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Hendaye, France, 1940. The German armies have just defeated the French and their patrols reach the Bidasoa River, the Spanish frontier and the Basque Country. The entire border region is then subdued and, from then until 1944, it will become a resting place for Hitler’s soldiers. During this period, Germans film several documentaries about the life of the Basque people.
What would happen in the life of Romeo and Juliet if they had not died adolescents? How would their days be at 90?
'Warriors' is a documentary that puts forth a reflection about the sexual identity, an approach to the gender development and its 'control strategies', based on a heterogeneous group of activists who stand for the transsexual and trans-gender community.
Historically, even the most divided societies can find cohesion in the magic of war, forgetting disputes with their governments and setting aside their frustrations. This stop motion short takes a lyrical approach to the phenomenon of war; which, in this case, transpires on a chessboard.
Valparaíso, Chile. Manuel tired after eleven years of relationship decides to rebel at the orders of his wife Gaviota who suffers from depression. Locked in the bathroom they will bring out their fears, resentments and frustrations by discovering their darkest secrets.
For the past forty years, the Caribbean has spawned a massive array of metal music, which for the most part has remained under the radar from the rest of the world. It is nearly impossible to capture the entire history of metal in the region given its prolific output. Nevertheless, this documentary sheds some light on three metal scenes in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The documentary examines how each island's metal scene has been influenced by history, culture, and political context.
Last of the trilogy of visual letters
The personality of Bittor Arginzoniz and the place where he lives make his cuisine unique. The possibilities of cooking with charcoal have not been exhausted, and a return to its roots may be admirable if executed with respect and vocation. Self-taught, Bittor has made his restaurant Etxebarri the third best in the world, and minimalism his trademark. The nature that saw his birth is its landscape; the grill and the finest products, the materials he works with. And the silence. Silence in its walks, in nature, in the coals, in the choice of adequate product and the exact point of its preparation.
Filmed in the Ligurian Alps. For Tania Masanti. "¿How to deal with this inhability to access things? Walk through the desert, it is the water that its lacking, it is the sun that burns". J.M.
Dani, a young Cuban, lives in Havana with his grandmother Yuya. When his girlfriend becomes pregnant, the young woman's family demands an abortion... because Dani is black.
Lord Canterville invites American businessman Hiram S. Otis and his family to spend the weekend at his old Castle near Ascot, England. Lord Canterville warns the new residents that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville, a family past ancestor, has been haunting the house since he murdered his wife, Lady Eleanor.
Explores the feasibility of the bicycle as a means of transportation in San Juan, Puerto Rico by taking a look at both the dangers faced by the riders and the bicycle's potential as a socializing tool.
Manuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor diagnoses him with a rare disease - Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.
Jacques Madvo's documentary, "Israel: Land of Destiny" (1977), is abstracted in "The Shifting Sands", a new film by Madi Piller. Piller's film asserts the intersection of history and identification with the Land through the personal struggles of the filmmaker's father as a young Jewish refugee, arriving in 1946 in Palestine. High contrast, repeated images of the war in 1948 immediately after the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel (to be known as the State of Israel) interact with Madvo's observations of Israeli society after its first thirty years of existence. The film juxtaposes images in a fractured timeline that reflects on the acceptance of the formation of a Jewish state. The work is framed within the philosophical thinking of Martin Buber and the recent history of Israel. Shifting sands can both erase and reveal human endeavour.
A journey through the life and work of the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), master of Nature, creator of light.
Portrays fragments of the lives of various immigrants who live in Santurce, exploring their realities from the simple and honest point of view of a young boy as he travels through the city. The short documentary features four subjects from other Caribbean islands, South America, and Asia who have settled and fallen in love with Puerto Rico.
Towards the end of the seventies, the militants of MIR exiled in Europe, decided to return to Chile in order to support the fight against the military dictatorship. The ones who could would help through legal means, others through clandestinely. Many had children and couldn't' t return with them. So the idea of a community center to shelter these children was born. Project Home gathered 60 kids that were left to the care of 20 people who assumed the responsibility of their upbringing for the years to come.
This is a story about women who are fighters, tenacious, hopeful, active women…who were capable of lifting, from nothingness, in the harshest landscape of the world, life. They are the Sahrawi women. 40 years ago, they were forced into exile; the men of this region, marched to war and the women created “temporary cities”: The Refugee Camps. They invented a new day to day life which made possible a sustainable existence and a hope, of one day returning home. Coría every night dreams of the sea; the majestic image of its water, the sound of its waves, are the echoes that join the people with their homeland. The will beats in the hearts of the Sahrawi women who maintain their unbreakable spirit, ever moving forward.
