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Documentary that explores the unknown and mysterious world of whales that appear for a few weeks a year on the Catalan coast. Mar dreams of being able to record the sound of whales, which appear in the Mediterranean only a few weeks a year, depending on circumstances such as the amount of rain and krill, the food on which the whales feed. But when he embarks with a team that investigates cetaceans, Mar realizes that in order to listen to the largest animal in the world we must be silent.

Returning a female crab to the sea, waiting for octopus to reach one kilo, not fishing for lobsters out of season, and raising awareness of generational change are some of the messages that María Maceiras, Merce Silva, and Rogelio Santos Queiruga convey in their videos. The three communicators from the Ría de Muros y Noia show us what a day in their lives is like: a day of work among pots, trawls, and hooks, a day of work between TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook—in short, a day among networks.

Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Polanski's cinema.

Pilar Rodríguez, a soprano with a promising past, has been singing in the streets of Barcelona's Gothic Quarter for over twelve years. Far from the stages that once applauded her, her life has been marked by abandonment after two scams and a failed album. However, her voice, her strength, and her dream remain intact.

On the border, the line as principle of property and belonging reaches an extreme dimension where it physically defines the sphere of its relations. Those who transgress it reconstruct these imaginary lines on a daily basis, redefining the traditional geography and occupying the non-spaces where others live in a temporary form of existence. These others, the non-citizens, are phantasmtic, exchangeable parts of a flexible market. Made invisible, they are permanently controlled persons. Under the pretext of a greater civilian security, they are kept clear from the public spaces reserved for the citizens with rights and pushed into non-public spaces, which are run by state and military surveillance, multinational operations servicing a European market and non-governmental organisations.

A young filmmaker finds a notebook containing his great-grandfather's memoirs from the Spanish Civil War in Soria. He discovers that his great-grandfather was persecuted and imprisoned for years and attempts to reconstruct his story by revisiting these locations to film them.

The life of José Vicente, a 83-year-old turner, archaeology and mountain lover, who decides to move away from his family and environment to start his last chapter surrounded by nature in loneliness.

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.

Albert and Anna use to travel around the world without money and in a wheelchair. Now they want to conquer their craziest challenge: to reach the other side of the planet, from Barcelona to New Zealand.

Ignacio Ceroi is trying to track down a man whose daily life he has been following through videos recovered from an old camera. Who is this man? And would he be pleased to know that he has dedicated a film to him? Would he be able to forgive him for his voyeurism?

A film composed of archival material and excerpts from an interview conducted in 1999 for the unfinished film “The True Story of Madame L.” After a decade out of the public eye, a group of film students manages to interview the woman who was once the most famous psychic on the Spanish scene. The political fortune teller, the snake charmer, the master of ceremonies, the ultimate charlatan: Madame Lola.

Shot on grainy, amber-like Super 8, Lina Rodriguez’s elusive and evocative Ante Mis Ojos offers a fragmentary glimpse of Colombia's mythic Lake Guatavita, long considered the inspiration for the legend of El Dorado.

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called “other Generation of '27,” brought Hollywood to Madrid's Gran Vía, turning a grey and sinister post-war city into the capital of an incipient and ambitious cultural industry.

On 6 March 1906, four men were executed for the attempted murder of Colombian president Rafael Reyes. The event was photographed, and the photos were later used for a fictionalised film on the failed coup. From then on, cinema in this South American country has been inextricably linked to its violent history. Moving images have been used for historiography, propaganda, disinformation and to instil unity in a nation that refuses to come together. Falsos positivos, murdered youths disguised as guerrillas by the army to simulate military success, are a common element.

Documentary about the Mont-roig del Camp painter, Teresa Llàcer.

Every minute, over 200 million emails are sent, 7,000 purchases take place on Amazon and 4 million google searches are made, all leaving digital fingerprints. Add to that the trail left by cell phones, credit cards, security cameras and the growing ‘internet of things’ and an incredible amount of detail about our personal life can now be inferred by computers. But with more and more decisions taken by algorithms, is there a risk we might fall into a “technocracy”?

During the 80´s the left wing movement Alfaro Vive Carajo operated in Ecuador. The traits of this aggrupation were: critique to the orthodox political thinking, frantic growth of the organization, spectacular and clever actions, and the devastating way that the government fought them. A quarter of century later, the survivors tale the story that was hidden and disguised.

The life and work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a long interview, fragments of some of his most significant verses and dramatizations of some of his stories. Borges for everyone.

The Sala Clamores Jazz Madrid is a club that keeps good music alive beyond temporary fashions, those imposed by an era: this is its success, its meaning, its resistance. And this in-depth look is the proof. These unique moments, evocations, testimonies, performances by jazz stars and many surprises. Quite a journey, a pleasure for the senses.

Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.

The relatives of the victims of the terrorist gang ETA speak of their suffering, their fear, their loneliness; of the systematic oblivion to which they are subjected by Basque society, both by those who remain silent and look the other way and by those who, accomplices of the criminals, share their repugnant ideology and celebrate extortion, kidnapping and murder, thus contributing to perpetuating a bloody reign of terror.

A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.

Rimbombanzia performs her makeup mantra on the streets of Madrid for drivers and pedestrians.

Late 2005 in Kuartango, a remote valley in the province of Araba (Basque Country). Two men pledge to make an old dream come true: to shoot a western. With neither money nor technical crew, they convince their community to play some of the characters in the film.

The film brings us under the skin and into the mind of La Chana, a talented Gypsy flamenco dancer as she returns to the stage to give a final seated performance after a 30-year break. Along the way, La Chana reveals the secret behind her disappearance when she was at the peak of her career.

Philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a German Jew, flees Germany in 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's definitive rise to power. On September 26, 1940, he dies in Portbou, a small village on the French-Spanish border. The unexplained end of a man who managed to avoid a horrible fate just to face death in very mysterious circumstances.

An audiovisual chronicle of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia. Memorias Rotas centers on a group of republican fighters leaded by Commander José Moreno. The group disappears as they fail trying to escape by sea in the border between Galicia and Asturias and nobody ever knows about them.

Chronicles the events immediately surrounding the CIA- supported coup itself.

The situation of the Basque language in Navarra.

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.

The cleaning service of a tourist apartment on Camprodon Street in Barcelona calls the police because they have found the body of a woman. The victim is Ana Páez, a young woman with a simple life and full of plans for the future. Nothing that her loved ones explain fits with the initial hypotheses that the investigators had made.

Portrait of a ceiba tree.

The chronicle of the revolutionary campaign of Che Guevara in Bolivia (1966-67), which has remained placed in his famous diary.

Documentary of three episodes about the mysterious story of the sex symbol and biggest cinema star of the 70's, Nadiuska. A life full of unknowns of the actress who had it all and ended up disappearing, as if she had been swallowed by the earth.

In 1963, under Franco’s dictatorship, two Swedish students travelled to Spain to spread news of the movements in favour of democracy. They contacted a young university troubadour, Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, and on return to Stockholm set about making an album with the recording of his songs. They called it Canciones de la Resistencia española and kept the singer-songwriter's identity anonymous. The album was an instant hit all over Scandinavia.

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.

Documentary about the survivors of the naval battle that took place off the coast of Bermeo in 1937 between Franco's ships and the Basque auxiliary navy.

Goazen gudari danok is a documentary that recounts the battle of San Miguel and its importance for the creation of the Basque Government.

Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their toppled leader’s vision for a new Chile.