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This documentary follows two migrants and two human rights lawyers as they take on the Spanish authorities in a trial that tests Europe's core values.

On February 19th 2006, in the North part of the State of Coahuila, Mexico, there was an explosion in the Coal Mine "Pasta de Conchos" where 65 miners were trapped. The company, owner of the mine declared all the miners had died. The families of the victims began a long struggle for the recovery of the bodies while the investigations lead to think that some miners trapped inside were still alive after the explosion and hoping to be rescued.

Documentary about the Argentine poet, born in San Juan, Jorge Leonidas Escudero. His voice -speaking and reading- is the thread that brings together the experience as a gold digger in the San Juan mountains, the enthusiasm for games of chance, poetry, nature. The player loses, however he insists. Poems, friendship and humor remain, the celebration of the spoken word.

Documentary of the legendary Punk group from Santurzi. Review your early days. Interviews, video clips, street performances, walks along the depressed left bank and even their notorious and controversial performances on Spanish television, make up this essential documentary of the most damned band.

Documentary that explores the "Archives of Horror" of the General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, discovered in Paraguay in 1992 and in the documentation of Operation Condor found there, which reveals who was responsible, their goals, strategies, accomplices and murders.

A pro-Republican documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It details the offensives of the Durruti Column and the Ascaso Division on the Huesca front between March and April 1937.

Zirconium mining is affecting communities along Senegal's Grande Côte coastline. The Grande Côte Operations open-pit mine is cutting into the coastline, causing dunes to disappear and forcing communities to relocate.

Mercedes, a 92-year-old woman, has lived in Barcelona since she was 16, when she migrated there to work. Now she has dementia and cannot take care of herself. Marta is her caregiver. Through Mercedes and Marta, we will learn more about caregiving and the problems that affect older people, such as unwanted loneliness and mental health issues.

Motherhood through Erlinda, a 22-year-old girl who grew up in the small town of Prat de Comte, with the contradictions that come with not having fully left adolescence and entering the adult world with a child in her charge.

In 2011, the conflict of public education broke out in Chile. Protests did not revolved around violence, but rather the renewal of the social struggle from culture and altruism. Paintings instead of banners, disguises instead of hoods.This is the story of those who dared to paint, film, dance and act, redefining citizen protest forever.

Lejsara is a documentary about two worlds: Tinduf and Mallorca. The main character, Lejsara, is twelve years old and, thanks to the ‘Holidays in Peace’ project, she’s going to spend her third and last summer in Spain with her host family. The film asks whether this program lets their children taste a piece of candy and then takes it away from them.

The film shows us the purse seine fishing of Portosín through local skippers and their families, bringing us closer to the maritime world in a very intimate way.

An eighteen-year-old musician decides to design a cybernetic organ and illegally implant it into his own body, thus acquiring a new sense that allows him to perceive on Earth sounds coming from outer space.

A terrible flood destroyed part of the town of Aguilón (Zaragoza).

The artist's voice-over saying "No, I wasn't happy" marks the beginning of the video-recording of this, her first art action, which consisted in the intervention to a traffic sign along a mile, specifically on Manquehue Street, in Santiago de Chile. A fundamental work within the history of 20th century Chilean art.

In the mountain. In A Costa da Morte. An old woman. A house. A computer. An attempt to communicate with the outside.

Followed my friends during 15 days in the wintered Netherlands capturing their destructive lifestyle & seek of adrenaline peaks. Fully filmed on my phone without intervening their behaviour so the viewer becomes a member of the group. A collection of moments in which coherence & narrative is found later on in the editing room, where emotions and understanding are revealed.

From the most important moments of the struggle for the vote of the masses, passing through the revolutionary strategies of Hipólito Yrigoyen and the modernist ideas of Roque Sáenz Peña, until reaching the day of October 12, 1916, the first great civic ceremony of masses in modern history, the highest moment of popular participation in a century just dawning.

Tadanobu Asano answers questions about his experience on Ichi the Killer, a special feature included in the Bluray release of the film.

Moriya is a small city of Japan surrounded by the immense Tokyo and other important cities, but its humility hides its great beautyness. Chris Jiménez visit the downtown apart from its rivers, sanctuaries, parks and beautiful landscapes.