Mariel and her friends, live happily, surrounded by nature. One day, a corporation arrives to illegally cut down the jungle and sell wood. With the magic of nature, the children are transformed into cartoons to fight an ambitious witch who wants to destroy the jungle. The fight will be hard, but the kids will be the heroes of their story.
Bastien returns to the place where she spent her childhood, that happy time when she fell in love with Juan, the maid’s son. Juan and Bastien establish a star-crossed love and hasten events that will lead her family to make dramatic decisions and put an end to a romance that oversteps accepted standards.
Constitutionally precluded from claiming any right to self-determination, the Catalans stick to their guns. The separatist movement is gaining ground in Catalonia. Notwithstanding the Spanish Constitution (which states that Spain is indivisible, making any referendum thereby unconstitutional), 2.3 million people voted in the November 2014 de facto referendum. The results speak for themselves: 81% of Catalans are in favour of independence. Seizing this historic moment, filmmaker Alexandre Chartrand gives a voice to the civil society figures who have been propelled to centre stage in national politics.
A hot day in the Retiro. Romantic love, fidelity, relationships and sexual identity are some of the themes discussed with various young people and adolescents, in a series of conversations in which each protagonist, each physiognomy, opinion and expression is a discovery that adds layers of emotion and significance to the whole. And so the day slips by, calmly and with observational acuity, in a clarifying and surprising investigation into the future of love.
Documentary that tells the story of one of the most successful baseball teams in Puerto Rico: los Indios de Mayagüez. It is the first and only project that narrates the origins of baseball in Puerto Rico.
A documentary investigation across five countries on the big business of sexual slavery.
First stereoscopic 3D film created for educational purposes. From a love story between two teenagers, explains everything about the energy appearing in the books of primary and secondary school Spanish. Also taught to save energy.
It's 3 a.m. and Susana and Daniel just made love inside a car parked in an underground parking. Suddenly their passionate encounter gets interrupted by the arrival of a car of which three hooded men get out.
Comedians Facu Díaz and Miguel Maldonado, along with filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo as host, tell the brief story of “No te metas en política,” a Spanish late-night talk show that was broadcast online between 2016 and 2019.
Documentary that tries to unravel the identity traits of the followers of "Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata", attending mainly to a cultural background that widely transcends sports, while accompanying the dispute between the professional soccer team for promotion to the First Argentine Division.
Everything's all right on Earth, people eat, drink, defecate, have intercourse and watch soccer games happily with no troubles. Till Eviltrashman starts to eat and absorb every worthless creature it finds. The famous agents J. Jackson and McCardigan investigate this sadistic and macabre wave of crimes, committed by a merciless and ugly monster from outer space. Will they be worthy?
The echoes of an island remain in space and memory, Voices resonate, alive. A moment and a place, the alive are shadows that walk across the faded landscape of the cove. The history settle in the present. History project its cry. Three women troubadours. A device that catches the voice. A painter that brings back color. "They are fortunate islands, they are lands without a place. Where the king lives waiting, but if we start to wake up, the voice shuts up and there is only the sea."
A young girl convinces herself that she will die on the same day that her brother will be born.
Marie welcomes visitors who emerge from the shadows. They prompt her to face her deepest emotions, losing notion of the borders between her inner world and the outside.
Two friends travel to sing at a wedding and reencounter themselves with old stories and new problems.
Loose images, feelings, shared glances and melancholic silences throughout two weeks of my life. The exploration of identity and the present through memories of the past.
Berri Txarrak's 20th anniversary documentary.
The film is a free adaptation of Isaac Asimov story in 1976 wrote "The Riddle", but placing it in 2005. This is a dramatic fictional story that nowadays we consider a bad omen in the world in which we live. A small autonomous region that is about to go bankrupt. A world in economic crisis and securities, overpopulated, and governed by those who will not hesitate to look for its own interests.
It tells the story of Ane, who with a visual impairment and fully transition to adolescence, must face the peer rejection, overprotection of parents and, above all, the possibility of not seeing.
When a young mayor finds his reelection plans challenged by a crusading former evangelical pastor, a battle begins for the hearts and souls of the faithful. Amidst car caravans, cockfights, reggaeton concerts, and jujitsu work outs, the Machiavellian mayor is reborn and christened "The Boss" by his supporters. Accusations fly of malfeasance, mismanagement of funds, vote buying, and incitement of violence as the campaigns roll forward. All politics is local and from this perverse passion play uncomfortable truths emerge about the mechanics of democracy in America’s biggest colony.
On June 22, 2014, a house that had existed for 27 years burned down in a fire. Only some video footage and the memory remain.
Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of a life that is dying. This documentary brings together the director's permanent concerns: culture and nature wasted by extractivism. A conversation between two directors about the creation of memory through cinema.