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Kristiane Etxaluz, from Soule, and Alfonso Etxegarai, from Bizkaia, are not your usual couple. Committed since their youth to the Basque independence struggle, they are condemned to living their love 7,000 km from one another due to the fact that Alfonso lives on the small African island to which he was deported several years ago. However, despite the banishment, their eyes always follow the country of the Bidasoa and their hearts at apple time; an apple time still to come.

Ed is commissioned to make a documentary intending to change those habits of society that are harmful to animals. But completely alien to the animal protection movement, he will realize that to carry out the project, he must first convince himself.

Piedad has lived big part her life in Leiroso, a small village of the Bierzo, isolated of the urban world in company of her husband. Both decided to remain in the village, still when their children and neighbours were abandoning the place. At the age of 76, appears the Alzheimer in the life of Piedad, her husband died does some time, converting like this in the only inhabitant of the place but still like this, the option to go of there was not something that had in mind. The advance of the illness motivates that Amadeo, her younger son, take the decision to carry to his mother to live with him and his family to the city of A Coruña (Galicia, NW of Spain).

In 1982, the Argentine military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas Islands, located 500 kilometers off the country’s coast. The dictatorial government left no stone unturned in using propaganda to convince the people of their mission. Consisting almost entirely of excerpts from the TV program 60 minutes, 1982 summarizes the media campaign that took place over the 74 days of war, when Argentine troops tried to take their island back from the British. We watch TV anchormen ask viewers to donate money for weapons, inspire them to sing the national anthem at home, and welcome government leaders as heroes as they “spontaneously” show up at the studio to celebrate the importance of the mission for the motherland.

President Barack Obama visited Cuba on 2016, the first trip of a US president since the 1950s. In 2017, Donald Trump was elected signaling changes in relations with Cuban government. How to survive being who Cubans are?

Paramilitary groups in Colombia have spread death and destruction for years. In 2005, a specially established Commission for Peace and Justice started gathering evidence about the horrific violence. During emotional hearings, their gruesome acts are exposed in detail. However, many of the leading figures get away unscathed.

Rafael was the outlandish mayor of a small Andalusian village until his absent-minded eccentricities caused him to draw in the village elections. Now he has a clear objective: to win in the second elections. His best idea is to organise and star in a documentary to brag about 'his people'. Through these cameras we will get to know one of the crazy traditions of the village. But also, the criticism and laughter that his dubious management arouses, and the irrefutable prudence of Victoria, his competitor. All these problems will explode back at him... literally.

The documentary narrates the search for the house called Emak Bakia, near the coast of Lapurdi, where 83 years before the artist Man Ray made a picture where he set the rules for avant-garde cinema in the 1920s.

In 1998, David Sanes, a security guard of the US Navy base in Vieques, died from a projectile from a military practice. As a consequence of that incident, the people of Vieques and Puerto Rico joined in civil disobedience in the restricted area of the Marina so that no more bombs could be dropped.

First it's paint bombs, followed hard by riots. Tweets proclaim what is to be done. Resistance is everywhere. Something has to give. Two young activists meet amid turbulent events. They dance. The city belongs to them.

A woman moves through a city, Vigo. Filmmaker, writer, walker among ruins. Margarita Ledo.

In Asturias, the Duro Felguera company dismissed 232 employees in 1993. From then on, a ten-year struggle began for the workers to be reinstated. "Resistencia" is the story of a workers' struggle that ended up triumphing.

Euritan is a review of the narrative 'Klara eta biok', written by Itxaro Borda in 1985. Putting the author against the words of her past, it updates her view on the peripheral relationship around the Basque character.

A medium-length film that takes the central place in the video installation "The Lady of Corinth". In both the medium-length film and the installation, Guerin delves into the relationship between cinema and painting based on Pliny the Elder's account of the invention of painting.

Life of the Uruguayan musician Gustavo "Príncipe" Pena who, with only two records, has created a name for itself in the music industry of the country.

