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Documentary about the dialogues of the Mesa de Paz de La Habana between the Colombian insurgent forces - FARC-EP - and the Colombian government, during the year 2014.

The northern karst of Puerto Rico - a vital resource to both wildlife and locals - is threatened by the proposed expansion of the PR-22 highway.

From a chronological perspective, “Saharauis, entre la ocupación y el exilio” (2010) explains the origins and key points of the Western Sahara conflict, especially since Spain handed over the territory to Morocco and Mauritania. Based on the interviews with the main people affected by the conflict, among others, this documentary shows the Sahrawi fight for survival in a society and a culture that have been able to prevail in occupied territory as well as in the refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria).

1939. Thousands of refugees were concentrated in the last republican sectors of Catalonia to cross into France. Through the Camprodon Valley, in the Pyrenean region of Ripollés, some 100,000 people crossed to the neighboring country: civilians, military, international brigades, including doctors and wounded. The war in Spain was ending, but soon another would begin. 100,000 people left their homes behind. Many would return, others would continue the fight.

There are pictures that do not exist. And pictures that exist twice. Neither of these places exists any more.

A 1922 film.

Television interview with Cuban musician Compay Segundo.

Animated documentary that collects the Christian tradition of the visit of the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born and adds elements typical of Puerto Rican national folklore.

In 1973 Roberto Saldivar was arrested and imprisoned in an old Salpetermine in northern Chile. The mine was used as concentrationcamp for political prisoners. 20 years later he returned to confront his memories. He has lived there since. Alone.

The privileged mind and skillful hand of graphic designer and multidisciplinary artist Alberto Corazón are behind the creation of a multitude of logos, brands, signs and emblematic images that accompany the restless consumers on their tempestuous journeys through the stormy ocean of contemporary Spanish advertising.

A film about the construction of movie dreams, narrates the journey of a filmmaker through real spaces, that were filming locations.

One, two, three greyhounds chase each other. Their graceful silhouettes romp in the waves, chasing each other; a sprinting, playful dynamic that only the fence-like framing of the image can stop.

Audiovisual album formed by eight cortumetraxes in which the Francoist repression in Ribeseya was conceived. A review of testimonials, historical research and archivu documentation.

Almost every inhabitant of Fondo Negro has relatives abroad. Since the 1980s, job migration, meaning wages shared with the residents from afar, has been one of the most important sources of income in this region in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. Young women in particular go to Europe or the U.S. to support their families by unskilled labour. In her enchantingly beautiful film, director Anna-Sophia Richard shows how this affects the ones who stay behind.

Documentary that denounces the damages caused by the use of land mines in Western Sahara and shows the lives of those affected.

God is love. His homeland is the Earth. His genre? Human. In Maldita, a love song to Sarajevo, Božo Vrećo, the most revolutionary artist of the Balkans, sings to life, to overcoming obstacles, and the love story of two cities, Sarajevo and Barcelona. They both knew how to find themselves in difficult times to never day goodbye.

Bubisher, as well as being 'the bird of luck', is a word loaded with literary meaning in Spanish in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf. Seeing the way in which two cultures interact through small stories and tales can is striking and so is the contrast between the resilience of the young female generations and the realities of life in the desert. This documentary paints a picture of a generation of young female Sahrawis.

A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change irremediably and that keeps the memory of thousands of secret stories, hidden in its streets, houses and corners. Mothers who seek reconciliation with their daughters, confessions of unrequited love, loneliness and many searches for an answer that will never come.

A small film crew moves through Asturias in search of the places where the main ambushes against the Republican Guerrilla (1937-1952) took place. In that trip, they meet several people willing to share with them their memories of that time.

Assembling the filmmaker’s writing, storyboards, family archives, and haunting outdoor shots, Caballo de Espuma leads to an exploration of memory that blends the lines of reality.

A young couple in Havana struggles desperately to find a place in the crowded city where they can be alone and unseen. Combining video essay, fiction, and documentary footage of Cuban streets, What’s Mine is Yours is a darkly humorous, frenetic look at the way dense urban life confuses our desire for intimacy.

Documentary examining the Puerto Rican musical traditions of bomba and plena from a historical and humanistic perspective.

