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Documentary - In 2008, Hervé Falciani left his job at the Swiss branch of HSBC, taking with him - without authorisation - a hard-drive containing a database of 130,000 named bank accounts, held by citizens from 180 countries. This database found its way into the hands of many world governments. The purpose of this film is to examine the tax debate in a critical and engaging but also a balanced way. - Peer Steinbrück, Hervé Falciani, Michael Lauber

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the strange is presented to us as known and the known becomes strange. A granddaughter discovers that her grandmother's past was very different from what she had been told. Could it be that in times of war, morality is subordinated to survival?

Blessed Carlo Acutis was an apostle of the Eucharist and dedicated many years of his brief life to investigating Eucharistic miracles throughout the world. The film contains recordings of Carlo Acutis himself with his original voice, fragments of animated drawings about eucharistic miracles, and as well as fictional recreations about the life of the protagonist.

Documentary based on the project by Dr. Florencio Monje Gil. This production offers an in-depth look at the last years of Sigmund Freud's life, exploring biographical, emotional, and scientific aspects of his existence, addressing significant historical events of the 20th century.

This documentary brings us closer to the harsh reality of a group of 300 women who live in Tarrafal, Santiago Island (Cape Verde). They have found a way of family subsistence by extracting sand daily, completely manually on the beaches closest to the center of the municipality.

A group of ex-combatants and their sons and daughters spend the night of October 15, 2014 camping in Monte Longdon, Falkland Islands. Thirty-two years earlier, in that same place, a battalion of Argentine soldiers was defending themselves from the British invasion on June 11, 1982. In the voice of Carlos Giordano, the present and the past intersect in a story that seeks to denounce the usurpation of the United Kingdom and the actions of the Argentine armed forces. Through animations, archival images and fictionalizations, this film recreates that night of camping captured in the digital book ViajeMalvinos.

"Why are we Colombians who live in Antofagasta afraid?" Filmmaker Angélica Valverde seeks to answer this question by reconstructing her experience in this city, with Rafaela and Carmenza, immigrant women who, like she, came to the north of Chile to realize their dreams. To try to overcome it, to observe how each copes with the fear, this rejection produced.

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.

The musical career spanning 40 years and the relationship of 25 years with his partner provide the excuse to look at the life and history of 60-year-old Mikel Erentxun, one of the most influential artists in the national music scene. Delving into the artist's professional background and his personal life is part of the essence of this film. Embracing his fear of death and, above all, of the passing of time, means that Mikel has to make important decisions in his life.

In the summer of 1996 Pablo Llorca did a long interview with Guillermo Pérez Villalta on the subject of water and the Mediterranean. They were five hours of recording, faded away immediately due to humidity problems and that had never been seen before. Recovered twenty-five years later, this is the result, where the painter's words are matched by images chosen by the filmmaker, in a descriptive relationship as well as a complementary reading.

Ethnographic documentary by NO-DO recreating the traditional carnival of the Navarrese village of Lanz.

Weaving together original audio and archival materials from the 35-year period in which Paraguay was ruled by military dictator Alfredo Stroessner, this film reconstructs the reflections of a man who has been sentenced to house arrest.

Students protest during the Chiefs of State conference at Punta del Este. Counterpoint between presidents, students and repressive policemen.

In Tolhuin, a small town lost in the extreme south of Argentina where almost nobody goes to stay, where the cold and the wind enter through all the cracks and the snow covers the fences, a man tries to prevent people from leaving through a new I try, a carnival in the middle of winter. This is a film about the efforts that man makes to adapt to a non-chosen destiny, to a territory that is hostile to him and that confronts him with nature in its purest and unbridled state.

The story of how, thirty years ago, Camarón de la Isla's “La leyenda del tiempo,” an experimental album mixing very different musical styles, revolutionized the world of flamenco music.

It was Thursday when we met her at Puerta del Sol. Sandra is a seventy three years old woman who’s life is dedicated to fight injustices, towards others and the ones she suffered herself. Everytime we meet we learn something new that she once was not allowed to say.

In early 1939 , the Spanish Civil War , is coming to an end. For the Republic, the decisive battle of the Ebro has meant the loss of Catalonia and the practical annihilation of his army. The Prime Minister Juan Negrin , tries one last strategy ; lengthen the Spanish contest for the foreseeable war unite Europe can save the Second Republic . In order to avoid Negrin plans , domestic preparing a landing operation unprecedented . About thirty boats with more than 20,000 men, proceed from Castellón and Malaga to Cartagena . The so called " Expedition to Cartagena" fail and one of his ships , the " Castle Olite " , will never return . Of the 2,112 men engaged in the Olite , 1,476 die , 342 are injured and 294 taken prisoner. The sinking of the " Castle Olite " by batteries republican offshore Cartagena , on March 7, 1939 , is one of the darkest and least known of the Spanish Civil War .

I keep moving the videos from one place to another and look for a relationship, as if they were the material for a film. That's how I know it: we shoot images to tell a story with them. But none of these videos were shot with that intention.

Occupation Inc. exposes European businessmen and politicians involved in the economic exploitation of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa and one of the most militarized, violent, and censored territories in the world.

