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The Serranía Baja de Cuenca (Spain) is a land where two species of almonds are grown: larguetas and marconas. When the artist went to shake the almond trees with they family, Cienfuegos understood "mariconas" (faggot, in Spanish) instead of "marconas".

"Egg" is a visual testimony that sheds some light on the lives of exploited hens in farms.

This documentary gives a platform to Sahrawi refugee voices who tell us how they experience this situation, the opinion they deserve from international position, and especially, that of the Spanish government, which they believe is the solution, and what their dreams and hopes for the future are. In recent years, a disturbing stance is becoming generalized especially among young people, "To regain our land we must return to war".

My Island is a short documentary film that tells in first person, and as an interview, Marisa's daily life. An 83-year-old woman with her ailments, her manias, her routines and her customs. Like living in solitude and enjoying it, surrounded by what she recognizes as her island, her home.

A group of people on an epilepsy mission are sent to a series of proves of their own vigilance and privacy, with the aim of preventing a crisis. A on ens dirigim quan la consciència es desconnecta per uns instants?

Gilda chose Gilda because of Hayworth and at 98 years old is the oldest active drag queen in the world. And lives in Barcelona. Two hours following Gilda's daily life, from morning to night, where you can see what the person behind the makeup, the feathers and the heels is like.

Revisit the career of the outspoken rock singer Ramoncín through interviews with the musician and his friends and collaborators.

Super 8 / 18fps / silent / in-camera edited Kodak Vision3 50D

The life of Raúl Sendic, the legendary Uruguayan guerrilla and union leader, is brought alive in the words of his comrades in the struggle, his friends and members of his family. In this documentary we learn about the rice plantations, the cane fields, his life in hiding, and the hard years he spent in prison.

Carmen (53) and Elías (72) have acquired a social interest house on the outskirts of the capital of Colombia. The illusion of having their own place will be faced with the immensity of the city. The environment and its complications will lead them to reflect on the reason for living there.

The director of the film is searching for the truth about the death of her father whom she lost in her early childhood. After forty years, with more questions than certainties, without memories of him, without any feeling of having ever had him by her side, she decides to start a journey.

I thought the legend was marvellous and outrageous. But what meaning could we give it today? I publish an announcement offering to make a film based on that old story. Lili, Aña and Ekaitz reply with curiosity and an eagerness for cinema.

Based on an installation by Alberto vev

Every year, thousands of migratory birds travel over the North American plains to escape from the cold winter. During their migration they pass a point in the mountains of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. This region is inhabited by the Maya population Q'anjob'al, a mythical culture full of ancestral stories and beliefs and that practices the chibal, the art of hunting birds that are used for food when there are shortages of wheat and maize crops. In this documentary, birds and human beings demonstrate the greatness of the search for prolonging life. A drama that shows the darkest and shiniest facets of humanity, against the fragility and nobility of nature, which is open to life and exposed to the risks of sharing the same spaces with those who can have an effect on their destiny.

La Vanessa was the organiser of the first gay rights march in Chiapas State, Mexico. Four years after her murder in 1992, this study of mexican transvestite culture documents a period of fear marked by 29 brutal murders. It originally aired in '96 as part of Channel 4's Latino Nights line-up ("a season of programmes from and about Latin America"), and--aside from showing up at a few niche trans-festivals here and there--seems to have disappeared altogether after that.

This story is the tale of two breaths: that of Iratxe Sorzabal and that of Mari Nieves Díaz, Iratxe's mother. Both, each in their own way, have suffered the lack of breath caused by torture, together with many other kinds of suffering. Bi arnas is a testimonial on torture, the reflection of an injustice and a dialogue never offered before.

In the 21st century many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan communities still make contact with the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are possessed by the spirits of the Forest and the Waters. Jean Marie Addiaffi (1941-1999), a writer and intellectual from Ivory Coast, fought to conserve the Akans’ oral literature, myths and legends, and the knowledge and uses of the plants. In the film “Return to the land of souls”, Yéo Douley, a disciple of Jean Marie Addiaffi , will set out on a journey to visit his master’s grave and carry out a ritual libation. On his travel, he will attend the initiation rites of three people chosen by the spirits and witness one of them proclaimed as the new Komian or high animistic priest.

Night scenes of a distant and silent Havana. Anonymous voices tell us about places they would like to visit and come back, places they would like to know and never forget. They tell us about the transition moment in which they coexist, a state sketched in the traveler as a building facade cut by the light of the street lamps at night. Impressions of Andrea Novoa’s state of trance, a flaneur, who experiences the mental space that appears when crossing corners and streets of a foreign city, suspended in the time.

After his grandfather’s death, Toni Tomàs watches as life in the countryside and within his family begins to change. His grandmother, affected by grief, slowly starts to see the light again, while his father, with calmness and firmness, tries to restore order and ensure that the loss of the grandfather is not too deeply felt. Toni Tomàs reflects on his father and the way he faces the loss, in an effort to understand his family.