The story of the pioneering electronic composer Ramón Sender Barayón. From his escape from the Spanish Civil War to the California of psychedelia, hippies and counterculture.

The main character of this story has been chosen to receive a one-way trip to Mars. He reflects on his big upcoming adventure before it takes place in ten years.

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, the film director considers the issue of political commitment and the heritage left to the next generation in the form of a letter from a father to his children.

In The Vision The Defeated an indigenous slave, who is guiding a group of Spanish conquerors up the jungle, describes the moment in which an army commander witnesses a collective homoerotic ritual, angrily condemns the act as "abominable and unnatural," and orders the immediate execution of the men. Shot in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia, The vision of the defeated is based on an undocumented chronicle selectively passed on from generation to generation by oral transmission.

The documentary shows the work of Mirentxu Egiguren and her colaborators in the Civic house known as 'La casa del Nazareno'.

Art, social activism, and suicide converge to bring visibility to a serious problem that has been silenced. Paco Carcavilla, who lost his son Mario, gives talks to raise awareness about suicide; Leire Izaguirre, a criminologist, helps at the Association of Suicide Survivors in Navarra (Besarkada-Abrazo); Jesús Manuel García (Fitín) creates six paintings inspired by Leire's final degree project.

Plat en Blanc follows the journey of the three chefs behind the Disfrutar restaurant to turn it into the best in the world, exploring their creative process, the legacy of El Bulli, and how their profession impacts their personal lives. From its beginnings to the present day, the chefs share the pressure to innovate, their sacrifice, and cooking as art and emotion.

Documentary about the life of one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

Bizimina combines documentary cinema with dance. Through a series of independent pieces, it composes a story around the emotions we find it so difficult to express these days: distance, longing for others, desire, the community spirit, impotence, isolation, confusion, hope. The choreography builds a tale serving to provide comfort and company in this uncertain time.

This documentary exposes the untold story about the killing of native Southamerican people in Argentina in the late XIX century, with the aim of taking their lands for economical and political purposes.

MARIA CONVERSES follows the actress Blanca Portillo (Palm Award to the best actress in Cannes Film Festival for Almodovar's film 'Volver') on her creative process as she prepares to incarnate Maria of Nazareth in the play Mary's Testament" by Colm Toibin and under the direction of Agustin Villaronga.

In 1934, the Spanish filmmaker José Val del Omar traveled to the region of Murcia, where he documented the celebration of several popular festivals, both religious and secular, as part of his contribution to the itinerant educational program promoted by the Government of the Second Republic.

'Contra a Morte' is a documentary film around the figure of the poet Lois Pereiro, a documentary of testimony that visits the places and lives with the people of his life. Lois Pereiro is the constant presence of a symbol, a poet that bet on the independence of his voice, an underground figure on the times of punk and freedom.

Thousands of people were buried in Valle de los Caídos without permission. Many were republicans who now rest next to Franco, their executioner. Their families are fighting to get them out of Valle de los Caídos and bring them home. A research work that recounts the struggle of family members to remove the remains of parents, grandparents and siblings, victims of the Civil War, from the Valle de los Caídos, a unique monument in the world, both for its dimensions and for its connections with the dictatorship

Jean Rouch shot La Pyramide Humaine in 1961. We discovered it the summer of 2012. This treasure draws suggestive connections between a politic conflict and the art of creation by itself. That summer we were in charge of shooting the staying of Sahrawi children with host families from Barcelona during the summer holidays. Nothing seemed to us more inspiring than get deep into the essence of that movie. And we dare to play. It is an audiovisual experiment, by way of an imperfect tale, with three protagonists: a Sahrawi friend in exile, a group of kids from the desert and a play.

The screen is crossed by flying dogs while, on the ground, their eager owners perform a symbiotic dance. A series of images that go beyond everyday life and conjure up the fluctuating, underlying meanings of the mundane. This project was developed within the framework of Chanfaina Lab’s program.

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

With great humour and acuity, Pili Álvarez explores her own puerperium—the period of adjustment after childbirth. Using the tools of cinema language and precise sound design, she transports us to this particular state overwhelmed by repetition and new routines. Personal experience contrasts with the constructed paradigm of motherhood as a state of grace.