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“Soy Huao” is a film that is installed in the Toca family to watch from them and through the contemplation of a camera -which manages to become invisible-, a world organized by its own values and rules that far from any idea of consumption and urban well-being, it moves with very different customs in the midst of nature and survival in the face of vegetation loaded with a dense forest, the tropical humidity of the climate, and the variety of species of small animals. A plane that visits them every so often, connects the Huao community with the world. How long can a community that has struggled so hard to preserve its freedom resist the influence of the world as we know it?

It all started in July 2018. Groups of migrants coming from Africa endeavouring to cross the border with France started arriving at Irun train station. They would sleep in the street. The charities working in the town succeeded in convincing the squatters’ movements to take a hand in the matter by letting them use their places. The wave of generosity spread to the people of Irun.

A conspirator? A man with his own ideas, obstinate in making them come true? An arm-wrestler? The greatest mocker of Franco's censorship? Someone determined to change the world by putting a mirror in front of it? A schemer? The most important name in the history of Spanish cinema?.... For some, he is the prototype producer, guilty of the existence of many excellent films, discoverer of directors like Erice, Saura, Chávarri, Gutiérrez Aragón, Armendáriz, Ricardo Franco, Martínez Lázaro, Gracia Querejeta, Fernando León? For others, the cause of some of the most passionate controversies of our cinema. Elías Querejeta, a different look, a different cinema.

A short documentary in which Felipe Ravina, documentary filmmaker, science communicator, and marine science graduate, forges a connection with a tropical pilot whale named Nika on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands). This unusual connection with the animal increases his concern for the current state of the island and its biodiversity. It is a cry to the heavens for the protection, conservation, and defense of the natural spaces and fauna of this outermost region, home to the largest population of tropical pilot whales in the world.

Diosdado and Milagros travel long distances with the company of their horse to sell fruits and vegetables. "At dawn" tells a day in the life of this Cuban couple.

The most crude and atrocious institutional violence of the Spanish State hides behind a true dark figure, an abyss into which this documentary peers through 30 firsthand accounts.

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.

A documentary about efforts to restore and maintain biodiversity in Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Western Spain.

During the Balkan conflict (1991-2001), between 25,000 and 50,000 women were victims of sexual violence as an ethnic cleansing strategy. However, there is no official figure because many of the victims either did not survive or they now live in silence. This documentary shows the witnesses and their struggle to break the silence and overcome the stigma in a society that still suffers the consequences of war, 25 years later.

A film about the elements – hurricanes and rain, the sea and the earth. About a fishing port on the north coast of Cuba which has seen better days. About the effects of climate across the centuries in a Caribbean island sucked into global markets for its commodity crops. How sugar changed the landscape, through deforestation and soil exhaustion. About the collapse of sugar and the encroachment of a new commodity market – tourism. About the growing threat from climate change, and the move towards reforestation, ecotourism and sustainable farming.

Thanks to his life and work, Goya remains as one of the most capable artists when capturing the human condition, and the most rigurous portrayer of the society of his time.

In the Central Cemetery of Bogotá a popular tradition has been practiced for fifty years: the rites for the deceased. The isolated atmosphere, the crackling of the candles, the cooing of the pigeons or the singing of the mariachis, make the Central a suitable place for recollection, for communication with the beyond and the search for a superior force that brings aid and benefits to the lives of believers. Listening to those whispers that call death to life allows us to perceive elements of life that remain veiled.

In 2001, a group of Zapatista Mexicans marched to Mexico D.F. to protest against the oppression of the indigenous population of rural Mexico.

A film based on the reports of children appropriated during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). To rest the look on a face was an impossible task. The glow of the memory swallowed everything. Dancing movements, calculated, but wrong.

The story of Celina, a woman who was torn apart from her hometown at early age and her return years after.

Starting from archival images (from different eras and formats) of the San Francisco neighborhood in Bilbao — its streets, nightlife, clubs, and discos that no longer exist — this film essay explores the idea of a queer space. It invites a perhaps utopian journey through places of sexual dissidence, sketching a history of cruising and gay desire in the city.

Don’t miss this in-depth interview with the Barça captain after he surpassed Andrés Iniesta to become the player with the third most all-time appearances for the club.

Merlin nightclub opened in 1992 in Barcelona and its medieval appearance did not leave anyone indifferent from the first day. After more than 30 years of enjoying the night with its characteristic atmosphere and varied musical selection, the castle was forced to close its doors in January 2023 despite filling the room every weekend. This video immortalizes the place through its regular customers and staff.

Short documentary about the peruvian punk feminist icon Maria T-ta. "A transgressor among transgressors".

A film about the construction of movie dreams, narrates the journey of a filmmaker through real spaces, that were filming locations.

