consider yourself lucky that you can take a seat on one of the red, yellow or blue chairs you’re assigned—there are even rules on what color chair you get.

A cinematic poem created from the travel diary of the multidisciplinary collective Acoustic Heritage Collective, following the pilgrimage through villages and monasteries of the poet Matsuo Basho in 18th-century feudal Japan. A sensory journey from memory to the heart of Japan, where some of the most representative haikus were created.

A pro-Republican documentary propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War. It shows the advances of the "Roja y Negra" column in Carrascal de Chimillas between October 4-8, 1936

Documentary about three artists from the Basque Country.

A portrait of Guatemala City and municipalities adjacent to the Pan-American Highway from the eyes of the stray dogs living there.

A puma stalks Pueblo Nación Ranquel, an indigenous community in the North of Argentina. Hunting is a rite of passage, and the older boys want to kill the puma. But Uriel chooses a different path.

Full-length documentary about the mystery of the hands of Che Guevara, Victor Jara and Juan Peron. What happened, what is hidden, what is known, what is unknown, and what about it’s the symbolic effects.

On a distant planet, a lonely robot roams around looking for signs of life, while scientists search for unknown life forms in Andalusia. A visionary journey with deep philosophical resonance.

Fiercely independent, self-taught and critically acclaimed, Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero, winner of the National Photography Award, was the first to capture her country’s festivals – religious and pagan – and it took her 15 years to complete them. Today, half a century later, this warm, strong-willed and tireless 74-year-old artist continues to document how life, love, beauty and death are celebrated in the world. Cristina García Rodero: Eyes of the Soul, delves into her creative process, offering a privileged look at the artist.

María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.

"A dialogue, in Guarani and Spanish, between two brothers trying to decide how to survive the war waged by Stroessner's troops in their isolated land. With a stunning soundtrack and a visual language that defies narrative, the film confronts us with the fundamental question of whether survival is to be found in migration or armed opposition." - From MoMA

Ramon is a convict. In his day off from prison we follow him around. During our journey beside him, we only see him reading. For Ramon freedom does not reside in himself but in his relationship with the narrative.

After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York City, undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa reunites with former college classmate Nicole, the director of this film. Through their creative bond, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and legalization.

Tesa Arranz, a key figure in the 1980s Madrid scene and the lead singer of the Zombies, has painted over 500 portraits of outer-space creatures. Confronting the singer’s paintings with the memories of her youth, her poems and diaries, ALIENS depicts an emotional landscape in Spanish history where happiness, nightmarish experimentations and alienation walked hand in hand.

The piece is a reference to Yves Klein’s work Anthropometry, in which the artist used naked women as ‘human paintbrushes’, creating paintings that were results of elaborate performances in front of an audience. To Klein, the female figure was the canon of human proportion, an anthropometric symbol that he described as “the most concentrated expression of vital energy imaginable”. The same blue colour used by him (International Klein Blue IKB) is used by Marcy Petit as she becomes a human paintbrush too.

Sara and Alberto spend their days at home. They look out the window and watch: spring is approaching and the sun is setting later and later. Alberto entertains himself by playing with the light, the shadows and the nooks and crannies they leave on the living room. Sara goes out on the balcony in the evenings and examines the neighborhood with her camera. When they are in bed, they talk about what worries them. About job expectations. About being creative and why keep trying, if someone else has done it before you. About living in confinement, but at the same time, realizing that things haven't changed as much as they seem.

An "anticipation film" made during performative actions in Paris, Madrid and Rome. Iván Argote deposes monuments, portraying them as symbols of vertical power marked by images of domination. The effigies descend from their pedestals to travel through the city, highlighting the fluidity of historical narratives and sparking surprise and perplexity among passers-by.

An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.

The music group Akelarre closes a chapter of more than 30 years on stage with a documentary that reviews its origins and the most representative moments of its prolific musical career. 'Akelarre: marearen kontra' is a film that unites the life of the group Akelarre with its fans through their passion for music. This documentary is a recognition of a way of understanding life.

Fatimetu Bucharaya is a Sahrawi woman who in 2019 founded SMAWT, a voluntary women’s association dedicated to the detection of anti-personnel mines in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). This documentary chronicles the group’s work and the challenges they face within a complex political backdrop.

Women around the world are often subject to harmful stereotypes depicting them as being weaker or inferior to men. The world of sports is no exception. This film tells the stories of girls who have broken through stereotypes and are participating in sports that are usually dominated by men. It wasn't easy for them to get there, but it was certainly worth it.

More than 50 years of armed conflict among the FARC, the ELN, paramilitary groups and the Colombian government have left behind eight million victims. During this time, thousands of minors have been part of the armed groups. They are also consider victims because their childhood is always going to be linked to a weapon; the jungle was their home and the battalion, their family.

Agustina has been a shepherdess for as long as she can remember. Throughout her life she has had three great loves. Between dreams and memories she sings about everything that has and has not been. Agustina lives with Dionisio in a rural community called El Saltillo in Guanajuato, Mexico. Serranillas are medieval spanish compositions dealing with some kind of amatory adventure in rural landscapes.

In a juvenile detention centre in Chile. At night, young people are seized by nightmares as they wait to be prosecuted. An exploration of the relationship between their lives, crimes, and nightmares.

