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Documentary film about the history and influence of Africans in Puerto Rican society. In addition to still photographs, film clips and interviews, the film utilizes dramatizations of scenes from the life of the poet Luis Palés Matos to illustrate the history and contributions of black Puerto Ricans through the centuries.
Àlex Cirera, grandson of Félix Izquierdo, bikes over 2000 km from Terrassa (Catalonia) to Mauthausen (Austria) to honor his grandfather's memory, who was killed in Gusen, the Nazi concentration camp.
The camera leads us through a maze of cemeteries surrounded by vultures, and the trek ends with a view of a garbage dump. Sub Terrae poetically echoes with showing us such a terrifying terror: dystopian imagery of the foreseeable future, which is being seen from the current death chamber where the people of the past buried, signifying the contemporary global crisis in the present.
In February 2023 a group of adopted young people from China born between 1999 and 2002 meet in Barcelona. There they pool their experiencies with the family and the environment that have fostered them: the funny anecdotes, the difficult ones, the hegemonic story of adoption... The meeting is organized and recorded by Àlex M. Llorens, also adopted from China, who writes a full-length film about the transition into adult life of people like them and she shares with them her discoveries.
Rafael began his transition ten months ago. His long-awaited journey with testosterone is not an easy road; no one told him about the emotional process this change would entail. He feels so uncomfortable as his body changes that he finds himself unable to do something as simple as going to the beach. Together with his friend Carolina, who has accompanied him since the beginning of his transition, he will try to reconcile with himself and with Rafaella -his former name- to finally be able to swim in the sea.
As Puerto Rico falls deeper and deeper into an unprecedented crisis this is Vietnam’s story, a community or barrio located on the coast of Guaynabo fighting an illegal expropriation at the hands of a career politician. Their experience echoes the island’s current struggle with; an unparalleled migration, a notion of progress fueled by corruption, crippling economic debt, displaced poor and middle class families whose land is being purchased by millionaires, and the slow to non-existent reconstruction of infrastructure after Hurricane Maria.
A route by the Catalonia wine country accompanied by the reflections of wine personalities. History, land, ecology, genetic uniqueness, local consumption, etc. Halfway between documentary and reportage this work aims to rediscover a drink that reached the Catalonia's coast 2,700 years ago, and that nowadays it's an important part of people identity. Raul Deamo directs this debut documentary. It's an independent project, funded with crowd-funding and trans-media vocation that has taken three years to complete.
Promotional tour short film for Bathory's fifth studio album 'Hammerheart', featuring footage of Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg.
Who were the unknown heroines who helped to promote women's rights in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century? The documentary by producer and director Silvia Venegas highlights the importance of past and present activism that continues to fill the streets of Spain today with people demonstrating and paying tribute to those whose rebellion advanced the status of women in society and opened up opportunities they could only dream of before. But their journey is far from over…
Suso is a Sahrawi child. He has put his name down for a humanitarian aid program that allows saharawi children to spend a holiday away form the refugee camp where they lives. For the first time in his life he will see the grass, the mountains, the sea ...
Lookout is a film about a way of perceiving life beyond our common senses through an intimate portrait of the daily life of Pablo, blind since age three, who lives by himself on a wild area close to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he makes liquors and records poems.
Women who now live in the Pyrenees, in places where the most fervent witch-hunting once took place, now talk about the reality of femicide from between the 15th and 18th centuries. They invite us to delve into their own lives and themselves share their fears: new or even rooted in history.
Tradition and performance show us the physical relationship between man and animal when in combat.
Following the life of artists Eric Adamsons (Puerto Rico) and Heins Kim (New York), with their Icelandic colleague Samúel Hjaltalín, as they immerse themselves into the cultural and scientific understandings of the Aurora Borealis. The artists document their collaborations with international institutions, both educational and private enterprise, and individuals alike in an attempt to send cutting edge imaging equipment into heart of the Aurora at an altitude of approximately 300 km. The film chronicles their successes and challenges provoking conversations concerning how we as a society define achievement, while addressing humankind's pensive effort to coax the marriage between faith (mythology, religion) and empirical evidence.
The penultimate week of each year, the sun exceeds the horizon of Fauske, in the Arctic Circle, for just an hour a day. This film celebrates those brief moments of light.
