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A four-year investigation by BBC World Service’s investigative unit, BBC Africa Eye, and podcast World of Secrets, has found shocking revelations about the brutal killings committed by security guard Louis van Schoor in South Africa during the apartheid era. Convicted of seven murders, he is believed to have killed at least 39 people, all of whom were black. The youngest victim was just 12 years old.

Dipendra and Sushmita are two Nepali orphans living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. One day, Dipendra's family contacts him and they invite him to travel to his hometown. Sushmita decides that when she grows up she wants to be a nurse.

Agadiri and Oussama, two Moroccan friends, laze around and survive while the camera explores their bodies and faces. But things are by no means simple. Both have only been in Spain for a short period and are facing a supposedly temporary situation, which must culminate in their futures being defined in the midst of a pandemic. Filmed indoors, Monte Tropic gradually travels towards a more indefinite and dreamlike space to question the memories and desires of these young people, whose inactivity vindicates their right to be above the disastrous political use of their situation.

Campaign for the political party P.A.Z (Partido Alternativa Zombie)

Nine-year-old Maribel explains to us how it feels to be stricken with the world's oldest infliction: love.

Short documentary about the peruvian punk feminist icon Maria T-ta. "A transgressor among transgressors".

Super 8 / 18fps / silent / in-camera edited Kodak Tri-X

In the Peruvian highlands, a father and master of a 300-year-old bridge weaving tradition struggles to maintain his culture as his daughter tries to escape it.

Paquita is 85 years old and lives alone, until Temi the robot arrives in her flat. Will they be able to establish a relationship and put an end to Paquita's loneliness?

Documentary about Jose Maria Jimenez, known as the 'Chava' Jimenez. A great Spanish champion who left his village. El Barraco (Ávila), to climb as one the great mountains of cyclists circuits, and died tragically in 2003.

The Llanes Sports Club, part of the Asturfutbol 1st Division, celebrates 75 years of history. This documentary reviews the arrival of soccer in Llanes from the perspective of its protagonists: players, coaches, managers, journalists, and fans. Thirty-one interviews highlight the club's past, present, and future.

The ritual of mourning a loss involves not only traditional rites, but also a change in perspective and a reinterpretation of the experience, which for me comes through ornithology. In La visita de un pájaro (The Visit of a Bird), I propose a kind of poetic manual on an initiation into the world of birds, from observing them to ringing them, traversing the empty spaces, the gestures, and the landscape of this entire environment.

Documentary about an unconditional fan of Morrissey, a Barcelona-based DJ called Luis Le Nuit.

In the 1970s, the first manifestations of gay, lesbian and transvestite rights in Spain took place. In 2005, Spain became the third country in the world to approve same-sex marriage, and today our legislation is one of the more progressive. However, homophobia and invisibility remain a problem for many older people of this group.

The architects of GATCPAC designed and built “La Casa Bloc”, during the Second Republic, with the purpose of improving the life of the working class, and they managed to build, as well, a community as strong as the neighbours who reside in it nowadays. The story of Montse, José Luis, Wences and Adela, proves that, although times have changed, the bonds created in the past still remain alive.

"Trànsit" is a journey through a city that never lets us stay. Between the noise of the subway and the silence of empty streets, the short film captures the feeling of not belonging to any neighborhood, of living always in transit.

Can a life be captured in a pile of letters and photographs? Ramón's existence, inevitably intertwined with the turbulent history of his country, was hidden until recently in a box tucked away among the beams of a granary. Three generations later, a member of the family discovers it and begins to form a strange bond with someone who is, by all accounts, a stranger...

Joana is about to turn 6. Her father decides to make an animated documentary to portray her personality and the things she loves the most.

TV Program - Sankara is considered the most important philosopher in India and the greatest exponent of Vedanta-Advaita. Born in the south in 788, Sankara spread his doctrine throughout the country with the idea that everything perceived as the body and other material objects is transitory. Participants: María Teresa Román, professor at the Department of Philosophy (UNED); Consuelo Martín, Doctor of Philosophy and specialist in Advaita-Vedanta.

This documentary is a portrait of the 100-year history of the Communist Party of Spain but, above all, it is a tribute to the wretched of the earth, the oppressed and forgotten, those who gave their lives for freedom and democracy.

Short film that depicts the farewell of soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona.

"Ceguera Inducida" (Induced Blindness) is a retrospective upon childhood and a collective memory which seems to be endangered by the growth of extreme right-wing parties in South America. Yesterday, far away from home, the distance seemed to shape and re-signify my infancy and the memories arising from the Uruguayan worst economic crisis at the beginning of this century. Today, these words seem to prevail and the melancholy continues to invade. The second voice of the film belongs to Jorge Luis Batlle, ex-president of the Republic (2000-2005) during a visit to the United States.