December 31, 2015. The Valencian bookstore Valdeska closed its doors permanently after forty years of activity. The result of four years of monitoring and filming, these 31 minuts of run time are part of a book unread, unknown and undiscovered. "Me voy. Me voy" it's not the story of a bookstore, not the portrait of an exceptional bookseller, it's a will to attach the things in the filmed image, to make something lasting showing the moment of its disappearence.

What would happen if you met someone who has the power to change your entire life and destiny? This documentary tells the story of five people who assure audiences that He is alive and has brought them back to life.

Brahim Mohamed Fadel is a young Sahrawi boy, blind since birth, who studies at the University of Málaga. A life full of difficulties, overcome thanks to his extraordinary spirit of overcoming. A film for reflecting, learning and feeling.

A sensual portrait of an urban community that explores human desires, ambitions and fragility through the daily activities of a swimming club.

Biographical sketch of the heroic guerrilla on the tenth anniversary of his death, made from the evocations of the homonymous poem written by Nicolás Guillén.

The day of the “Event” has arrived and Dalila, Jano, Daph D, Megan, Putricia, Ciara, Barbara and Zodoma, are here to climb on heels higher than the walls of the genre and the identity. Together they will expand the limits of imagination; the makeup will be their war paint and their dresses the armor.

Based on testimonies from residents of the communities of Miskibamba and Huayao of the district of San Miguel and Tambo in the province of La Mar, Department of Ayacucho, the film illustrates some of the main conclusions of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a group created with the purpose of clarifying the crimes and human rights violations that occurred during the internal armed conflict between 1980 - 2000.

A record of the founding act of the Frente Amplio political party in 1971.

Fundation of the Republic and Small Law are two Chinese elders who frequent the center of Chinese majors of Usera, in Madrid. During the preparations for the Chinese New Year, one of the elders dies and a series of electrical problems begin to happen in the club that threaten to spoil the party.

A group of actors gather in a workshop performance. Its aim is to research, create and develop the drama of a future film. With an unfinished script, a story of love and bullfighting background, the TeatroLab actors with director Gabriel Olivares, we are immersed in the passion for the craft of storytelling from the emotion and truth.

A tapestry of seemingly unconnected vignettes beginning with an extraordinary event at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, where the victory of the Peruvian football team was declared void. The film mixes the personal with the political and the historical, going from a portrait of an optimistic taxi driver to that of three waiters of a train to that of an alienated outsider living in the Amazonian forest region.

In Puerto Rico, Art Deco was a very popular architectural style in the 1930's and early 1940's. Through interviews with architects and historians and the presentation of documents and photographs, this documentary highlights the historical and aesthetic importance of this construction style in the country.

Francisco Sanz Baldoví (Anna, 1872-Valencia, 1939), better known as “Paco Sanz” or “ventriloquist Sanz”, was one of the most popular artists in Spain in the first half of the 20th century. In 1918, the Spanish ventriloquist filmed this fascinating documentary (entitled “Sanz and the Secret of His Art”), with the help of filmmaker Maximiliano Thous and his two artisan mechanics, in order to show the extraordinary complexity of the mechanism of his dolls and his ability to handle them on stage.

Assembling the filmmaker’s writing, storyboards, family archives, and haunting outdoor shots, Caballo de Espuma leads to an exploration of memory that blends the lines of reality.

In the classroom of the first grade of the Mustafá Kemal Ataturk School located to the northeast of the city of Santiago, capital of Chile, about thirty children recite the numbers from one to ten in Mapudungun. Mapudungun is the language of the Mapuche ethnic group. The story is about the love, strength and endurance of these teachers in their tireless task of educating and transmitting the Mapuche language to the children at this school. This documentary shows the learning process of these children in their early school years, which transforms the classroom of the first grade into a special and magical place set in the middle of a peripheral village of the "big city", the capital of a country that is trying to pass a subject in which it has always failed.

Authorities have prohibited access to a forest on the outskirts of the city. Strange vegetation has infested the area, and those who have been questioned report sightings of rare species, human-sized birds, or figures that appear and disappear. Despite the restrictions, several people decide to visit the place. Once there, they coexist and play without fear of the warnings. Little by little, reality begins to distort, blending with their memories, dreams, and fantasies.

OASIS, a documentary that tells us about water's historical role in Western Sahara via the true stories of people who turned this wild desert into a place full of life.

Documentary that portrays the life of the Navarrese composer Emiliana de Zubeldia, a woman ahead of her time.

In June 1946 the writer Camilo José Cela toured Alcarria on foot. The book “Viaje a la Alcarria” was published from his journeys through that region. 70 years later, a traveler follows the same itinerary that Cela outlined in his novel.

This is an interesting look at the Baka pygmies of Cameroon. Instead of an anthropology documentary in the style of National Geographic, it is the recounting of a legend, all told from the point of view of the tribe. It's quite interesting in how it deals with their mythology and culture, which are of course introduced along the way, often cleverly in the way of an elder explaining to youngsters.