Mounir is an irregular migrant who lives in constant fear of deportation, but also with the hope that this is the day he will finally get his "papers".
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Mounir is an irregular migrant who lives in constant fear of deportation, but also with the hope that this is the day he will finally get his "papers".
A look that explores the role of the muses in the History of Western Art, highlighting their close connection with the work of the so-called great geniuses as co-creators.
Ade has suffered from a rare condition known as Blink Arrest Syndrome since she was a child—a disorder that leaves her unable to open her eyes at will, sometimes for five or six hours at a time. Now, at seventeen, she's in the midst of her most intense episode yet: three days without opening her eyes. Told in her own voice, the story follows Ade as she traces her journey from the first diagnosis to the present moment, pausing along the way to reflect on her relationship with Elira. In revisiting these pivotal experiences, she searches for meaning—something that might help her understand her condition and, with any luck, finally open her eyes.
Martín always wanted to be a film director, but until now he has not been able to fulfill his dream. After living in Madrid for a while, he returns to his native Mallorca to teach a course on the seventh art. His five students will give him back the hope he lost a long time ago and together they will join forces and passion to start a joint project. A priori insignificant course, but one that will change the lives of all of them.
A science fiction tale about inhabiting other life forms and the legitimate right to be dysfunctional. Somewhere between ethnographic first-person documentary, Grand Theft Auto and end-of-the-world everyday life, here is the survival diary of someone trying to communicate in vain, whoever is on the other side.
Lucas arrives home with a mysterious box he bought from a street vendor. His roommates Mario and Inma don't know what to expect when they click on what's inside the box.
40 years after ETA kidnapped her family and the State tortured her father to death, Tamara Muruetagoiena embarks on a tireless quest for truth and justice. Tamara recounts her family tragedy, face to face: the revolutionary tax, the kidnapping by an ETA commando unit for 17 days, the subsequent family breakdown, persecution by the State machinery, political pressure, the trial, her parents' arrest, the torture, murder… But also her path to the truth, recognition, and the use of dialogue as the key tool in resolving conflict.
A group of friends from a summer village. Over the past few years, they've been seeing each other less and less. Bruna invites them to lunch to celebrate her birthday, in the village, in the place where they have shared so many moments together, to relive it once more, perhaps for the last time.
When David invites Clara over to his place, an strange entity prevents them from connecting.
Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his whereabouts.
Moisés is an enigma, a man who burned himself to death in Madrid. Here we will discover what led him to do it and what is behind the sect that torments him so much.
Susana and Jorge decide to move to a mansion in front of a lake, in search of tranquility that will allow them to become parents. Her obsession with getting pregnant ends up attracting the ghost of a girl looking for a mother.
A barbecue with three friends is interrupted by a disappearance.
A mother named Ana is celebrating her daughter's birthday when a strange man named Walter shows up asking about her husband, Ricardo. What seemed like an awkward visit quickly turns into a tense and dangerous situation, where Ana begins to uncover dark secrets about her husband's life.
Charile Cheesy (a robot rat) and Kooky Kitty (a strange cat-cookie hybrid) host a TV show in which they interview old ringtone mascots from the 2000s, those whose tunes could be heard on any Nokia cellphone. Their intentions of filming a happy and family-friendly episode come crashing down when they discover that these characters are now living quite disastrous lives.
The construction of a hotel, the mystery of an intermittent island and the reasons for an absence will define the future of a grandson and his grandfather.
In 1967, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a group of seminarians thirsty for freedom founded the group Enarak. They played pop, rock and psychedelia, styles that were foreign to the society of the time, and all of it entirely in Basque. After hundreds of concerts, they mysteriously disappeared in 1971. Fifty years later, the singer's son, Beñat, sets out to find traces of the group, immersing himself in a film labyrinth that mixes ornithology, collage and eccentric research.
A thoughtful exploration of gypsy culture, an intimate portrait of flamenco guitar player Yerai Cortés and a healing family exorcism through music. Antón Álvarez (aka C. Tangana) makes his filmmaking debut with this documentary.
