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After fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into exile in France while his family waits for his return in a Catalan village.

At the border between Navarre and Aragon we find the moors known as the Bardenas Reales, characterized by the dust and the omnipresence of the northern wind. This is a portrait of a land, but also a journey through Pilar’s memories. It is a glance at the past but also the present, and about how everything has changed, for better or worse.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, whom History knows as El Cid Campeador, is an essential figure to understand the Middle Ages. His legend has endured throughout the centuries to become a myth. In this documentary we will discover his character as a military leader, a mercenary or a undefeated hero in hundred battles, but also as the man, with his virtues but also with his defects.

The central idea of the report EL FALS DOCUMENTAL is to raise awareness and reflect on this documentary genre. It deals with aspects such as the social construction of reality, the critique of the discourse of the media and the artistic reflection of language and audiovisual codes.

This 90-minute documentary about the history of Cuban music includes interviews with music historians as well as Cuban musicians, both young and old, who help keep the vibrant style alive today. Through the use of photographs, music, and commentary, Cubanissimo traces Cuban music from its roots in the small island nation to the widespread effect on mainstream music that it has had in the present day.

Influenced by the sound of the city, different artists improvise ephemeral pieces that dance between music and what is typically considered to be “noise.” Different sonorous and visual textures converge in this documentary about the creation of experimental music in Buenos Aires.

“Since airplanes did not exist, people moved around using prayers; they went from one land to another and returned early, before dawn. In old audio recordings, the voices of pastors speak of the mythical existence of witches and their travels. In the daily life of a woman, the magic of her tales begins to materialize as night falls. Night is the time when travel is possible.”—Samuel Delgado & Helena Girón

Following the instructions of a dream, Flavia sets out to make a film about the Chilean Antarctic. Mixing together Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Pinochet, this film also features an unforgettably hilarious interview with Nanni Moretti! Creative and anarchic cinema at its very best.

The first film of the 'Ikuska' series, on the situation of schools in Basque language.

Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the intellect intelligence and curiosity.

If there was an award for the most stylish opening scene, it would go to Álvaro Pulpeiro for ‘So Foul a Sky’. A road movie and a immersive report from a Venezuela on the verge of collapse. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s classic novel ‘Nostromo’, we are led into a twilight world where allegiances change among the travellers under the enormous dome of the sky. Pirates and pilgrims cross tracks, and oil is traded on the black market in the middle of nowhere. Crackling car radios relay an ideological battle of words. Has the oil cast a curse on Venezuela? The country is in the midst of the worst political and humanitarian crisis that South America has experienced in the 21st century. Instead of trying to explain the chaotic situation, Pulpeiro places us in the middle of it. A sensory and cinematic film, where the oil runs like thick, black blood through the arteries of the road network and connects us with some of the people who are trying to make life work beyond law and order.

Living among the percebeiros of the Coast of Death (Galicia), this documentary shows a unique relationship between man and his surroundings, man and the sea. At the end of Europe, years after the Prestige oil spill disaster, these fishermen face an uncertain future.

Focused on the experiences of Manuel "Manolo" Díaz Caballero, who was a local police officer in Malaga for more than 30 years, his memories of those years are the subject of this documentary.

Marta, determined to document the daily life of an elderly person who lives alone, moves together with a film crew to her great-aunt Facunda’s house in La Solana, a town in La Mancha. However, Facunda has a mission: the relentless boycott of the film.

A documentary feature looking at the effects of poverty on prostitution.

Sergio lived alone in the mountains. While he was herding his goats in the mountains, he heard the sound of his bagpipes below, in the town of Veiga de Logares. Friends and neighbors tell us that he was a virtuoso piper and great artist of the town.

From different conversations with relatives, writers and people close to José Donoso, the imaginary is constructed about the life, work and influences of the writer, to later follow his journey through the city by car while he remembers places, situations of his youth and evocations of his childhood.

A missing submarine in Spanish Civil War leads to the first German Navy operation before WW2. Republican submarine C-3 was the victim of international secrecy and intrigues, after a torpedo from U-34 sunk it on December 12th 1936.

The voices of the most prestigious specialists, admirers and names close to the Galdósian and Buñuelian worlds will help answer: who is Benito Pérez Galdós and who is Luis Buñuel? What about Galdós in the cinema of Buñuel? What united them?

Documentary that shows the life of some individual wolves in the mountains of Spain.

The story of the shooting of Satan's Blood (Escalofrío), a film directed by Carlos Puerto in 1978.

