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July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public shows are socialized, a model of production and exhibition of films, never seen before in the history of cinema, is created, where the workers are the owners and managers of the industry, through the unions.

In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mirsada and her daughter survive in a shelter in the hope of finding a home. In Tbilisi, Georgia, elderly Bela struggles to recover the bodies of those missing in the war in Abkhazia. In Greece, Alia and Hussein, who fled the war in Syria, long for a reunion with their daughter Zozan.

A present moment, a memory or a wish.

"El campo para el hombre" was a politically militant documentary about the small holdings of land in the north of Spain and the large estates in the south of the country. This film portrays the exploitation and misery of the Spanish peasants, but also their class-consciousness and their will to fight for their rights and freedom. The film was shot in the late years of Franco's dictatorship, so it was made in secrecy (the directors were connected to the Spanish Communist Party).

Fifty years have passed since the end of Franco's regime, and democratic memory has become a distorting mirror for those who look into it. However, Julián Grimau continues to remind us that a more advanced democracy than that of 1978 is possible.

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.

For my grandmother, the bridge and its river were special. She used to take me there when I was a child. Today, it has become a very different place. I like to remember those days when she took me to the river; I revel in the space that is no longer what it used to be and reconstruct my memories: the Amube bridge.

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.

In Costa Rica, Panchita has just turned 109 and hopes for a visit from two of her children: Pablo, 93 years old, and Calixto, 88 years old. Sarita, who is 93, has no hesitation in confessing her love for Denis, a young policeman. Pachito’s daughter, fearing that something may happen to her 98-year-old father, tries to prohibit him from continuing horse-riding. In Sardinia, for his 93rd birthday, Adolfo wants to fulfil his dream of flying a plane. In Okinawa, Tomi, 93 years old, cannot recover from the death of her first son. Her friend Haru, who is 98, encourages her to return to the pop group formed of the island’s grandmothers.

Elisa is at a very special moment in her life, and her sister is watching her.

Aminodin's father always smiles because he says that happy people live longer. That's why, at age 8, Aminodin puts on her best smile while working at the Papandayan dump, where she lives with her family. At Instead, his cousin Aliman lost his when bombs began to fall from the sky in the town of Marawi.

Sandra has over 20 years scenarios mimicking many artists, including his great recreation, Sara Montiel, while adding his own artistic and human quality. The film reflects the changes in Spain over the years through the eyes of the artist, and how they have influenced your lifestyle and personality. A reflection of reality, past and present, a souvenir evocative of his own personal story that will make us relive the recent past of our history to this day.

While Gloria, Ninfa and Norma fought for the release of their husbands, their babies became teenagers and their children turned into adults. This documentary follows the wives of three police officers who have been kidnapped since the turn of the century. For over a decade, these women have fought the indifference of the guerrilla that took their loved ones and the apathy of the Colombian government that refuses to negotiate their freedom. After 13 years of resistance, the FARC finally answer their demands. Now a few weeks from the release, the wives are overwhelmed with the uncertainty of what could happen when their husbands return

In an island on the south of Spain, a lone man collects olives from a landscape made of water and dry branches.

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.

This is the reality of women of the same nation who live divided by the wall that has separated them for 35 years now. Exiled Sahrawi women who live in the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria) have a 88% representation rate in teaching and in healthcare, and 9% in government, evidence that they are the fundamental pillar of society. The ones who remained in the occupied territories of Western Sahara are part of every aspect of the struggle and activism against Moroccan occupation. They protest at the intifadas, they research the plunder of their natural resources, they paint flags, write pamphlets and they belong to the organisations that defend Sahrawi human rights in Western Sahara. These women: former prisoners, formerly missing, activists, today are tortured, harassed, followed, surveilled and violated simply for defending their legitimate right to freely express themselves in favour of Western Sahara’s independence.

Guided by the Jules Verne novel “Voyage au centre de la Terre”, four friends set out to explore Snaefellsjökul Volcano in Iceland. However, as they journeyed through the country recording sounds, they found themselves having a series of profound and transformative experiences that exceeded their original expectations. The result of their trip is an immersive audio-visual narrative titled “Journey to the Center of the Sound,” which not only guides the audience through diverse Icelandic landscapes, but also invites them to embark on their own sensory journey.

Guns, explosions, musical numbers, zombies, tanks and Youtube. Thousands of hours of Youtube videos turned into a bizarre cocktail to show us the most extreme, wild and crazy gun-loving Americans. But what if they are just ordinary Americans?

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.

Tells the story of Maria, a Central American immigrant who is forced to leave her family in search for a better life. On her way to the United States, she is forced to cross Mexico where she experiences a nightmare.

