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Zuhdi Al Adawi, a Palestinian artist imprisoned in the occupied territories, uses his art as his means of expression and is helped by the rest of the community and his own family to accomplish his artwork.

On the night of September 26, 2014, a group of 43 young rural students went missing. Their whereabouts remain unknown. Their parents hope to see them alive again and uphold their demand for the truth. These are the stories of the broken hearts and hopeful eyes of parents who continue dreaming and longing for the return of their children.\r This heartbreaking short film accounts for the pain of the families of the 43 students murdered in 2014, their stories and frustration at their absence, only the memory.

Shot in Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, this transitory neighborhood resonates with the poetry of local resident Mapkaulu Roger Nduku. Verses about endings, looking and passing through open up the space projected. A string of tableaus gather a portrait of place and compose a goodbye letter to an ephemeral home.

Burro and Niño live in a small Mexican village. They are friends and they are hungry. They try to get by as best they can. But Burro usually takes advantage of innocent Niño.

The residents of Calle 1 are part of an unusual group, a group that stays in their cars to avoid the different responsibilities that await at home.

A love story based on William Shakespeare's classic "The Dream of a Summer Night." Our beloved dog Scruff is determined to keep his beautiful bride Pedigrí is matched by an obligation, with a Great Dane. So he decided to escape and hide in the forest trying to avoid the union ... but unfortunately will be enchanted by a magical flower that appears only during the longest night of the year, the San Juan night.

Laura and her family arrive at an isolated house in the middle of a forest. After a few hours in the house, Laura will realize that something horrific happens in the house and try to convince her parents to leave the house and never return.

In September 2014 Zinacantepec Mexico City hosted the World Basque Pelota Championships . Gold at a world title is the maximum that can suck a woman in this sport. It is the roof of pelota . No professional women , can not earn a living from the pediment , as other men do. But until this year, the best athlete on the pediment was a woman.

While playing in the field, a group of young people observe a halo formed in the Sun.

In Jean Luc Godard's film ‘Vivre sa vie’, Elena Córdoba, choreographer and dancer, heard a short dialogue that spoke of the nature of chickens and their soul. This text gave rise to the idea of animating the body of a quail ready to be cooked and, following Godard, to search for the soul of this posthumous dancer.

Maria wants to make her deceased mother's last wish come true. Nevertheless, in her family, nobody supports her.

It all starts with the disturbing image of a heart as a symbol of life, along with a compulsive rhythm of systole and diastole. Both serving as engine for starting to delve into the family memories, the social conventions, the existence and its opposite. Produced and edited, quite literally, with an open heart.

Pruebas de Fuego are six stories about how much life can change in just 10 minutes. A couple of lovers, a husband who loses his son, an ex-convict who leaves prison, a young man in love, a wife locked up in his house and a nurse with his dying mother.

Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho (1998) by Gus Van Sant collide in a frame-by-frame editing that assaults the eyeballs and assassinates the normative consciousness of the viewer. The footage seems to penetrate us, as though it was a knife or a threatening phantasmagorical entity. The fast succession of single frames and extremely short audio files produce afterimages and aftersounds—entoptic and endaural phenomena—creating a film that does not happen on the screen, but in our brain cells

Two men at the bar. They work in banking and have sold preferred securities in an undetermined amount. One of them, the general manager, is being harassed at his home. After several days of harassment, he finally has a revelation.

Pepe does not approve of his daughter Laly's relationship with Vane. After witnessing some of the meetings they have in their bar during the broadcast of Betis matches and seeing the reaction it causes in part of their regular customers; Pepe forbids her to enter the bar because of jinx. Vane is not willing to throw in the towel and makes Pepe see reason by making him see that in life, as in Betis, everyone fits.

In order to keep up appearances, Pepi throws her girlfriend Eva a surprise birthday party, but not everything goes as scheduled.

Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofri Barbato. Although it would have been more accurate to say “his first film-story-adventure-movie-great movie following The Student”, the word movement fits perfectly in Los posibles, the most overwhelmingly kinetic work Argentine cinema has delivered in many, many years. The film deals with the adaptation of a dance show directed by Onofri together with a group of teenagers who came to Casa La Salle, a center of social integration located in González Catán, trying to find some refuge from hardship. Already entitled Los posibles, the piece opened in the La Plata Tacec and was later staged in the AB Hall of the San Martín Cultural Center. Now, it dazzles audiences out of a film screen, with extraordinary muscles and a huge heart: Los posibles is a rhapsody of roughen bodies and torn emotions. Precise and exciting, it’s our own delayed, necessary, and incandescent West Side Story.

Sofia has already made the most important decision of her life. She is sitting on the beach thinking about Sonia before taking the next step.

In a deckchair under a beach umbrella in the middle of a traffic island, Julia sits listening to the Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’ at full volume – simply existing, in a world that seems to take little notice of her as it keeps on turning. Even her brief nervous breakdown at the hairdresser’s merely ebbs away, like waves that gather only to dissipate again. Between a Russian Orthodox mass and the beach, a search for identity unfolds.