The Dreams of Others is the story of the last six decades of architecture and interior design in Spain. The documentary is a critical reflection on the role of architecture in our society, on the evolution of the architect’s figure and a look at what architecture is and where it is going.

A visual essay on the stimuli that draw a bridge to past memories of my life; a real documentary about where I was and where I am, what I did and what I do; a reflection of the person I was and continue to be.

In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a deaf boy who wants to learn to write. Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the camel Caramelo.

The bond between mothers and daughters from a very personal and intimate point of view on love and the passage of time. Because of its intensity, the most primary link has many faces; the mother/daughter relationship has a lot of love, pain, intolerance, competition, attachment, detachment, and love once again. The story also develops during a family trip to the grandmother’s hometown.

Salvar Tenerife shows, like never before, the overexploitation to which the island of Tenerife is submitted. It receives more than 6 million tourists a year and has a population of 930000 inhabitants. These figures are born from the terrible way in which the island has been managed during the last decades and currently. An infinite and untenable growth which is threatening more than ever the natural spaces and biodiversity from Tenerife, more and more deteriorated each day. This documentary seeks to boost a change towards real sustainable development, so we can have a future in which we live alongside nature and we can keep enjoying Tenerife (and the rest of the Canary Islands) in their wild and natural state.

The history of how the International Monetary Fund has been operating in Argentina for years.

Madrid, Spain, June 30th, 2016. Rafael and José Luis jam a crazy one-day trip in search of the city's jazz scene, meeting the musicians, the club owners, the audience, the true believers who tell the story from the beginning, back in the 1950s, until the last breath of this memorable day.

Chronicles the life, career, and work of Puerto Rican nationalist Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, fighter for freedom and human rights.

A church organ, a family, harmony and faith. David's sisters suddenly convert to Catholicism and he tries to grasp what is behind this personal transformation mechanism.

Freely expressing his loves and hates, controversial Colombian and openly gay writer Fernando Vallejo (living in Mexico) breaks with an ingrained literary tradition: that of the omniscient writer who sees and knows everything. The film covers his literary output and his many interests: film, music, science, and politics. Made with the full support and participation of the author, it provides a portrait of one of the best Spanish-language writers.

A choral history of the people who shake up life every day in different Spanish cities to try to change things. Through their lives we discover the reason and strength of social activism in our country.

After the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), a Basque priest and his students planted the seeds of the biggest cooperative business group in the world.

After more than 75 years, Vicente Montejano tells us first-hand about his experience of more than 14 years in the Russian Gulag after the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Mariana and Xevi work the land from opposite ends of the world. Rooted in agroecology, their projects trace a quiet dialogue between territory, nature and family.

In November 1974, the Principal of a small school in Santiago was kidnapped and taken to a detention centre by State agents, who accused her of belonging to the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Her account, more than a memory of her stay in a clandestine centre, is focused on the impossibility of narrating an experience like this. The torture experience is inaccessible. There are no images or words which can represent it.

At a time when the public is more concerned than ever about the health and environmental problems associated with large-scale factory farming, Peaceable Kingdom explores another angle of this unfolding story: the interconnected life journeys of farm animals, former farmers, and animal rescuers struggling against an out of control industrial system. Breaking generations of silence in the farm community, Peaceable Kingdom weaves together themes of respect, forgiveness, commitment, and healing, offering a vision of a more peaceful world that is well within our reach.

Diego works the night shift in an isolated gas station close to the Galician-Portuguese border. His work is solitary, silent, monotonous, somniferous. One night, two unexpected visitors show up and unsettle the routine of the place.

Gabriela returns to her family home in Chile, left behind after exile. Between her grandparents' tenderness and her mother's emotional distance, she begins to question how love can endure when shaped by fear, absence, and silence.

Boats, children, adults; mysterious images in an impossible film that records fragments of an unfathomable world in which one can lose oneself, even pleasantly, letting oneself go in the sunsets, melting into the landscape. Amazonas also means lost world.

Strong Puerto Rican women forced to flee the island after Hurricane Maria have bonded like family in a FEMA hotel in the Bronx. They seek stability in their new life as forces try to pull them apart.

At the tender age of twelve, Roberto supported the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and fought for education and social reforms. He was to continue his political struggle fighting alongside the communist Tupamaros in Uruguay. Thirty years later he is struggling to live his life as a woman named Stephanía and striving to be accepted by both society and his family.