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Art documentary on the sculptures of the Mediterranean highway.

Exploration between the characters and the filmmaker. A quest into a universal existential problem, how to inhabit the world. Members of a family leave their home and in the middle of the Cuban Sierra Maestra struggle to find a new one. During this process they inhabit scenes of a routine life in the middle of nature, outside of a closed space between four walls, place and concept they long and project. It concludes with the departure of the patriarch and the already palpable absence of a father with dark gaze who dreams of going far away from his country in the pursuit of something different, becomes a reality. Contemplative meditation of an internal torment.

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in the mining village of Almaden in southern Spain. The strike, deep within the toxic mercury mine, lasted for eleven long days, during which the whole village showed its solidarity with the men protesting underground. The mine was the heart of Almaden, around which everything revolved – until it longer existed. The mercury mine was closed for good at the beginning of the 21st century. As a consequence, the area has experienced mass unemployment and slow decline.

A man spends the night at an hotel in an unnamed city in southern Chile. It's late and he finds himself unable to sleep. He's bored. He feels confused about what to do next. He wishes to eat and to urinate. He's sexually excited. The image of a naked woman appears on the TV screen.

A young couple with disabilities seek help to enhance their sexual relationship, and make a film about it. Their journey of obstacles reveal that the hardest hurdles are not physical.

The TAC team of psychiatrists of Aviles city in Spain, can moved his practice anywhere: a park, supermarket, bar ... Their approach is unique and exemplary in their dealings with patients. Film divided into seven exciting and moving stories whose protagonists have received warm and effective support of these professionals.

A rhythmic montage documents the creative process of Morceaux de mur, a work by visual artist Beatriz López-Linares

The landforms emerge after the drought. A space of stillness and silence becomes a place of observation. The geography is gradually internalised. The landscape ceases to be something to watch and instead becomes a form of meditation.

Ouka Leele, photographer of the Movida Madrileña, broke the mold with her unique way of creating painted photographs. Rebellious and feisty, she overcame cancer at the age of 20 and raised her daughter alone while her career took off. She is an essential figure in photography and broke new ground in art.

After divorce, fathers fight to see their children while lawyers and psychologists do everything possible to stop families from reuniting. The big business of child custody where suffering equals profits.

An avant-garde film in which Domènec Giménez Botey experiments with the optical effects of water reflections on different surfaces. It won the Silver Medal at the 1934 Catalan Amateur Film Competition and second prize in the fantasy category at the 4th International Amateur Film Competition in 1935.

In 'Las islas cambian de color', the coup d'état and the beginning of the repression against the Republicans are narrated, highlighting figures such as Margalida Roig Colomar, to give way to the landing of Bayo, the role of the Anti-Fascist Militia Committee and its temporary dominance of the island.

A short documentary about the person behind the personality. For the first time, through a regular casting session, we witness the daily reality of actors, full of hope, dreams, humour, drama and tears. As if in a psychiatrist's practice, we become part of the daily struggle required to get a role. In less than 15 minutes, 35 actors are capable of impressing us with stories about their lives in theatre, film, and including their lives as a waiters and waitresses.

A dead man who felt from the sky is turned into a saint by a village. Turns out this man used to be a victim of the Argentina's Dirty War a few years back. This documentary tracks his real story.

Documentary on the end of the war between Bosnia-Herzegovina. Available on El Salto's YouTube channel.

Experimental documentary by the artist, showing various happenings carried out over the years with Marie Louise Alemann and Walther Mejía. As a ritual, the various elements involved in these events are thrown into a river. A film in the form of a personal diary that documents artistic events that took place over a period of time.

When Spanish Civil War ends in 1939, some of the women who played a leading role in the creative and literary boom known as Generation of 1927, stay in Spain, freely or not, sacrificing the spirit that had enlightened them, adapting themselves —or pretending to do so— to the new feminine role imposed by the victors, who were determined to cage these free souls at home, to live just as wives and mothers.

A portrait of the Spanish director Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia (1911-76), one of the outsiders of Spanish cinema, and the story of his masterpiece, a cult work that tells the story of a self-taught filmmaker who was born under the sign of the shadows, lights and chiaroscuro of cinema.

