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A fascinating journey of Colombian archaeologist and anthropologist Carlos Castaño, who returns to the place he accidentally discovered 30 years ago due to a forced detour on his way to the Amazon to the denominated the Sistine Chapel of Latin American archaeology.

A short film about the Argentine electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, an original pioneer of early musique concrète alongside Pierre Schaeffer during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Here she discusses her ‘sound hunting’ recording techniques, and other thoughts on sound montage and spatialization. Featuring creaking doors, barking dogs and rainbow hands. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020

The psychopath, chronicle of an unsolved case, tells the story of the first serial killer registered in Costa Rica. Known as "El Psicopáta", between 1985 and 1995, he left nineteen victims. The documentary analyzes the case from criminalistics and the analysis of a socio-political environment that influenced the case was never resolved and was recorded in the Costa Rican imaginary.

Opening with the testimony of a politically exiled Basque author reminiscing on a childhood where he was forced to “hide his language as something ugly”, Faire la parole then keeps apace with some young people from the French and Spanish Basque Country: Nora, who saw the newspaper where she worked closed by the Guardia Civil in 2003, then Aitor, Ana and Ortzi. The last three, still teenagers, lend a summery and easy-going tone to the film, which is magnificently framed by Eugène Green’s long-time cameraman, Raphael O’Byrne. The dialogue that settles in between the younger members and those in their thirties has a rare quality, as if the difference of language – which each has had to impose on their family or on their national entourage – had almost tacitly created a secret community. Starting with the political stakes (regional languages versus centralism), the story hikes over the mountains with these new friends brought together by the filmmaker.

Guillermo Gómez Álvarez explores the identity politics of Puerto Rico via archival footage from various sources that clash with nine original songs from local independent musicians and a thematic analysis from a psychoanalyst and a historian. From the juxtaposition the absurd becomes coherent and the coherent becomes absurd as Puerto Rican identity is defined and rejected almost simultaneously.

The memory of a defeat, a barbarism: the destruction at the dawn of the civil war of people who fought for freedom, a group of anarchists from A Coruña located in the Atochas area. Through valuable witnesses and historical images a reconstruction of a metaphorical episode in the history of the country. This projection is made in collaboration with its author and the Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory.

The history of the Asturian mining county 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…

Spanish lost film about Valencian traditions directed by Ángel García Cardona.

With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, «Slaughterhouse» is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence suffered by animals in slaughterhouses and that is deliberately kept hidden by the meat industry. In order to carry out this documentary, the director, who for years has been carrying out a project against animal exploitation named as «Tras los Muros», has had to use false identities that have allowed him to access all these places.

Western Winds/Eastern Winds is an experimental documentary film work about the roads passing through a small andean border town and the ways that connect it with history, modernity and the territory, also with those passages less visible, marginals and forgotten, that evoke past migrations in the west and the east side of this imaginary border.

"Your path is determined by everything you do, because there are rules: this is right and this is wrong, and you will be judged. But we have to realize that every person is truly different from each other. You cannot box them in. Not at all. We are much more than that". With this premise, the documentary goes through the life of Alba, a 20-year-old girl who has been living against social structures since she came of age. The conversations with her family, the spontaneous dialogue between her and the director and her day-to-day problems will tell her story by themselves.

The acclaimed Cuban duo performs classic hits in a stunning performance along the majestic Havana shoreline.

The train ride becomes an inner journey as the filmmaker recollects the memories of his grandmother who turns 100, the film becomes a gift.

In the Peruvian mountains, rituals offer connection between participants and the divine. Resplendently realized in black and white by director Fernando Criollo, this documentary captures a place where the heavens meet the earth.

In full swing of the agro-export model in Argentina, Andrés Carrasco, renowned Argentine scientist, denounces the harmful effects of agrotoxins on human health. While putting the state-subsidized scientific system in check in collusion with companies, it became a benchmark for the victims of the model.

A story of hope through laughter and action. "El gallo de oro” is a film which chronicles the journeys of a middle-aged gay man paying tribute to his mother, who is battling cancer.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) visited Barcelona for the first time at the age of 13. It was in Barcelona where he had his first studio, where he made his first engraving, his first illustration and his first exhibition. For Picasso, Barcelona would always be the city that dazzled him as a teenager. There all began.

Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".

Seven school children in Medellin, where daily life is full of violence, have been asked to write a diary.

Lina, Andrés and Tandita are three children who live in rural areas in southwestern Valle del Cauca and who have been left to care for relatives because their parents had to leave in search for work. The universe of each of these children reflects a very common problem in many Colombian regions: families broken by constant migration to the large cities due to the lack of work opportunities.

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

Documentary that explores the struggle of those whose identities have been stolen and who have decided to discover their true origins. In Argentina, approximately 3,000,000 people are unaware of their identity.

Retrace Salvador Dalí’s obsession for science, which lasted his entire life. This can be seen in his paintings, which reflect every major discovery of the 20th Century. Even his signature is directly influenced by a scientific image.

The Tagus creates a natural border between Spain and Portugal — but instead of dividing the two countries, the river brings them together at its banks.

The story of the concentration camp on San Simón Island (Ría de Pontevedra) during the years of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), told by its protagonists. Hours and hours of video recording resulted in this documentary which tries to reflect the emotion and tragedy of those years. A research project based on an oral history methodology.

Stories of resistance, words of pain and suffering, tales of life and death, and in particular of dignity, that show the reality that the Sahrawi people experience in Western Sahara. This documentary gathers the testimonies collected during a journey to the occupied territories by an international delegation headed by the mayor of Donostia/San Sebastián, Juan Karlos Izagirre. Over the course of five days they held over twenty secret meetings with human rights activists, from home to home, constantly under watch by the Moroccan police. Despite living under an occupation that has lasted for almost 40 years, the Sahrawi people maintain their identity and culture. A revolutionary act, a struggle to defend their right to exist as a people.

The famous Spanish sculptor José Manuel Martínez Perez decided to create a unique work, and the new sculpture was modeled by art history student Constanza. During the months of cooperation, the two not only devoted themselves to creating sculptures, but also discussed art topics such as science fiction movies and Rodin's sculptures. They also shared their views on issues such as generational differences and psychological emotions. In the communication, their views collided with each other...

From a rooftop, a camera films the El Pozo train station in Madrid on 11 March. It awaits the arrival of one of the four trains that took part in the 11M terrorist attacks, at the same place where it exploded in that Thursday of 2004.

A documentary that follows children in the town of Entrialgo, Asturias, Spain over a year as their language and way of life slowly disappears.

Explores through interviews, photos, and old movies, the development of the tobacco industry in Puerto Rico, focusing on the role of women in their family environment, work, and community.

"360 curves" mark the distance that separates Fonsagrada from Lugo. This long, difficult and descending road between mountains reflects the decline of a place that, in the early 90s, decided to fight for its survival.

Documentary in which ten republican women remember their time in Franco's prisons. “Some put wedges in her nails; my sister-in-law has currents on her fingers and nipples; some have been raped”; “Since they hit first and then ask questions, they hit me.” “Baby, they have given us the death penalty. I told him: but, Virtudes, they will commute you!". These are some of the testimonies of ten Republican women in Franco's prisons that Tomasa Cuevas, a former member of the Communist Party, collected on an old recorder hidden in her bag so that they would not be lost in oblivion.