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Explores the roots of one of Cuba's most popular dance and musical forms: rumba. This enthralling exploration features fascinating interviews, energetic Afro-Cuban jams and more than a few entertaining insights. Spotlighted artists include Chico O'Farrill, Jose Fajardo, Juan Pablo Torres, Alfredo Valdes Jr., Candido Camero, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Armando Lopez, Art Farmer and many more.

After 40 years of the premiere of the social film "Tire dié", we know the characters of that film and how they continued their lives.

Ache- B is a consecrated artist, gives his perspective on migration and art and how these two have influenced his life and have allowed him to leave a mark for every corner of Latin America he has visited. Through his paintings and his passion for her, he manages to rescue the different cultures he met in his travels in Latin America, acquiring a connection with the people and the place.

In 1972, during the military government, a group of prisoners is confined to prison Trelew, considered maximum security . However, several of those detained had their way free, while 19 prisoners were recaptured.

In 1942, nazi leaders met in Wansee to organize the final solution to the Jewish problem. The Warsaw guetto was first. Treblinka was created in a rural village near the Polish capital. 900.000 Jews and 500 Gypsies were murdered in 13 months. On August, 1943, the prisoners revolted and destroyed the camp. Only a few survived. Less than 10 worldwide remain today. Despite Treblinka tells the story of Mr. Rajchman, Mr. Wilenberg and Mr. Teigman. The movie follows the protagonists' paths in fairly chronological manner, from pre-war years, through Treblinka and the uprising, to the recent past and present, where a series of vignettes, often hilarious, show the possibility of living “despite” the horror.

On Translation: Açik Radyo is part of Muntadas' ongoing series of works and projects about communication, culture, and the role of art and the artist in contemporary life. This piece is the result of a two-year project created in the context of "Lives and Works in Istanbul," a program that invites artists from European countries to work in—and create works about—the city. Açik Radyo is an alternative, independent radio station that broadcasts throughout the metropolitan area of Istanbul. Writes Muntadas: "Açik Radyo is a translation filter and interface between me and the city of Istanbul. With them we dialogued and interviewed in order to create four radio programs aiming at questioning and interrogating the representation of Istanbul."

The protagonists travel by road and on foot to the north in search of Aztlán and along the way they find the ideal elements that make them get closer to their destination. "Audiovisual experiment on the perception of time, distances and landscape. Taking as a pretext the search for a mythical place located in the north of the Mexican Republic, this film becomes an interior search".

As Puerto Rico falls deeper and deeper into an unprecedented crisis this is Vietnam’s story, a community or barrio located on the coast of Guaynabo fighting an illegal expropriation at the hands of a career politician. Their experience echoes the island’s current struggle with; an unparalleled migration, a notion of progress fueled by corruption, crippling economic debt, displaced poor and middle class families whose land is being purchased by millionaires, and the slow to non-existent reconstruction of infrastructure after Hurricane Maria.

Every night fishermen from different countries look for fish in the darkness of the sea.

Since time immemorial, there has been an object that has filled pages and hours of celluloid, awakening human curiosity and a thirst for legends: the Holy Chalice of the Last Supper, or Holy Grail. But is it closer than we think? What is its real history? What legends have led it to achieve universal recognition?

A portrait of the fugacity of time. Bruno, Elio and Matías, three 16-year-old boys, after performing a Shakespeare monologue at high school, return to their refuge where they create their own world; where the time passes differently, as in a dream that they will eventually wake up.

Documentary that shows the work of the Valencian institutions of the 1920s that defended children, asylums of orphans, children's hospitals, medical treatments, education. But, in addition, the film allows to see a good number of urban sights and singular buildings of the city of Valencia at the time, some of which no longer exist.

A summary of the LGBTI+ movement's history, from its beginnings in Stonewall in 1969 to the celebration of the first Pride demonstration in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the 30th of June of 2001, as well as the creation of the Gamá collective in 1991.

Selma Mohamed Brahim, known as Belgha, lives in the Dajla Saharaui refugee camp in Southern Algeria. He has dedicated his life to preserving the Saharaui culture and identity, because he knows that a nation without culture is a lost nation, and he is making every effort to convey to younger generations all the things they haven't experienced.

Ethnographic documentary which, thanks to an one-year-and-half anthropological research with a collaborative approach, gives a deep insight into the everyday life, functioning and networking of diverse migrant communities in Barcelona and documents their persistent fight against the prevailing racist power relations.

Huma is a Pakistani woman who fights against the most ingrained traditions of her patriarchal culture. Through her association, she helps her compatriots integrate into Catalan society and raise their voice against forced marriages and violence against women.

After diving into my family archive, I was able to realize that both my father and my mother have two different versions of the world.

The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.

