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The pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the most important religious journeys for millions of people around the world. But how to get there? This documentary shows us how 12 companies met the immense challenge of running a high-speed train through Saudi Arabia's sandy rocky desert in temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius. A true marvel of engineering and cooperation, and together, overcoming obstacles.
Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), legendary writer, actor and director; and his wife, the actress and writer Emma Cohen (1946-2016), shared their lives, analyzes the relationship that the living have with the dead through the places and objects they have left behind.
Documentary based on the forced expulsion of more than 250,000 slum dwellers from the Federal Capital during the last military dictatorship. A sympathetic and compassionate look at the suffering of marginalized individuals.
The sentimental education describes in first person the transit from the youth of Jorge, the filmmaker, to adulthood (increasingly postponed). A traumatic transit, where the innocence of the first days is abandoned based on ruptures and labor and artistic disappointments; where the weight and double nature of the family nucleus is understood, as a repressive entity and refuge.
Diptych with Rocío y José on the experience of El Rocío, Tres caminos al Rocío preserves the calm and contained gaze of that one. Continuing with that tension between the popular of Pasolini and the heroic of John Ford, as the critics of the time pointed out, it includes the winter pilgrimage along the roads of Seville, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Huelva.
A peculiar walk through the Basque city of San Sebastián along twisting roads never traveled by guidebook users.
Projecting parallel straight lines converging at a geometric point in a conical projection system where the sum of the factors encourages escape.
Journey through the memories of the tour of India in July 2024.
A little boy walks around the seaside town of Miramar in Argentina
Blanca Luz Brum traveled an unusual path, through twentieth-century Latin America, actively participating in the intellectual, political and artistic movements of Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is today a symbol of female emancipation in Latin America. The versions about her life are varied and dissimilar, the testimonies of those who knew her, full of contradictions.
Fernando (71) and Manolo Mier (70) are brothers. They are two of the last shepherds left in Picos de Europa. They transmit, with unusual generosity, wisdom and happiness in equal parts. In an environment where many would not survive, they enjoy life. They are legend and memory of Picos, at the same level as El Urriellu or the wolf. A way of life and a wisdom that can disappear with them.
In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.
The film aims to answer two questions: What is flamenco? Who is the singer Niño de Elche? This child prodigy, who inspired artists such as C. Tangana, started challenging the rules of flamenco in his adolescence, which led to a violent confrontation with his family and flamenco fans that continues today.
The reality of four rural women in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Despite their pain and difficulties, they have managed to forge a life that in maturity unfolds all the beauty of wisdom.
With the Colombian government making little effort to come up with concrete proposals to tackle the healthcare crisis triggered by Covid-19 and the Colombian parliament passing utterly incomprehensible bills on the issue, Jorge Caballero Ramos decided to take matters into his own hands by using AI to create a new, fictional member of the Colombian Senate: Dora Sena. Dora's mission is to spark debate in the middle of a pandemic. But can an AI machine really write effective parliamentary bills for dystopian situations?
Six families from different parts of the world have something in common: the parents have been filming their children obsessively since the day they were born. The director of this documentary contacted them to ask them to continue doing so, but following his guidelines. In these private worlds, children grow up being molded and defined by adults. Parents proudly show off the “good work” they have done with their children, while futilely attempting to capture time.
"Ningún Lugar Para Morir begins from an unexpected change of place. Everyday images in a territory with memories of war in southern Chile coexist with those of a childbirth. Light and darkness meet in colors, blacks and whites. The film portrays a forest, a death, and glimmers of light. Dedicated to Lena." - Lightcone
Flamenco is one of the world's few art forms that is believed to be passed down exclusively through bloodlines. For Barcelona's Gypsy community, it cannot be learned at a school or on paper. It is lived within the home, created at the bar and perfected on the street corner. Bajari goes to all those places with the dancer Karime Amaya-who is working with some of the most talented up-and-coming musicians and dancers to create an innovative show-and little 5-year old Juanito Manzano who takes his first steps to dance in it and earn his white flamenco boots. Their experiences form a journey of discovery of this living tradition and create an intimate portrait of how flamenco's legacy is kept alive within Barcelona's tight-knit Gypsy community.
