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Criollo explores the gastronomic world of Uruguay, immersing us in its rich roots, flavors, aromas, and heritage. Through the life of celebrated Uruguayan chef Hugo Soca—raised on his grandmother's cooking in the heart of the countryside—the film takes us on a journey through the nation's culinary traditions, from homemade wine to Pampas barbecue, simmering fish stew, and everything in between. Soca's rural upbringing and deep connection to authentic flavors have earned him the title of ambassador of Uruguayan cuisine. Shared meals, humor, and a passion for food are at the heart of this joyous celebration, beautifully captured with stunning photography.

There are 57 net makers working on the coast of the Basque Country, continuing a traditional craft as if time had stood still. With their hands covered in salt, they weave silently, without stopping. They are part of the sea and its mystery. The warning signal of a ship breaks the night, a lighthouse illuminates everything with its light, a sailor drifts through the thoughts of the water, and hands dance and dance until they merge with the nets.

A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

Navetierra, new world in the end of the world

Homo Plastic is a journey into the heart of the Plastic Age. From the icy waters of Antarctica to the most remote tropical shores, no place is free from pollution. This documentary explores how an invention that transformed the way we live has ultimately altered life itself. Plastic doesn't just float in the oceans—it has infiltrated our bodies, our landscapes, and our history. With both scientific precision and emotional depth, the film maps out a global crisis we can no longer ignore. A portrait as haunting as it is beautiful, reflecting the price of progress... but also the possibility of rewriting our legacy.

In the Asturian town of Llanes (Spain), we see an example of Asturian pilgrimage, with the festival dedicated to San Roque.

This is the story of a group of boys who live in very harsh conditions in the sewers near Bucharest's North Station. They are the “aurolacs”, so called because of their addiction to this brand of synthetic paint.

Through the use of historical film, images, and interviews with government officials, environmentalists, and residents, this documentary details the Panama and Vieques nexus relevant to abuses by U.S. military forces in usurping lands for military purposes. It attempts to present the current and possible future situation of Vieques through the experiences of Panama.

A reflection on war, as seen through the lives of three Kurdish women belonging to the Kongreya Star movement—women who resist and dream, forging paths toward autonomy and empowerment at the heart of the conflict in Rojava, Syrian Kurdistan. A poetic testimony to the courage, solidarity, and indomitable hope that can spring forth even in a land ravaged by devastation.

In June 2024, the photographer María Cano presented a series of pictures in the window of "Es Mirador", in Set Cantons street in Palma (Mallorca). One night I was walking around the area with my little camera and decided to record the Maria's work and the space around it. The photographs in the window showed disjointed figures and faces that seemed to come out of a nightmare. Every one of them gave me a feeling of terrible anxiety. They were faces, hands and metaphorical cries that denounced a problem that affects a large part of the young population: the problem of housing. With these recordings as a starting point, I began to make this audiovisual piece.

As the walls of Cuba's ageing infrastructure continue to crumble, a burgeoning street art scene is born in Havana. Murals of hand-painted masked character – Supermalo – with the tag “2+2=5?” have begun to appear in seemingly every corner of the heavily foot trafficked city.

Examines the work of the DanzÉ group, by DanzActiva, in which the dancer Paulette Beauchamp, through an artistic proposal, directs a group of people with Down Syndrome in bomba dance shows. The documentary presents the experiences of these dancers, the concerns of the parents, and documents the cultural exchange of the group with a group of the city of Seville, Spain.

Sergio leaves his city to spend a few days at his family home in Asturias. He decides to film the journey there and his solitary and mysterious stay.

A lyrical tapestry of life and landscape, The Unfixing reveals one mother’s path from illness to healing and from climate despair to environmental awakening. American filmmaker Nicole Betancourt fell ill in 2014.

Haunted by a long-broken relationship with her father, anthropologist Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to her childhood home of Costa Rica to repair their relationship while haunted by the otherworldly mystery of ancient stone spheres in this lyrical and poetic debut feature.