'Canto rodado' (rolled stone) as a stone rounded by the erosion of a watercourse or other natural process, as the act of singing, as a form of division in a poetic work, as something displaced and rolling around, as something repeated, rehearsed, and 'rolled' through the language of film.

This documentary tells the story of Tateh Lehbib, a Saharawi refugee who after studying Renewable Energy at the University of Algiers and then a master's degree in energy efficiency at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has designed a type of shelter made with plastic bottles filled with sand. This innovative circular shelter aims to improve the harsh living conditions experienced in the desert in Tindouf, reducing internal temperature and offering a better resistance to sandstorm, while having an eco-friendly purpose by reusing plastic bottles.

Trapped between the violence of the Moroccan regime and the indifference of the international community, the Saharaui People fight peacefully in order to recover their land and sovereignty. The DNGO Mundubat looks into the dramatic consequences this conflict has brought to the civilian population both in the refugee camps and occupied territories of the Western Sahara.

A moving short documentary that tells the inspiring story of Cipriano González, a local hero from Toledo, Spain, whose dedication to those most in need transformed the community over nearly seven decades. From his humble birth in Mensalbas in 1936 during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War to the founding of the NGO Socorro de los Pobres, this documentary weaves a moving story of altruism and unconditional love. Through intimate interviews with family members, NGO volunteers, and those whose lives were touched by his generosity, the film delves into the heart of a man who, moved by his own experience with poverty, committed himself to ensuring that "no one would go without a plate of food on the table."

Experts in code writing and breaking tell tales of heroic risks and cat-and-mouse secrecy, where science meets deadly adventure and everyone from queens to soldiers to everyday citizens can pay the price.

An old man tries to return to the homeland of his childhood torn away by war. A young man tries to reach the Moon. Both impossible routes intertwine to remind us that the journey has no end. Where are we when we travel? Time does not exist.

A report on the life of coal miners in the Lota region, in southern Chile, it shows their work activities, their homes, and how the rest of the family picks up coal in the seashore. This documentary is part of a series José Román made with CUT (Central Workers Union), whose negatives got lost during the raids on CUT offices after the coup d’état.

A woman's voice will attempt to reconstruct memories of sexual abuse in her childhood, traveling through stories and images projected onto the textures of the house where the events occurred.

Documentary record of the performance made by "Las yeguas del apocalipsis", "La Última Cena" is staged, it also includes testimonies of the transvestites in the brothel, in bars in locations of downtown Santiago.

At 48, Áyax Grandi, an architect, decided to become Canela. This film narrates the parenthesis in her life where she is torn between having gender reassignment operating surgery or not. A search begins. She consults with healthcare professionals, her sons and old friends until she realizes something about her desire that she didn’t really expect.

About those who created the habit of drinking mate, of the peasants who harvest the mate herbs, of the industry that produces it and of the sixty million people who consume it. It is a trip through history, the present and the future of mate in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina; a view that sways from mate to the hands that put it into circulation; a crossing between the intangible-symbolic and the political-social. How does a centuries-old indigenous tradition survive in a modern and coca-cola dominated world?

Burning and fumigation during a locust infestation.

After infinite paths of dust, mists and hills; inhabit the heirs of David Thoreau’s philosophy. Three generations who felt the call into the wild, walk in a rhythmic way in the same direction: the reconnection with nature.

A realm of light and shadow blending with sound textures. Moving images and material collages create a dreamlike landscape, awakening something undiscovered and untamed.

In "La Quebradilla" of Alto Hospicio the movement of people, objects and emotions converge, articulated by proximity trade. An almost imperceptible ravine now houses a kilometric open-air market, managed in urban contestation.

Dream Team's history through former relevant spanish football players words.

Mon Marquès, a professor, already retired, of pedagogy at the University of Girona continues working, after more than thirty years, in an investigation into the exile of the Spanish Republican teachers. Mon travels from the education system of the second Spanish Republic 1936-39 to today, emphasizing the differences between the Republican educational system and the Franco dictator's system, as well as the repression suffered by these and forced exile to France and Mexico. This document brings lights to the darkness that has always existed on the subject of Republican exile, since as Mon says: of the remaining people we had data, but from those who marched there was no documentation, so they did not exist.

The action of a firefighter in the port, by refusing to participate in a shipment to massacre the Yemeni population, initiates a movement that will reveal the interests of this trade.

In 1963, the Ministry of Information and Tourism commissioned filmmaker José Val del Omar to make a series of ten shorts on the campaign Festivales de España for the New York World's Fair in 1964. With the excuse of documenting the shows of this cultural initiative in different Spanish cities, Val del Omar unfolds a dreamlike universe somewhere between the lyrical and the anthropological. This film corresponds to the two final episodes Luna de Sangre and Festival en las entrañas.

Conceived as an exploration of both harbour piloting areas and Bolex manoeuvring, the film alternates between the studio’s editing table at the facilities of Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and various locations on the West shore of Lake Ontario.