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A story about the memory of the memory, which starts from the revenge perpetrated on October 15, 1936, when nine men were killed in Bayonne as a result of events that happened two days before, and which involved the death of a resident of that town and more than one Falangist .
A report on Xabier López, a surfer from the Basque Country. We will follow him on his trip to Cape Town (South Africa) to train for the European winter, which has just begun.
Documentary about the post punk and dark movement in Cordoba, Argentina in the mid-80s.
A group of homeless women find the best of therapies in acting: a place where they bare their souls, manage to escape from their reality and gradually become empowered. In the weeks leading up to the premiere of their new play, we meet these goddesses, who have to face adversity on a daily basis, and who now face a new challenge: getting on stage and getting their message across through drama. Will they manage to get a standing ovation?
In 1984, Álvaro Ulcué Chocué, a Colombian Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist, was shot dead. The incident looms against the backdrop of a collage of two archive images from the same year. Documentary footage and fictional gangsters capture the state of a country dominated by drug cartels and social unrest.
Lebanon is a country hijacked by sects, money, and power. While citizens long for a collective identity to thrive as a community, politicians use the sectarianism for their corrupt ambitions. Unless there is a change, Lebanon will be lost forever.
Daily life in the city of Quito, Gauyaquil and Ibarra.
A journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts
In support of the victory of the Unidad Popular, artists create a mural on the Paseo Bulnes, located in front of the Palacio la Moneda. Among the muralists are José Balmes, Gracia Barros and Guillermo Núñez.
Thousands of tourists come to Barcelona from far and wide to admire the work of the great architect, Antoni Gaudí. What they don't know is that many of the photographs they take home with them are of works by Josep Mª Jujol, a forgotten architect and the other great genius of Catalan Modernisme.
Documentary on the Burgos' trial, 25 years later, interviewing ETA members, professors and journalists.
After 18 years living in Italy, the Cuban Barbara Ramos returns to live in her homeland. In the town of Santa Clara, she discovers through the projects of family and friends what has changed in Cuba but also what has not and will likely never change. Shot over a period of three years - the time it took Barbara to build her dream house - RETURN TO CUBA chronicles her life in the wake of Raul Castro's liberal reforms and reconciliation with the United States of America. A light-hearted yet energetic movie positively demonstrating that finding happiness is possible in today's Cuba!
Composed by ten stories that focus on an eclectic variety of individuals, for whom music is a way of life. The stories are directed by ten young filmmakers and explore the lives of these 10 different musicians, discovering other places, habitats, fusions, rhythms, landscapes, and lifestyles. All of these real-life characters live IN the realm of music, but not necessarily make a living OFF music.
High Roads is a journey through the practices of four women who use their bodies, breath, and minds as tools for everyday resistance to military occupation. Filmed between Palestine and Barcelona, High Roads dialogues with particle physicist Dr. Wafaa Khater, Olympian swimmer Sabine Hazboun, marathon-runner Diala Isid and yoga instructor Eilda Zaghmout: four women who generate well-being and wonder, betting on action and astonishment, in defiance of a relentless oppression.
The Asturian Valentín Vega is considered one of the most relevant photographers of the last century. He knew how to portray all the essential elements of daily life like no one else and at the same time exercise a devastating display of social criticism. After spending three years in prison for his political affiliation and managing to establish himself as a street photographer, he would continue to offer an unusual image of reality and daily life from the 1940s onwards.
Spain, 1940s. Two young seamstress sisters, Maruxa and Coralia, have their lives changed during the Civil War. In resistance to the Franco dictatorship, the anarchists leave their house every day at two o'clock. Years later, they become the most photographed women in Santiago de Compostela, land of pilgrims. To find out what Maruxa and Coralia have done, director Uliane Tatit travels to the Galician capital and follows the paths made by the two sisters.
This documentary ("The hammer maniacs") offers a full report and reconstruction of the notoriously disturbing killing spree by the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs in 2007.
A documentary about the process of making mooring ropes.
Documentary film about the situation in the Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas in the 1970s. This production by Colectivo de Cine Polans denounces the poor and precarious situation in Vallecas and, above all, the Madrid City Council's approval of a Partial Plan that would mean the expulsion of all the neighbourhood's residents, some 70,000 people. Extract La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva
The history of Western Sahara was cut short more than 40 years ago. One, two and almost three generations have seen their life expectations and those of their children frustrated, powerless in the face of the impunity with which Morocco continues to occupy their territory. Through the life of Hask, a Sahrawi who has been living in Spain since he was 12 years old, the story of people who live in a borrowed desert far from their home is told.
Using testimonies of experts that help torture victims to recover and even some victims that talk about their experiences, Coixet travels across different places (Denmark, Sarajevo, Bosnia) trying to approach an incredibly close reality that many people think it´s past.
