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Every winter, a small town in Castilla-La Mancha called Luzón transforms into a little hell. Its inhabitants, dressed as devils, venture into the darkness and roam its streets with horns, bells, and smeared with soot. Una dança non sancta could have been just an anthropological documentary. Instead, it delves into the inferno with the town’s residents to participate in and immortalize this unholy ritual.
It's summer. Three friends meet. They will spend a few days in the mountains, camping, walking, chatting. As the days go by, so do their relationships, their misgivings, their affections. And when they return, nothing will be the same.
Suso is greeted by the bored official who manages the fate of souls in Limbo. When Suso refuses to accept his situation, the weary bureaucrat tries to entretain himself by teaching the young visitor a lesson.
Two Colombian cousins plan to poison two powerful customers at the luxury restaurant where they work, but the chaos and the hustle and bustle of table service complicate their plans.
On his first day of retirement, Leo faints on his way to his best friend's funeral. When he regains consciousness, he resumes his journey to the cemetery, where he experiences a strange and sublime personal catharsis.
A woman talks to us from inside a machine that records her brain activity. She describes a mental labyrinth combining an old amusement park called Dreamland, 19th-century dream photographs, contemporary experiments in mental decoding using AI, and Prophetic, a start-up whose goal is to control dreams. But what do our dreams see when they look back at us? "like moths to light" is a meditation on the future of our dream worlds in the age of neurocapitalism.
The documentary chronicles the week the streets burned, police charged against crowds, and Barcelona experienced the five most chaotic days in its recent history. When the Supreme Court sentenced the 12 pro-independence leaders for sedition, misuse of public funds, and disobedience, the widespread rejection of the verdict sparked a wave of demonstrations, protests, and violent clashes that transformed the streets of Barcelona, and other cities in Catalonia, into a veritable battlefield.
In 2015, Arrietta portrayed his friend François-Marie Banier — his studio, his photographs, his paintings — with a Mekas-like freshness and cheerful detachment. Ten years on, a visit to a country house adds another piece to the fragmentary account of a life shaped by encounters and friendships.
2033. Barcelona. Heatwave in December. Nana lives with her mother and is unemployed. Her luck finally seems to change when a powerful multinational takes an interest in her. However, she will soon discover that getting the job means sacrificing more than she ever imagined.
The latest natural disasters have had an emotional impact on filmmaker Jaume Carrió, who reflects on loss in this essay that analyzes the way society has to capture memories.
A brutal sexual murder of a minor revolts the anger of the town. On the other hand, a psychologist, Sofia Belmar is not only shocked by the event, but this also brings back some of her more gruesome memories.
On the eve of his birthday, Ricard receives an unexpected visit from Cosme; his father, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child.
The natural landscape of Colombia’s Río Cauca Valley, with its mountains, forests, and rivers, has been reshaped and transformed for colonial hydroelectric production. Uprooted by the pursuit of profit, a community celebrates a fascinating ritual to remember and mourn its territory, contributing its own images and sounds to the film’s visual and audio stream.
Lucía and Ana Ma, two young postulants recently arrived at a small convent, find themselves involved in the strange events that occur there.
During the summer holidays, a documentary-maker and his 12 year-old son stay at an abandoned hotel in Lisbon: an empty hotel like the one in the film The Shining.
Vaivén follows three generations of beachgoers from sunrise to sunset in Barcelona - a study of patterns, rhythm, and the natural cadence of a day at the beach.
After years abroad, Amber returns to Malaysia seeking closure with her ex-lover, Jun, but when she finds her, Jun claims not to know her, sparking a tense game of cat and mouse in KL that will unravel painful secrets.
The discovery of four bodies buried on the director’s family estate in Salamanca opens a fissure between private memory and the silenced history of the Spanish Civil War. This discovery prompts a journey to reconstruct the lives of family members and neighbors affected by repression, reflecting on the origins of armed conflicts, intolerance, and their consequences.
Two child preachers search for a better life through the power of faith. 17-year-old Daniel, was once Brazil’s most renowned child preacher; today, as he nears adulthood, he grapples with the weight of an uncertain future. Meanwhile, 12-year-old João Vitor is at the height of his fame, reaching millions through his followers. Amidst livestreams and smartphones, he preaches to the masses. The film uncovers the childhoods concealed behind these public personas, reflecting a country in transition — a place where politics and religion frequently intertwine. As one cycle closes and another opens, they navigate a Brazil that has been forever changed.
Following the brutal murder of his friend Kenji by the masked killer "Darkface"—a criminal who leaves a feather on his victims—an anxious and grieving Samuel Rosenberg becomes involved in the investigation led by Detective Vincent Moreau. When a mysterious forgotten note accidentally catches his attention, Samuel decides he cannot simply stand by. His discovery will lead him straight to the cold, damp alleyway where his friend lost his life, plunging him into a lethal face-to-face confrontation with the killer himself.
A series of old photographs awakens memories of childhood in post-war Spain, where a daughter and mother are struggling to find their place between grief and prejudice. Smells ambitiously attempts to stimulate our senses to help understand the protagonists' lives. With very few elements, the film succeeds in wafting off the screen, suffusing our memory.
In a retro-futuristic, tropical-punk twist on Dante’s Inferno, a group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, where La Flaca—the city’s Grim Reaper—presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death Herself.
This documentary recounts the story of the ETA militant Lucía Urigoitia, who died in 1987 in Pasaia at the hands of the Civil Guard, in circumstances which remain unclear. Based on the account given by the Urigoitia family's lawyer and the forensic scientist involved in the case, the narrative pores over the contradictions and doubts surrounding the process. The tree stands out in the documentary as a symbol of the need for a complete memory, as opposed to the idea of one single memory.
In a world without resources and a razed sea, Emma, an ambitious young fisherwoman desperate to earn a living, will enlist the help of her conformist and more reticent friend, Albert, and together will disobey the veterans of the land and embark on a dangerous journey after the forbidden blood-red coral.
As the new year begins, Leonor lands the breakthrough of her career: narrating a wildlife documentary series. But as she immerses herself in the world she describes, the line between reality and fiction begins to blur, awakening the lioness within.
This short documentary addresses the global issue of climate change, highlighting its unequal impacts on rural communities in deltaic regions of both the Global South and North. While the Global North is a major contributor to climate change, its devastating effects are most felt in the Global South, particularly in regions like Trarza, Mauritania, where agriculture is severely impacted. Similarly, the Terres de l’Ebre in Catalonia faces rising sea levels and land erosion, threatening local livelihoods. These shared challenges provide a rich opportunity for youth from both regions to engage in dialogue and storytelling.
Short film by Pablo Pozo.
In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary „Medzi dolinami, medzi vŕški, po stopách budúceho zvuku Slovenska“ while producing the album "The Future Sound of Slovakia Vol.1" by Mira Tus Manos. But every film leaves scenes out. What doesn't fit due to time, rhythm, or because the main story needs to go elsewhere. "Medzi scénami, medzi hlasmi" is exactly those outtakes: already edited material that no one had seen, divided into two parts —SIDE A and SIDE B— where artists from Argentina, England, France, Catalonia, Amsterdam, New Zealand, and Slovakia speak not only about the project but also about their own artistic practices, personal stories, and internal maps.
Mariana and Xevi work the land from opposite ends of the world. Rooted in agroecology, their projects trace a quiet dialogue between territory, nature and family.
