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

The last days of an old man who wants to tell the camera a secret of his life.

An immersive and experimental short film documenting the strange and tense atmosphere in Washington D.C. on January 20th, 2021.

'The Accordion's Journey' narrates the story of three Colombian musicians. Year after year they participate in the world's largest competitive accordion festival, held in Valledupar, Colombia. But they never win. One day a letter arrives, inviting them to play alongside the legendary Hohner Accordion Orchestra in Trossingen, Germany, the birthplace of the 'Corona', Colombia's most popular accordion. It's the first time abroad for our three heroes and they discover a very different culture, a first encounter with snow and ice and make new friends. But will their adventure help them in winning the accordion festival back in Valledupar?

The ancient Greeks used as a support for their writings wooden frames on which they poured liquid wax. When solidifying, it formed a flat surface capable of being engraved by means of a punch. These tablets were called 'tabulas', and when they had not yet been used they were 'tabula rasa', blank sheets.

The voice of girls and women from Muslim families, born here or arrived as children, who rebel against the patriarchal tradition and demand the protection of their rights in Catalonia.

The story of 8 chicks of which one will not survive the molten feather.

Andrea’s communion takes place in a small Galician church, according to ancient traditions. Fortunately, with her filmmaker cousin and the help of some technical tools, the little girl takes matters into her own hands.

In the city of Córdoba, in 2018, a group of neighbors is getting organized around a multisectorial called Defendamos Alberdi. They carry out activities in order to revalue the historical, architectural and cultural heritage of the neighborhood against a State that prioritizes a commercial and individualist system.

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

Documentary presenting the story of Juan Meléndez, a Puerto Rican immigrant raised in the city of New York, who was charged in Florida for a murder he did not commit. Juan Meléndez was unjustly incarcerated on death row for 17 years, 8 months and 1 day, until his acquittal on January 3, 2002.

Liber Arce, a student, was killed by the police in a protest march. His funeral became the largest demonstration held in Montevideo. The events leading up to and after this event are portrayed.

Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first documentary filmed in Andalusia to its first screening.

Video projection that refers to the various ways in which language operates and its learning as a discipline, in order to achieve a functional and docile individual. Working on it a visuality that puts in scene diverse social subjects, a nudist dancer, a deaf mute, popular Latin American uprisings, the testimony of the mother of a drug addict and the practice of obstetric ultrasounds. The visuality worked on in this piece is insistently intervened by voices that mortify the subject on stage, giving reading to corresponding texts a free version of the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, based on a fragment of the work Kaspar by Peter Handke.

Matapaco is an icon and symbol of fight for many students. He walks the streets leading the protests for free education in Santiago. A look at the life of the dog and his remarkable influence on people.

One Dream, Two Brothers, One continent. Two brothers follow their dream of surfing the American Pacific showing the Continent as a whole, through its different cultures, villages, food, people, animals and landscapes while camping and surfing on their way back home to Argentina.

A documentary film about men, women, and children fleeing northward from the existential threats in their home countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. They embark on a perilous journey with an uncertain outcome. Shortly after crossing the southern Mexican border, they find shelter with people who want to help them survive the ordeal of the at least 1,700-kilometer journey to the US.

At last we are starting to hear the voice of women in the cinema. We celebrate it with this documentary on the Basque women moviemakers of yesterday and today, giving a global overview of the subject. Three female divers guide us through the topic of their films, their points of view, their dreams, their efforts to get somewhere, their contribution to the cinema and to society.

A journey through childhood memories brings nostalgia full of pain and love. Nothing is as it was in childhood; only memories roam freely and illuminate in retrospect. The environment and everything of that time has been violently ruined and altered by someone. Seasons have settled in the ruins of troubled memories.

This study on Quino's style, carried out by Mariano Llinás and Ignacio Masllorens in 2005 as part of their documentary “El Humor (Small Illustrated Encyclopedia)” is a delicate and lucid look at the work of someone who was much more than the inventor of the endearing Mafalda.