In February, 1968, José Ferragut, the most important architect of Mallorca, was found dead in a field. The case was closed for lack of evidence. During the 50’s and 60’s the beginning of tourism changed the reality of the Mediterranean countries. Amazing landscapes were transformed for tourism exploitation Ferragut fought against the corruption and uncontrolled development of the coast and got enemies by politics and developers. But Ferragut had another problem. He was gay in a society who criminalized and goes after the homosexuals. Therefore he lived a double life until his dead making him an introverted and depressive man. 50 years later, Life and death of an architect wonders how and why this man was brutally kill in 1968 by two man prostitutes.

The life and military career of Peter Brill, the last surviving Luftwaffe pilot who had trained for Hitler’s secret, aborted mission to bomb New York City.

Musical comedy in two acts. A vaudeville theatre where nobody wants to show who they are for fear of exposing what they lack.

About earthquakes and the origin of life on Earth They say many years ago Ch'ujtiat, the Heaven's lord, created the Earth with 12 immortal men to carry it. And it is when they get tired that the Earth moves, provoking earthquakes. At the same time he created the first men, who were ungrateful, so Ch'ujtiat sent the flood and turned the survivors into monkeys, and the innocent children into starts.He then created our first parents, na'al, Ixic y Xun'Ok, who multiplied and populated the Earth.That's how life on Earth began.That's how the Ch’oles tell it.

Interconnects the life of four Puerto Rican actors and a Colombian director while they participate in a Theater Improvisation Festival. They will be forced to reflect on their future in art amid economic crisis, global warming, and technological dependency.

Diosdado and Milagros travel long distances with the company of their horse to sell fruits and vegetables. "At dawn" tells a day in the life of this Cuban couple.

The unscrupulousness of members of the Colombian army destroys the love between twenty-year-old Roland and Lady in El Paraíso, an impoverished neighborhood of Bogotá.

Between July and October 2009, filmmaker led and recorded meetings of former partners and their respective current partners in Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid.

The Roca brothers, co-owners of one of the world's best restaurants, made the decision to close their restaurant for five weeks to tour six cities in four different countries with the entire kitchen and dining room staff.

In 2052, a man wanders through a semi-constructed high rise, assassinating people without warning.

Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexico. The seeds of hope profoundly brought to life by his daughter in LA who thought him dead, finding him during the making of this timeless film.

El Campeón is interviewed just before his first fight.

The film traces the origins of the Chilean band band Los Prisioneros from the perspective of the drummer Miguel Tapia. Set in the Late 70's, during Pinochet's military dictatorship.

"Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis." This is how Pagán describes this work in which the interplay between the image, its reverse, and the sound of the "Haunted House" erases and makes the boundaries between past and present, interior and exterior, collide.

Mohamad has spent almost half his life living halfway: escaping the war in Syria, crossing the black Mediterranean, making a journey that seemed to have no end... but it did: a military camp in Salonika, in northern Greece, south of Idomenei.

In the pews of an ornately decorated Baroque church, congregants worship a new-age God that challenges the meaning of Higher Power. A Doc Fortnight/Cinema Tropical collaboration.

"Some couples think honesty is the most important thing in a relationship... They're wrong."

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.

Those who worship the Golden Calf base their lives on materialism, seeking to obtain goods and riches with their adoration. Lies and plundering become commonplace.

María (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed".

Santiago is a young man who unexpectedly has an accident that leaves him in a wheelchair. Losing his "friends", his girlfriend and getting bullied at school. When all seems lost, he meets Mateo, a new exchange student, who is gay and defends him from bullying. Their friendship over time turns into something more, giving Santiago's life a new meaning and the courage to defend his love against the stigmas of religion, sexual orientation and physical disability.

Once upon a time there was a paper boat, who lived in an abandoned toy store, that embarks on the journey of his life.

The film humorously recounts the adventures of three young friends, now in full quarantine, who arrive in Valencia to fulfill the last wishes of a fourth friend, and older sister of one of them, who had died a year earlier. The trip, which seems directed from beyond by the dead woman, becomes a double adventure. A comic adventure, in which the ashes, first in an urn and then in a luxurious handbag, take center stage, and a dramatic adventure, that of the reunion of the friends with an old love of youth, their former coach of gymnastics, which will cause a decisive transformation in all of them. A reunion that will serve to close old wounds and overcome personal conflicts and to realize that after forty life has only just begun

Conjectures about the animal that bumps into itself, aims for big things, and gets sick of it all.

Eloy and Isaac are a couple who are about to commemorate their fifth anniversary together. They decide to surprise each other.

Women are the protagonists of this documentary. Girls and women of varied ages tell us the difficulties of living their whole lives in refuge and their desires for the future.

One morning in June 2005, the guards of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, noticed that a millionaire Auguste Rodin sculpture had been stolen. 24 hours after the event a shy art student returns the piece arguing that he had stolen it as part of an artistic project. A documentary that explores the dilemmas of the artist and contemporary art.

Seen through the eyes of small, midsize and large Mexican maize producers, SUNU knits together different stories from a threatened rural world. It journeys deep into the heart of a country where people realize their determination to stay free, to work the land and cultivate their seeds, to be true to their cultures and forms of spirituality, all in a modern world that both needs them and despises them.