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The former 17th-century convent of Santa Mònica in Barcelona, today the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, housed a library of which more than 500 volumes are currently preserved at the University of Barcelona. The study of a selection of these books served as the beginning for this artistic project.

The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces.

Concerned about climate change, climate physicist and oceanographer Dr. Anna Cabré Albós takes part in Homeward Bound 2019, a pioneering training and empowerment program for women that aims to create a global network of scientists working for planetary sustainability.

Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. After many years of composing songs that reflect their origins, both decide to explore new horizons and each seeks to fulfill the dream of recording a first album. While Yisela struggles to reconcile the emerging possibilities of a career in Uruguay with her plans to move to Argentina, Ernesto confronts personal conflicts that threaten to sabotage his creative passion. The film fuses the arts of documentary film and music, interweaving the songs and stories of these two young composers. With vérité cinematography and an unforgettable soundtrack, Birds of Passage explores the challenges of being a young artist, and the art of searching, inside and outside of oneself.

This documentary shows us that getting to where the rights of LGBT + people are today has been a long road full of adversity and unimaginable achievements. Until just a few decades ago: getting married, adopting children, teaching in a school as a transgender person, was impossible. Historical figures, who could be seen as heroes and heroines, supported by archive material, narrate the evolution of a powerful social movement.

More than 20,000 New Zealand Maori have Spanish blood and a family nickname that recalls it: they call themselves "Panioras," which means "Spaniards" in the Maori language. They are descended from a man from Segovia, Manuel José de Frutos, who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1830s. This documentary follows the trail he left and meets his descendants, who are very proud of their Spanish heritage.

Images of Gaucin captured in February 2019.

The Guajiros are a people who have survived the harsh elements of their desert environment and the intervention of outside cultures. Through the centuries, they have learned to interpret the values and laws of those cultures to assure the perpetuation of their race. In this film, their art and ancient ceremonies are intermingled with the economic and sociopolitical realities existing in Latin America.

Near the village of Aspa in Catalonia, a hunter succumbs to his killer instinct and inexplicably shoots two wildlife rangers he happens upon in an olive grove. When he puts through a call to emergency services, he finds it nearly impossible to articulate why he pulled the trigger.

Love with a Colonial Scent uses Puerto Rico's colonial situation with the USA, the island's bankruptcy, and breath taking vistas as a backdrop to focus on the debate over gay marriage on the island. Another, in a series of documentaries that details what it is to be part of the LGBTQ community that is outside the continental United States.

A physical and spiritual journey of the last heir from the ancestral culture of oral tradition that remains on Easter Island: María Elena Hotus. Before dying she has taken the decision to leave her legacy and appoint as her successor to her daughter, Aru Pate Hotus, an island that must fight against the deeply rooted and prejudiced patriarchal society.

Andrea took a drug mule trip from Argentina. She was taken directly from Barcelona airport to prison. Katia was imprisoned for two years at Martutene correctional facility in the Basque Country. Marta Dillon, journalist and feminist, visited over several years the female prisoners at the Ezeiza prison in Buenos Aires and captured their experiences in the book "Corazones Cautivos". These stories, along with those of other ex-prisoners and researchers, are part of the documentary "Cárceles Bolleras" (Dyke Jails), that pictures the reality of women behind bars and how gender inequality affects their lives there. Under these circumstances , lesbian desire becomes a form of resistance to the penitentiary institution. Through these interviews, we depict the prison universe we are unallowed to access.

Araucanía Herida, is the portrait of the repression that was unleashed in the provinces of Cautín and Malleco, after the coup d'état in 1973 by the armed forces, together with numerous civilians from different towns and cities of Araucanía. The documentary is a journey from mountain range to sea, passing through different locations where people who lived the facts, tell us what happened in each of those places and what they lived. Not only being a case, but several in a geographical territory, one after another each testimony, we unveiled a coordinated and ruthless strategy of repression, not portrayed before in any region of Chile.

The Marañón River is born in the highlands of Peru and it flows across large areas of the Peruvian territory and through the life of a peasant family that dwells upriver, over four thousand meters high. It runs into the warm lands of the Inter-Andean valley, where a 13-year-old girl exposes herself to risk by selling fruit to truck drivers, and through the Amazon rainforest, where indigenous Awajun children make competitions to prove their knowledge. It eventually arrives at the mouth, the workplace of a river merchant. The core theme of the four stories brought together in the documentary is the challenge of surviving amidst isolation in remote regions bathed by the waters of the Marañón River.

Documentary maked in Valparaiso; explores and reflects where the most radical social manifestations are conceived as a self-defense against state violence inflicted on society or much of it.

The thrilling reality of an autistic and blind boy who accepts life with a smile.