The director Christian Liffers travels with his team to Cuba to search for evidence. Part of his luggage are poems and prose texts of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. Texts, which describe the desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending attitude in the fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be found in Cuba? And which desires, clichés, and projections of Cuba attract the producer and many more people? Poems and prose texts are the reference points for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba, which are always the center of attention. Six men with different backgrounds and of different ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings and joys in Cuba. They have some things in common: homosexuality (with the exception of Isabel, the transsexual) and the daily social exclusion on the part of the Cuban "Machismo-society" and the Cuban government.

A journey through time between the 70's and present days, by the hand of a little group of women who shared political prison in Argentina at different places and periods from 1975 till 1979. Almost 25 years after, an unexpected fact with surprising elements summons them to undertake an emotional and common task as a result of a text of prison memories which, in 1983, they thought had been lost.

Miguel Picazo started his film career in 1964: "La Tia Tula" turned him into one of the most distinguished directors in the New Spanish Cinema trend. This documentary approaches his work and personality through his own words. Having only directed a bunch of films, among which "El hombre que supo a mar" or "Extramuros", at his age of 87 Picazo still waits for a new chance to keep on directing films.

This is a short film that, although a documentary in appearance, has very little to do with the generic conventions of that form. It would seem, then, that what we have here is the embryo of what he was subsequently to call the "elementary": an abstract or lyrical modality in the perception and exposition of the real.

Ali Salem Hamudi Mohamed - Yahdih, was born in 1955 in El Aaiún (Western Sahara). He completed his secondary schooling in the "Spanish" Sahara. A scholarship allowed him to enrol at the Universidad de la Peninsula in 1975, but Morocco's invasion of the Sahara led him to return to the city of his birth and go into exile with his people, participating in the resistance and helping to organise the Tindouf Refugee Camps (Algeria). In 1980, the Polisario Front and the Government of Cuba offered him the opportunity to study Architecture at the University of Havana. On his return to the Camps in 1985 he worked for the SADR's Department of Construction. He designed more than twenty public buildings, including town halls, schools and nursery schools, and also collaborated with international aid organisations to build hospitals and training colleges. All of these buildings were built collectively by the Saharan people. ;In 1999 he emigrated to Spain. His family joined him five years later.

In February 1939 the history of Argeles, a quiet fishing town, suddenly changes. Catalonia was occupied by fascist troops, 465,0000 refugees flee across the border. The French authorities order the construction of a camp on the beach... The film evokes the existence of the Argeles sur Mer concentration camp (Pyrénées-Orientales), from its creation in January 1939 to its closure in September 1941. In 1939 , filmmakers and activists, shocked by this camp, managed to smuggle a camera behind the wire fence. The few images taken directly from the Argeles camp were filmed with a hidden camera and many were seized and destroyed. “El Campo de Argeles” proposes to recreate these lost images and intersect camp life with archival images and testimonies collected throughout Europe: former internees in the camp (Spanish Republicans, Jews...) and also guards and witnesses.

Una película de gente que mira películas takes place in a video store in Buenos Aires, where a group of clientes shoots a film, so they can quit being spectators and became filmmakers. In the voices of this seven characters, the film explores the different possibilities of the seventh art in order to reflect in visual terms and stands as a symbolic construction of reality.

Four people film the moon in different parts of the world with their respective handycams. At least one of them is in love.

Jarumi, a 14-year-old Awajún girl, lives in an Amazonian community where tradition and gender roles define her life. Her mother teaches her household chores and cultural values, while she observes how men experience a freedom that feels unattainable. Through drawing and nature, Jarumi seeks to break free from these expectations.

Arguably the first film to be produced in Galicia (Spain).

As veteran filmmaker Rolando Díaz confronts his own aging, he turns his lens on unforgettable Spanish centenarian Simona Hoyo, reckoning with what it means when the body keeps going long after the soul grows tired in this colorful and poignant new documentary.

Between 1964 and 1966, Los Saicos were the wildest and most original rock and roll band on the planet, but no one knew about it. Until now.

Scenes of daily life in the Indian communities of Ecuador.

Calentoso, is a young boy that must transport mules across the mountains. He will be challenged to discover the deep secrets that the summit entails. This film is based on the legend of the ghost of the Ruiz Snow Mountain in the Region of Cumanday in Colombia.

A portrait of the Arab musicians Bahaa al Jomaa and Yazan Ibrahim.

"As leaves in the wind" is the story of two transgender women who migrate from their home countries seeking asylum and opportunities in a new continent. Their lives go through structural changes when they meet and take part in a new support network. Made by them for them.