Afro-Cubans played a leading role in the fight to free Cuba from Spanish domination; as part of that struggle, slavery was abolished. Nevertheless, as African descendants began to achieve a semblance of social and economic parity, the plantocracy, backed up by the US army, sought to undo their gains. Determined to resist, veterans of the Mambi army formed the Party of Independents of Color, gaining wide popular support and ultimately threatening the domination of the white Cuban rulers. Their response was savage, and 6,000 Afro-Cubans were massacred; until this film, these events have been shrouded in silence.

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.

A man tries to make a film about the city of Geneva. With the help of a friend who lives in another country he seeks to confront the challenge. Eventually he resorts to the inspiration in Jean Luc Godard´s work and figure. He decides to meet him but he goes to the wrong town.

Irina is a 23-year-old single mother that works at night driving her van, nicknamed Clockwork Orange.

"Sumergidos en Atlántico" is a mini documentary that we started filming at the beginning of this whole project. Combining it with the EP was not easy, and there came a time when we decided that the best thing was to stop and dedicate all our energy to Atlántico. But when we found out that we were going to play at the Beatout, we wanted to take it back and document how we experienced the concert and the days leading up to it. This is the result of putting together the footage from before, during and after an entire stage. With it we close what we opened with Atlántico, and we face next year with new ideas and projects.

Documentary about people and their towns (Abideira, Porto, Castro Candaz, Santa Marta, Pincelo, Ponte fortes, A Samugueira, San Paio, Mourulle, Portomeñe, A Hermida, Ribó...), flooded by the reservoir of Belesar in 1963. Real images and sound of the Ribeira Sacra and the Miño river, of the houses remains, of the cellars, the trees, and, more importantly, and especially, of the testimonies of ten people that lived in these places before the construction and that were forced to leave everything behind.

An autumn daydream, triggered by the end of the vacations and the beginning of the new season.

Imagine the beach of Barcelona in winter. A deserted place, sometimes tough-winded, on the edge of the vibrating city, an open plane to the sea. Waves are coming and going. As are these few citizens, maybe called upon by the waves. Or is it them, who render visible something untimely and eternal in this fluid flux and reflux?

Focuses on Mitchi, who is part of the transgender community in Santurce. Mitchi is an assertive, sensitive, and lively belle simply trying to live without feeling judged. Sharing her home and her life, she talks about spirituality, surviving in the streets of Santurce for more than five years, and the desire for Puerto Rico to become a safer place

PROPAGANDA is a follow up to the 2013 presidential campaign, in the midst of major social unrest in recent years. A single-car caravan crossing the desert, a protest flag covers the entire Alameda a candidate copuchea surveys on a dressing room. PROPAGANDA proposes a visual journey through the most extraordinary places of election, inviting reflection on the complex relationship between politicians and citizens, through the eyes of several filmmakers in the country.

Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past. It is a survey of the controversy stirred up in society by the fact that, thanks to this law, the armed forces personnel and police who committed crimes under the dictatorship (1973-1985) have gone unpunished, and it examines the scars the authoritarian regime left on a section of the population.

Searches about how we've gotten historical imagine. In the school children are describe us the pictures of their history books, the ones from Casasola's picture files. Offering us a testimony about the educational process and the power of photography in the construction of the historical speech.

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the strange is presented to us as known and the known becomes strange. A granddaughter discovers that her grandmother's past was very different from what she had been told. Could it be that in times of war, morality is subordinated to survival?

Sasha is an eight-year-old boy who lives in Ukraine with his mum and five siblings. Their everyday life is involved in misery, poverty and even further complicated by the current war in the country. Sasha leaves Ukraine in order to live during a summer with a Catalan' family in Catalunya. What he will find out, who he will meet, how he will be affected and how he will live are questions that will arise all throughout the film

Documentary featuring the death of bullfighter Florentino Ballesteros.

Documentary short film by director and journalist Morrosko Vila-San-Juan that brings us closer to "La Cima", house designed by the architect Coderech and which is currently abandoned.

The inhabitants of Madrid have always been called «cats», but what we did not know is that with confinement we were going to understand the true meaning of being a cat.

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.

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says it, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is as untranslatable as music… The last hour is a movie about ghosts. A documentary about the light that brightens the last inhabitants of a remote corner of the Argentine pampa.