A visual essay on the female body as a socially constructed discourse, Infinite Galatea showcases the model for man's experiments in privilege and power through time. From Greek mythology to Victorian gynecology to current AI technology, this is how gender, sexuality and desire have been ideologically shaped to fit a male fantasy.

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.

Based on Liliana Cotto Morales' "Desalambrar", this documentary is a montage of testimonials and audiovisual files that recall chronicles of resistance and confrontation during the social rebellion which meant the movement of occupation and rescue of lands in Puerto Rico in the 1970's and early 1980's.

The film provides a look at the 1980 Mundialito, an international friendly soccer tournament organized by the Uruguayan Soccer Association, which brought together the World Cup-winning national teams and the Netherlands, and was organized in Uruguay during an unconventional political situation.

Pedro has become a quadriplegic after a lifetime of work, all because of a silly fall he could have avoided. Gloria, his wife, raised four children but now resists being his caregiver. Their daughter, in shock, buys a camera. After seven years of recording their family's private life, the result is a collective portrait that reveals uncomfortable truths, touches our hearts, and also makes us laugh until we cry.

Documentary about the professional career of Miquel Porter i Moix

I am a girl of the waves, from a village of seafarers. Some days, I go out with my boat to the sea. But I don’t go alone. Maoimouna comes with me.

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.

In the middle of Western Sahara desert, where no water, no trees, no animals live but a bunch of refugees, struggling in poverty to survive the harsh habitat, the least of the problem one might face is the environmental crisis.

Borders always depend on who experiences them, both in the past and in the present.

In 2020, Peru and the world faced the COVID-19 pandemic. At the Belaúnde cemetery in Lima, the dust from the graves bore silent witness to the burial of hundreds of citizens who left without the opportunity to say goodbye, buried in silence. No ceremonies, no farewells, no hugs. Leaving behind a void that marked all of humanity.

"This piece –the number 8 inscribed within a chequerboard of marble and dry ice blocks– was inspired by the fact that, in all Indo-European languages (apart from the Slavic languages), the words for night and eight only differ in the negating n at the start: in Spanish, noche-ocho; in French, nuit-huit; in Italian, notte-otto; in German, Nacht-acht... I was fascinated by the way dry ice disappears without a trace, a flirtation with the remnants of a process which, in this case, can only be seen in language. Sometimes, language is the only place that retains the built-up layers of changes in consciousness, and this is one such example. The number eight –which comes up frequently in mythological thinking– thus becomes a figure that recalls a time of consciousness before the birth of opposites and dialectics." - Eva Lootz

Women who now live in the Pyrenees, in places where the most fervent witch-hunting once took place, now talk about the reality of femicide from between the 15th and 18th centuries. They invite us to delve into their own lives and themselves share their fears: new or even rooted in history.

“A filmmaker in La Codorniz” is the story of Enrique Herreros, a Madrid artist ahead of his time, a member of the “other generation of 27”, a pioneer of the Spanish film industry and one of the architects of turning Gran Vía into the show street

Livestock are not the enemy. They are the key. The fight to reverse climate change is putting animals in the spotlight. The purpose of this documentary is to show the use of livestock for the regeneration of grasslands, soils, woodland and water. Good livestock management is shown in a real way as a solution for the restoration of ecosystems and rural economies.

Two women sustain a world where care is in ruins. Gladys, from her everlasting confinement in the house where she works as a live-in servant. Ima, in her everlasting waiting on the seashore for the next ship breaking its nets. Both have unrecognised jobs in which duties invade them until there’s no room for their own lives. It doesn’t matter what time their phones ring. Gladys can never answer, Ima is obliged to answer at all times. They both have to leave their families behind. Spaces that are work, work that is about houses and houses that are not always homes. The memories of their experiences are intertwined in a sensory story that leads us to a question: whose hands are the ones to change the situation?

In Barcelona, in the MACBA square, young, boisterous and talkative people gather to tell how they feel confronted with the world that exists beyond their limited lives, that unknown world that apparently denies them so many things.

Óscar de Julián discovers that there is another Óscar de Julián. From that moment on, the lives of the two Óscars become intertwined. The two stories become confused. In the end, you won't be able to understand one story without the other.

Acuario is the result of a personal search process through experimentation with the audiovisual form. Animation, documentary and fiction merge in an effort to find the right ways to communicate the sensations experienced during a daily journey through the big city after the exhausting days of contemporary life.

Fictionalized documentary about the history of HIV/AIDS in Argentina from its inception up until 2006.

Documentary about the birth and development of candombe in Uruguay. It is built through testimonies, audiovisual files and animations. It also covers the actuality of the candombe on the shores of the Río de la Plata.