"During several months of this senseless year I went out to the terrace to look at the ceilings. I would go at different times of the day, as in a ritual, perhaps trying to find at those ceilings some kind of explanation. Something that mitigates grief." (Gustavo Fontán)

Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Waiting for Sancho is a kind of experimental “making of” the critically acclaimed El cant dels ocells (Birdsong_/_Le chant des oiseaux). A particular take on the Biblical story of The Three Kings en route to the baby Jesus, El cant dels ocells premiered at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs at Cannes 2008.

Fifteen naturally mummified bodies were found during the excavations of 2011 in the old church of El Piquete, —a building that suffered almost total devastation as a consequence for being a refuge for civilians during the Spanish Civil War—, this discovery allowed the creation of the Museum of the Mummies of Quinto where this collection with unique characteristics in Spain is exhibited thanks to the research of historians, scientists, bio anthropologists and archaeologists.

In 2001, during the great Argentine crisis, when the desperate and depressed population imagined that the country, like Atlantis, was going to disappear under the waters, two young people from Saladillo did not stop making video films using the inhabitants of Saladillo as interpreters. the pampa city. The films, written, filmed and finished in a very short time, are broadcast on local television, breaking audience records. The film follows the activity of the tenacious and enthusiastic Fabio Junco and Julio Midú and their relationship with the neighbors who, in addition to being actors, provide them with all the facilities so that they can make their films. It is the beginning of what will later be known as “cinema with neighbors”, who consider this involvement as a kind of therapy and escape from a particularly adverse daily life.

Based on Liliana Cotto Morales' "Desalambrar", this documentary is a montage of testimonials and audiovisual files that recall chronicles of resistance and confrontation during the social rebellion which meant the movement of occupation and rescue of lands in Puerto Rico in the 1970's and early 1980's.

In this static film, a concentration camp survivor struggles on his deathbed to convey a sense of what he experienced to his daughter. Standard file footage of holocaust atrocities accompanies his monologues. His wife and daughter also have thoughts on the subject, which they convey in a similar manner.

In front of my family’s photographic archive, trying to find something that can help me understand who my grandfather really was. Although I grew up next to him, I feel that there is a part of him that I never got to know. Today I find myself searching for him among blurred images, fragmented memories and archive videos. In a dialogue between past and present, trying to reconstruct his identity and my own.

TV Utopia was a television channel made by residents of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito. During almost all of the '90s, TV Utopia broadcast content generated by the residents themselves 24 hours a day from apartments, commercial premises, streets, squares or wherever possible. The director participated in that quixotic adventure - which even survived several raids - and now recovers his memory.

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for over a century, and its citizens have faced brutal oppression and economic disaster. Throughout all this, successive generations of activists and artists have taken to the streets of this city to express themselves through art. This has given the walls a powerful and symbolic role: they have become the city’s voice. This tradition of expression in public space, of art and activism interweaving, has made the streets of Buenos Aires into a riot of colour and communication, giving the world a lesson in how to make resistance beautiful.

A documentary about Fernanda y Bernarda de Utrera.

Paquita is 85 years old and lives alone, until Temi the robot arrives in her flat. Will they be able to establish a relationship and put an end to Paquita's loneliness?

Documentary on the life of the Basque shepherd and oral improviser (or 'bertsolari') Fernando Aire (1920-1976), known as 'Xalbador'.

Experimental essay about a boy who identifies with a female friend of the family, and from there his knowledge begins to change, but very contaminated by all the culture he consumed.

A report on the Fallas festival of 1931, featuring views of Valencia (Spain) with some of the most characteristic monuments of the city.

In 1925 a polar expedition led by the explorer Roald Amundsen managed to reach 88º North, the northernmost latitude ever reached by a man at that time. How to represent the conquest of a place that is an absolutely empty geographical abstraction?

American sculptor, Alexander Calder, creates around the workshop. The film features several of his kinetic sculptures-- Wild moving figurines that spin, undulate and perform circus acts. The film ends on a hanging moon mobile, completing our wacky trip.

