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Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

In 2018, Brazil's first shelter for LGBT+ refugees opened its doors in the city of Manaus, the largest city of the state of Amazonas. This collaborative documentary film tells the story of three residents who are all trying to build a new life in this incongruous urban metropolis. A candid, and intimate insight into the many challenges faced by LGBT+ refugees.

Ramón Rodriguez, lead singer of Madee starts his solo career as The New Raemon. The movie documents the transition with interviews and live performances.

The documentary Arg(h)itzen features the testimonials of 30 people who were subjected to torture in the Sakana region between the years of 1966 and 2011, through a rigorous and dynamic story. Not only does it show what torture is and how it can be recovered from, but it also reveals, through experts, the State structures of impunity. This is the result of an enormous work of collaboration between neighbours to highlight the truth about torture and create the path towards its complete eradication.

In 2016, the Barcelona City Council allocated plots of land to cooperative housing projects. One of these plots of land was assigned to Sostre Cívic, to be used for 27 units of social housing in the Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. The driving group, Cirerers, was set up in September, 2017. The documentary gaze accompanies the members of the cooperative in their debate about access to decent housing in Barcelona’s neighbourhoods, which are becoming more and more gentrified, the value of communal space and the need to return to taking care of the community as a way to combat the financialization of life. In March, 2022, Cirerers was inhabited by 32, co-living units.

“Vitals. A True Human Story” shows the first-hand experience of a group of Covid-19 victims, their careers, and their families during the most critical months, in the Parc Taulí Hospital in Sabadell. It is a story about struggle, solidarity, and life.

Héctor Martínez, a veteran football player, singer of West Indian music and traditional cook, tells us aspects of his life, which brings us closer to the popular history of Cali in the mid-20th century, a city in constant transformation that neglects his memory.

Documental Going Nuts (2006)

Victoria, a film student, has been raised in the Catholic religion all her life, which has been part of her identity. Now that she has grown up, she is afraid of doubts that wobbling her beliefs. That is why, she makes this documentary to face the stigmas about herself and her spirituality.

Based on the events leading to the Spanish-America War of 1898. It reflects on the expansionist policies of the United States since its inception. A historical chronology that shows the consequences for Puerto Rico of the imperialist war against Spain: colonization and relentless attempts to annex it to the States.

Ramón, an art photographer, buys a painting in an auction house in Barcelona, a 19th century anonymous portrait that, according to him and the experts who advise him, is a work by Goya, a Goya in the shadows. A contemporary and personal journey through the world of art, the universe of Francisco de Goya and his extraordinary legend.

Less than a month after Simone Rapisarda Casanova completed shooting in Juan Antonio, a village on Cuba’s North Eastern coast, the place was wiped out by a hurricane. Thus El árbol de las fresas begins with four of the now displaced former inhabitants reminiscing about their home and what they have lost. Eschewing drama and pathos, the opening sets the tone for what is an unusual documentary; the subjects often address the camera directly and even tease the filmmaker. In doing so they disrupt the usual relationship between viewer and subject in a playful way that allows both the viewer and the viewed to share equally in the filmmaking process.

A figure enters an empty, neutral space. They stop in the middle, set up a table, and leave. At the same time, another person enters, approaches the table, and prepares a film projector. Once this action is complete, this character freezes and disappears. After this brief introduction, a multitude of people and chairs appear and disappear—without any logic or continuity, as if by magic between the camera cuts—in front of the projector, which remains motionless like a statue.

La Calderas de Pedro Botero, a documentary that explores the history of the iconic Aragonese hard rock band. Many musicians have been part of the band over the years. It is through their voices that we will learn the story of this group from its beginnings in 1973.

Writer Mariana Enriquez embarks on a journey along the Costa Brava to explore its most enigmatic corners and write a paranormal guide, confronting ghost stories, myths, and superstitions while revealing, with humor and intimacy, her own obsession with fear and the unknown.

Daia Sahara is a trip to near and distant realities, a trip full of emotions, sensations and experiences, which despite their proximity, are alien to us but which build an energetic bond between Spanish families and Sahrawi refugee families.

Habub and Marcos establish a relationship through “video letters” during the wintertime. Through these videos, we see what daily life is like in the Sahrawi refugee camps and, more importantly, how important the friendship between these two kids is.

Exploration of the art of barrel making, which has a rich history dating back to ancient times.

A filmed diary which chronicles two visits to the Olivas, a family of Spanish beekeepers from Salamanca, at the time of the honey harvest, in August and September. Their work and their itinerant life are seen from a friend's point of view.

"Operation Nikolai" is a documentary about the kidnapping and murder of Andreu Nin by Stalin's political police during the Spanish Civil War.

The worldwide elder population is growing fast and put aside. José, an alcoholic retiree, tries to feel useful; Víctor, a peculiar doctor, follows the presidential candidate in search for justice; and Braulio, a kind grandfather, mourns his wife's sudden death. The film explores the other face of Mexican masculinity that, in loneliness, stop executing their societal imposed role as providers. It is an introspective journey into remorse, loneliness and death.

Teresa works on a farm in the heart of the Catalan mountains, an environment threatened by the intensive exploitation of resources. The departure of her dog underscores the gradual disappearance of the links that the inhabitants maintain with this peaceful territory. Adrià Expòsit Goy creates a humanist fable haunted by ghosts.

