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A pro-Republican propaganda documentary from the Spanish Civil War that combines real images of industrial and agricultural production with fictionalized scenes of fighting on the Aragon front.

The most emblematic troubadour of the Region of Murcia dies and provokes in the filmmaker the desire to know what the world of improvised oral poetry consists of, a tradition still sustained in the most popular strata of society.

In the context of Chilean education, for teenagers are forced to decide their future at an early age. Over the course of a year, we'll see how they can just have fun, while they await for the arrival to an unwanted destination.

An inside look of Chilean education from six teachers' point of view.

While two politicians prepare for Barcelona’s mayoral campaign in an office, outside, the Brigades de Confusió Popular exorcise the ghosts of Olympic urban planning. Filmmaker Àlex Sardà documents the first Interferència de Teatres de campanya, created by artist Marc Salicrú and carried out at Nova Icària Beach in Barcelona on September 21 and 22, 2024.

Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nineteenth century, daughter of Dr. Andreu, famous for its pills and cough syrup.

San Sebastian, October 2023.

What is a home? Can a body become a home? This short film tries to answer these questions about the construction of our identities through the intimate portrait of Galician transgender people.

Daniela would like to live far away from here in the future. Here, is a poor part of town in Montevideo, where Daniela lives in a small house with her son, husband, mother, sister and brother-in-law. They are better off than most of the people living in that neighborhood. They all work and the father provides them with whatever they need. He is one of the millions of emigrants from Latin America whose salaries are essential to the survival of their families. The movie carefully approaches Daniela’s world, tells her story, a girl immersed in daydreaming, who is also a down-to-earth mother, beloved daughter and young wife – and about the pain of emigration.

Bolivia in the 50's : on the Island of the Sun, in the midst of Lake Titicaca, Alberto Perrin films the indigenous community recently emancipated through the agrarian reform and the 1952 revolution. 2010: Carmen Perrin, his daughter, returns to the inhabitants the films shot by her father. No nostalgia, because the ancestral rites and the spirit of liberty continues to enliven the community, despite the pressure of tourism. A memory is emerging, gestures are invented, ties are woven in the landscape sanctuary.

This is the first and only feature-length documentary on the life and cinema of the late Jorge Grau, who is most famous for his classic social-political horror masterpiece "Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" (1974), seen by some critics as a fierce critique of the Franco government albeit set in a displaced foreign locale.

'Garage' is a semi-surreal outing to an American icon: the garage. Since Frank Lloyd Wright first imagined a special space for the car in his architectural vision for modern life in the suburbs, the garage has transformed itself from a symbol of suburbia to an incubator for subcultures and tech companies dreaming of building empires out of nothing, just like Apple.

Two enemies long at war with one another decide to sit down and talk. They have rejected and been mutually ignorant of one another for over five decades, meaning that the first thing they must find within themselves are the arguments, language and gestures needed to shift from violence to political negotiation. For four years journalist and filmmaker Natalia Orozco followed men and women on the path to becoming aware of the decisive role they were either forced to play or chose willingly... SYNOPSIS FICCI 57

According to the 2010 census, San José de las Salinas, on the north of the Córdoba province, had 662 inhabitants. That sum no longer included Ramón Cáceres, who had died at the hands of his wife and brother-in-law five years before: the only crime in that town’s history. They had gotten married in secret when Cáceres was 77 and she was 33. The case was covered by the press (mainly because of the unbelievable part played by a donkey in its solving) and was later forgotten. But Distéfano didn’t. Crimen de Las Salinas transcends the news story and builds up, even though in the film it’s always daytime, the disturbing portrait of quite a few obscurities.

Using as a thread the transfer of the work Portrait of Luis Muñoz Marín from the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, the documentary explores the work and the creative process of the artist Francisco Rodón and the series of portraits known as the Personajes de Rodón. The testimony of the artist is complemented by comments of history specialists and art critics Hiromi Shiba, Marimar Benítez, and Taína Caragol.

A portrait of the summer vacation of some young Chileans from different socioeconomic statuses during 1984.

Documentary that tries to unravel the identity traits of the followers of "Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata", attending mainly to a cultural background that widely transcends sports, while accompanying the dispute between the professional soccer team for promotion to the First Argentine Division.

The island of Culebra, located off the coast of Puerto Rico, has one of the richest ecosystems in the Caribbean. Abundant mangroves, coral reefs and world renowned beaches, like Flamenco Beach, attract tourists from all over. Today, active munitions from WW2 pose a threat to people, wildlife, and the environment. Activists, fishermen, professors, and military personnel aim to prevent further irreparable damage to Culebra’s coral reefs.

