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Seni Camara lives with her husband and family in the village of Bigona, in the Casamance region in southern Senegal. Working outside the local tradition of making pots and “useful” objects out of clay, Seni claims that through a “gift of God” she has been able to create thousands of bizarre, magnificent creatures — clay sculptures of astonishing originality. Although the villagers don’t know quite what to make of Seni and her art, she continues to work to support her family and to satisfy her own creative urge. The film follows Seni and her husband as they prepare the materials of her art. Together they dig up the hard dirt of the land and slowly mix it with water and sand until the clay is ready to be molded (she tells by taste). While Seni does the intense work of shaping the wet clay into her truly original forms, her husband prepares the final dye bath by harvesting and soaking wild nuts in water. Finally they fire the sculptures and dye them.

In its heyday, Changa Tuki, aka Raptor House, attracted thousands of young people to afternoon parties called "matinees", from those parties a controversial subculture grew, one that still echoes to this day. This is the story as told by its protagonists.

Alphonse is a 70 years old man, born and raised in Benin, left his country and his people with the promise to come back home… But he never did. When Alphonse receives the news that his sister Veronique is ill, it seems to him that time has past too long and that he has to go and see her. Alphonse will have to face the past and the present of his homeland. He will have to talk and explain 40 years of silence, shame and disillusion. To his sister who has been waiting for him, also to his mother, who died without seeing him back. “The door of no return” is a journey from north to south and south to north, from the present to the past, from here to beyond. An adventure back to the starting point. An open reflection about all the questions arising from the personal conflict of a man divided by the emigrant who has gone and the immigrant who has never returned. It is the unique and universal story of Alphonse Zannou.

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says it, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is as untranslatable as music… The last hour is a movie about ghosts. A documentary about the light that brightens the last inhabitants of a remote corner of the Argentine pampa.

Julita expressed her three greatest wishes shortly after getting married: lots of children, a monkey and a castle she can call her own. That all of these wishes have become a reality is probably down to the immense stubbornness of this charismatic and equally hilarious matriarch who has a weakness for collecting crazy objects. When financial circumstances force the family to sell their castle, her adult children are left sifting through a lifetime of peculiarities in search of a few lost bones… Spanish actor and neo director Gustavo Salmerón paints a deliciously absurd family portrait that just happens to reveal a lot about Spain, Catholicism and the economic crisis.

A portrait of Spanish visual artist, writer and art critic Elena Asins (1940-2015), a key figure in geometric abstraction since the sixties.

The turbulent story of the Lagun bookstore — located in San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, Spain — is a powerful tale of courage, resistance and struggle; first against the Franco dictatorship, then against the terrorist gang ETA and its numerous and sinister acolytes.

"Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability." - NYFF

Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on one of the darkest chapters of European history: the presumed organized extermination that took place during the coup, the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing crimes against humanity. The film is also a sore reminder of an issue that still stands today: the clear-cut accountability held by Germany, Italy, and Portugal. The film accomplishes to give both sides a voice - those against whom the killing has been directed; and the side of the perpetrators.

The causes of the crisis. The background of the crisis. The effects of the crisis. Irrational corruption. Social involution. Dysfunctional government. Apeocracy has arrived.

The documentary reviews the intense artistic and public life of Basque artist Agustín Ibarrola through conversations with prominent figures from the world of art and culture.

A mother who lost her memory. Her best friend, kidnapped and disappeared being pregnant. A daughter who tries to rescue them. A reflection upon friendship, motherhood and loss.

Jorge Prelorán was one of the most prolific documentary filmmakers from Argentina. This documentary presents an interview which focuses on his creative work, and on how his ideas about documentaries are key in the uniqueness of his topics and characters.

The incredible story of Los Xey, a musical group born in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1940, which achieved and maintained an extraordinary worldwide success until its dissolution in 1961.

Documentary about the earthquake that devastated the Yungai area on May 31, 1970, which killed more than 40,000 Peruvians.

Towards the end of the seventies, the militants of MIR exiled in Europe, decided to return to Chile in order to support the fight against the military dictatorship. The ones who could would help through legal means, others through clandestinely. Many had children and couldn't' t return with them. So the idea of a community center to shelter these children was born. Project Home gathered 60 kids that were left to the care of 20 people who assumed the responsibility of their upbringing for the years to come.

