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Tunnel number 20 is the name that RENFE had for the place where the most serious railway accident in the history of Spain occurred. This documentary aims to show a time. The accident is just an excuse to show the harshness of a few years in which the only purpose of the majority of Spaniards was to survive.

The film portrays the return to home and encounter with lost memories. Air Carnations explores the possibilities of filmmaking to put pieces together through the editing process. Researching different perspectives on the filmmaker’s childhood home in Chile, interviews with their mother and sister reveal complex family dynamics.

The night is dark and cold, I walk through the plantations, I look at the leaves and stems of the banana trees while memories of my grandfather come to my mind.

San Millán de la Cogolla welcomes the visit of an artist who has been given carte blanche to develop and exhibit his new project, which will take place in what seems to be the last days of the village.

When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.

La Plata. The rain The beginning. The after. Footprints in the city. The absent presences.

In Chile, people who live with HIV fear stigma and exclusion, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are and have been going through. Esta es mi Cara – This is My Face explores what happens when a group of men living with the virus open up about the chronic disease that changed their life trajectories. The film follows a creative process whereby the protagonists produce photographic portraits that represent their (often painful) memories and feelings, a process that helps them challenge years of silence, shame, and misrepresentations. A lesson in the power of collaborative storytelling.

Postporn was born in the 90’s with Annie Sprinkle as a response to conventional pornography and its incomplete and utilitarian representation of women sexuality. Postporn is taking an important place in Barcelona from 2000. The documentary “My sexuality is an art creation” talks about persons and collectives who are actually working and creating postporn in this city. Based on 7 interviews the documentary tells the causes, motivations and peculiarities of this scene where the discovery and the search for new forms of sexuality representation go visible in a result: art and politic activism can’t be separated. “My sexuality is an art creation” works as an illustrated cartography of DIY postporn videos, performances documentation and public space interventions.

This documentary consists of interviews with various Cuban functionaries, scientists and artists, plus a few minutes of newsreel footage. The interviews are brisk and to the point and they add up to a coherent whole. There is perhaps not much new material, but the labyrinthine details of the embargo, still in place, deserve exposure. The US though the blockade would turn the people of Cuba against its own government. A bully's reasoning; it was of course wrong. Undeterred, and unable to learn, the US has since insisted again and again, the last two instances Iran and now Russia.

Instructions is an open series of self-portraits that I progressively create with the premise of finding a mirror or reflective surface in a public space, and filming there.

A documentary about the ascent of Everest by Javier López Pagazazaurtundua, a Biscayan with cerebral palsy, together with the professional mountaineer Alex Txikon. This project unites the dream of its protagonist to feel the highest mountains on the planet with the search for visibility of people with cerebral palsy.

The name of the documentary is taken from the "Causa 661/52" against Ricardo Beneyto Sapena "Ramiro" and Rafael Armada Ruz, both political leaders of the Málaga-Granada Guerrilla Group. As well as against Sebastián Ramos Díaz, Manuel Jiménez Espadafor, José Guirado Parra and Enrique Arroyo Lozano. In the author's own words, this documentary can be summarized as follows: "Historical memory has usurped the place of political memory. The normalizing machine stifles the power of the story, confines revolutionary ruptures in the straitjacket of melodrama. Why "Is there so much emphasis on exclusively sentimental recoveries of the past?" The documentary "Causa 661/52" investigates, based on the history of the Guerrilla Group of Granada and Málaga, the keys to this displacement.

Second documentary feature by cinematographer Daniel Avilés.

Buenos Aires Ciudad Sonora is a documentary film about the independent music scene in the city of Buenos Aires. Filmed and edited entirely by Lucas Garcia Monfort between 2013 and 2015. Although this audiovisual piece shows the development of a scene rather oriented towards experimentation in terms of electronic genres from different angles; And of course there are countless other artists to stand out in the Buenos Aires musical scene, "Buenos Aires Ciudad Sonora" is a valuable approach to the Buenos Aires art scene, fully recommended for those who are curious about how an independent scene is built and what have to say those who dedicate themselves to it on a daily basis.

Chile is the only country in the world in which water management has been almost completely privatised. Three women stand for the profound damages suffered by the population as a result: a general water shortage, above-ground poisoning by industry and underground contamination via landfills. All parallel and interrelated facets of the same problem.

This short 40-minute documentary collects the testimony of twelve women survivors of sexual violence in Colombia. They were victims of the paramilitaries, the FARC and ELN guerrillas and agents of the State. Their heartbreaking testimony is the imprint of the deepest pain and, at the same time, the greatness of transforming it. Each of them agreed to speak after a process of more than five years with the No Time to Callar campaign, which has accompanied them and worked alongside them, at different times. Violet Butterflies, in addition to a journalistic short, is an act of memory.

In 1936, after the coup d'état perpetrated by Franco against democratic Spain and the subsequent dictatorship that followed a bloody Civil War, women suffered physical, sexual, economic, educational and political violence, leading to the largest theft of babies in the world. History of recent Europe. 'Las vencidas y no derrotadas' is a documentary with the testimonies of these women, whose faces bear the mark left by unhealed wounds. Its protagonists tell us about real events, reliving events that were milestones in their families, towns and cities, supported by graphic documentation of family and personal memories, as well as images and audios from historical archives.