The director questions his parents about their private life, past and present. They belong to a generation marked by misery and oppression, where marriage was "until death do us part". Although they are seen frequently together, they answer openly but alone. It's a portrait of identity, origin, memory - a stunning black and white intimacy.
Behind the scenes we are witnesses to Giselle’s misery: she sees her interior self broken and falling into a lonely and eternal dance that leads her to madness and death. She then descends to the underworld, leaving her soul forever dark in the eternal night.
Through illness and death a daughter seeks her mother in a dream world and finds her father in limbo. While she accepts the events of the unstoppable life that she runs over with her own rhythm, she searches for her from the feeling of unreality of mundane life.
During the 2004 electoral campaign, before the left came to power for the first time ever in the history of Uruguay, a film crew sets out to record the opinions of young people who are going to vote for the left, and to find out what they think about politics, militant action, the left wing parties and citizen participation. Under the impact of today's global economic slowdown and political crisis, stereotypes of militant action have changed since May 1968 and the utopian thought of the 1970s, and in this documentary some of these new forms of political thought find expression.
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.
A group of artists adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to show what the reality of madness is really like, but they end up showing the madness of reality. Raquel Lubartowski decided to stage a performance of the play Marat Sade by Peter Weiss at the Vilardebó Hospital, which is the psychiatric hospital in Montevideo. This documentary takes us through from the first meeting to the first rehearsal at an old dilapidated polyclinic.
October 2004. Uruguay. After three years away Mariana returns to her country to be reunited with her family and also to vote. After the economic crisis that plunged the country into a terrible depression, Uruguay is on the brink of a real change. We are shown day to day life in Melo, a small provincial city, we are given an intimate insight into a family of militant leftists, and we accompany a Latin American people in the month leading up to a historic political event: the first ever election victory in Uruguay of a party from the political left, the Frente Amplio.
Maggie Lay is the last surviving star of the theater of magazines in Chile, a theatrical genre that during the dictatorship, went from glory to oblivion. She currently makes a living as a bus driver, but has refused to leave the stage until today.
Juan tries to rescue Ulises from oblivion by showing his latest paintings, which have been hidden for 20 years. A documentary that is also a love story between two free men and that marks the debut as a director of Sergio de León.
At the beginning of 2012 the so called war against crime, led by the Mexican Federal Government brought, as consequence, a number of nearly 50,000 casualties and a social climate of violence and distrust. How was this experienced by the men and women who fight this violence from the trenches of science? To the End of Reckoning tells through the eyes of the Jalisco Forensics Institute the development of this engagement, in one of the most violent states in the Country.
A Goya award nominated short documentary.
Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana. The day before the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. An old man is repairing a few decades old motorcycle. A young dentist is trying to find some transport to a clinic in remote mountains. A middle-aged married couple run a public telephone booth in their modest house for villagers who have no phone. Fates of these people and many other inhabitants of Sierra Maestra are depicted on a day of ideological ecstasy, the day of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. And the following day? The next day, driven by inertia, they all return to the rhythm of everyday life which is the same and is not very promising. But the revolution continues... For how long?
Extremely rare Cuban documentary reveals rockers that find liberty by injecting themselves with the HIV virus, at a time when this was almost synonymous with a death sentence.
This "diary" is a reflection on a time full of illusions, but also of defeats; of girls, of trips, of stories and compulsive audios on WhatsApp. An apprenticeship in which the protagonist, learning, learns rather little.
Carlos Saura, a living legend. Félix Viscarret, a director who wants to make a film portrait of the great master. He draws up a plan. He thinks it's brilliant. He will show the intimate side of Saura through conversations of the genius with his 7 children. Everyone accepts. But Saura does not like talking about the past.
The film starts with the confluence of the 15M protesters in Puerta del Sol, follow the construction of the Camping Sol, a kind of parallel city assemblies, whose structure extends to neighborhoods and nearby cities and all over Spain. After what happened attest, without mediation or intention, the film lets the images speak and describe the end of the experience.
Nine young chefs join forces and share knowledge to transform the cuisine of Galicia in 2003. Grupo Nove uses radical new techniques to develop an idea of cuisine attached to the land and tradition.
Two kids from one of the toughest ghettos in Puerto Rico were filmed during 5 years fighting their way out of poverty and violence using their hands in the boxing ring.
An interview with Spanish film director Victor Erice, conducted by Hideyuki Miyaoka
