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Documentary of the phenomenonal band Sui Géneris in its farewell tour at Luna Park on September 5, 1975.

“Gaudí, l’arquitecte de Déu” is a story of faith, of overcoming, about five lay that decided to create an assossiation to demonstrate that Gaudí deserves one of most valuable titles of the Church: beatification. The Pro-Beatification Association of Antoni Gaudí has been working more than 25 years to manage to beatify the architect of Reus, picking up all witnesses and proofs that demonstrate that Gaudi lived like a beatus and, the most difficult part, wiaiting for a miracle to happen attributed do Gaudí himself, an essential condition for his beatification. The documentary will follow this case, showing Gaudi’s life and work from a new outlook, more intimate and linked to spirituality and beliefs of the architect.

Between poorly paved roads and hidden parks are the spaces created for the enjoyment of those who are passionate about four-wheeled boards. Skateparks proposes a day trip to these places, approaching their architectural designs that defy gravity and those young people who by chance, by leaving home or by stubbornness when taking a trick, inhabit them.

Speculative historical essay defending the theory, sustained by Spanish historian Celso García de la Riega (1844-1914) and his followers, that the famous explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was born in a small village near the city of Pontevedra, in the region of Galicia, Spain. (A new version was released in 1930.)

The Popular Revolutionary Army (ERP) was a military unit of an Argentine political party, looking up to Mao's cultural revolution as its model. Its way of fighting involved kidnappings and assassinations of government officials as well as representatives of foreign firms. The crusade of the military junta against its terrorist practices later became a pretext for state terror against civilians who had nothing to do with ERP. Gleyzer's so-called "secret film" records the kidnapping of a manager of the meat processing factory and cooling plant Swift. The partisans request an improvement in the working conditions in the factory in exchange for his release.

In mid November, the dead ones appeared floating on the Strait of Magellan tied together to life vests, cellular phones, computers and passports. Two of them were found malnourished, another with scurvy and typhus and Yin Xinji’s body was never found. In June, Carmen’s cousin told her that on the lighthouse close to his ranch, a starving Asian man, hid there for three days before disappearing. Apparently, he headed towards La Pampa.

This documentary explores how Madrid, under Franco’s regime, became a crucial nexus for numerous German Nazis and Italian Fascists fleeing the Second World War. They found not only the protection of the regime, but also a network of sympathisers who provided them with spaces and businesses where they could meet discreetly.

'City for Sale' takes an in-depth look at the lives of four Barcelona families to show how mass tourism is wiping away the city's essence and its beauty. The documentary follows its subjects for nearly two years, and over that time it becomes clear how mass tourism has marked these families' lives. Through their eyes, we see mass tourism's real impact on Barcelona's old city, the part of town that draws the largest number of tourists, but also the neighbourhood most steeped in history, culture, tradition and charm. Viewers will find it easy to connect with the stories recounted in the film, and they might even personally identify with one or more of them. The documentary is an appeal to empathy and a plea for reflection, and it reveals like never before the human face of a problem that is not only social, but also economic and political, an issue that affects a number of other "fashionable" cities like Madrid, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Rome, Prague and Paris.

Rare images of real life stories in the so-called "asentamientos" in the poor underbelly of Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, and in its youth jails. The difficulties of finding a job and scraping together some money, the temptations of crime and its harsh consequences, the lack of culture and knowledge of the basics of life, are all intertwined in parallel lives.

It tells the story of an unknown figure from the world of Spaghetti Westerns, Joe Kardos, who never played the lead role in any of the more than two hundred films in which he appeared. Always dressed in a hat and wearing an eye patch over one eye, Kardos is just another member of the cast of characters that populate the northern part of the Community of Madrid. To his credit, Kardos has appeared in more than two hundred films, mostly as a stunt double or extra. No one remembers him, no one knows who he is, but he claims to have been the greatest cowboy the world of cinema has ever known.

A walk through the landscapes of the province of Barcelona, Spain, as well as a testimony of the daily life and customs of its inhabitants.