The events that took place at the beach of El Tarajal in Ceuta (Spain) in February 2014 - the killing by the border police of 15 people who were trying to reach the Spanish coast - are an example of how the police force can violate the laws of its own country and international conventions with total impunity. The worst part is that this violation of human rights is protected by the Spanish Ministry of Interior itself, which hinders any effective action by the prosecution. For this reason, the civil society plays a fundamental role in revealing the facts. This is where the figure of collective complaints (DESC Observatory and the association Coordinadora de Barrios) steps in.

Contemplates the contribution of Puerto Rican artist Cossette Zeno.

Saltar is a documentary essay that breaks the silence surrounding suicide to explore the reality of a region with the highest suicide rate in the country. Through different characters, places, and situations, we learn how suicide is experienced when it has become relatively commonplace.

The 1896 film Défilé du 38e régiment du génie à Madrid (Parade of the 38th Regiment of Engineers in Madrid) is a historical French documentary film that shows Spanish military engineers departing from the Príncipe Pío barracks in Madrid to embark at Cádiz for the Cuban campaign.

Two planes take off at the same time headed in opposite directions. Fatimetu and Ejehla. Two distinct lives destined to follow similar paths. One past desired, but fuzzy, and a future. One inheritance, becoming more and more fragile. “Heirs” gathers the testimony of different generations of women who live within and outside of the camps and paints a profile of the present situation in which these Sahrawi women live and the future they've inherited, living in an orphan-like territory separated from their homeland for more than 33 years…

The documentary explains a feminist challenge undertaken by a group of women from Ondárroa. It involves traveling from Ondárroa to Donostia and from Donostia to Ondárroa in July 2024.

40 years ago in Mexico, a group of women filmmakers gathered to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion, labor discrimination. They called themselves “Cine Mujer” and were active as a collective for over 10 years. Today they reflect on violence against women and their continuous struggles, which are still prevalent in modern society.

The passion of flamenco echoes through Andalucía. Take a journey into Spain in my new short film.

Biography of Vicente García Riestra, an Asturian survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The documentary covers the flight to France together with thousands of Spaniards, their entry into the Resistance, their arrest and deportation to Bunchenwald, the Resistance inside the camp and the solidarity networks woven by the prisoners, until they regain their freedom. After the liberation of Europe, Vicente's life did not stop: he dedicated himself to visiting schools to warn young people about the dangers of intolerance.

Documentary about Northern Catalonia and how french language is erasing catalan language.

For the first time in history, surf is considered an Olympic sport in Tokyo 2020 and has its first champion: Ítalo Ferreira. In BCN Surf Destination, the gold medalist leaves Brasil’s beaches to travel to Barcelona and get to know how surf is lived in the area and how are its people.

The legendary transgender club The Way Out celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018. The documentary looks back at the last three decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community through interviews and archive footage. The club closed in March 2020 for the first time in 28 years due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. What does the future hold for this unique place?

A homage to Andrei Tarkovski made for the Spanish edition of the Chris Marker movie 'Une journée dans la vie d’Andrei Arsenevich'.

A documentary on the origins of Changüí.

After learning kinetic art in France, Matilde Pérez (1916-2014) returned to Chile in 1961 to practice this trend but found herself ahead of her time. The testimonies of specialists and friends to Matilde generate a provocative speech about a culturally deficient country, narrated through the rescue of the work and the life story of an artist who questioned the established and was condemned to isolation.

A 5-year investigation which includes archive and press images, traces the tragedy of Antuco (2005), where 45 soldiers died due to hypothermia. Our protagonists tell us their consequences from their voluntary entry to the ranks of the army until its present 10 years later. In the middle of these stories we will see an experimental short that gives us the information of the physiological process of hypothermia.

A theoretical exercise can stem from a physical one: using the camera as if it was the vibrating device placed on the olive trees for the harvest of its fruit, the final result is a series of original and intriguing images. The camera shakes, gets in and out of focus, and we don’t exactly know what is happening. At first this is a strange disorientation, but then you get used to it through the cyclical mechanical noise that joins the images. The words of a peaceful female voice allows you to frame the film: a visual exercise after all can also be free.

The majestic mountain scenery of the town of Ubuyama-mura in southern Japan serves as the setting for this exploration of an inexhaustible cultural legacy. With the arrival of summer, Masae goes house to house collecting traditional songs in a search for poems dating back over one thousand years.

A documentary, filmed entirely in the Basque Country, about Basque mythology and the ancestral beliefs of its people. Created by writer Toti Martínez de Lezea and anthropologist Anuntxi Arana, Amari immerses us in a world of legends full of supernatural beings that formed and continue to form part of the Basque people's imagination.

On December 30th, 2000, a blizzard in the Pyrenees killed 9 people in Balandrau. An emotional portrait of the tragedy narrated by the survivors.

The famous Peruvian singer Luis Abanto Morales sings Cholo Soy while Cesar Galindo gives justice to indigenous Peruvians in a condensed cinematic sequence of documentary and fictional scenes.

He was very happy in primary school, until he was moved to that boys-only school. Through his school memories, the son of the Argentinean painter Alicia Boffi, gives us another look over the paintings of his mother and the discovery of his place out of the picture.

Laura (23) receives a call from the cementery where she is told she must exhume her father's body who died eleven years ago. From six siblings different perspectives and beliefs.