The young and extremely talented Uruguayan comedian Facu Díaz, known for personally writing the synopsis of his shows, returns to the road with a monologue full of observations that contribute between zero and nothing, typical of a person with a lot of time on his hands (Campos Elíseos Theater, Bilbao, Spain, June 2023.)
Rubén and Fernando, two lifelong friends, are in a car chatting. Ruben proposes to play a game, to follow a car, who will be the person and what will become of his life?
A journey into Ernest's childhood. Now living out his days in a nursing home, he confuses past and present as he revisits his memories of the civil war. And with them comes a clear determination: to return to his village to finish what he started 70 years ago.
Antón, aged 72, lives alone when he is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He decides not to tell his daughter Ana, who lives abroad, while he takes refuge from the passing of time by turning his memories into paintings.
National and international oil companies have been extracting oil for more than 50 years from the Amazon, the area with the greatest biodiversity on the planet, threatening the lives of communities indigenous people with the complicity of the Ecuadorian government. They are the so-called: Sacrifice zones.
Losing control of my body due to dysphoria and what society has taught me is the greatest loss I’ve ever experienced. A silent loss, a discreet theft. Now I sit in front of it, trying to seduce it, listen to it, feel it, look at it, touch it, move it, live it. I discover that this mutating body houses all my versions.
Ander Goenaga surfs every day to satisfy his hunger for being in contact with the sea.
Tristan and Agnes arrive at a rural house with an enigmatic purpose. Away from their everyday lives, they enter into intimate conversations and reflections, hiding their own secrets. As dusk gives way to darkness, it seems that their hidden goals might take shape, changing the dynamic and bringing to the surface mysteries that could affect their relationship.
Galician writer Xavier Queipo is getting ready to move back to his homeland after more than 30 years of living in Brussels. He empties his house and puts his memories in boxes the removal company loads onto their truck to take them to Spain. Another Galician man, the filmmaker Hugo Amoedo, who is based in Brussels, too, wonders whether and when he’ll be back in his homeland. In the meantime, he teaches his son to ride a bike, wonders, dreams, struggles to unravel ideas for films, and argues with the clerks of the Brussels post.
Hajar is a 55-years-old Bahktiari woman from Iran who is betrayed by her family and forced to abandon her nomadic lifestyle. Climate change, urbanization and social issues have drastically diminished the traditional migratory activities of the Bakhtiari tribe from Southwestern Iran.
Music video for the song Alma Nomada by Candace
On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present coalesce, creating resonances between the volcanic landscape and Silbo, the whistled language of the island.
This piece belongs to the ongoing series POLITICAL GESTURES, in which I document televised electoral debates captured frame by frame on laboratory emulsions (sound record 7702 or, as in this case, color print). This film captures the only electoral debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on September 10, 2024.
Images of a young boy performing in his room in front of the camera to his sexchat audience intertwines with images of masked-men cruising in the darkness. The piece focuses on the psychological and physical suffering of the protagonist.
Sara is sitting on the lid of the closed toilet, it seems that something has happened in this room and Sara is ready to tell it to a third person that we do not see. To do this we go back in time to when she was a girl. A recorded cassette of the group Van Gogh's Ear reaches her hands; her cousin has given it to her so she can listen to it during her vacation. Sara can't imagine to what extent that cassette is going to be a turning point in her life.
María and Ana are two sisters aged 11 and 14 who live in a small town in a rural area threatened by depopulation. Ana's entry into adolescence, contrasting with María's innocence, will trigger a conflict between them on the brink of the arrival of summer.
José Manuel is a man who at a first glance appears ordinary, but carries a profound personal journey wrapped in violence, crime, and drugs. That is until he found a congregation of aliens that saved him…
Reme is chatting with her husband Antonio while preparing their son's favorite dessert, who is inpatient and celebrating his birthday. It's on the way to the hospital that all the neighbors humiliate her. What has Reme done to receive the hate of an entire village?