We'll always have Paris. A decade after they captured the EuroLeague title in Paris, the stars of the dominant 2009-10 Regal FC Barcelona squad reunite for the latest film in the Euroleague Basketball Insider Documentary Series, We'll Always Have Paris. Widely considered to be one of the strongest EuroLeague teams in competition history, FC Barcelona lost just twice all season while playing crushing defense and eye-pleasing team-oriented offense to reach the Final Four and capture the club's second title.

Claudia Paz y Paz is the head of the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor’s Office. We follow her during her four-year mandate as the Attorney General of one of the world’s most dangerous countries. This documentary closely observes her attempts to break the downward spiral of a society where drug cartels, corruption and violence have become part of daily life. She manages to improve the country’s safety and justice issues but is met with much resistance. Her commitment to the rule of law is her strength as well as her destiny. At what price do four years of service as the Attorney General of Guatemala’s murder paradise come?

A reflection on the exile of an entire intellectual, scientific and academic elite that was forced to flee Argentina due to the political violence of the sixties and seventies.

In a village in the Extremadura province of Spain, where bullfighting and the Catholic faith have long been a way of life, 16-year-old Tristán is training to become a bullfighter. His mother silently but anxiously observes his preparations. He practices graceful moves and posture, but he is plagued by insecurity and fear of the fight to come. TO DIE BEFORE DYING tells a personal story about a controversial reality of the 21st century.

In 1925 a polar expedition led by the explorer Roald Amundsen managed to reach 88º North, the northernmost latitude ever reached by a man at that time. How to represent the conquest of a place that is an absolutely empty geographical abstraction?

Prepping for a car tag renewal in Puerto Rico

Faced with the terrifying lack of interest of the rulers to reverse environmental destruction, citizen proposals for change and resistance are growing in the world. In Argentina, social movements are facing the giants of agribusiness, mega-mining and land clearing, with concrete and effective actions. A local documentary maker tracks this quiet transition revolution and finds initiatives that could become a powerful network for change. Knowing them changes your consciousness and your way of living in the world.

Spanish police killed four members of the Autonomous Anticapitalist Commandos in 1985. This documentary provides a narration of the murder that the State of Spain has tried to hide. There are several testimonies of family members, witnesses and experts.

Camila lives her last days in the jungle as a guerrilla of the FARC-EP at the crossroads between an uncertain future of peace and the lingering memory of a childhood severely punished. Sent to a war hospital in the middle of the jungle, Camila begins a journey into her past, to the depths of an old wound that needs to be healed. A journey that ends up leading her to an unexpected reunion with her friend Ricardo, a young guerrilla recently amputated due to a mine.

Thirty years after the start of the internal war in Peru and ten years after publication of the Report of the Commission on Truth, the documentary inquires about the fate of the 16,000 disappeared persons resulting from actions of the Peruvian government and Shining Path in the Peruvian Andes. It narrates the story of three persons who travel from different towns to the Public Prosecutor’s office in the city of Huamanga, in Ayacucho, where they expect to receive the remains of their relatives and to arrange for a proper burial. During this process, they tell us about the violence and the pain they experienced, their life stories and their incessant struggle to survive in those times.

On Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos and her poem with the same name.

After decades of silence, in 2020 a family regains the house that was taken from them by Franco's regime in 1936. Through stories, archives and expanded cinema, the film reconstructs a history of plunder, inherited silences and everyday resistance, giving voice to invisible women and a house that finally speaks.

Following the Fisga in the solitary journey through the waters and exuberant nature of the Amazon, we witness the patient search for the fish that will feed his family, and his struggle to catch it.

Directed by Helena Solberg, this documentary centers on three teenage girls living in a Bolivian reformatory after experiences of sexual violence and exploitation. Through their stories, the film contrasts their circumstances with prevailing social expectations and representations of women.

Three little ladies have lived for more than eighty years in the heart of a patio. In this modest theatre, daily rituals go hand in hand with the lapping of the fountain and nothing escapes María, the turtle. This place frozen in time is disturbed by the metamorphoses of the outside world...

April 2013. Despite the American embargo, citizen Bob Wood returns to Cuba almost 60 years after he left.

Fighters is a portrait of the current realities of both the urban and rural Mexican woman. Filmed in Mexico City and the State of Zacatecas this film documents the primary circumstances, difficulties, obstacles and preoccupations that women face daily in this country. Poverty, hunger, * machismo*, mass migration, and social inequality -- these are some of the issues that are explored through their testimonies. Women from various professions, ages and social-economic statuses share their stories and their hopes for the future, and create a portrait of a Mexico where women are taking more of a central role.

Absolute pleasure as an identity. Alfonso de Sierra, Luis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bents were “Els 5 QKs”, a group of amateur filmmakers who, in 1975, decided to get together and create a transgressive and courageous filmography breaking social, religious, and political boundaries; placing the faggot as leading role hero: proud of himself, shameless, beyond good and evil. In this documentary film, Luis Escribano and Ces Martí, only living members of the group, review, alongside some actors, their creative process and what those films, forgotten till now, meant to Barcelona during La Trancisión.

Special about Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde.

Three generations of women from the same family broke the silence of a long history that began in 1939. Alejandro's memory hangs by a thread that will be broken.

A dog dreams.