This documentary recalls historical moments: it begins with the resignation of Juan Negrín, the appointment of the moderate socialist Indalecio Prieto as president, the German invasion of neutral and devastated Spain during World War II (showing Nazi troops passing through Madrid) to the current difficult cohabitation between the President of the Republic, José María Aznar, and the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, including the destruction of Cádiz, where the Spanish government had taken refuge from the Nazis, the Allied landings in Spain, the elections that brought the Christian Democrat Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez to power, Spain's signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and the Treaty of Rome (1957), the receipt of Marshall Plan aid, and the role of Juan Carlos de Borbón, a private citizen, as president of the International Olympic Committee.

This is the story of a group of veteran musicians joined by two young artists to perform together after more than 20 years of inactivity in the Uruguayan carnival scene. In addition to demonstrating their talent, this film provides a look at their personal lives, lives that have always revolved around the magic of the carnival (Which lasts just a month per year), but that inevitably must make room for their daily life, far from show business and public recognition.

A tree is like a man is an attempt to touch the otherworld through its edges. Shot on 16 mm in the Colombian Amazon, the film serves as personal witness to shaman Don William's lifetime relationship to Ayahuasca and other plant medicines that are native to the jungle. With the rainforest a rich labyrinthine background, this portrait is at once intimate and spare, opening up to alternate realities as dense as the jungle itself, with kaleidoscopic multiplicities in both the natural and the spiritual realms.

Tánana, being ready to set sail on Yahgan language, is the return of Martín González Calderón, to heart of Cape Horn. He's a Yahgan craftsman and one of the last of his people, the Yahgans, who have lived in Tierra del Fuego for more than 6000 years. Long trips made with his parents let him get the deepest knowledge and secrets of ancient navigation. However, this way of life was violently stopped, due to the interventions of Chile and Argentina's states. Since then, the few Yahgan people remaining, cannot sail as before.

Palenque is a rhythmic portrait of San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.

Presents the work of this street theater group led and founded by Maritza Pérez in 1998. The documentary examines this important space for reflection and learning for a significant number of young people through their theater work in communities.

Documentary focusing on the experiences of Japanese immigrants in Cuba.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Sólo con tu pareja", the debut feature film of director Alfonso Cuarón.

It is April 11, 2024: the front pages of newspapers around the world echo that Google, at the request of the neighborhood, has made their neighborhood bus disappear from the map.

My mother always told me that I could be whatever I wanted. Through home videos recorded in my childhood, I talk about my education and my relationship with art. María, Catuxa and Aroa, three emerging Galician artists, complete this reflection while showing their work. This documentary opens a dialogue between the domestic archive and interviews, addressing topics such as freedom, women, rural culture and the importance of roots.

Report on the creation of the painting "Xota Valseada", by Lito Portela. An afternoon where the union of painting, dance and music was celebrated.

The film investigates an industry considered one of the pillars of growth during Kirchnerism in which, during these years, relations and conflicts were drawn between the manufacturers - foreign in its entirety -, the auto parts companies, the Argentine government, the Brazilian one, the union leaderships. -centrally from SMATA-, the workers and the left. The documentary delves into the interests that intersect and the confrontations that originate between the different actors in the chain, which became clear in recent times when the industry, which aspired to reach one million cars manufactured per year, began to regress. The different actors of the "Journey to the Center of Production" are intertwined in the conflict of the auto parts company Gestamp, which opened a dispute regarding who pays for the crisis in the sector and what solutions are seen in that dispute.

Manuel lives and works in a small car body shop in Tijuana. By day he fixes cars, by night he turns into one of the most fearless and extreme wrestler of Mexico: Juventud Dosmil, "El Loco de Tulancingo".

Documentary on the problem of the use of weapons in the hands of civilians. The central story is that of the Marcenac family, that after their son Alfredo was murdered by "El tirador de Belgrano", they initiate a fight to make sure guns are not in the hands of civilians without the indicated controls.

Documentary that chronicles the events of July 25, 1978, when two activists were killed by police officers in Cierro Maravilla, Puerto Rico.

Filmmaker Carlos Carcas's documentary chronicles the extraordinary career of renowned Cuban musician Bebo Valdés, who remained a relative unknown on the international scene until winning two Grammys at the age of 81. Valdés's story is told through performance clips, footage and photos of his life in Cuba, and interviews with family, friends and colleagues. One of Havana's top musicians in the 1940s and '50s, Valdés left Cuba after the revolution.

The documentary focuses on the last Argentine military dictatorship and its repressors. Argentina is "the country that most cruelly carried out the sinister plan to eliminate social groups for political reasons," according to Garzón. It includes harrowing testimonies from victims and executioners. It captures impressions such as what an executioner feels and what motivates them in their actions, and how the victims experience certain situations. Garzón emphasized that the video "reflects the active resistance of people who demand justice after so many years."

Documentary about the brazilian goregrind movement

As the second industrial revolution winds down, men and women who make ships and airplanes with their hands face the collapse of industry in a small region in southern Europe and at the same time portray the trail of the transformation of production relations in the 21st century.