Alicia D'Amico was one of the best-known photographers of her time. She worked from the late 50's to 2001, when she died in Buenos Aires. Her best known work are portraits (writers and artists). And her most unknown photographs are dedicated to feminism, made during the last Argentine dictatorship until the end of her life.

A woman recalls her mother's death while visiting her tomb.

Film directed by Miguel Monleón with plot and intertitles by Valencian journalists José Fernández Caireles and Federico Miñana. It is a fictionalized documentary on Valencia's festivity that takes a fictional story as its common thread, the journey of a jealous husband, Chordi, from Alcoi to the city looking for his wife, Riteta, who is gone with a friend to see the Fallas after arguing with his man about his new film-inspired haircut.

The Heights depicts the repetitive pilgrimage that hundreds of female porters carry out every day on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, pondering over the transcendence of the burden, the impossibility of achieving a better life and resignation.

Aguante is a documentary about the Puerto Rican battle against gender-based violence. It is a story about the impact that machismo culture and a complex history of colonialism in Puerto Rico has had on generations of women. Economic, political, and natural crises of the recent past highlight women’s vulnerability to violence. Aguante shows that while gender-based violence is seen in intimate partner relationships it is enabled by social conditions. But Aguante also tells another story: the island of Puerto Rico has a long history of women's liberation movements. And feminist movements have persisted in the past and today to change legislation and topple governments as they combat gender-based violence but also the central issues of the island’s governance.

A 1922 documentary.

Report on "BICOS DE CINE", a series of paintings by the artist Manuel Moldes.

In 2002, Carmen Castillo returned to Chile and did a memory exercise centred on the life of her father Fernando Castillo Velasco, former rector of Universidad Católica de Chile and Premio Nacional de Arquitectura (1983). This film tells the story of this return centred on the desire to get closer to the mystery of the life and work of an enlightened man. It is the time for a memory, not an expeditious biography. Fernando recounts excerpts from his life, his work as an architect, university rector and mayor of La Reina. From the "Fifth", the place of childhood, he remembers with sincerity and simplicity. Like a watchman, like a lighthouse, he illuminates our present, like a compass shows us the way to build a world where affection and social justice prevail.

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.

Nicaraguan women tell us about their efforts to change the society in which they live, and about their collective struggle to achieve what has been denied to them. These women speak up and share with us their journey toward a better future for both men and women. Inés, Coquito, Avelina, Gerónima, are women who look ahead, and through a radio station claiming their right to live with dignity.

Lambic is a style of beer that has been brewed in Belgium since hundreds of years ago, and today it still remains under that almost magical halo around its production process and the mysterious yeast that make it possible. Lambic: about time & passion is a project that we started as a way of giving voice to lambic beer and to those characters that play an important role in the development and preservation of this ancient style of beer.

At the end of the 90's, when unconventional musical proposals were lost in the “underground”, “Punk Union” arose by chance. The collective of teenage bands brought together many young people from different social strata in countless concerts for more than 10 years. Through the eyes of its protagonists and promoters, the documentary tells how the movement managed to become one of the most important independent music producers in Guayaquil.

On March 12, 2019, the "Portrait of Ferdinand VII of Spain" painting, painted by Goya in 1814, arrives from Santander to the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias to remain in the same room for several months in front of another painting of his, "Portrait of Jovellanos, with the San Lorenzo arenal in the background" (1780-83).

Documentary portrait of José Domínguez Muñoz, better known as "El Cabrero" (French for "the goatherd"), Spanish libertarian flamenco singer born in Aznalcóllar, province of Seville, in 1944 and filmed over two weeks in 1988 in Seville, Aznalcóllar, La Carbonería de Sevilla and Marinaleda, and in concert at a recital in Bayonne. Politically committed, El Cabrero defines himself as a libertarian. Since the 1970s, he has been close to the anarchist movement. For many years, he was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist Confédération Nationale du Travail.

On July 21st 1969 the whole world watched in astonishment via their TV sets how Man first walked on the Moon, but the reality is somewhat different. One week before, the shoot for the landing took place in a hangar in Area 51.

Retrospective piece that features the director reflecting on several aspects of the film a quarter-century after the fact, including the performances of the actors, the development of the sound effects and music, the special effects.

After the generational suffocation caused by the financial crisis, a couple of young Spanish architects decide to emigrate to Helsinki (Finland) looking for a place to thrive.

An acid humor essay that questions everyday aspects of life that make us need to achieve motherhood, with a critical view on contemporary maternity. Are we obsessed with what is biological? Is the cycle of mothers to daughters perpetuated?

Documentary that recovers the memory of the neighbors who were victims of Franco's repression in the Tiétar Valley and the Sierra de San Vicente, in the province of Toledo, and surrounding towns. Many of them are listed as missing: they were made to disappear at dawn and their families never saw them again.