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Two days before the closing of the Barcelona Olympics, three young individuals opened a concert venue at 195 Pallars Street, an old metal workshop they had transformed with their own hands. Over a span of 10 years, this venue became the gateway for international punk, metal, hardcore, and ska bands and the epicentre of the emerging alternative scene in the city. In this film, partners and staff from the venue, promoters and record labels (Cap Cap, BCore, Anaconda), journalists, and musicians (Aina, Afraid to Speak in Public, Dr. Calypso) reminisce about memories, feelings, lessons, and unforgettable concerts at a place without which the alternative Barcelona of the 1990s cannot be explained.

The counter starts to go down.

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.

A microworld and its inhabitants are engaged in a losing war against these immense and incomparable clouds. They seem to lead a normal life, but these specimens are here to stay. Where will they come from?

At home, by the fire, La Ñaña Juanita Huenchumil talks about Chile and the Mapuche struggle.

The documentary is a kind of master class on the pioneer of Basque-language films and the founder of Lekeitio’s Euskal Zine Bilera. Benito Ansola talks to J. J. Bakedano about the secrets of his major productions. In the space of 20 years he produced some twenty films, including documentaries and fiction shorts.

"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 filmmaking team returns to the port of San Antonio, their hometown, to learn more about a UFO sighting that occurred in the mid-1980s. This search is proposed as an urban tour through the port city, capturing various experiences around this event. This will finally make the investigation take a revealing turn.

Fumito Fujikawa, Japanese director, approaches the Supa Layme family on the Arequipa puna (4700 meters above sea level), coexists with them, brings together their daily lives and space while the bond is made.

The documentary was born from the censorship trial against the documentary Awka Liwen, initiated by the grandchildren of the civil chief of the last dictatorship in Argentina, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz. To try to explain this legal aberration, the work narrates and analyzes the economic history of the country through the counterpoint between what the Martínez de Hoz brothers tell in the censorship trial and the true historical facts.

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.

A short documentary depicting the story of young transgender boy Ekai Lersundi, who took his own life in 2018 after struggling with the bureaucracy surrounding hormone replacement therapy assignment.

A science non-fiction film exploring the territory of Navarre. Desolate landscapes from which humans have disappeared, leaving only their trace behind them. Radio waves float in the ether. Radio amateurs talk to each other while looking at the sky.

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

Based on an installation by Alberto vev

San Rosendo was born as a mythical place, where a community settled, reached a period of splendour and finally declined. Even though the cycle is coming to its end, they inhabitants refuse to leave their land. The landscape of San Rosendo: the mountains, the river, the trees, the roads, the houses and the railway ruins, retains traces of the past and the history of those men. The Noise of Trains portrays a several villagers, mostly old people, that carry out small actions during a day. These characters are defined from their gestures, movements and looks. They are closely related with the place they live in and they are another element of the landscape. This is a film about spaces, atmospheres and distances, where the framings talk about the mood of a place that is disappearing slowly. It has no interviews or voices in off, but the ambient sounds transmit the sensations of loneliness and abandonment that surround to the characters.

A 5-year investigation which includes archive and press images, traces the tragedy of Antuco (2005), where 45 soldiers died due to hypothermia. Our protagonists tell us their consequences from their voluntary entry to the ranks of the army until its present 10 years later. In the middle of these stories we will see an experimental short that gives us the information of the physiological process of hypothermia.

Shaped in a travelogue, Turkish Way tells the journey and experiences of the three Roca brothers in their trip across Turkey. It describes their process of learning about one of the most unknown, powerful, and ancient cuisines of the world.

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.

Matotumba (MTTMB) is an electronic music group formed in the year 2000 by a collective of visual artists from Puerto Rico. It's mostly known for its experimental music proposal and the inclusion of visual-art at their live shows. Is it art? Is it music? With the help of more than 200 hours of footage compiled from its inception until today and interviews with fans, collaborators and contributors, this documentary will try to answer the question: What is Matotumba?

Three community projects in Naguabo, Fajardo, and Río Grande.

Historical documentary about the peaceful resistance movement against the bombing practices of the US Navy in Vieques, including the arrests of more than 200 civil disobedients.

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.

Presents the activities of a young woman on a holiday.

Short film filmed in February 2010 at the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). A poetic look into the situation that refugees go through and into the conflict itself. Soundtrack by Palestinian musicians and Spanish rock band Amaral. “We want words that fly freely, like comets, we want to be the irrepressible wind that comes and goes… And can’t ever be trapped in any sand prison… We want words that fly freely. Invincible. Like comets…”

After his death, Fernando Ruiz Vergara left dozens of film sketches that he was never able to make. The Andalusian filmmaker had only directed one documentary, Rocío, heartbreaking and fascinating, cursed after its judicial censorship in the early years of democracy in Spain. Since then, his projects have remained latent in imagination and desire.

Between memories and ramblings, the camera is turned on to film things that may later make sense. Record of an incessant search for the understanding of light in a documental style.

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra’s piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin’s legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about producing films like Chaplin did, nor remembering the icon in a naïve fashion, but about finding traces of his cinema in their own individual looks.

Lost among Andean valleys, in the small town of Nabón there are still peasant families that embrace the "Buen vivir" (Good Living); a philosophy without philosophers that tells us about the harmonious relationship with nature and the community. Oblivious to the importance of this combat, a peasant woman, Narcisa, resists in the land of her parents, while she watches how her children are forced to migrate.

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.

First part of a non-narrative series that, through landscape, reflects on the representation of the emptiness and time in space; an emptiness symbolized by the white colour.

Silence always surrounds the mine, first when it explodes and then when it eternally haunts its victims. The history of the silence of this fire hidden by Morocco in the sand of Western Sahara has left more than 4,000 victims in what is considered the largest minefield in the world. Daha and Fatimetu suffered the effect of the silence of the mines, their lives changed forever, like that of the Saharawi people who, after 14 years cleaning the desert of artifacts, the rupture of the ceasefire have left the future of the contamination of their territory.

Documentary about Aminatou Haidar and her fight for the Sahrawi rights

Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the military to education, healthcare, camp administration and the search for solutions to the conflict in Western Sahara.