We live in a society that, to a certain extent, allows itself to be ruled by an Empire of Fear. The origin of many historical events can be traced back to repression, to loss, these events converge to form a catastrophe of such magnitude that the wounds never heal. A vicious circle is thus created, which contributes to the preservation of fear. The idea here is to construct a new context for the images; to imprint on the images a personal perspective by virtue of which they can be transposed to a subjective level. In this way, to raise the question of whether the events can be read from one's own perspective, from a different place.
When Rodrigo was a child, he would eat at his grandmother Marité's house and wait until his aunt Montse came home from work. Without sitting down, Montse would fill a plastic bag with a loaf of bread, a container of food, empty plastic bottles, and a hot brick wrapped in newspaper. She was going to take the food to someone. One day, she decided to take Rodrigo with her on one condition: no talking. Eighteen years later, he remembers nothing.
As the author of one of the most influential novels in Latin American literature, Paradiso (1966), the Cuban José Lezama Lima is considered a major figure in his country. In this documentary, the director and writer Ernesto Fundora, carries out a study on the author's life through the testimonies of a long list of writers, artists and personalities close to him. The result is a film that explores his work, but also pays a heartfelt tribute to his immeasurable figure.
El Rio Grind 20 year retrospective. ERG is a skate crew from Tampere, Finland. Over 20 years, they have been filming and making skate movies year after year. This is the director’s visual overview of these days.
A 1923 documentary short film.
Documentary that recounts the experiences of ten residents of Azuara (Zaragoza) who were direct witnesses to the Spanish Civil War.
In 1970, the writer María Luisa Elío returned to Spain after three decades in exile in Mexico. Ever since she was forced by the Spanish Civil War to abandon her home at the age of nine, she has dreamed of reuniting herself with a past that perhaps no longer existed. In this documentary, the director explores the various separate parts of the life of this woman who belonged to circles of the most important cutting-edge artists of the mid-20th century and who wrote, acted in and made a film about her own ordeal.
Lekeitio is one of the most important fishing villages in the Cantabrian Sea. The film shows the way of life of the sea.
Stories of protagonists of the clandestine struggle called Peronist resistance, between 1955 and 1965. First the bombings of the civilian population of Buenos Aires on June 16 and then the military coup of September 16, 1955, drive workers and people from the people to come out in defense of the Perón government. There the "abnormal, excessive, hallucinatory odyssey of the Resistance" was born, the clandestine struggle against a bloody dictatorship called the "Liberating Revolution" and renamed the "Fusiladora". Today, those same men and women with more than 70 years, remember their struggle, and still vindicate themselves as resistant.
Paul embarks on a journey to find meaning in his life after his mother abandoned him at the age of 5. Through reflections on his grandmother's life and the abuse she suffered, he will seek to understand who took care of her as a mother.
The engineer Eladio Dieste, the most innovative architect in Uruguay, is interviewed by the architect Mariano Arana. He talks about the ethical responsibility involved in creating, the idea that the things that surround us should be beautiful, and how important it is to use our intelligence and creativity to produce original responses and generate our own ways of thinking.
Urban symphony of the Coia neighborhood in Vigo. A physical and emotional journey through the night of a city that never stops transforming, advancing, and changing. A walk amid the noise, trying to redefine words and find a home.
In November 1977 Vídeo-Nou drew up the proposal Projecte inicial d'estudi de les formes de vida i cultura popular als barris de Barcelona, and the Fundació Serveis de Cultura Popular became interested in and supported the initiative. The video Intervention in the neighbourhood of Can Serra (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) was carried out from January to March 1978. Four videos were made as part of the project: Qué viene el metro!, Història Urbanística, Escuela de adultos and El barrio de las fiestas. The video was prepared and produced with the participation of the residents. It presents the process of speculative urban construction of the Can Serra neighbourhood, with interventions by neighbours, architects and local representatives. This video opened the debate on the present and future of the neighbourhood. Video-Nou's intervention in Can Serra was the first attempt to use video as an instrument to dynamise social and community life in Spain.
Vismán and Alejandro live alone with their father, a veteran of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. In the intimacy of their house and their day-to-day life, the two brothers participate in filming their portrait by imagining staged scenes that reveal the violence inherited from their national and family history. – Camille Kaiser
In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the largest mass suicide in the history of the territory known today as Argentina took place. The film is a phantasmagoric trip within this geographical extension, taking it as a vast, green cemetery.
More and more women are deciding to leave their countries of origin, fleeing violence and human rights violations, and embarking on the Canary Islands route, one of the deadliest in the world. During their migration process, they are exposed to greater violence simply because they are women. This double discrimination does not end when they reach European soil, where they also face prejudice and other types of structural violence that exacerbate their vulnerability. Mar de fóra seeks to portray this reality through the voices of the protagonists and people involved in their reception process in Canarian society.