What happens back stage of a big theatre production? This document asserts the incidents that occurred during the rehearsals and run of a big scale Mexican musical, a show that unexpectedly turned into an attempt to verify that famous quote that said "the show must go on": laugh, tears, victory, deception, friendship and resignation.

A long interview with Uruguay's greatest writer, in Madrid a few months before his death. From his bed, Onetti talks about literature, creativity, and his origins.

20 years after their debut album, the mexican rock band Molotov, reflects on their career with a compilation of never seen interviews and unreleased footage.

Biographical production that recreates the work of this artist, adoptive son of Puerto Rico, who stood out as a musician, photographer, filmmaker, producer, illustrator, etc.

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.

A 1922 documentary.

A film about guilt and blood-stained ideologies. A bomb explodes during a press conference in the jungle between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, killing more than 20 journalists. The Swedish journalist, Peter Torbiörnsson tries to discover who is behind this terrorist attack and end up discovering that his old friends are the ones who took his colleagues’ lives.

"Temazcal, the documentary" is the final result of over a year of collecting audiovisual material from the emerging Seville-based band Cuñados Invisibles. It offers a look through videos, images, and interviews at what it's like to form a music group from scratch, as well as the creation process of their first album, "Temazcal".

"Sobre vivir" is a documentary about suicide. It aims to make visible the problem and what it represents for a society like ours; it also aims to help break the taboo and stigma surrounding mental health and suicide. As it is a multifactorial issue, we wanted to make a photograph as complete as possible and we have testimonies from up to 60 people, including survivors, family members, psychologists, psychiatrists, associations, politicians and journalists. Some faces are familiar, but most of them are people who have told their story for the first time in this documentary. Suicide is a reflection of the society in which we live and its multiple problems: loneliness, precariousness, stress...

After the experience with 'Será tu tierra,' Soler becomes aware of this cruel reality, until then unknown; Soler makes this documentary on his own initiative and with complete freedom. The film analyzes and quantifies, using extensive data, the social and economic consequences of internal migration during the 1960s, especially in Barcelona and its metropolitan area, focusing on the problems that arise from a lack of housing, with people crammed together in old apartments without hygienic conditions; and the phenomenon of shantytowns.

Every year, up to 50 million tons of electronic waste - computers, television sets, mobile phones, household appliances - are discarded in the developed world. 75% of this waste disappears from the legal recycling circuits, with much of it being dumped illegally in the Third World, where it destroys landscapes and harms lives. This film takes the viewer on a journey of investigation to Europe, China, Africa and the US and reveals a toxic global trade fuelled by greed and corruption. - Written by Cosima Dannoritzer

Tells the story of Maria, a Central American immigrant who is forced to leave her family in search for a better life. On her way to the United States, she is forced to cross Mexico where she experiences a nightmare.

On May 4, 2017, the police found a burned car on one of the roads of the Pantano de Foix, near Barcelona. Inside the vehicle they discovered the remains of a charred body. The car belonged to Pedro Rodríguez, an agent of the Guardia Urbana of Barcelona. Officially, he was not listed as missing. When reconstructing his last hours of life, the mossos began to find inconsistencies in the statements of the people closest to the missing man.

An exploration of the world and the work of the most international Catalan filmmaker through the director's entomological vision and his portrayal of the characters and themes he loves and hates.

Documentary that attempts to establish a portrait of the variable -and at times immeasurable- collective of Constitución Station. Vendors, train drivers, officials, the needy, opportunists and untimely offer a framework that is in daily tension between those who live the space as a threshold to other realities and those who live it as their living space. The film sets out to recover these small stories from a perspective as meticulous as it is distant, to observe each of these tenuous events as an impartial, silent and almost impressionistic spectator in order to obtain from this zero sum, the general portrait of a world.

A documentary about family imprint, childhood, love and rejection, built around the image of two teenage siblings who embark on a premonitory journey into themselves, returning us to a raw and stripped-down present in which we are all, inevitably, participants.

The Valladolid debate (1550-1551) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of an indigenous people by European colonizers.

Sabina's Shadow is a documentary film that reflects on the figure of the Shaman and the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the traditional practices of the Mazatec culture, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Dance film made in Arica with the Tobas Internacional Gigantes Alados group.

Mireya Ramos, founder of Mariachi Flor de Toloache is the singer, violinist and arranger with Shea Fiol, vocalist and vihuela player. We follow their performances in NYC, California and India, while challenging the male music world.

Anarchist militia column raised in Valencia (Las Salesas) in 1936; it was particularly feared by a variety of communists and reactionaries and none too well-liked by the CNT leadership because of its ideological staunchness and commitment to social revolution and libertarian communism.

Three little ladies have lived for more than eighty years in the heart of a patio. In this modest theatre, daily rituals go hand in hand with the lapping of the fountain and nothing escapes María, the turtle. This place frozen in time is disturbed by the metamorphoses of the outside world...

For more than forty years, Argentinean sportsman Guillermo Vilas, a tennis legend, has tirelessly demanded that the official rankings (1973-78) be revised in order to finally be recognized as the best player in the world. Eduardo Puppo, a sports journalist, making Vilas' demand his own, fought for more than ten years against a powerful sports corporation to prove that Vilas was indeed unfairly displaced from the top of world tennis.