Baroque is the art of staging, and no musical instrument represents this idea better than the harpsichord. More than a machine able to create sound, it is an artistic object by itself and can produce the greatest aesthetic delight even before it sounds.

Documents the life of the last generation of Selk'nam's. Their way of life, economy, rituals, chants, traditions, and their slow extinction after the colonization...

The story of the transformation of traditional cooking into nouvelle cuisine through 100 years of history at Donostia's Arzak restaurant, run by Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena Arzak.

Documentary on tuna fishing and the art of capturing, processing and manufacturing of the industry.

Valeria and Segundo’s relationship swings between closeness and distance, sometimes wrapped in a routine loop and sometimes in full escape mode. Disturbing and subtle, Tornquist addresses those lives that seem to fuse together ancestrally just like the lush and majestic nature that surrounds them.

A ship, fifteen men, the river. A sensory film, a journey towards introspection. A portrait of loneliness, labour and absence, on board this floating society trapped in time. Could it be the reflection of our own « life on board »?

A Wen, 38, a businessman and family man in Barcelona, is also the filmmaker's brother. Just like in the gangster movies they watched on VHS as kids, he becomes involved with the Chinese mafia in Spain.

Interview and tribute to Jose Migel Barandiaran, researcher on Basque culture.

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream. (Based on the short film The Fourth Kingdom, 2017.)

Uninhibited description of what Spanish verbenas are and what their essence is, and of what nourishes and constitutes them both in recreational and popular territory and in a traditional institution.

Retornar a Baracoa focuses on a town, the oldest in Cuba, that remained accessible only by sea for more than three hundred years. While the documentary showcases government projects to build a radio station, a high school, an airport and a park, the images and voices of the residents leave the viewer with the feeling that all of this may be too little.

This compelling film chronicles the untold story of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit in U.S. Army history. Having performed with distinction early in the Korean War, the Borinqueneers of the 65th would face their greatest challenge in the fall of 1952, when more than 100 soldiers were arrested.

A short documentary directed by Lina Romay and Jess Franco.

In a school in Extremadura in a town called Arroyo de la Luz, the teacher shows children of about ten years the subtitled Kiarostami film "Where is my friend's house?" and makes them reflect on the moral dilemma about friendship and obedience posed by the film

Is the origin of Coca-Cola in Valencia? Or so they say at the Aielo de Malferit Distillery. The star drink of this liquor factory arrived in the United States, curiously, a year before the invention of Coca-Cola. Coincidence?

Argenis, Yanvaldo, Carlos, Eduardo and Javier have something in common: they will compete in the Miss Gay Venezuela, a trans beauty contest where the man who most resembles a “Miss” wins. For several weeks, we follow them in their preparations for the final night of the contest, seeing how that illusion is built: that of being a beauty queen for one night. The event is the excuse and the ideal setting to find ourselves with wishes, fantasies and the search for a dream come true. They look for the beautiful and feminine to achieve a desire: to be admired and recognized as the most beautiful trans in the contest.

Fake documentary about Seville and its imaginary innovations in urbanism.

A group of artists and friends of the late painter Martín Santiago meet to make his dream come true of his home becoming in an art museum and cultural space for the town of Deán Funes, Córdoba. The group is led by the artist's disciple, the painter Mario Sanzano, who heads the initiative. He is also accompanied by artists from the area and friends of Martín Santiago. Despite not having official resources, they carry out the feat of recovering the work and turning the space into a cultural center for the city.

On October 30, 1988, the businessman Emiliano Revilla had been kidnapped by ETA for 249 days. After more than eight months of captivity, hopes of liberation were increasingly scarce and very few journalists were still standing guard at the employer's house. María José Sáez, a young editor, formerly of the EFE Agency, was the only one who was close to the house on the night of October 30th.

The inspiring account on international bodyboarding star Luz 'Loly' Grande - a young woman on a personal mission to make bodyboarding a means to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru.