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First film of Juan José Ponce’s trilogy about Federico García Lorca. Lunas de Nueva York looks back on Federico’s trip to New York in 1929, an essential journey for his life and career.

Director Miguel Kohan tries to connect the memories of his Gaucho-Jewish family with the fleeing of the Sephardim from the Iberian Península in 1492. Surinam, New York, Jamaica, and Brazil are some of the places where the untold story of those who escaped inquisition is visibilized.

A place with stairs, but that leads to walls. A place with lots of space, but no one fights for it. And a place with lots of owners, but so empty that no one wants to enter.

Explores the tragic death of Angel Rama, Marta Traba, Manuel Scorza and Jorge Ibargüengoitia on an airplane crash near Madrid in 1983. Through the biographies of these four authors –each one from a different part of Latin America- the film explores this continent´s history in the second half of the 20th century, full of social unrest, revolutions and dictatorships that influenced a whole generation.

Colombian documentary that exposes the context of the indigenous-farmer movement in the early '70s.

An intimate documentary that delves into the mind of Hadren, a young independent artist from Barcelona, ​​narrating his musical and personal evolution over three years.

Sorokdo is an island of Korea where the scars of the wars are visible. Wars that sowed confusion, suffering and injustice in a society concentrated on its economic development.

Life and work of the Argentine cartoonist Enrique "Quique Alcatena". An in-depth look at this creator of fantastic worlds and beings, with the testimonial contribution of co-workers, friends and family.

Filmed in the Andean Mountains in the traditional lands of the Atacameño, Aymara, and Calchaquí-Diaguita in Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina, ALTIPLANO takes place within a geological universe of ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts, and coloured lakes. Fusing earth with sky, day with night, heartbeat with mountain, and mineral with iridescent cloud, ALTIPLANO reveals a vibrating landscape in which a bright blue sun threatens to eclipse a blood-red moon.

Portrait of Costa da Morte (coast region in Galicia, Spain) from an ethnographic and landscape level, exploring also the collective imagination associated with the area. A region marked by strong oceanic feeling dominated by the historical conception of world's end and with tragic shipwrecks. Fragmentary film that approaches to the anthropological from its protagonists: sailors, shellfish, loggers, farmers ... A selection of characters representative of the traditional work carried out in the countryside in the region, allowing us to reflect on the influence of the environment on people.

Basque Country, Spain. No one seems to know them. Some glances avoid theirs. Their social circle becomes smaller and smaller. They live under escort, watched by those who protect them and by those who threaten them: it is the experience of living in the shadow of ETA, a savage terrorist gang of unscrupulous criminals… of merely existing under the yoke of those who tomorrow could be their executioners.

An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.

Where cats die is the deromanticization of the romanticization of sadness. It is a documentary about a break with family heritage and also a break with the classic documentary tradition. “A friend told me cats go away from home to die. When they feel vulnerable, they move away from their home and their loved ones and go to a quiet place to suffer”.

Juan Manuel Fangio was the Formula One king, winning five world championships in the early 1950s — before protective gear or safety features were used.

Each year in Galicia, one of the oldest forms of carnival is celebrated. Characters wear spectacular costumes, which include showy masks and a belt from which hang large and sonorous cowbells, and they run through the village, beating the visitors with their whips.

Dr. Vladimir Roslik was born and raised in the town of San Javier, founded by Russian immigrants on the banks of the Uruguay River, and graduated as a doctor in Moscow in the late 1960s during the Cold War. He later decided to return to his small town in Uruguay to practice his profession, for which he obtained the affection and respect of the community. Vladimir Roslik was assassinated in 1984 during the dictatorship during a torture session, and it is considered the last death of the Uruguayan military dictatorship. Today, more than 36 years after his crime, it is still not known who the intellectual authors of the military operation that caused his death were. This documentary traces the life of Mary and Valery, the widow and son of Dr. Vladimir Roslik. They are currently seeking to heal a wound that is theirs, and of their community, as victims of an irrational political and ethnic persecution, under the shadow left by a law that prevented justice for the murders.

Documentary about Javiera Mena and Gepe, two indie musicians that paved the way of the new Chilean pop scene. Friends of similar origins, both managed to consolidate themselves both at national and international levels through a sound that was completely different to what was being done at the time.

The film portrays two of the most important producers of a movement born in the early 2000s, as well as the testimonies of some of its signatures dancers. In addition, it shows the initiative of Abstractor Collective to rescue and export the authenticity of a catchy rhythm that begins to count amongst its followers important producers and artist of the international electronic scene.

In February of 1976, eight people, two of them children, were killed in the region of Smara (Western Sahara). Their bodies had never been found, the causes of their death was never explained, and, in some cases, not even confirmed whether they were still alive or not. However, 37 years later, a group of experts from the Society of Science Aranzadi, Hegoa Institute and the University of the Basque Country, called by the Association of the Families of Sahrawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) and by the relatives, has found the remains of those people. This finding confirms what families and witnesses have claimed for years, the truth.

Filmmaker María Fernanda Restrepo reconstructs events that led to her older brothers' murders at the hands of Ecuadorian police.

This documentary delves deeper into the racism issue addressing many discriminatory practices in Peru, researching their origins and their hurtful consequences.

A documentary about the Spanish anarchist.

A devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation transforms a quiet peasant village in Peru's Andean mountains into a hotbed of civil resistance. A courageous young mayor emerges to lead his people on a quest for health care and justice. But powerful interests conspire to thwart the villagers at every turn in this 2-year epic chronicle of the real price of gold.