Alexandra Cuesta cites eternal wanderer Henri Michaux as one of the inspirations for her first feature. It’s curious, then, that the opening sequence of Territorio (the first film Cuesta shot in her native Ecuador) shows us a boat heading for the shore. It is very likely that, to Cuesta, the image of water hides the same connotation than it does to the author of “The Sea of Breasts”: returning home, being sheltered in the mother’s womb. Without detouring from the formal approaches of her previous work, Cuesta traces a journey that crosses the country from north to south, drawing a human cartography in which the aim is to achieve an impossible balance between the foreign traveler’s gaze and the earnest familiarity of those who return home temporarily.

An intimate view on suicide, its taboo and its effects on two different families and a friend.

A chronicle of legendary Argentine folk-protest singer Mercedes Sosa’s years of exile through her unpublished letters and photographs, blending personal memory and political history.

Alejandrina show us her connection with fire, plants and animals. Meanwhile, she tell us the changes that massacres, terrorism and drug trafficking have provoked in her culture. Are the lumbermen or the miners going to end her cultural history?

This documentary deals with the great injustice and pain caused by anti-personnel mines and demands the urgent need for all the countries involved to sign the demining protocols. The short begins with a 24-hour isolation carried out by the author in a hole/crater in the middle of the desert to empathy with the Saharawi people, from there progressively through their commitment and coexisting for getting close to the reality of the victims of antipersonnel mines and their everyday live. Denunciations and wishes of this people who have suffered a hard exile are verbalized. In parallel, the author is interviewing, listening, sharing and designing an ingenuity that he is building to exploit the mines. The melphas (costume of the Sahrawi woman) make up the sail that moves the wheels that trace with phosphate powder the path with the word FREE and end up exploiting the mine, to show the inhuman damage it cause. A call for peoples to sign demining protocols urgently.

It is a symmetrical film, situated between documentary and fiction, cinema and video, the feminine and the masculine. It speaks of the shared space between a woman devastated by her illness and an astronaut determined to take part in the first crewed mission to Mars. The film shows how their lives traverse a space that preserves, in a way, a sense of symmetry. Both speak with the filmmaker, who attempts to explore the limits of the human being—and her own limitations when making a film.

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Humor shapes the way Spaniards interact on Twitter: all sorts of topics can be used to make a joke and many anonymous commentators can become celebrities and compete with professional comedians. But sometimes certain jokes that defy political correctness have a high price for those who dare to make them, jokes that can freeze the smiles of thousands of people whose prejudices can put an end to some very successful artistic careers.

On 1 October 2017, during the Catalan independence referendum, Marta Torrecillas was violently dragged from a polling station by police. Her image and voice message went viral within hours, turning her into an international symbol of state violence. Days later, when medical reports contradicted her initial belief that her fingers were broken, she became the target of a brutal media backlash. Harassed, threatened and diagnosed with PTSD, Marta fights to reclaim her name and dignity. An intimate reflection on sisterhood, care and healing in the aftermath of public violence. Refusing to let a viral image define her, Marta’s story becomes a moving exploration of resilience, solidarity and the urgent need for truth and accountability in the digital age.

The grunge group led by former member of the Golden Generation and the San Antonio Spurs Fabricio Oberto (vocals), with Luciano Moroni (guitar), Fede Galán (bass) and Jota Suárez (drums), play in 2019 in the United States and attend Ginóbili’s farewell.

A poetic approach to the island of Lanzarote.

"Symphony" is a journey throught four auditory perceptions guided by the testimonies of two voices. The viwer can feel and understand the world as a person with diferent auditory conditions (synesthesia, absolute pitch, tinnitus and deafness) throught a visual and sound metaphor.

In the outskirts of Caracas, in Petare, one of most violents hoods in South America, a woman teaches with "el método Julio" writing and reading.

A look that explores the role of the muses in the History of Western Art, highlighting their close connection with the work of the so-called great geniuses as co-creators.

The filmmaker attempts to learn about his father, who was killed in 1973 in Pinochet's Chile.

An emotional visual portrait starring fans of the most important melodic singer-songwriter that Uruguay had, the founder and leader of Los Iracundos, Eduardo Franco.

