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In a poem, one line may hide another line, as at a crossing, one train may hide another train. That is, if you are waiting to cross the tracks, wait to do it for one moment at least after the first train is gone. And so when you read, wait until you have read the next line— (Kenneth Koch)

Juan Sardón will turn 85 years old. He lives in the community of Coraguaya, in the department of Tacna, Peru. For 65 years he has used his hands to bend the metal of alcohol cans that serve as raw material to make zampoñas. Despite his advanced age, he still retains the precision and meticulousness that the job demands. Recently he learned of the death of a craftsman, his friend, who also knew this art. There are only two left in the town, including Sardón. His children have decided to devote themselves to agriculture, nobody else will continue his work, his art will go with him.

From the re-appropriation of archive images with various contents (war images, soccer matches, social celebrations, religious rites, historical characters, etc.) and from different sources (including films by Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Leni Riefenstahl or Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi, as well as images from ads and news...), together with reflections of Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Bertolt Brecht, Hannah Arendt, Stanley Milgram, Eric Hobsbawn, Amin Maalouf, Josep Fontana, etc., Zavan Films producer develops this complex and kaleidoscopic work on (national, religious, commercial...) identities and their relation with war, economic profit and "legal crimes".

Lookout is a film about a way of perceiving life beyond our common senses through an intimate portrait of the daily life of Pablo, blind since age three, who lives by himself on a wild area close to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he makes liquors and records poems.

Nine Asturian filmmakers reflect aloud, alone in a hotel room, on the existence, the main characteristics, and the current situation of the cinema made in Asturias.

Silent short film portraying photographer Pedro Sanquirico.

A short documentary revealing a quarter century of the queer Latinx community in the Mission District from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s.

Pili has Down's Syndrome and her inability to say what she wants makes her nephew reflect on the importance of listening.

Documentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)

A doc-travel log that goes through past and present of the vast Amazon region, the largest hydrographic territory on the planet, in which humid forests and ancestral cultures coexist resisting the advance of the transnational domain,

Some arms do not stop tearing down walls and houses. Others insist on cleaning and tidying rooms that will be gone the next day. Collapse and resistance coexist. In A punto de despegar we witness the disappearance of San Agustín, the last town that survived the era of the great haciendas of Lima. The expansion of the airport causes the eviction of the entire place and with its demolition comes the end of several traditions and ways of life. Modern Peru is a one-way train where the archaic has no place. A respectful camera preserves the faces, gestures and words of those last days. A film built after a decade of friendship with the neighbors. A farewell that radiates affection, intimacy and uneasiness in equal measure.

In 2015 a group of Mapuche students organized the first linguistic internship school in Mapuzugun. More than 50 students from all over the country arrived to get involved in an attempt to revitalize the Mapuche language. This documentary follows the stories of four participants in their decolonization process through the learning of their mother tongue, examining the hegemonic forces that are responsible for making their language disappear.

A walk through the life and work of the Spanish sculptor, writer and illustrator Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), the so-called Poet of Space.

Abraham Bojórquez - Ukamau Y Ké - developed hop hop in the Aymara language and with his rebellious lyrics, shook up Latin American society in the early 21st century. At the cusp of his musical career he died violently the same day he finished recording his second record. Years later, his friend, the rapper and documentarian, Andrés Ramírez returns to Bolivia to uncover the reasons for his death and to find him among the Andean circular temporality. In this surreal journey, Ukamau y Ké is revived through archival footage, testimonials and in dreams.

Double Me is a film about the tragic misunderstandings between the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples of Colombia, and the ramifications of those traumatic experiences. Based on manuscripts, photographs and films belonging to the Colombian ethnographer Gregorio Hernández de Alba, Rugeles pieces together existing and new footage in this documentary punctuated with fiction and stories. From FICCI

In June 2005, the Spanish Parliament passed the Law on Gay Marriage, giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. In cities like Valladolid, one of the biggest in Spain, the mayors (who carry out civil marriages) made an appeal against the implementation of the law. However, mayor Francisco Maroto from Campillo de Ranas, a small village of a hundred inhabitants deep in the mountains of Guadalajara, stepped forward and said: 'I marry'.