Acclaimed flamenco choreographer and dancer Fuensanta La Moneta is working on a new show when one of her students gives her a copy of Félix Grande’s poetry collection La cabellera de la Shoá. Written by Grande after his visit to Auschwitz, Fuensanta can’t stop thinking about those women —Jewish and Gypsy alike— who lost their lives in the concentration camp. The poems inspire her to create a piece that remembers these women through music, dance and poetry.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already an indispensable part of our lives. In the field of social life, economy, health care, army, traffic and education... Everywhere there are more and more - sometimes very surprising - applications. And the end is far from in sight, the potential is enormous. An enlightening documentary that looks at the present and the future of AI, but also dares to ask questions about possible pitfalls. Should we set a limit somewhere or place our full trust in AI? Are we gradually becoming superhumans or are we just losing control of our own destiny?

While the cleaning staff of the University of Santiago de Chile talks about the supposed ghosts that inhabit the place, a theater company prepares a play about the events that occurred there on the day of the 1973 coup d'état.

A look at the life and career of Puerto Rican artist Lucecita Benitez through the eyes of some of her biggest fans.

Fifteen years after giving up his studies as a botanist, the filmmaker decides to visit his old professor — Julio Betancur — and returns to the tropical forests of Colombia with Julio and his new disciple, the young Cristian Castro. This reunion launches a voyage that immerses us in doubts over science and the way we see the world, as Julio and Cristian look for their beloved plants in remote forests. Through their work, the film shows us the importance of legacies, and the strength of that ancient bond between master and disciple. Their search also prompts a personal reflection on modern man’s obsession with controlling and mapping nature. In the diverse and nearly infinite world of the tropics, what is the point of counting plants forever?

Poirot, the Last Witness portrays Chilean photographer Luis Poirot (Santiago, 1940) as he opens his largely unpublished archive for the first time. Witness to key moments in Chile and Spain, from the Popular Unity (Unidad Popular) until now, we see him in action, in conversation, and in portrait sessions alongside figures such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Isabel Allende, and Pablo Larraín.

Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements.

Reknowned Catalan wrangler Santi Serra, developer of a natural training technique based on creating bonds with horses and learning through play.

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur conversation in culture.

From contact to distance, how do bodily perceptions vary? The body and space feel blurred. The sensation remains, almost ghostly of our bodies moving. Dancing or just being together seems like a distant memory.

During the San Fermín celebrations in Pamplona in 1969, a man died when the bulls were let loose. There was nothing to identify him, except for the letter “H” on his keyring. Carlos Pardo Ros imagines this man’s last night: a drunken nocturnal stroll with the ghosts of H, at one of the world’s biggest folk festivals.

Chilean society neglects its ethnic and cultural diversity. Historically, the relationship with the Mapuche people has been defined by institutional violence, directly affecting those involved as well as generations to come.

Life and work of Carlos Garaycochea, one of the great Argentine comedians and capocomics. A life to make people laugh.

Thousands of tourists come to Barcelona from far and wide to admire the work of the great architect, Antoni Gaudí. What they don't know is that many of the photographs they take home with them are of works by Josep Mª Jujol, a forgotten architect and the other great genius of Catalan Modernisme.

In the San Pedro male prison of La Paz, Bolivia, 1500 prisoners coexist in a space originally designed for only 300 nuns. Inside, it is like a small city, with businesses and services abound. The prisoners make their living inside the enclosure as they would outside. There is a strong self-organization that plans every-body's lives. As if it weren't enough, there are hundreds of women, wives of the inmates, and almost 300 children, who chose to share their captivity. They are non-convicted beings that accepted living behind bars with the only purpose of preserving a united family. The documentary shows the life of a family inside the jail of La Paz.

Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing their work and addressing their views on various general topics such as the industry and the evolution of Spanish cinema, as well as current issues such as the arrival of digital platforms.

Explores the history of the island of Vieques, also known as Isla Nena.

This 1980 documentary presents an account of the life of Luis Muñoz Marín and an account of what happened during his death and burial.