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A documentary on the origins of Changüí.

In a mosaic of testimonies, observations, video clips and some experimentation, this film goes into 10 days of paralysis and union struggle in October 2018 by a conflict dragged down for years between public transport workers due to the lack of restrooms and appropriate working conditions.

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends they will ride a bus 1,300 miles north and enter the United States by walking through the desert. They call America “El Otro Lado,” the other side.

A documentary about the battle of San Salvador (Ofensiva Hasta el Tope) during the Salvadoran Civil War in 1989.

A story about freedom - both personal and political - set in Colombia in 1948. When a political assassination causes the streets to erupt into a violent civil war, a man finds himself trapped in the home of a female neighbor. As their evening together progresses, the two open up emotionally and exchange intimacies - and finally discuss that most dangerous subject of all: politics. By the dawn, neither one's life will ever be the same again.

A visual imaginary of the noise in three chapters: “Look”, “The City” and “In Flames”. Everything you see is the patrimonial archives belonging to the Film Institute of the University of Chile. Everything you hear corresponds to a composition based in fragments of the sound poem “Veo la ciudad en llamas”, whose author, Cristóbal Cornejo (1983-2015), has called it a “piece of life and death”.

The director Christian Liffers travels with his team to Cuba to search for evidence. Part of his luggage are poems and prose texts of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas. Texts, which describe the desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending attitude in the fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be found in Cuba? And which desires, clichés, and projections of Cuba attract the producer and many more people? Poems and prose texts are the reference points for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba, which are always the center of attention. Six men with different backgrounds and of different ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings and joys in Cuba. They have some things in common: homosexuality (with the exception of Isabel, the transsexual) and the daily social exclusion on the part of the Cuban "Machismo-society" and the Cuban government.

The silence of the rainforest in the Colombian Pacific coast area is broken. A tree over 20 meters tall rips out and tumbles down. It is the first of the more than 100 trees that Robinson and his family, with nothing but axes, are about to chop down, chop up and drag over an improvised path to a nearby stream, and from there to the large Anchicayá River. There, in the river waters, they tie up all the pieces for form a huge raft, on which they embark on a titanic journey that lasts over forty hours, overcoming the river torrents and the choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean. They finally arrive at the Port of Buenaventura, where after several months of tireless work, they sell the wood and complete a feat that demonstrates the never-ending search of humanity: survival.

Portraits of emblematic, iconic characters: those who were left on the shelf, the bachelors and spinsters. Life stories of Venezuelan men and women who show their customs, their views of the world, of love, of success. Existential narrations in which being single extends the concept of love to other possibilities of loving that are beyond a lifestyle.

Miguel Picazo started his film career in 1964: "La Tia Tula" turned him into one of the most distinguished directors in the New Spanish Cinema trend. This documentary approaches his work and personality through his own words. Having only directed a bunch of films, among which "El hombre que supo a mar" or "Extramuros", at his age of 87 Picazo still waits for a new chance to keep on directing films.

Etxebarria family is facing a big change. Enrike, the father, the last representative of a long line of shepherds, must retire. None of his sons will relieve him, condemning to oblivion the way of life of his family through the centuries. The documentary shows excerpts of recorded family life over the last year as a shepherd. The film is a reflection of a lifestyle that has no place in the contemporary world.

Through candid interviews and humorous real life stories, Families Like Yours demystifies LGBT families and their lives, showcasing that they are just as loving, busy, and complicated as any other family.The film follows six families as they attempt to balance work and school, rush kids to sports practice, and deal with diaper duty. From across the nation and in all different stages of family life, from conception to grandchildren, these families represent a cross-section of the modern American family -- the only difference is that they are LGBT families.

