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"Dad" is a first-person documentary that uses multiple family records. These records accompany the director's feelings and discoveries, through interviews with the environment that accompanied the last years of his father Carlos's life, with whom he does not remember living and who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia months after the birth of his older brother.

Coming out in Hispanic families is explored from the points of view of those coming out as well as from the points of view of their fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers.

In the political atmosphere of the 90s in Argentina, pikete* appeared as a form of demonstration for large groups of people and begins to be usually called with the movement of piketeros, generally composed of unemployed people. Piketeros are generally represented in the mainstream media as violent men with masks and clubs in their hands. The film is about the women who are quite never mentioned in this dominant movement although they compose 70% of it. *Pikete- [p?-k?-te] - is an action by which a group of people blocks a road or street with the purpose of demonstrating and calling attention over a particular issue.

On the last Sunday of July in the city of Hueyotlipan, Tlaxcala, the Rising of the Lord of the Convent is an ongoing celebration that has remained as a tradition within the community, with the showcases of faith growing bigger by the year. 500 years after the arrival of the Spanish conquerors to mexican lands, the Catholic religion, their biggest trademark, is still deeply impregnated within the Tlaxcaltecan society.

A documentary on the origins of Cuban Son.

This documentary recalls historical moments: it begins with the resignation of Juan Negrín, the appointment of the moderate socialist Indalecio Prieto as president, the German invasion of neutral and devastated Spain during World War II (showing Nazi troops passing through Madrid) to the current difficult cohabitation between the President of the Republic, José María Aznar, and the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, including the destruction of Cádiz, where the Spanish government had taken refuge from the Nazis, the Allied landings in Spain, the elections that brought the Christian Democrat Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez to power, Spain's signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and the Treaty of Rome (1957), the receipt of Marshall Plan aid, and the role of Juan Carlos de Borbón, a private citizen, as president of the International Olympic Committee.

The documentary presents two families of waste sorters living in Montevideo, who are trying to get ahead after having lost their working tools: their horses. While Daniel and Matías try, with the help of their union, to get their recently seized horse back, Marcelo and Alicia are trying to get a vehicle of their own so they can return the workhorse they have borrowed. Having been cast out to the outskirts of Montevideo, we get to meet these endearing people in the privacy of their own homes and through their daily struggles. They gracefully get through bearing a very unfavorable reality, with great optimism and perseverance.

A documentary that offers a vision of the HIV epidemic from its beginnings in the ‘80s till present day, through the point of view of medical experts and actual affected individuals.

A look at the life and work of Canarian sculptor Martín Chirino, a blacksmith fascinated by the grandeur of shipyards and the power of the sea who, through his creations, strives to reveal the beauty of pure thoughts.

Olivia is an old adventurous woman who awaits news from her husband. Through her daily routine we discover her bitter-sweet secret for happiness.

“Neuquén,” “Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?”... We know about those. What perhaps we don’t know is that there are fans that have turned palindromes into the passion of their lives. A happy journey through four countries, with dozens of men and women for whom the beauty of words lies in symmetry.

Tánana, being ready to set sail on Yahgan language, is the return of Martín González Calderón, to heart of Cape Horn. He's a Yahgan craftsman and one of the last of his people, the Yahgans, who have lived in Tierra del Fuego for more than 6000 years. Long trips made with his parents let him get the deepest knowledge and secrets of ancient navigation. However, this way of life was violently stopped, due to the interventions of Chile and Argentina's states. Since then, the few Yahgan people remaining, cannot sail as before.

Palenque is a rhythmic portrait of San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.

An old bullfighter prepares to face his last bull. The bull he left pending. There are paths that can only be undertaken in solitude and silence. Supernatural is a trip to the Last Coast. An expedition without return. A road movie by states of the interior of consciousness.

The last surviving natives of the Llaganes and Alacalufes tribes can be seen on the canals of southern Chile.

Shot in 1974 by Danny Lyon and a single audio person, in twenty days in Santa Marta Colombia. The film shows the daily rhythms of a gang of boys who live on the city’s streets. Their survival skills and errant lifestyles are in evidence as they beg for scraps to eat, wheel and deal with storekeepers and street vendors, and play together.