On the 14th of November 2020 the Polisario Front considered breaking the ceasefire calling on the United Nations to intervene and declare a 'state of war' throughout the territory in response to an attack commited by Moroccan forces the day before. On the early morning of thursday to friday the 13th of November, at the border crossing of Guerguerat, Moroccan forces took action to expel a group of around 50 Sahrawi civilians who were, since the 21st of October, blocking the connectiong road with Mauritania in order to demand that the United Nations hold a referendum of autoindependence as was promised in 1991. In this short documentary the situation of the Sahrawi people after the events of the 13th of November is explained.

“Computational Compost” addresses the environmental impact of data storage and proposes a synergy between technology and ecology. Humans and artificial intelligence produce so much data that soon there will be no capacity to store it; we are accumulating infinite information with finite resources. The film invites reconsideration on the relationship between data storage and collective memory, highlighting the urgency of critically rethinking narratives of the digital future.

Gonzalo wants to be a film director, he dreams of directing comedies. In November 2006 his life stopped in a traffic accident that caused him a spinal cord injury. A few days after he was bedridden, he borrowed a video camera and as self-therapy began to film everything that happened to him, beginning his life 0.5 meters above the ground. When the state terminates his rehabilitation, he returns to his hometown. He has two options: stay put or continue his life in an eternal traveling. In order not to be alone, he decides to practice wheelchair basketball at the famous club AMFIV, and his story takes a Copernican turn. Discover a new universe for him in this professional sport, a world that has not yet been filmed from the inside.

Each year, the spirits of the dead return to visit the living in this fascinating look into the famous Mexican tradition, Day of the Dead also known as Dia de Los Muertos.

This movie intertwines the story of Dehvora, a fictional character played by Hector, and his own life, giving us a single story full of courage and a universal message of understanding and tolerance.

History of a Committed Cinema is a primer for the Nicaraguan audience to what they are watching on the screen. A critique of Western & Hollywood cinema, it outlines the difficult technical, cinematic, and political tasks confronting INCINE (Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine) as it strives to build a native film industry.

Beyond the punches, boxing paints a complex portrait of life itself - its obstacles, the discipline, the commitment. With the stories of a child aspiring boxer, and a young amateur boxer, the film weaves a tale about the triumph of human spirit both in ring and in life.

Sachi, who lived in Havana for her anthropological study between 2002-2004, sees all her Cuban friends leaving the country to anywhere they can -- Spain, England, Chile, the United States. Visiting them in their new homes, and visiting their relatives and friends still in Cuba, the film explores how Cubans feel about leaving their country, a place that has been known for its utopian dream.

Sergio de Loof created the most relevant and groundbreaking night venues of the late 80s, 90s and early 00s. Places where everyone could find the more inner and cherished self. To be oneself, without fear or rejection. Then, Argentina got struck by a financial crisis and Sergio tackled his own personal breakdown through drug abuse and the consequences of being a politically incorrect character.

A film about Karla Ojeda and Maira Ramírez, two transvestites going through adoption, and Gabriela Mansilla, mother of a trans girl. Their stories are intertwined with songs and poems by Susy Shock, a trans artist, poet and writer.

Two men, one of whom serves as the narrative voice, but not necessarily as protagonist, are related with sowing and their respective ways of understanding life.

A white-painted wild olive tree has always been the symbol of the family. Today, his father and brother cut it down to make it easier for the grandmother to get out with the car. From a distance, the author writes a letter to his brother, reflecting on family, memory, and what it means to leave behind what has always defined them, while trying to maintain their bond, marked by tension and conflict every time he returns home.

The film is a reflection on the medieval folk tradition of "benandanti" ("good walkers"), who believed they had special powers to fight witches, ogres and demons threatening harvests and children. Who are the "benandanti" of today and who are the witches and ogres of our times? Can these assigned roles be put into question? The film analyses three stories, trying to recover the sense of truth and the truth of the sense, starting from the relations between individuals and the respect that every statement of the human race deserves.

In the refugee camps of Tindouf, for more than 30 years the Sahrawi people is waiting to get the goal that forced them to exile: to return to their land free from any foreign domination. Sukut collects the testimonies of life of elderly Sahrawi with three objectives: to preserve the historical memory of this people, that have basically an oral tradition, show the human aspects of some experiences and data too much objectified, and especially, give the word to those who have been silenced too long ago.

Short documentary about the war going on in Western Sahara since 13 November 2020 and how it affects the lives of Sahrawis and their supporters. A film about voices and feelings that speak of the desert and injustice.

Chris Jiménez follows Sanae Nagashima with his camera in her journey from the crowded streets of Asakusa to the ancient castle of Tsuchiura.