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A travelogue through the diverse neighborhoods of Madrid, its picturesque streets and its history; and an approach, with a sense of humor, to the lighted signs and advertising slogans of the shops: an unusual portrait of the city and its people.

A documentary about the life of anarchist Felipe Sandoval.

After the recent closure of the Carrio well, a symbol of the end of an industry that has marked the character of a town, Barredos faces depopulation and oblivion. However, the testimonies of those who are still alive and the photographic material from the mid-20th century by Corsino García Alonso, a local photographer and grandfather of the author, manage to show that the memory still endures. The stories of its heyday told orally and visually and its characters intertwine and contrast with a current declining, empty post-industrial landscape.

El Barro de la Revolución takes place in the Philippine rainforest and reveals the inner life, without the usual mandate of the camera, of the military, social, political, emotional and educational actions of one of the guerrilla units that Polo visits with his complicity. It is a shared and solidary project, which shapes a story in which the daily duties and urgencies acquire an extreme political and poetic relevance. In short, and from our perspective as spectators, we are once again questioned about the indissoluble condition of the intimate and personal in the political sphere.

The Silva family is pioneer and a role model within the community; it shows values and the goal to not let the candombe tradition fade away. Not only do they have an internal hierarchy, but also in his neighbourhood, Waldemar “Cachila” Silva is a respected leader. Cachila decide to pass on his legacy to his sons Matias and Wellington, who should now lead the family business, afro descendants playing candombe, a drum rhythm for the carnival contest and keep the privilege place obtained by the family. Patriarchy, hierarchy and cultural traditions are the concepts that drive this documentary about the life of a man of African descent and a dysfunctional family trying to perpetuate its power, which is crucial for the future of a culture.

The majestic mountain scenery of the town of Ubuyama-mura in southern Japan serves as the setting for this exploration of an inexhaustible cultural legacy. With the arrival of summer, Masae goes house to house collecting traditional songs in a search for poems dating back over one thousand years.

For two years, García Roure followed five patients at the mental health unit from a hospital in Barcelona as they struggled with serious psychoses - like Javier who has had sound hallucinations and delirium for 20 years about all kinds of cosmic issues. This beautifully shot study shows how society copes with this kind of mental patients.

The Taking of Siétamo is a report on the activity of the FAI (Durruti) Aguiluchos column on the Aragon front in August 1936 and focuses on the conquest of the town of Siétamo.

A documentary structured as a series of interviews in which Joaquim Jordà, both on his own and in dialogue with José Luis Guerín, Llorenç Soler or Esteve Riambau, reviews his career, the Barcelona School, his opinions on cinema and documentary, etc.

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker Mario Camus (1935-2021).

A feature film that focuses on the particular relationship that a group of women entertain with cats that live in an abandoned vacant lot in the Colegiales neighborhood. An intrusive camera, almost imperceptible to the neighbors and to the cats, immerses us in the day-to-day life of the animals and the women who are dedicated to feeding and caring for them.

"Out of Plastic" is a documentary film that sets out to explore the obscure depths of plastics in the Mediterranean. The film is set in the Balearic Islands, and offers viewers a moment to reflect on the profound presence of plastic in our lives and in our natural environment. The film also offers sweeping landscapes and mystic ocean depths - the point-of-encounter between man and nature – and intends to demonstrate how our over consumption of single-use plastic has tipped the scales, to the detriment of nature, and ultimately ourselves.

Four artists - born in the same city - dig deep to reveal their connection with music. They are modern troubadours. Music is their soul - their lyrics transmit an intimate, sincere and unconventional message. A superb portrait of underground artists.

The Amateur Soccer Referee Federation has a new board of directors, who face the challenge of renewing their image after a 90-year history. But these leaders receive a broke organization and headquarters that are in precarious conditions. They have also aged, but have nothing to lose and will work together to reinvent themselves.

In July 2023, four people with disabilities, with the help of around twenty volunteers, took on the challenge of conquering Mulhacén, the highest mountain on the Iberian Peninsula, in a journey that required a great deal of effort and teamwork.

An intimate portrait of Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina without his signature bowler hat, at night and with malice aforethought. Rugged, direct, and unflinching, director Fernando León de Aranoa captures Sabina’s hidden side over 13 years of filming, where the artist steps off the stage to reveal stories of misfortune, comedy, inspiration, and of pain.

Silvio Rodríguez learned to play guitar secretly during his military service. After 45 years of career, he's still in full musical activity and maintains his commitment to culture through their studio, Ojalá, and initiatives such as "La gira por los barrios", in which Silvio, barely advertised, performs in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of Havana.

El Foso is a film about the musicians playing in the Opera Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, about their lives and their passions.

A portrait of the Spanish director Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia (1911-76), one of the outsiders of Spanish cinema, and the story of his masterpiece, a cult work that tells the story of a self-taught filmmaker who was born under the sign of the shadows, lights and chiaroscuro of cinema.

