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In 1972, during the military government, a group of prisoners is confined to prison Trelew, considered maximum security . However, several of those detained had their way free, while 19 prisoners were recaptured.

Manel has been kissed by all the old women in the village. From the passion of Christ to the olive trees in the Catalan countryside, a landscape of resistance that evokes a sour humour, and at the same time a silence from times gone by.

Their desert was not the same since they last saw it. The dunes kept memories of a childhood bathed in sun and sand, when minutes passed by in a stalling time. It has been long since they moved to the city, in search of a better future. They left, switching their tents for high buildings in busy boulevards, bearing in mind their responsibility towards their society. Each step marked by the commitment to make of their training the future of their people. It is the outcry of souls deep-rooted in tradition, in culture, in the stories of their sand. The desert was not the same, it may have never been. This documental show how they left to change it.

Photographic and sound story, through the encounter of characters with their stories of a time without end.

72 hours after a shattering earthquake hits his hometown, a filmmaker grabs a camera and discovers a universal, first-person tale of memory, loss, and coming back home in the least likely of circumstances.

Short documentary about "life" in Buenos Aires' Borda Hospital.

This is the story of Buyema Abdelfatan, also known as Castro, an ex Saharan soldier that now a days runs a centre for disabled children in the refugee camp of Smara (Tindouf, Algeria). A personal project that has earned him both praise and criticism, but could not continue without his dedication, perseverance and humanitarian aid that he receives.

Only able to move two fingers of his hands due to having been born with degenerative muscular atrophy, Brian has become a global phenomenon thanks to social media, where he is the gamer and streamer of the moment. He has millions of followers who watch his every step and has recently made his big screen debut in the film Campeonex, with Javier Fesser. La vida de Brianeitor tells the fascinating story of overcoming the odds and how Brian became Brianeitor2002 despite his physical disability.

A documentary about cumbia from Argentina, from early years to recent years.

Filmed in the infamous beach of Benidorm, a portrait of summer holidays and free time.

Taking the elegance and poetic power of the sea as main elements, Andrade subverts the role traditionally imposed on women. From observed objects to subjects that open their eyes to forgotten realities. Images that, when fading out, reflect a world whose sensitivity is mutating. Scenes of a dreamlike quality that borders surrealism so as to show the new order of things.

Aroak is a documentary about the cycle of life through the passing of the seasons and the stories of 10 people from different generations, and the environment in which they live, closely connected to the land and animals. How they experience the passing of the seasons, how it was before and how they experience it now. They talk about their interaction with the environment, their feelings towards animals and plants. Aroak is also an audiovisual poem about nature and its magic, its sounds and its inhabitants.

In 1977, in the middle of the Transition towards democracy in Spain, she went up on stage and dazzled cabaret audiences by imitating Sara Montiel with gestural perfection and a very Mediterranean wit. Antonio Campos Ramos, with the stage name of La Margot, quickly became a great star of the Valencian nightlife. She was "more Sara" than Sara herself. Everyone fell in love with La Margot.

From found footage and using the natural deterioration, scratches, fungus and noises of the original material, the different layers of sound, music, text and their interaction with the image raise questions about the idea of nation, identity and the passage of time.

In this musical documentary we are shown a period in the cultural history of Uruguay after the dictatorship ended, told through the story of Tabaré Rivero and his rock group. There are anecdotes from people who took part in that story and archive material, and we are treated to an intimate and amusing reflection about the role of the artist in contemporary society, especially in Latin America.

Poachers and climate change are wiping out the fine clam and the slug in the estuaries of Galicia. A group of shellfish gatherers on foot are fighting to remedy this imbalance. It is extremely hard work, and the tradition is dying out with each generation.

"Todo" (Everything) gathers the impressions of the filmmaker in her new surroundings, where she watches, classifies, and re-organizes everything that catches her eye. From a place of curiosity and amazement, she organizes an inventory of objects, characters, and situations. A tireless flow of images of the popular, the eccentric, the traditional, the new, the beautiful, and the ugly of the Matta Sur neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. An exercise of reflection on the destiny of images, their accumulation, classification, and order, modes of structuring the material, and the filmmaker's gaze.

Even today there is still a certain resistance to recognizing the aesthetic revolution caused by Virus in the early eighties. The audacity of Federico Moura at the head of the La Plata's band exceeded the limits of rock and is still a source of art-pop knowledge. Imágenes Paganas explores that tension and rejection in times of dictatorship, a scourge that the Moura family paid with the disappearance of Federico's older brother. The documentary by Costantino inaugurates a time of historical reparation with Federico Moura as a warrior of modernity.

Heart of the Generacion 27, Spanish poet Emilio Prados recalls his lifetime from Mexican exile where Spanish Civil War has forced him, as other Spanish intellectuals in 1930s.

Through a separation of generations, three Salvadoran men share difficult decisions and how they persevered to find new life and family in America.

On the occasion of awarding the Cervantes Prize to the Catalan writer Juan Marsé on 23 April 2009, family members, friends and writers offer a sincere portrait of the best chronicler of life in Barcelona, Catalonia, during the post-war period and the worst days of the General Franco dictatorship, in the forties and fifties, and during the economic development and the hard conquest of freedom, in the sixties and seventies.

On December 30th, 2000, a blizzard in the Pyrenees killed 9 people in Balandrau. An emotional portrait of the tragedy narrated by the survivors.