Hurricanes and droughts in the Caribbean are becoming more frequent and devastating. Mangroves and coral reefs can mitigate their impact, protecting lives and property. However, climate change and human activity are weakening these key ecosystems. Will coastal communities and scientists manage to preserve them before it is too late?

Year 2021. Veteran coach Joaquín Caparrós leads the Armenian National Football Team. 5,000 km away from his native Utrera and in just one year, he has become a hero for a country at war.

From the very heart of the Pachamama region to the centre of the capital cities, Susy Shock creates her own path. High heels and make up, streets, poetry and companions; all contribute to her condition of reinventing herself: not a man, not a woman, not xxy nor h2o.

Piecing together the powerful testimonies of Bedouin women fighting to preserve their culture and history, we move between fragmented representations of their homes as the protagonists narrate their stories giving voice and texture to absence, taking up space, refusing to be erased.

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.

This is the dramatic untold story of small farmers who suffer and struggle to subsist less than 80 kilometres from Montevideo. The reality of their daily lives is that the land is impoverished, middle men dominate the business, they cannot compete with firms that have new technology, and the market for their goods is small. They have to fight to survive in the wider context of the impact of regional integration - the Mercosur - and the world crisis that other countries are also going through.

Since 18th October 2019, the streets of Santiago de Chile have never been empty. The people on the street demand dignity. By increasing the price of the subway tickets, President Piñera’s government has unleashed a social crisis unseen since the 1970s.

Héctor Rodríguez (1918-1996) was one of the outstanding figures in the people's movement in Uruguay. He was a textile worker and also a member of parliament for the Communist Party, and he was expelled from their ranks in the 1950s. He was a journalist, a militant activist and a political prisoner, and a key force in trade union unity and left wing politics in Uruguay. His life was bound up with some of the most important events in the history of this country after 1930. As well as Héctor's own testimony we have the voices of textile workers, intellectuals, union members and politicians, in a rich mixture of archive film and photographs.

Documentary about the repression and persecution suffered by gays and lesbians during Franco's Spain and in the first years of the Transition. Through its own testimonies, the documentary relives the suffering they had to endure and reveals a hidden chapter in the recent history of Spain.

Bolivia in the 50's : on the Island of the Sun, in the midst of Lake Titicaca, Alberto Perrin films the indigenous community recently emancipated through the agrarian reform and the 1952 revolution. 2010: Carmen Perrin, his daughter, returns to the inhabitants the films shot by her father. No nostalgia, because the ancestral rites and the spirit of liberty continues to enliven the community, despite the pressure of tourism. A memory is emerging, gestures are invented, ties are woven in the landscape sanctuary.

Quilapayún tells the story of the most important music group from Latin America: Quilapayún.

Norival, has 41 years old, is a widower and father of Pedro, age 5. To support his child, Norival does small jobs in various farms across the country. The movie 'Pains' follows a day in their life during the harvest season of sugarcane. During this period Norival and his son live in Minas Gerais' countryside, in Brazil's southeast, in small city called Pains. As a cane cutter, Norival struggle to raise money and provide a good education for his child.

Through unique access to the peace process and inside the FARC, it is the guerrilla soldiers’ inner life that this poetic documentary explores. The war has lasted so long that the causes have begun to be forgotten, and when the peace process leads to the disbandment of the FARC, it becomes more important than ever for guerrillas to film, write down, and track material about the inner life of the movement so they can own and tell their own story.

Come on an incredible journey through Palestine, guided by some of its best-known, most inspiring musicians! From singers Habib Al Deek and Muthana Sha'baan, to rappers DAM and Safaa Arapiyat, celebrated Le Trio Joubran and soul singer Amal Murkus, the richness and diversity of the local music scene is explored in this joyous documentary. The journey starts with footage of Marcel Khalife reading at Mahmoud Darwish's funeral, and the spirit of the late, great poet pervades the film. The screening will be followed by a live jam, featuring director Fermin Muguruza alongside some of the key artistes from the film.