A cinematic portrait of the world-wide legendary Argentinian composer who changed tango. For the first time ever, the hidden archives of bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla are opened by his son Daniel.

Granada, Spain, 1922. The composer Manuel de Falla, who dreams every night of the ancestral songs sung to him by his nanny, fears that flamenco art will disappear, so with the help of his friend Miguel Cerón Rubio and the poet Federico García Lorca, he organizes a contest to revitalize and promote it.

The filmmaker, writer and teacher-teacher Ricardo Becher likes extreme decisions, both in his life and in his work. Now, at 80 years of age, he begins a new book called “Recta Final”, about his geriatric experience. Lipgot portrays the present of the filmmaker, at the same time that he reviews his history, from his first shorts and the collaboration with Torre Nilsson, passing through the fundamental "Shot of Grace" (1969) - a film that defied its time and was censored -, leading to the new movement that Becher founded with his students: digital neo-expressionism

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.

In 1887, an expedition from the Philippines arrived in Madrid to participate in the Philippines Exposition, a colonial and ethnographical fair held in Retiro Park. A reflection on the implications of such colonial events.

What if, after spending precious years of youth surrounded by crime and violence, the only answer were to pick up a pen? Aníbal was sentenced to 52 years in prison when he was 17. He thought he would die young in jail. He is now 30 and after 3 years in literature and creative writing workshops he has published a book of essays. His work is part of an anthology and he continues to write. While he waits and hopes for an early release on parole, literature and his passion for writing have become his freedom.

The black granite in the Serra da Capelada range formed from solidified magma during the Precambrian era, some 1,160 million years ago. The rocks were buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface until Pangea broke apart, 200 million years ago, causing a 600-meter high cliff to form. Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on Earth 200,000 years ago.

Ten years ago, horror came about in Buenos Aires. During a rock concert in a nightclub, 194 people died in what is known as the tragedy of Cromañón. Since then, survivors together with the victims' relatives and acquaintances began to go through a long and intricate journey looking for justice. But, what is justice? What does it mean to us?

Visual representation of Manuel Azaña's 1938 speech "Paz, piedad y perdón" from a new generation's point of view.

The lionesses force their young to leave the herd at the age of two. Only the strongest manage to become adults.

Reconstruction of the life and work of Jacinto Esteva, architect, painter and adventurer, through the experiences of his daughter and friends. His words and memories also allow a panoramic view of the Barcelona of the sixties. But it is above all Daría, her daughter, who is in charge of recovering her father's memory.

An experimental fabulation about the Fairies' Tree. This tree is mentioned several times in Joan of Arc's trial. Imagining it multiplied in space and time, this film ritualizes this historical element, reappropriating it and turning it into a symbol of gender dissidents prosecuted by the Inquisition.

Covers the history of Black Metal in Barcelona and extends it to other bands that emerged in Catalonia throughout the 1990s. It also analyzes the prominence of magazines, music venues or record labels of the scene and finally analyzes the evolution of this kind of music.

How a once-in-a-generation Argentina team, led by Manu Ginobili, brought down the “Dream Team” and won gold at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Joan Fuster is a figure that leaves no one indifferent. Some tried to kill him. Others have followed his ideas. But what makes him still valid? To answer the unknown, this documentary takes a journey through the most revealing episodes of the writer's life, combining testimonials who knew him with the look of new generations.

On the occasion of the awarding of the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, singer Carmen Linares and dancer María Pagés are performing together again twenty-five years after they last did so, and to this end they have created the flamenco show Carmen y María. Two paths and one vision. This documentary, filmed during rehearsals and their participation in activities organized by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, reflects their personal vision of the art of flamenco.

“Prepotencia de trabajo” is a film about people who make films, made by people who make them, by people who teach how to make them and by people who are learning how to make them. And it's also a movie about his movies, about how those people learned and how he managed to make them. And it is also a film about the Mar del Plata Festival as seen by these people, about the possibilities it offers them, and also about the UBA's Image and Sound Design career, where all these filmmakers came from.