The planets of our solar system have experienced epic catastrophes throughout their long history, both raining down from outside and bubbling up from within. We'll voyage back in time to investigate the violent events that profoundly shaped the planets, including earth itself. We'll witness stunning revelations about what transformed Mars into a barren, hostile desert...The disaster that changed Venus from temperate to hellish...The impact that blew away Mercury's mantle, turning it into a planetary core...A colossal disturbance that rearranged the orbits of the gas giants...Titanic impacts on Jupiter...And how a lost moon may finally explain Saturn's rings

Hardy makes a living selling knickknacks on Chilean buses. But a government announcement worries him: Chile will soon be a world-class country with a modern and elegant public transportation system, so the bus system will tolerate his job no longer. He gathers two thousand colleagues, and together they struggle to survive modernization.

Two girls connect through disconnection within the creative world.

Documentary that recounts the experiences of ten residents of Azuara (Zaragoza) who were direct witnesses to the Spanish Civil War.

"Agua en mis bolsillos" is the title of the short / documentary about the Argentine band Copiloto Pilato from the late 80s, made by Claudio Agosto. Filmed and edited on VHS in 1992, mastered by Fuga Crew in 2015. Contains images of live shows with original audio, rehearsals and videos. Copiloto Pilato released a single album in 1992 entitled "La Misma Tierra"

Explores the dance world in different forms –through a dance teacher and a dance school for handicapped people.

Four children and a play. This is a film about four faces, their fleeting beauty and that moment in life in which thinking, talking and burning are all the same thing.

The film chronicles the life, personality, and legacy of Francesc Tosquelles, an exiled Catalan psychiatrist who pioneered institutional psychotherapy. The film explores how Tosquelles reshaped the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in France during World War II, blending psychoanalysis with political activism and community work.

Three Holy Weeks: Seville, Calanda and Verges, dedicated to Lorca, Buñuel and Dalí. A trilogy straddling experimental non-conformity and auteur documentary.

The short film takes place in a liminal space that I attempted to recreate in what used to be my grandparents' attic. There, a character searches for their identity through light and shelter.

Metro is based on the footage I found in an old family camera from the early 2000s. Someone in my family accidentally recorded this trip on the Metro train, and later we continued filming on the videotape. By chance, the images of the journey coexist with our celebrations and everyday mo-ments, and I am surprised that we have not erased them, welcoming them as a family memory.

Short film made in the online workshop Nothing Happens in this Film. Each one had to make a video addressed to a person from which they only knew their name. I never got a response.

Roberto Nield, an Argentine writer and comedian, fled the military dictatorship and sought refuge in Colombia. Celebrated for his art, he faced imprisonment and exile, searching for redemption through his memories.

Maspalomas, in the south of the Gran Canaria island, as well as an international tourist centre, is also an important agricultural centre dedicated to tomatoes. The lands are cultivated by families from all around the island who work not as salaried workers but as sharecroppers (aparceros). These families, during the seven months that the harvest lasts, live in barracks built by the owners in the same land they cultivate. Between tomatoes, the aparceros cultivate other products for their own food and for their animals. Water is scarce and it's really appreciated. At the end of the harvest, the day of San Fernando, the aparceros celebrate in popular festivities, which include cockfighting and lucha canaria. This documentary was recorded in 1972, but couldn't be shown until the year 1977, as the Franco regime's censorship retained its exhibition permit.

A film portrait of Diego Oliver's friend El Guiri.

The film explores the notion of home within the context of the urban expansion of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country. It follows young adults who prepare for a new stage in their lives: How to plan the furnishing of a recently purchased apartment yet to be finished? How to cater for the birth of the first child? These personal experiences are juxtaposed with documentation of a lottery organized by the authorities to allocate subsidized apartments and of activists claiming the refurbishment of empty buildings in the center of the city.

The strange disappearance of a Senegalese day laborer during the olive harvest has shocked the Andalusian town of Villacarrillo (Jaén). This is not the first time this has happened; in 2014, a similar case caused serious incidents in the municipality.

Documentary film about the Andariego Senior Theater Group of Huelva. Directed by Luis Suan, the documentary offers an intimate and moving portrait of the creative process, the group's coexistence, personal experiences, and the transformative impact of theater on the lives of its protagonists.