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A glimpse into a slaughterhouse in Girona. The slaughter of the animal is deprived of its sacred nature, of all ritual; and human gestures become mechanical, almost automatic, when carried out day after day.

A documentary film about "El Víbora", the more important of spanish underground comics magazines.

'Duo Impacto' is a short documentary film, shining a light on the work done by a lesbian couple who perform female to male drag. Filmed on location in Cuba, we get an insight into two women's efforts to challenge gender expectations, and spread acceptance in their rural community in Havana.

In the sixties, just before starting his career as a feature film director and his parallel career of the Anticine, Javier Aguirre had a brief career as a documentary filmmaker, which served him to test and rehearse many procedures that he would put into practice in the avant-garde aspect of his work. The trail belongs to that period, a few years full of mystery, but whose works are emerging demonstrating the portentous gaze of Aguirre. The trace has hardly been seen in the last sixty years, and it is an opportunity to recover this vision between anthropology and the vanguard of one of the hallmarks of this city. The film has been restored by the ECAM Archive in collaboration with Filmoteca Española.

Pepa, Antoñita, Pepi, Esperanza, Remedios, Kiska, Catalina and Rafaela are women between the ages of 68 and 97 from Seville's Triana district. All share a dream: they want to be monologuists, to enjoy success in the world of showbusiness and to defend the right of older women to respect and visibility. They have therefore created a show entitled Orgullo vieja. The film follows the process of creating the company, the rehearsals, the premiere in Seville and their travels throughout Andalusia.

When someone dies, there are always unanswered questions. Here, we explore the life and work of Xesús "Chichi" Campos, a pioneer in Galician comics, anti-Franco activist, gallery owner, and humorist. In short, one of the most forgotten figures in Galician culture. When he passed away, he left behind a son who was only eleven years old with many questions. Thirty years later, those questions are answered in this documentary.

María Elena Walsh forever revolutionized the language and imagination of children's shows. But very few know the importance of his works for adults, his political convictions against dictatorships and his defense of women's rights. Topics addressed by this work that covers the main conflicts experienced in his personal and professional life. From his adolescence as a precocious poet in an oppressive society, until his later years, after leaving the stage during the last Argentine military government.

Everybody has a mother. But still, motherhood remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ —always patient, caring and happy— and the private reality of mothers around the world, a huge void in understanding remains. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, Malamadre narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mothers’ point of view.

At the end of the 19th century, four groups of indigenous people were taken from Chile by a German businessman and were shown as animals in different fairs and public exhibitions in several Europeans cities including Berlin, Leipzig, and symbolic places such as the area surrounding the Eiffel Tower.

What if the only way to face life was to escape into cinema? Thirty years after Caro Diario, filmmaker Pablo Maqueda leaves Madrid on a Vespa, chasing the sun of Moretti’s Italy. With eight friends by his side, he embarks on a journey where laughter, memory, and film intertwine. As reels roll and roads unfold, reality gently fades – and what begins as a tribute becomes a meditation on how cinema doesn’t just reftect life, but transforms it.

"Ellas en la ciudad" (Them in the City) focuses on the first settlers of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Seville. Through their stories, we discover that they have been the backbone of a city that has turned its back on them.

Dr. Carlos Cristos, 47, is terminally ill. He call a film director and proposes him to record his struggle for to live and die with dignity and without drama.

The story of the film is set in a coastal town along the Mediterranean sea. Here is a popular tourist attraction „Balcon de Europa”. Like from the balkony we are observing a mini model of our world, where the routine of one person take place in the background of massive feasts.

In 2015, a new spanish political party, named Podemos, made history by becoming the third force of the parliament, just two years after its creation. This is how it happened.

A documentary about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment.

An emotional trip through the most relevant aspects of Seville's Holy Week, released for the 1992 Universal Exhibition held in Seville. Music played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

A documentary that captures the impacts that the European green transition is having in countries such as Chile and Argentina. An invitation to listen to the testimonies of those who suffer from this impact but above all to ask ourselves what we plan to do from the global north.

Through captions, a virtually static image and a monotonous voice-over, an explanation of the office setting in which other veiled concepts –such as hierarchy and workplace relationships– are revealed. Based on the all-encompassing premise of ‘the American dream’.

Children learn what they see and feel what their elders teach them to feel. If they live surrounded by hate and thirst for revenge, they will learn to hate and take revenge. The documentary collects the stories of these children told by themselves; of the children who live today in the war and of those who, already old, reflect on the childhood they lived in another distant war.

Institutional short film about Aerolíneas Argentinas.

Sebastian Muro, the director of this film, starts shooting his father, Rafa, an extroverted businessman, for a film school exercise. Hypnotized by the easiness and indifference his father has with the camera, Sebastian continues shooting him without much purpose until, without him noticing, he starts telling his own family story and stumbles upon an unsettled matter: the absence of his father during nearly a decade when Sebastian was a boy.

The port of a Mediterranean coastal city, which had once been the symbol of prosperity and the epicenter of life in the region, is now only the reflection of a decaying present. Static and empty shots reveal glimpses of a brilliant past, only interrupted by the intermittent sound of the construction of a residential apartment building that stands menacingly a few meters from the dock, presaging an even darker future.

Franco’s dictatorship, one of the longest and most violent dictatorial regimes in the history of the 20th century, has been kept silent by Spain since the transition and the recovery of democracy. In December 2007 following the approval of the controversial Historical Memory Law, whereby the Spanish government finally intends to lift the veil over this dark period, and thus do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Francoism. From this starting point, the filmmaker José-Luis Peñafuerte (grandson of exiles) takes us on an authentic film journey through the roots of that hidden European memory, in order to open a window against oblivion.

The voice-over of an anonym Guinean in exile, who inherited a river on his father’s death, remembering, from the distance of exile, episodes of his childhood, popular legends and old African beliefs, introducing us to the troubled past of Equatorial Guinea. This documentary brings out the subject of Spanish colonisation in the African country and the politic, religious and cultural heritage that came to the surface after the independence, starting with the dictatorship of Francisco Macías to the actual regime of Teodoro Obiang Nguema, sustained by the country’s wealth from the oil wells.

A documentary short about the Semana Santa in Sevilla.

José Manuel Ibar, Urtain, was a unique case in world boxing. Franco was looking for an idol for this sport and found a champion of stone lifting in Basque Country, who had never considered stepping into a ring. He became a myth and the most popular Spanish athlete of the seventies, but after leaving boxing, that good man lost everything. Alcoholic, ruined and forgotten, he ended up jumping into the void from his tenth floor apartment in Madrid. From heaven to hell the boxing ring.

Explains the construction process of a house, the installations, the necessary resources and the ingredients in a foundation.

A compelling account of Juan Pujol, an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of history.

The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals with the everyday life of people with schizophrenia today: behavior and relationships, and treatment for the disease.

Three generations, the old way of life and its traces in the present. The memory, the reminiscence of a village in Extremadura. Of that Spain of years ago where my family had to migrate north, away from the land where they grew up, only to return later and observe.

A short film documenting the wedding ceremony of Princess Ena to King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Showing the royal carriage, the royal procession through the streets to the palace steps, etc.

During Chilean dictatorship an exceptional group of women emerges and they will leave a unique legacy in history. It's the "Women for Life" movement. Female figures almost forgotten that in times of military dictatorship, when few dared to go out into the street, they organized by calling thousands of women who courageously manage to make art actions and lightning and unprecedented acts for the time.

An account of the creative exile of Mirentxu Loyarte, one of those brave, unknown pioneers of European cinema, examining her memory and work; the search for a cinematographic treasure made of flesh and bone…

For as long as she remembers, Francisca lives with an inexplicable and uncontrollable aversion to belly buttons. Nothing makes her more anxious than this simple part of the body and the shapes in the world that resemble it. When therapy isn't enough to solve her cherished phobia , Francisca turns to other types of methods - without any scientific basis and not recommended for anyone who suffers from the same condition.

Documentary concerning North American pop/rock musician Dean Reed who achieves fame in Latin America in the 50s and 60s

National and international oil companies have been extracting oil for more than 50 years from the Amazon, the area with the greatest biodiversity on the planet, threatening the lives of communities indigenous people with the complicity of the Ecuadorian government. They are the so-called: Sacrifice zones.

The open house is an imaginary reconstruction. A timeless narrative with protagonists from different times. The house as a theater of memory. Time encapsulated in a house. Multiple layers shot one on top of the other on 16mm film open the doors of the family memory. A journey through death, mourning and birth as a reflection on presences and absences. An attempt to bring the family together once again.

A short documentary interviewing an astronomer.

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of the Sevillian capital in a debate about its possible destiny and urban planning challenges, the filmmaker Juan Sebastián Bollaín, offers this visionary realistic and critical, at the same time experimental and iconoclastic, portrait of the problem of the transformation of historic centers in our cities.

This intimate documentary follows a group of Syrian children refugees who narrowly escape a life of torment and integrate into a foreign land.