Luz Marina leaves Chocó, her homeland, at the age of 15, pursuing a better future in Bogotá. Times go by and looking after her seven children, she finds in social housing what at first sight might seem the accomplishment of her dream. A suspicious contract for the sale of real property will make her seek her dream even farther away.

The ears of the standing horses are cut off above the closed dawn. A girl roller skates on the parquet floor of an empty apartment. In the rain-coloured garden, a white rose bush with dew. A film of process, of observations and notes on the inner landscape and the beauty of lost moments.

Documents the massive attendance of Puerto Ricans at Rafael Cortijo's funeral, one of the maximum exponents of Puerto Rican music. This experimental film is one of the few surviving records of his burial.

A documentary short on the effects of a contaminated 3.5-mile long natural tidal channel located in the heart of the San Juan National Estuary.

Discover the rhythm, friendship, and energy of the Venezuelan duo Carmelo y Las Fieras in this intimate portrait of their music and bond.

35,000 people came to the Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid on June 24, 2022 to see Vetusta Morla's last great show. This docu-concert recovers that magical night. With a masterful production we attended the band's most important concert after their latest album, "Cable a Tierra", an album in which the group brings its sound closer to the folklore of here and Latin America to explore new rhythms and take our roots to the rock, pop and electronica. Between songs, the members of the group tell us how the album was created and the night of the concert. Accompanied by El Naán, Alibori and the rapper Wos and by unusual traditional instruments in events of this magnitude, the band performed their sixth studio album and their best-known songs in a concert that has already become a must-see music event in Spain.

The history of the Asturian mining basin from the mouths of its protagonists. We are after the victory of the national side in the Civil War, the families decimated with the dead in common graves. The "fugaos" and the guerrilla struggle that they maintained under the slogan of the PC. The “normalized” return to the mines with surveillance by the Civil Guard, the first strikes, timid and disorganized, spontaneous; the organization then, unionized and clandestine; the “resistance boxes”, the constant pulse against Francoism…

Internal journey during a short shipwreck. I am in Iguazu Falls. I cannot find my mother and I only have a camera with me.

Beatriz Portinari is not only the name of the inspiring muse of Dante Alighieri, but also the pseudonym with which the Platense writer Aurora Venturini was presented in 2007 to the Nueva Novela contest, organized by the newspaper Página 12, in which she won the grand prize for their work The bonuses. Full of mischief and grace, vitality and mystery, with great character and lucidity, this woman who throughout her ninety-one years never stopped writing, had a life totally linked to the literature and history of the twentieth century: she knew , was a friend and worked with Eva Perón in a minority center; in his exile he became associated with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others; and received a prize from Jorge Luis Borges, among many other things.

An expedition through the clash and symbiosis between civilization and its surroundings.

Bernardo and Esperanza met in Bilbao in 1978, when both were students at university in the midst of the turbulent political circumstances of the time. They had an on-off relationship - brimming with passionate encounters and inexplicable misunderstandings - until in 2001, during a trip to Havana to visit the aunt and cousin she had never met, the two forever went their different ways.

Juan Sartori, a millionaire businessman comes back to his home country of Uruguay to start his road to presidency.

A documentary about how Republican forces lost to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Ana, Sofía, Ivonnsabel, and Lisbeth are four enterprising women who will cross paths in different parts of Spain; Lugo, A Coruña, Madrid, Altea, Alicante, and Valencia are just some of the places where they will meet to exchange personal and professional experiences. They come from different backgrounds, but despite the distance between them, they face similar problems. Their stories intertwine, generating a vital process of transformation that allows them to become the best versions of themselves.

When Andrés knows the diagnosis of Norma's terminal illness, his mother urges him the need to hold on to his camera, record his family environment and rescue childhood memories that show fragments of a young, cheerful, uninhibited and vital mother. After Norma is a catharsis against family history that reflects on the relationship with our parents and is a metaphor for change and absence. A movie about a family that could be yours.

Aquí y allá is an essay film that studies what being at home means. The filmmaker uses photographs, maps and Google Earth to connect places around the globe; not just from her own past, but also from the complex migratory history of her family that stretches back to Hitler-era Germany and Mao's China. Reality and the virtual prove equally confusing: however much you zoom in, you never get closer to home.

A film about cowboys in Sonora, a state in Northern Mexico. It is a world of deep-rooted and rancid traditions, in which, however, there is no shortage of gay and lesbian stories that have tried to move forward and lead a dignified life despite social rejection.

From a collaboration between the Murmurante Theater and Línea de Sombra Theater, arises El viaje immóvil, a study on suicide. With testimonies of the members of the P.I.A.S. (Comprehensive Suicide Attention Program), a woman expresses her decision to take her life. Through her performative actions, she forces us to accompany her on this purpose-built journey to formulate questions and dispel myths about suicide. Is it a creation? It's spread? Is it a mental health problem or is it a social problem?