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An obituary for Victor Jara, the Chilean folksinger who was murdered in a football stadium by the military junta during the days of the September 1973 coup.

We can not be all lawyers, plumbers, waiters... There may be other professions.

In 2006, two Spanish journalists were sent to investigate an alleged case of Marian apparitions, in an unknown village in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What they supposed was not enough for much more than a photographic report, was, instead, a turning point in their lives and in that of many other people they met in that place. They did not see the Virgin Mary... but they came back assuring that something inexplicable and of universal significance is happening, today, in MEDJUGORJE.

Javier Bardem produces this documentary on the larger-than-life director Bigas Luna, compiled from over 600 hours of his personal video-diaries to reveal his most intimate side.

A double-edged letter in the midst of confinement. Javier starts sending videos to his son to catch him up on his new life. Through these videos, Nico will try to respond to his father.

At underground film of the 1st Popular Festival of Catalan Poetry filmed in the Proce Theater in Barcelona on May 25, 1970, in solidarity with political prisoners. The participating poets were: Agustí Bartra, Joan Oliver (Pere IV), Salvador Espriu, Joan Brossa, Francesc Vallverdú and Gabriel Ferrater.

Winter 2019. Spanish war photographer Gervasio Sánchez, who documented with his camera the long and tragic siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War (1992-95), returns to the city in search of the children he met among the ruins, those who survived to grow up, live and remember.

A portrait of the Spanish painter José Pérez Ocaña (1947-83), who used transvestism and performances as his calling card.

Porn has shaped the Internet as we know it. Video streaming, high speed broadband, online payment solutions, banner advertising, smartphone design, and even spam were all heavily influenced by an ever growing demand for adult content. This documentary takes a look at the industry behind the global phenomenon and the people that work within it!

Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, the anarchist union CNT socialized the film industry in Spain, so in Madrid and Barcelona film workers took over the production assets and, between 1936 and 1938, numerous films on a wide variety of topics were released, composing a varied mosaic that gives rise to one of the most unusual and original moments of Spanish cinematography.

Documentary about the so-called "hope camp", which narrates the long protest carried out by the Sintel workers camped in the middle of Castellana Street in Madrid in defence of their labour rights. The documentary follows the evolution of the events during 4 months, from April to August 2001, reflecting the life of these people during their encampment and the negotiations between the government and the trade unions.

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

A film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid as a great visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations where commerce and fauna, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect.

In the coastal village of Amed, Bali, life moves to a rhythm set by the sea and the volcano. However, an unexpected change is taking shape on the courts: the global rise of pickleball. "Shifting Courts" is an observational documentary short that explores how this sport has become a silent bridge between the local community and the outside world, capturing an intimate look at Balinese identity in the face of globalization and international tourism.

Pol is 21 years old and lives with his grandmother. He dreams of living in Miami and generating over $10,000 per month. He attends personal development events, follows online coaches, and invests in cryptocurrencies. Pol doesn't know when he'll achieve his goals to become the best version of himself. The only thing he knows is that one day, he will.

Upcoming documentary film that delves into last August's fires in Spain and reveals the magnitude of a crisis that goes beyond the flames. Expected to be released in 2026.

Armed based on photography, period films, archival materials and testimonies of survivors, family members and historians, the documentary accurately and exquisitely reconstructs the course of the “expropriating anarchists” in the Río de la Plata and specifically in Montevideo del First third of the 20th century.

Follows the Cuban leader into the home of a 93 year old acquaintance of Jose Marti, who is now blind and who takes the duration of the film to realize who his illustrious interviewer actually is.

Documentary short featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the 1973 film "Papillon." The film stars Steve McQueen and is based on the life story of Henri Charriere, both of whom can be seen on set in "The Magnificent Rebel."

An approach to a living myth of dance, Alicia Alonso, from the viewpoint of her passion, tenacity and devotion to art. It includes fragments of the ballet Giselle, choreographed by her, based on the original by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, and of La Diva, choreographed by Alberto Méndez.

Domingo Domingo, a witty Valencian orange farmer, tries to stand up to the multinational companies that oppress the humble workers of the land.

Violeta leads a normal life in a well-off family, with loving parents, surrounded by everything the heart of an eleven-year-old girl might wish for. But she hasn’t always been the pretty girl she is today; she was born a boy. At age 6, she baffled her parents (the famous adult movie stars Nacho Vidal and Franceska Jaimes) when she told them she wanted to be called and dress as a girl. After the initial shock, they decided to give her all their support on the long and tough road that will lead to her becoming a woman someday. Violeta faces many challenges, medical (such as deciding whether or not to take hormone-blockers to stop the development of masculine features as soon as puberty kicks in) and legal (obtaining an ID card with her new name and gender). Later, she may consider getting a sex reassignment procedure, or the possibility of becoming a mother through adoption.