Kukutza III was a gaztetxe (self-managed social centre) in the neighbourhood of Rekalde, Bilbao. It was occupied in 1998, and it was evicted by the police in 2011. The documentary shows some activities that were hosted by the gaztetxe.
Chronicle of a solidarity-political committee formed after the death of Manuel Gutiérrez, a 16-year-old boy who was shot by a the Chilean police during a night of protest in 2011.
Carboncito, Río Bermejo. Salta, Argentina. A group of indigenous teachers develop an innovative teaching method, which produces a great integration of aboriginal children into the educational system. The work carried out by the teachers is remarkable, since they teach to read and write in the Wichí language, without forcing the children to acculturation.
In a juvenile detention centre in Chile. At night, young people are seized by nightmares as they wait to be prosecuted. An exploration of the relationship between their lives, crimes, and nightmares.
Short film that explores the route of the Sella River, from its source in the Fuente del Infierno (León) to its mouth in the town of Ribadesella (Asturias). It pays special attention to the mysticism that surrounds it and with which it bathes the places through which it passes.
Sara Bahai, the first female taxi driver and women's rights activist in Afghanistan, is garnering the recognition in the public sphere she has always aspired. However, her greatest conflict arises in her own home.
A recreation of the interview with Stanley Kubrick that Playboy magazine published in its September 1968 issue and that has become essential when approaching the reflections and theories that led the director to shoot one of his masterpieces.
Patología mamaria is an intimate portrait that brings us closer to the relationship of women with their breasts. Throughout several years of recording, Olgha Montero Arce, painter and actress, recalls her adolescence trying to hide the total absence of breasts, her happiness thanks to some implants and, again, the suffering of hiding a disfigured breast after being damaged in a mammogram.
Inside a university, an IT course for seniors happens on Tuesdays. There, students learn various tools that help them manage technology. However, it would seem that something stronger unites them: the desire to have an active old age and to continue forming bonds.
The street, at the same time a magical and hard place. Songs and music flourish in the middle of the asphalt, sometimes soft, sometimes torn. Everyone finds the most unique setting in their shelter. A city, San Sebastián, that evolves through the musicians who play in its streets.
This documentary explores the case of Julián Acuña, a boy from the Mbya Guaraní Indigenous Community. Julián was transferred and hospitalized in Buenos Aires by court order. Doctors prescribed heart surgery. The community's spiritual leader dreamed of a stone in the boy's heart and requested his return to the village to heal him with traditional medicine. Time passed, but the boy and his family, far from the forest and completely alone, continued to suffer.
María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.
Explores the trajectory of the young nationalist from the time of his incarceration, at 23 years of age, as a result of the attack on the United States Congress.
In Maria Llopis’ The Striptease of My Grandmother a series of stills of the filmmaker’s grandmother are combined with a first-person monologue by Llopis herself. The piece is a reflection on bodies, sexuality and age – putting at its centre the relationship between the two women and stressing the need for touch, care and affection.
Film made by activists who lived for a month in the Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a rabid anti-Communist and a staunch ally of the United States. But that did not keep him from forging a friendship with a Communist nation that was America's sworn enemy: Fidel Castro's Cuba. The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a rabid anti-Communist and a staunch ally of the United States. But that did not keep him from forging a friendship with a Communist nation that was America's sworn enemy: Fidel Castro's Cuba.
After the crisis of 2008 Socorro Arenas began his career in figuration with the dream of being an actor someday. This documentary tells his story and, perhaps, that of many extras.
A journey through the life and work of the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), master of Nature, creator of light.
In 2017, a tragic event shakes the neighborhood of Patraix. An engineer, with no conflicts or previous history, is found dead in the garage of his home. Suspicions point directly to his wife, Maje, and her lovers.
A few years ago Carlos only had a brother, a mother, a partner and two children. Now his family is much bigger.
Martí arrives in Bilbao for an artistic residency. His clothes take up only a small part of the huge wardrobe in his new room. When he meets someone, the wardrobe gradually begins to fill up. But where did the emptiness go, the free space, the little corner of his own? Did the wardrobe swallow it all, or was it love?