Opening with shots of the Basque region, this film collects the performances of the children's dance group Elai Alai and the Eresoinka chorus. They performed throughout France in order to bring awareness to the reality of the Basque Country and to raise funds to help refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

A focus puller in the midst of a professional crisis embarks on a journey to the last remaining lighthouse keepers. What begins as an external quest evolves into an internal narrative where the filmmaking process intertwines with the stories themselves. The lighthouse keepers reveal to her another way of being in the world. This film is a letter to her nephew, and to all those who wonder why we tell invisible stories. It is an ode to documentary filmmaking, to its light and shadow, to its power to capture what is on the verge of disappearing, as well as to illuminate one's own path. Embracing life as a journey will bring about a professional and personal rebirth.

The diary of a trip - interrupted - of the director to Chile, made during the social explosion of the eighties: Expelled from the country after her semi-clandestine entry was discovered by the intelligence services, it was completed from a distance. It is one of the first returns from exile and a fundamental antecedent of the first-person documentary in Chile.

In 1942, in the midst of World War II, Nazi Germany occupied France. The Resistance launched numerous escape networks to help people escape from Nazi to the allied Europe. Among them there was the network of escapes that acted in secret between Mendibe-Orbaizeta, a network so secret that it did not even have a name. Spies, clandestine networks, smuggling, solidarity, resistance, hope... All this and more is the documentary 'Sans nom sarea' (Sans Nom Network).

The emotional journey of Margalida Bover, who was the lover of the anarchist militant Salvador Puig Antich, convicted of murder and executed by Franco's regime in 1974.

First-person testimony of the life and work of one of the most important and prolific supporting actors in our country. The last legacy of one of the actors who most loved his profession and for which he continued working until his last days.

At the Ca la Dona Documentation Center, a self-managed bi-lesbo-feminist archive, one of the archivists becomes obsessed with a photograph. Looking at it over and over again, touching it again and again, she creates a bond with it and discovers the mark of a kiss on the face of "Lupita." On the back, written by hand, are two enigmatic words: "I have you." A sensory and emotional journey where memory comes to life through the construction of a personal and political map.

Aonrú is a short documentary studying the fishing industry, as well as the island’s inhabitants, on Cape Clear Island, West Cork, Ireland.

For a week, a group of people of all ages speaks in front of a camera about their experiences with drugs.

José Escudier is in charge of directing the 5-episode television series, with each episode being 50 minutes long. He has experience in this type of format and directed “Camarón, de la Isla al mito.” Journalist Carlos Herrera is the main narrator of the series alongside Curro Romero himself. However, in some sequences, we will also use the voices of some of the key figures who knew the bullfighter.

“Esperanza Macarena: Puerta del Cielo”. This is the title of the new film by the Brotherhood of the Macarena. This work, whose script was written by Carlos Colón Perales, who also directed it together with the Sevillian director Carlos Valera Bastida, with the collaboration of the production company Valdeluxe, and the voiceover by Antonio García Barbeito, revolves around the history and legend of the Brotherhood of the Macarena, throughout almost five centuries, of the sacred and spectacular beauty of its processional departure, at dawn on Good Friday, of the devotion that overflowed Seville from a neighborhood and of Seville's love for the Esperanza Macarena which, arriving to Rome, culminated in the canonical coronation of 1964, the fiftieth anniversary of which this Macareno Jubilee Year commemorates.

Ateneos is a community theater troupe. Its members work during the day and meet to rehearse at night. For the most part, they are people with a lot of sensitivity who found a way to express themselves there. The film explores the mechanisms that human beings have to deal with pain and continue to create despite everything.

The life and works of Ecuadorian writer Marcelo Chiriboga, a key figure of the Latin American literature and member of the “boom” generation. Through interviews, visits to different cities, archival footage and his most important book, a puzzle is woven that blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.

The longing and critical review of the copla is lived through the history of the marqués de Almodóvar, a passionate ambassador who organized Franco's folkloric festivals; generous, womanizer, excessive, wasteful, himself the protagonist of his own copla. In love in his youth with a Concha Piquer chorus girl, he dedicated his life to collecting fetishes and memories of all the cante divas with which to organize a sentimental museum in his decaying castle, filling it with showcases where he could store his longings. When he died, destitute, in the pension of his last mistress, also a cupletist, she disputes her legacy with the housekeeper who took care of him and her picturesque collections all her life. family castle. A dear diplomatic friend recalls his fanciful existence emotionally. An aesthetic that is part of the feeling of the Andalusian people. And as a common thread "Ojos Verdes", the most beautiful song of songs of his rich songbook.

Adolfo Scilingo was the only military officer to confess the crimes of the dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Among the genocide practices described were the death flights -- the dropping of tortured living prisoners into the Río de la Plata or the Atlantic Ocean. Scilingo specifies the model that was used in the flights he participated in: an Electra. Of the eight Electras belonging to the Argentine Navy, only the three bought in 1973 could have been used in the flights that Scilingo describes. Those planes are at present in Argentina. This film searches cartographically the traces of those planes.

After the meat industry workers stop receiving 2 kilograms of meat a day as a part of their salary, they organize the biggest strike in Uruguayan history. Images of farms. Meeting at the workers' society. Relations between the Uruguayan economic and political leaders and the United States. Scenes of decay and misery. Workers' demonstrations. Clashes between police and demonstrators.

Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.

The sea gives us the game of laughter, food. The sea acts as a vehicle of transmission for knowledge, memories, the kind that travel in lightweight vessels.

Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the European Biennial for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage.