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A visually immersive short documentary that blurs the line between reality and the synthetic, exploring our perception of reality through the impact of AI on art and cinema.

In post-war Spain, thousands of young people left their villages in search of a better future, facing uncertain destinies as domestic workers.

This short film is an intimate journey, a journey through a legacy that transcends time.

The secret of Alberto Portera (David Plaza, 2025) is a selection of fragments of an unpublished filmmaker so far: Alberto Portera. Neurosurgeon by profession, but interested in the artistic gesture, to which he dedicated numerous articles and essays, he recorded with his camera the artists of the group El Paso in action, in his daily artistic activity (Millares, Saura, Hernández Mompó, Canogar...). But he also recorded filming of Carlos Saura, clinical essays, trips, performances... Alberto Portera presents himself to us as a missing link between the tradition of classic documentary and amateur art and essay cinema. These films have recently been restored and digitized by the Juan March Foundation.

Coffee growers on the Spanish-Portuguese border worked amid corruption and misery on the borderline. It was an extremely difficult period. In the midst of the Spanish post-war period, they traveled along Europe's oldest border on the banks of the Guadiana River. In 2017, this border celebrates its 750th anniversary. The testimonies of those old backpackers between Encinasola (Spain) and Barrancos (Portugal) tell a story of hunger in the midst of two dictatorships, those of Franco and Salazar.

In the aftermath of the war, when tobacco was black gold and smuggling was a means of survival, a small village in Les Garrigues became the epicenter of an underground revolution: the caliqueño. This is the story of the black market that arose around its illicit production and sale during the 20th century, facing persecution by the state. A clandestine route that emerged in Juneda, passing through Torregrossa, Montclar, Torres de Segre, the Valencian Country, and Andorra. A story of struggle and resistance that spread like fog.

A documentary about the history of the fishing boat Ortube and the renovation work that has been carried out since 2016.

After many years of silence and distance, a young filmmaker travels to his place of origin with the intention of reuniting with his mother. As the encounter unfolds, the lights and shadows of their relationship are revealed and a moment of emotional openness is hinted at.

Memorias de ultramar is built around footage shot by families that lived in the colonies, provinces and territories under Spanish domain between 1940 and 1975. A parade of snapshots common of those who move to a different country and start a new home. This scrapbook pages keep on turning, but in some moments the screening stops, the editor rewinds, zooms in, focuses and looks for echoes lying inside this trove of family mementos and memories.

Guided by the Jules Verne novel “Voyage au centre de la Terre”, four friends set out to explore Snaefellsjökul Volcano in Iceland. However, as they journeyed through the country recording sounds, they found themselves having a series of profound and transformative experiences that exceeded their original expectations. The result of their trip is an immersive audio-visual narrative titled “Journey to the Center of the Sound,” which not only guides the audience through diverse Icelandic landscapes, but also invites them to embark on their own sensory journey.

An ironic and touching moment between a mother and son shot in this short film by Mahdi Baraghithi

At the start of 1939 an exodus of nearly 500,000 Spanish Republicans, soldiers and civilians together, fleeing Franco's troops crossed the border to France. Louis Llech, a Perpignan based shopkeeper and enlightened amateur cineaste, owned a 16mm camera. Together with his friend Isambert, he filmed this extraordinary migration. Fascinated by the military aspect of this Retirada, he favoured shots of parades, of crowds, like those showing military equipment. He nonetheless also showed civilian distress, without insisting on its picturesque aspects, focussing more on images of the uninterrupted flow of refugees.

The Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Valladolid develops the project "All the names", which has as one of its main objectives the location and recovery of the bodies of all those Valladolid citizens murdered by Franco's repression.

The documentary is centered on the figure of Xosé Castro Veiga "The Pilot"

After the eruption of the Tajogaite volcano, on the island of La Palma, men and machines break, push and crush the rocks of the new "malpaís" (land of solidified lava).

Virginia lives surrounded by vinyl babies that she assembles, paints, dresses and combs herself, all the artisanal processes that are part of the creation of these realistic dolls explore the representation of reality and anatomy through the artifice and simulacrum around play and the idea of recreation that accompanies her collecting.

"Tres días de julio" shows what happened in the city of Cádiz in the hours prior to the coup d'état of July 18, 1936, as well as what happened until the moment the Cadiz capital succumbs to the rebels on the morning of Sunday the 19th. The documentary features the participation of historians, relatives of victims of reprisals, and even some direct testimonies of people who lived those tragic days in their youth. The city and province of Cádiz are described as a fundamental piece in the coup because, when it failed in the main cities of the country, they began to play a fundamental role in the strategy followed by the rebels in the immediate Civil War.

La distancia perdida presents a composition of images and sounds that break away from their usual form to give way to a new meaning. Emigration, separation and the passage of time mark a fracture in family ties that ends up imposing itself on the films that emerge from the past.

Explore a unique hippopotamus colony that has perfectly adapted to its biodiverse environment on an island off the coast of West Africa.

Coronavirus, The Pandemic deals with the social, economic, personal, professional, and emotional consequences on freelancers, health workers, businessmen, actresses, technicians, hoteliers, tour operators, journalists, teachers, and psychologists.

Spanish lost film about Valencian traditions directed by Ángel García Cardona.

Boja is living the last years of her life, working hard on the family farm located among the war-scarred ruins of Močioci, a ghost village in the mountains above the city of Sarajevo. Her brother’s patriarchal reign additionally weights on the inescapable routine of Boja’s life. To escape, Boja searches for solace in the pastoral visions of nature, as she roams through the memories of days gone by

The second war in Nagorno-Karabakh has demonstrated the brutality of modern warfare. It has been a conflict of extermination, wherein little more than a month more than 5000 people were exterminated. This is the story of a national trauma for Armenia, that still with the genocide of 1915 present in the collective memory, sees the Nagorno-Karabakh as the last defense of its identity. This is the story told by its protagonists; the different generations of ordinary citizens turned into soldiers.

A Spanish firefighter risks everything to tackle one of the most extreme sporting events on the planet—a solo, non-stop sailing race around the world.