Liber Arce, a student, was killed by the police in a protest march. His funeral became the largest demonstration held in Montevideo. The events leading up to and after this event are portrayed.

On the Guajira peninsula in northern Columbia the old traditions of the indigenous Wayuu still hold sway. As soon as they begin menstruating, young women have to go and spend a year in a simple hut where only a few women are allowed to visit them. Contact with men is taboo. The grandmother is chiefly responsible for preparing the girl for her role as a woman during this period of seclusion. Pili is 12 years old when, for her grandmother's sake, she decides to follow this custom. But does she really know what she is taking on?

In the years right after the Rwandan genocide, a group of women at a workshop in Kigali began knitting, drawing and embroidering a future for their families and their country.

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.

From her own personal experience and from talking with her lifelong friends, Melisa (24) wonders about the mandates and prohibitions that mold the cultural construction of the female gender, especially in relation to the image. With humor and candidness, the film portraits a feminine world seen from the inside, from conversations, personal photos and home movies.

"Parler de Rose" (Talking about Rose), narrated by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and directed by Isabel Coixet examines the life and death of Rose Lokissim a prisoner of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad. Survivors of Habré's jails remember Rose as a brave inmate who took care of the sick and kept up the prisoners' morale. She also delivered clandestine messages to the outside world to inform relatives of their loved ones inside. Ultimately, Habré's political police, the DDS, learned of the messages and murdered her. Among the DDS files uncovered in 2001 by Human Rights Watch was the police report of Rose's last interrogation. Rose's questioners wrote that Rose said that even if they killed her, "Chad will thank her and history will talk about her." Now, 29 years later, Rose's courage is finally being remembered as Hissène Habré stands trial beginning 20 July 2015 before a special court in Senegal, where he has lived since he was overthrown in 1990.

The daily lives of two women in Santo Domingo, a white widow in her seventies and her young Afro-Caribbean maid, as they struggle to keep the house clean, the meat seasoned, and the soap opera on TV, without killing each other by the end of day.

A look at recent technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture.

A musical journey through the poetry of the Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf, in a project that proposes a Trawvn, a meeting between the Kalfu group and the compositive collaboration of renowned musicians, such as Francisca Valenzuela, Nano Stern, Joe Vasconcellos, Manuel García, Juanito Ayala , Tata Barahona and Pancho Sazo

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor Erice wanders in an interview about the film resistance. And in Italy, Tonino Guerra, Ninetto Davoli and Nico Naldini lend his voice to the missing Passolini to close a historic triangle on film and solitude.

The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.

'Guadalquivir' is a feature length documentary directed by Joaquín Gutiérrez that features a fox, an animal that has adapted, living in packs and alone and that is a carnivore, vegetarian and even carrion. The camera follows the path of the fox by the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas.

It's a metaphor between the traditional hunting system in Catalonia and the financial system that trapped citizens in Spain during one of that country's worst financial crises.

Gilda Love / Eduardo, the last transformist of the Chinese neighborhood of Barcelona, survives with a miserable pension while trying to continue acting on stage. His priorities are altered with the arrival to his life of Chloe and her mother, Hanna, with whom he will have the opportunity to form the family he has never had.

Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement. His lack of “revolutionary spirit” condemned him to the scorn of his peers and made him a pariah for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but without forgetting, the film reconstructs his story and revives a forgotten brilliance.

In this hybrid of appropriation documentary and video clip, Canoura suggests the paths of his later work, merging through the VHS texture the streets of Burela with New York in the 80s, the African culture with the Galician, the countryside and the sea. with the drop and the pixel.

Daniel Osorio will face his ghosts through the search of his only true love, the woman who left him because he was not able to settle down.

Documentary film about the Argentine artist and filmmaker Jorge Luis Acha as told by himself

Un cuento chino – A Chinese tale is a documentary project portraying Nicaraguans waiting for an old dream to come true: the construction of an interoceanic canal. While following the protagonists in their every day life and focusing on their hopes and fears related to the project, the film explores how the 500 year old canal fantasy has become part of the national imaginary and collective consciousness.

January 19, 2018. Santa Teresita, Buenos Aires. A mosaic (intimate and observational) about the typical workers of the coast. Each of their stories will be articulated throughout a working day: morning, afternoon and night, portraying the color and joy of a seasonal day.

María, a humble woman from the Pehuenche ethnic group, is standing on the shore of a large dam in the south of Chile. She asks herself if she will be able to recover the remains of the cemetery of her community, which is now sunk 80 meters deep in the water because of the neglect of the dam owners. If she is not allowed to withdraw the remains of her ancestors, she will fight to empty the artificial lake and recover them.