We enter a living painting: actors demonstrating to the cries of “They don’t represent us!”, the rallying slogan of the anti-austerity movement in the Puerta del Sol square, who in 2011 shared their desire to create an original space of direct democracy. Like Irene Muñoz Martín. In this personal essay, she returns to this experience that has not yet found its “expression”: a canonical image that she attempts to capture, in vain.

An adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con Leucò” published in 1947. The ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis meet beside the sea and have a conversation about love and death. Sappho is said to have thrown herself into the ocean from lovesickness. Britomartis apparently tumbled off a cliff and into the water while fleeing from a man. Together, the two discuss the stories and images that have emerged around them to try and understand, at least for a moment, the bittersweet nature of desire.

Students of different careers prepare to take final exams. Botany, anatomy, sociology, medieval philosophy, criminal law, morphology, theoretical physics and piano. Each one uses their own abilities to cope with the situation of oral exposure, the most common evaluative practice in the National Universities of Argentina. Throughout the waiting moments in the halls, between the drama and the absurdity of each exam, the subjects begin to find unexpected relationships.

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.

Canvas becomes a dynamic actor over the course of a 50 minute journey. The paths, far from being a simple cycling route, become brushes that paint the canvas against the terrain, carried along by stone, dirt, and mud paths or bathed in sunlight and rain.

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film, for the first time we get close to the unique vision of the controversial Welsh director Peter Greenaway. The intense rehearsals with the actors, his meticulous method of shooting and his thirst for the new audiovisual and technologies are revealed in this documentary.

Mondo-style docudrama about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage.

This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them.

The history of the citizens' movement that for thirty years worked hard to overcome fear, fight hatred and eradicate the violence exercised by the savage terrorist gang ETA, both in the Basque Country and in the rest of Spain.

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?

Alberto is the head of a production company always looking for scandalous stories to cover. One day he comes across Paula's viral TikTok, a cannibal activist who defends her lifestyle on social media. After getting in touch, the "Alberto Te Lo Cuenta" crew will follow the girl and her partner to show a day in their lives.

An anthropology student and her companion, a film student, want to direct a documentary about a community of hunter-gatherers in Argentina. The difference between the well-off young urbanites and the filmed subjects appears in the first shooting moments already: the sound recorder obsessed with the loss of his Swiss Army knife, incongruous yoga sessions in the middle of a miserable village, tedious explanations causing perplexity and quiet irony on the part of the Wichi, whose full collaboration is still required for this project that intends to ‘increase the visibility’ of a traditional way of life threatened by land disputes...

With the chasms that doing so entails, Leiva personally paints a raw and unpretentious portrait of the frenetic spiral of his existence today, giving us an unwonted glimpse of his life at the height of his career. An irreversible vocal cord issue constantly challenges the present and future of a Leiva incapable of conceiving any option other than to keep going. Until his voice gives out.

For many years, director Fernando Spiner and his friend, the poet Anibal Zaldívar, share the ritual of swimming out to a buoy in the sea by the beaches of Villa Gesell. And, on this occasion recorded by the film, this ritual takes on new meaning: Spiner explores the deep bond between them.

How fair is it for the government to control its citizens? Four Puerto Ricans confront their past when they open their “files”, the records obtained of the illegal surveillance and persecution that the Puerto Rican government held against citizens and organizations that disagreed with the establishment. Through their daily life, they will tell us their stories, experiences and intimate feelings of the persecution they suffered. Taking their past as an example, we will confront the present.

After nights of heavy partying, a trans performer goes to the Botanical Garden of Lisbon to sober up again.

A painting hanging in a house in Madrid is causing a stir as it is thought to be a lost work by the great Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.

Spain, November 5, 2021. After an emergency landing, several people traveling from Casablanca (Morocco) to Istanbul (Turkey) escape from Palma de Mallorca airport.

A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-diary", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.

On October 4th, 2007 Arantza, the director of the film, was detained and taken to prison. She remembers a few things about those days: endlessly walking around the prison exercise yard, swimming competitions, Rasha's prison journey... After 918 nights locked up, Arantza is set free. From then onwards, she recorded her memories and doubts, which are heard throughout the documentary as a kind of fragmented memoir.

30 years after Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone is still stigmatized for her role as a sexual psychopath. But the Oscar nominee has always fought against domination. She embodies the independent woman of the 21st century, who refuses to be invisibilized and a "passive" object, subjected only to the male gaze.

The life and work of this visionary woman who carried out a valuable social, educational, and conservation work unprecedented in the history of Puerto Rico.

Spreading about 400 km in parallel to the Cantabric Sea, the Cantabrian Mountains, located North to Spain are a natural top wall full of animal and vegetable life that live in an extreme conditions across any year. Making a review along the four seasons, the documentary examines the situation and the relation of the different species, focusing in the brown bear's life in addition with the salmons travel along of thousand kilometers to return home to spawn, showing too the difficult of a landscape where danger is everywhere, including in the smallest size. A fascinating travel for revealing the wonder of nature.