A documentary about the life and the work of the Costa Rican artist Guadalupe Urbina, one of the most important Central American singers and poets. Her songs and reflections explore the meaning of love, eroticism, nature, and the sacred; helping to strengthen an endangered communal identity.

A Puerto-Rican Vietnam veteran returns to the site where he was injured in combat 36 years prior.

"Folclor imaginario" was one of the most acclaimed Chilean albums of 2018, and this documentary sets in front of the camera the reasons, searches and associations that led to such brilliant result of crossing with the tradition

The duo made up of musician and actress Julia de Castro and double bass player Miguel Rodrigáñez thus premieres their latest show, Exhalación: vida y muerte de De La Puríssima. With it, they intend to put an end to the ten-year revolution of EL CUPLÉ this scenic musical genre, which the singular tandem has merged with jazz, cumbia and electronics on stages around the world. Show nominated for the Premios Valle Inclán. As the duo explains, De La Puríssima was born in 2009 “as a transit project, in which music was the most direct and ritualistic medium from which to raise core issues such as sex, bullfighting, folklore or religion”. Now, a decade later, it is time to remove the peineta and celebrate the end of a stage in which the provocative lyrics by Julia de Castro have traveled through numerous audiences to bring up to date a genre that was in the forgetfulness of national folklore, the cuplé.

Colette is a 70 year old French woman that works as a fortune teller in her apartment in Madrid. She lives alone, spending her live doing videocalls and having sporadic encounters with a young neighbour. Her peculiar relationship with her past floats in the ambience.

Short docufiction film about an elderly woman's efforts to stay connected in a society that rejects her in the digital realm.

Documentary about a controversial figure, repudiated by many and praised by others, Cortés had led to writing thousands of pages about his life and the military task for which he is known: the conquest of the great Mexica Empire of Moctezuma II. This documentary explores the myth that was created around him and tries to explain a man with a life full of shadows and lights.

Having escaped a destructive relationship, film artist Maja Borg explores two ritual practices: Christianity and BDSM. At first glance, the two could hardly be further apart, but perhaps there is a spiritual kinship between religion and subculture in terms of their healing power. Borg confronts herself and her deeply personal traumas in a dark and theatrical form, while exploring the European queer scene and the Christian heritage of northern Europe to find back to her own core. Passion and suffering are two sides of the same complex case in ‘Passion’, whose transcendental imagers lets literary and cinematic traditions come together in a ceremonial whole. But the abstractions give a sense of human depth to the film’s encounters, where Borg is challenged in both body and soul. And maybe it is precisely this humanity that proves to be the thing that connects theology and BDSM on an emotional and possibly even spiritual level.

Documentary about Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer, regarded as the best Ecuadorian footballer of all time.

In a corner to the South West of the province of Buenos Aires lives Osvaldo Calvo, a veteran of 82 years, lover of astronomical optics. Luthiers of telescopes, founder of the Valentín Alsina Observatory. An expert in optics applied to the cinematographic arts and sciences.

One of the first babies born in captivity during the military dictatorship within the School of Mechanics of the Navy was Victoria Donda Pérez. The young woman discovers 30 years later that she was appropriated by a military man from the E.S.M.A. and that her parents are missing. Determined to know her true story, she builds a documentary portrait of her family where victims and repressors coexist to this day.

Siya, Dumaha, Mata and Aziz are Saharawi refugees that live in camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They show us the daily extreme harshness of an exile that lasts for 40 years. We can discover the unknown reality of torture, mines and maimed people, child malnutrition or mental illnesses that plague the Saharawi people, who are condemned to live away from their homeland.

A tale about a usurped nation, about a forgotten genocide, about globalization, about one river.

Audiovisual about the launch of the newspaper AVUI, the first newspaper entirely in Catalan, recorded on 22 and 23 April 1976.

This film essay brings together the particular and the universal in a conversation with a landscape framed by a window from a single vantage point. It draws from the intimate, the historical, the political, and the aesthetic to uncover the complex processes that have shaped the landscape over time, while simultaneously deconstructing the gaze that rests upon it.

For the protagonist, breathing therapy and anti-stress techniques become a starting point for a life change. He enters the world of freediving, i.e. diving while breadth-holding. Risking his life, he starts practicing holding his breath for increasingly longer periods of time. Where is the boundary of his capabilities?

Álvaro Recoba and Antonio Pacheco are referents and captains from Nacional and Peñarol soccer teams, respectively. They are rivals in the field but friends on the street. Alongside with Rafael Perrone, and Daniel Pascale, they start a carnival dream in montevideo.

Instant chronicle of the times we are living, with a world and moral order that seems to falter without letting us glimpse what will come, the strength of the film lies in the use of images destined to disappear, poor images, rescued from mobile phones, social networks, Telegram groups, that no one will bother to archive. The film confronts us with two memories: on the one hand, the memory of the day before yesterday, where a spark emerged that caused everything, and on the other, the memory that we captured without protecting it later, without making it accessible.

In this film there is a crescent count until the demystification of a bridge that connects and separates one country from another. Portugal and Spain, distant by fragments of their memories, images, objects, voices and ruins. Time runs out... An anxiety floats above the border and also a strength of believing that it is possible to change some things until the very last minute of our cross-over. In a world of contradictions, inequalities remain, existing surprising stories in almost forgotten lands. We are standing before a jigsaw puzzle organized into a map of ideas and memories.