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Two Barça's goalkeeping legends meet face to face on a special spot, the Goya Theater in Barcelona. Don't miss his conversation about the job of being a goalkeeper at Barça.

Throughout the streets of Huelva, a man with his guitar has been disambiguating for years, day and night he goes out into the streets to make a living asking for money in bars and terraces. His guitar almost never has the six strings, his hands are dirty, his mind long ago could not stand the life that he had to live, and he continues as he can stuck to that guitar with which he expresses himself continuously, indefatigable. That vagabond, an omnipresent street artist, is the "Niño Miguel", considered by many to be the best guitarist in the history of flamenco, a genius who revolutionized the guitar with only two records in the 70s, a source of inspiration for all other guitarists... a guitarist of guitarists, a living legend, a mystery, a misunderstood genius, excluded from society: The shadow of the strings.

Documentary on the life and art of New York City born Puerto Rican artist, Rafael Tufiño.

A thoughtful exploration of gypsy culture, an intimate portrait of flamenco guitar player Yerai Cortés and a healing family exorcism through music. Antón Álvarez (aka C. Tangana) makes his filmmaking debut with this documentary.

Mauro Morandi has lived isolated from society for 30 years on Budelli, an italian island. He is now 83 years old and, despite his advanced age, he is concerned about caring for and preserving the island's nature. One day he discovers that he will be evicted. At the same time, someone contacts him and encourages him to abandon this lifestyle and return to society. Both factors will have repercussions in Mauro's life, who, certainly disturbed, will have to deal with the conflict and assume the possibility of leaving his beloved island, with which he has a truly special connection.

At the end of 1954, Eduardo Ducay, Juan Julio Baena and Carlos Saura travelled to the region of Sanabria (province of Zamora) to make a commissioned documentary on the construction of a system of reservoirs. Much of the filmed material was unusable due to a technical problem, but Ducay rescued part of it and combined it with voice-over to construct a work on absences.

In 1918, the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan disappears in the Gulf of Mexico without a trace. Today, another boxer and artist, film director Frank Nicotra, begins an investigation that will take you behind the mysterious steps Cravan from Switzerland to Mexico, passing through Paris, London and Barcelona.

Of all my uncles, Rodolfo was the only one who didn't want to be a blacksmith like my grandfather: He wanted to be a dancer. The search for the traces of his life leads to the discovery that in the eighties in Paraguay, under Stroessner's dictatorship, Rodolfo was included in one of the "108 lists of homosexuals", arrested and tortured. Rodolfo's story reveals a part of the hidden and silenced history of my country. In "Cuchillo de palo" two generations come face to face in a confrontation that ultimately allows each of us to understand our place in the world.

An analysis of a female participation in the Colombian guerrilla. The documentary gives voice to the victims who ended up joining the FARC after being abducted and generally have a family murdered.

In April of 2006 a total of 150 disposable cameras were distributed in two of the Sahrawi refugee camps with the objective of producing a self-portait of refugee families who have lived in the desert for 30 years.

Each year Celina crosses the Argentinean Pampa in her car to visit her daughter Fernanda. Among hundreds of disappearances, they were the only two who made it out alive from the dictatorship’s delivery room. For mother and daughter the only possible truth and justice is to move forward with their lives.

Teslem, Dehba and Jadija work in a fish farm in the Saharawi refugee camps. Where? In Algeria, in the middle of the desert, far away from their land. They no longer have sea, but they have fish.

The papier-mâché mask is part of the costume used by the vejigante, one of the characters of the Ponce Carnival, which is held every year during the month of February. Don Miguel Caraballo learns as a child to craft these masks. Over the years, he creates his own style and develops a method of meticulous work, achieving the recognition of being called Ponce's best craftsman of masks.

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.

A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters; there are no interviews, but greetings; a series of entrances and exits. A joyful reunion, a celebration of life.

A filmed gipsy wedding.

What should school be used for today? This question led to an educational revolution through the Escola Nova 21 program.

Hour-long documentary about distinctive-looking Spanish character actor Víctor Israel.

After studying and thinking about it considerably, author Carmen Martín Gaite said that one of the conclusions she had reached is that single women who are not out to find a husband are marginalized or caricatured, but they are never really spoken to. In Solteronas -Spinsters- we give them a voice, they tell us about themselves and we show how they have shared, and continue to share, their stories.

This is a documentary linking ecological and political problems. The planet has come to be less important than the multinational earnings, and with it politicians earnings as well. With this project we bring foreward this problem, witch not only affects the third world, but is a worldwide situation witch needs to be adressed.

A look at the world of education that takes as an example and model an innovative public school in Barcelona where a group of students are preparing their graduation trip.

Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, and it is there that they try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization in this documentary.