A portrait of Spanish photographer Chema Madoz with a look at his creative process.

A pro-Republican propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War. It combines documentary reporting and narrative elements.

After the Civil War, between 20,000 and 30,000 Spaniards went into exile in Mexico. This was the country that welcomed the most exiles, after France.

The sisterhood of the only drag haus in Bogotá, Haus of Orchids, and how these queens and king became the family they are right now.

This documentary gives us a profile of Carlos Molina, the Uruguayan anarchist who was also an improvisational singer and poet, through words, songs and improvisations by contributors including Daniel Viglietti, Coriún Aharonián and Mauricio Rosencof.

Over the last two decades, Medellin has gone from being globally known as a drug traffic and extreme violence destination to becoming a thriving cosmopolitan city. Progress and peace have resulted in an exponential increase of tourism, but have also caused unexpected collateral damage: the rise in sex tourism in this Colombian city. Many of the illegal networks run by foreigners in the United States and Europe, offer Medellin guided tours that include underage prostitutes in their packages available for online purchase.

Spanish scientist Tomeo L'Amo bought a painting in 1989 that he believed to be an original Dalí. After 25 years of searching for the truth, an art expert in Paris changes his life.

The "cueca" is Chile's national dance. Marveled by this form of dancing, the narrator reflects on the meaning of dance in our lives and how it has been portrayed in the history of cinema.

A group of actors in Madrid are cast in a theatre show conceived as a dance marathon and as an unscripted competition. ‘Malditos’ follows their drifting between success, failure, fame and self-realization, interweaving non-fiction interventions and staged representations, constantly blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.

Documentary about the spanish band "La Banda Trapera del Río"

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.

Isaki Lacuesta films two RCR houses

Kukuaren Kanta quantifies the beauty of a tiny town in Navarre, which lives attentive to the rhythm of the seasons, on the sidelines of the urgency and waiting for the end of the world. The shooting of a community film serves as a pretext for the inhabitants of Lerga, the 'Cucos', to film themselves thinking about posterity. Songs to the Virgin of Ujué, rituals of faith, aerobic exercises in synchrony, work in the field and crafts or the preparation of a meal collaboratively are combined in the present but are projected towards the future, when the image will be footprint, memory of a life in common. Between resilience and invention, cinema builds senses of community and belonging.

Two old Viennese friends embark on a road trip from Vienna to southern Spain. One is a Jewish Holocaust survivor haunted by the pain of the Spanish Roma children singing flamenco in the camp, the other, his guitar playing best mate, urges him to face the music.

For many years lions and hyenas have competed hard for meat. Both control each other, stealing and killing each other. But in this game, both survive and no one prevails.Their destinies are united. This is the story of the ancestral confrontation between the most iconic predators of Africa

Amid fond memories of the 1990s and the beginning of their respective professional careers, Ana Tijoux, Seo2, Cenzi and DJ Squat tell the story of Makiza, a fundamental band in the history of hip-hop made in Chile. They do not avoid any issue: neither the freedom of their creation, nor the harshness of Chile's democratic transition nor the tensions that led to the end of the group.

Catalan teenager Iona hates her mother, and she lets us know it right at the start of this short film, which she co-directed. She reads from her diaries to tell us about her early teens, against the backdrop of a rapid montage of her photographs and videos.

Non-fiction short film about the fragility of memory and the places that human beings create to safeguard it. People disappear, like the buildings they lived in, the places where they worked and were happy. Those faces and those lives were once part of the written memory, a memory that will disappear because nothing is forever. What the water brings, the water takes away.

From a rooftop, a camera films the El Pozo train station in Madrid on 11 March. It awaits the arrival of one of the four trains that took part in the 11M terrorist attacks, at the same place where it exploded in that Thursday of 2004.

A woman who moved from the city to the countryside, a small farmer, a successful lawyer, an Italian immigrant, a forest ranger and a student tell us their stories. This film is part of a project called “The Latin Americans”, which is about national identities in countries throughout the continent.

Thirteen short films directed by thirteen directors, based on the recitals of Argentino en Vivo 2.

In the 60s and half of the 70s, Almeria was the Hollywood of the South Europe.