Fog has a curious effect on cinema. On the one hand, it precludes the production of those images that seem artificial, on account of their sharpness. On the other, the mist gives each frame a mysteriously narrative quality. The joy of watching the sea and the beach under a blanket of mist allows eluding the world of the quotidian, to suspect the beauty of the uncertain and unstable

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Baobab program, we invited several young people to create a documentary portraying their experience in this host community, managed by Pueblos Unidos. Through various workshops, we explored audiovisual language as a tool for expression and memory, and collaboratively developed the documentary's format. Finally, we filmed this short film, in which the participants share their first steps in Spain, their dreams, challenges, and experiences within the Baobab program.

Lola Índigo is one of the most relevant female figures on the Latin music scene and has collaborated with the best international artists. With her EP "GRX" she returns to her roots. This documentary shows us how her most personal project was created.

Carlos Saura shows us in this piece his personal vision of the land where he was born. Throughout the seasons we enter a route that ranges from the green Pyrenean landscapes to the Monegros desert. The images offer us the beauty of this Aragonese land but also reflect the harshness of its contrasts.

Isolated in his apartment, old and forgotten by almost everyone —whom, in turn, he has also forgotten— Rafael occupies the hours of his daily life with various rituals and repetitions.

Mona is a beautiful island, distant, mythical, mysterious, full of caves and legends. It is also unknown. This documentary reveals the history and the fauna of Mona Island, while also audiovisually preserving it.

An itinerary through the great creations of Catalan art: Romanesque, Gothic, Modernist and Contemporary; with interviews to Catalan creators such as architect Ricardo Bofill, poet Pere Gimferrer, sculptor Susana Solano, and painter Antoni Tàpies.

A sinister tale of ships and shipwrecks, love and cinema, ghosts and vampires. Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, his wife Florence Balcombe and her relationship with Oscar Wilde. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and the lurking shadow of Count Orlok, the undead, the nosferatu. A mysterious cruise ship, a profaned tomb, an exciting adventure.

Detailed record of the operative technique used by Professor Dr. Alfonso Asenjo to perform surgery on a patient with Parkinson's disease at the Hospital de Neurocirugía de Santiago.

Xavier G. Ubiergo's work talks about the history of the Catalan school model in Northern Catalonia, a symbol of the recovery of the Catalan language, which has almost disappeared in the area, but also of a model where boys and girls from different ages share the classroom and work is done through projects and cooperatively.

Sifa Suljić returns to Bosnia to try to bury the remains of her older brother, the last member of her family to identify those who died in Srebrenica.

Facundo Arteaga is a malambo dancer, who has already passed the barrier of thirties. His life is divided between work in the countryside and the care of his children. In spite of physical strain and lack of time, Facundo will try to compete again to try to get the title of national champion of malambo. According to tradition, whoever wins the championship can never compete again.

While Andrea unfolds a labyrinth on the ground of her new home, Fran verifies that his efforts to recover the wisdom of the elder bear fruit and Flo plants a yew surrounded by friends. They made a strange decision: living in a town. However, they affirm that their posture is something normal. They say that it is the others who take unusual decisions and they are obligated to confront complicated challenges: like staying in a territory when not finding a rental house; like to keep organizing activities when the money the association was waiting for was used to buy designer ashtrays; like not manifestating when the corporations want to do fracking test in their region.

Spanish actress Concha Velasco shares with actor Josep Maria Pou her many memories, the fruit of a long artistic career, both in film and on stage.

During one night, a man travels, drinks, takes drugs, meets women, in a prostitution zone on the border between Mexico and the United States. An attempt to extend the photographic work of Antoine d'Agata into cinema.

Alejandro Sanz presents us on this occasion the audiovisual version of #ELCONCIERTO + #ELDOCUMENTAL. This exclusive content is a complete reflect of the success that the artist has achieved.

In the village of Sabucedo, Spain, the Rapa das Bestas unfolds: a raw ritual where villagers and wild horses collide in a test of strength and memory. Seven years in the making, Fillos do Vento: A RAPA places viewers inside the curro, where dust, breath and tension blur the line between tradition and extinction. A modern-day Quixote story, as wind-farms creep over the surrounding hills, the work challenges audiences to feel the fight for cultural survival in an age of rapid change. This documentary is not meant to be watched but inhabited, a sensorial call to witness what is at stake when culture, nature and modernity collide.

A documentary about faith through an essay on aging and the fear of death. A story about a group of elders in a ghost town and their lifetime struggle for the respect of their culture and their different ways of understanding faith, where the need of water is the main element that supports their demands and ancient culture is presented as an heritage for new generations to come, that if their home town survives after they are gone. A film that portrays youthfulness as hope, while the main characters reminds us all that nothing is more powerful than our own will and that there is no such thing as a lost cause.

Pedro Alonso travels across Mexico to discover the power of traditional medicine from masters of the culture's ancestral healing rituals.

Between two rains, a film that is offered as a newspaper. Rains. It is night. The rain coils like a snake in the street lanterns. A neighbor, old lady, knocks on my door. It's eleven at night. She is desperate, ask for rivotril. A few days later he dies. Someone leaves their house. Objects are loaded coldly in a truck. The death of a neighbor, a move, the skies laden with clouds, the light on things and faces, the operation of an old man, a night trip ... It rains. The trees shake and tremble underwater. Between two rains, a look at human fragility.

Indira, a Cuban immigrant, succeds to flee to United States, but her emigration has consequences inflicted to her family. In Sanata Claram in Cuba, she left her 11-years-old son, mother and family. In New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system.