The team spent a fortnight in Miami, Las Vegas, Dallas and New York. Our cameras were there too, and brought back some fabulous footage. Press play, sit back and enjoy!

Memory prevents rest and a woman about to die takes advantage of cinema to tell her story (inseparable from that of Franco’s Spain) and to say goodbye. A terrace as a border and a song that crosses time. At home, nothing is always—and everything is still—in the present and defunct now. A home movie of ghosts, a generous gesture of intimacy and solidarity that not witnesses two people at the end of their long lives, but also reveals the weight of history and of the 20th century, which is always present today.

In the shadow of her last harvest, a Chilean vineyard worker and her son, returning from Catalonia, transform filmmaking into an intimate ritual to inhabit their grief together and bid farewell to a place, a time, a summer and perhaps to who they once were.

The partnership of Vecinos Sin Techo and the Lof Mapuche Curruhuinca, through a National Act, took control of lands that were previously in the hands of the Army. They received 400 hectareas as a collective property in San Martín de los Andes, a highly coveted city for tourism infrastructure developers, because of the beautiful landscapes and the mountain sports, where the public use of natural assets as rivers, forests, lakes and the snow are increasingly limited. In this place they are building 250 houses and had reached new levels of organization and dignity.

An essay on memory that explores the vision of life and death in the Far East. Shot in five Asian countries over three years, it recounts the director's real experiences.

Diversity of Chilean flora and fauna reunite on the intercommunal park of La Reina to celebrate the 18th of September.

Through the story of the construction of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, carried out for over twelve years by a small Spanish architecture studio, estudioHerreros, we discover the astonishing transformation of the Norwegian capital.

The old urban bus leaves from a Pampean town to Patagonia. A group of shearers made up mostly of Corrientes travels with someone else, who only appears in the film through his omnipresent voice. In addition to living with the shearers, the narrator addresses a fictitious addressee, telling him everything that they are going through during that six-month journey.

During the course of an extensive interview, actor Jack Taylor looks back on the biographical anecdotes and films that made him an essential face in genre movies.

Traces the economic history of Puerto Rico in the sugar plantations, and the closing of the last one in 1990.

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of workers who demand what is fair for everyone.

The project studies the relationship between observer and landscape in the contemplative experience. A sensory approach to landscape from introspective perception. We start with the external factors of space and time in the environment to go deeper in the temporal and spatial consciousness experiences.

Gonzalo is a farmer living with his family in a small village in Castile, in the north of Spain. The ancient and sage tradition of producing their food, from the slaughter of a pig to his own wine, has worked very well for him at this time of crisis in Spain. Sowing and harvest, like fiestas and customs, define the annual cycle, plagued with difficulties and problems but also filled with joy and gratification.

Julita expressed her three greatest wishes shortly after getting married: lots of children, a monkey and a castle she can call her own. That all of these wishes have become a reality is probably down to the immense stubbornness of this charismatic and equally hilarious matriarch who has a weakness for collecting crazy objects. When financial circumstances force the family to sell their castle, her adult children are left sifting through a lifetime of peculiarities in search of a few lost bones… Spanish actor and neo director Gustavo Salmerón paints a deliciously absurd family portrait that just happens to reveal a lot about Spain, Catholicism and the economic crisis.

An account of the successful life and work of Spanish singer and actor Camilo Sesto (1946-2019), the portentous, almost miraculous, voice of Spanish pop music for decades, through his own point of view, told during his last interview and in many others, and through the words of those creators whose own work has been strongly influenced both by his art and his magnetic personality.

In 1992 the Universal Exhibition in Seville was held in Spain. Chile participated in this exhibition by displaying in its pavilion an ice floe captured and brought especially by sea from Antarctica. In these true facts is based the fantasy narrated in Dreams of Ice. Filmed between November 1991 and May 1992 on board the ships Galvarino, Aconcagua and Maullín, in a voyage that goes from Antarctica to Spain, in this documentary film in which dreams, myths and facts converge towards a poetic tale turned into a seafaring saga, in the manner of the legends of the seafarers that populate the mythology of the American continent and universal literature.

Five Argentinian women, with missing relatives from the military dictatorship that ruled the country, explain their emotions and feelings about all that happened.

In October 2007, Pasqual Maragall was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Once past the initial blow, he and his family embarked on a crusade against the disease. From the very first step, this film has grown into an extraordinary testament. With intelligence, sincerity and an infectious spirit, Maragall allows a portrait to be painted of not only himself, but also his family and his doctors, in order to leave behind a lasting document of his personal fight.

A cheerful documentary about the daily life of a community of Franciscan sisters. “Hasta mañana, si Dios quiere” (See you tomorrow, God willing) is a film born from the desire to understand that mysterious feminine universe that gives up its life and leaves behind family, home, lovers, disobedience, and physical love.