A group of merengue exponents tell about their experiences around the Caribbean rhythm that went around the world with a unique musical style. The best interpretations and best arrangements were in the 80's, which was without a doubt merengue's golden era.

Through testimonies of survivors, an approximation is made to the events that occurred on the date. In the context of the peasant uprising, the massacre was ordered by President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. 75 years later, a look back to the past is made to try to explain the present of the indigenous communities that were invisibilized.

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

Documentary that portrays the social, political and economic life of Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake.

20,000 people live in the streets of Puerto Rico. This gritty documentary recounts the story of Frankie, one among the tens of thousands of Puerto Rico's homeless whose stories will never be told.

Presents several activities in celebration of the traditional Christmas holidays such as the birth of Jesus, peasant parrandas, the traditional roasted pig, and people dancing and singing Puerto Rican décimas.

A documentary of 60 minutes with a brief summary of what happened in Itoitz and Artozki before and after evictions and demolitions. It focuses on one hand on the experience and reflections of the neighbors and the other in the resistance was preparing and readying in both locations. It is a video release of a resistance that can be transferred to other locations in danger. It is explained as has each tuned technique used, as is done, materials etc. This is the third video taken collectively and that has been exhibited in the information and informative talks on the fight against Itoitz swamp the Solidarity group with Itoitz has done.

Coronation of the virgin Andre Maria de Arritokieta, the patron saint of the province of Guipuzkoa.

A short documentary about life in the basque city of Irun.

This documentary explores, based on the loss of a loving relationship, the reasons behind the collapse of known love archetypes. A desperate man, obsessed by his lost love. Psychologists, attorneys, youngsters, aged couples, single and married persons, and priests give their opinions on why loving relationships fail. Certain strange, bitter and disenchanted muses speaking the language of love, sprinkle here and there suggestions for new erotic experiences, dismantling old fashioned models, based on Michel Onfray´s work "Théorie du corps amoureux: pour une érotique solaire"

The documentary describes the events that occurred since the death of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in 1961, until the inauguration of Juan Bosch y Gaviño as president of the Dominican Republic on February 27, 1963. It also narrates the violence which distinguished the presidency of Balaguer and his efforts to remain in power.

Through interviews and images of festivals and popular traditions, the documentary aims to show the difficulties that Catalan culture, and in particular its language, faces in surviving between two cultural powers such as France and Spain.

Plan Rosebud 1 is focused on the recent social debate around "The Historical Memory Act" in Spain, and the current relations between the sites of memory and the politics of memory that are produced through cultural industries. They are studied in details, in our case, through war tourism and commemorative tourism.In Plan Rosebud 1 we visit Museums and Commemorative Historical War Sites and these materials form the main part of Plan Rosebud 1. This study, is not only limited to the Spain, and especially to the Spanish province of Galicia, but it is presented as a comparative study with war and commemorative tourism site in Great Britain and Normandy as the European memory policy site of the WWII.

Among "the alienating crowd of the artificial ice rink at Rockefeller Center Gómez-Diaz stares (in the light of current times) at a woman in a revolutionary gesture.

In Slovakia, behind walls built to separate the Romani ethnicity from the “white” population, babies are born in precarious conditions. In Palestine, a civilian population’s life passes in the shadow of a concrete wall eleven meters high. Beyond that wall, family, land, and jobs are left behind. In Western Sahara, in an attempt to create a safe zone, young women risk their lives removing landmines from the 3,000 kilometer strip of sand wall that separates them from their land and families. SEPARATED, through the voices of its protagonists, speaks of three peoples’ struggle to survive. Their common destiny unites them: exclusion and oblivion.

Mariem Hassan is the voice of the Sahara, the voice of the desert. Worshipped by the Saharaui in exile, Mariem Hassan inspires hope to those who still live in the territories occupied by Morocco. An intelligent woman with an awe-inspiring voice, she has managed to take traditional Saharaui music to the XXI century. As we watch the documentary, we’ll see how Mariem overcomes all obstacles with courage and perseverance. And we’ll also see how her artistic trajectory has turned her into one of the most charismatic and respected voices of the present musical panorama.