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Victoria is going to give birth at three thousand meters altitude. She clings to ropes. In Churcampa, Peru, mortality has been reduced thanks to health care and the recovery of vertical childbirth.

61. La Verdad Interior reveals the creative process behind TELEMUNDO [screened in the New Visions section], a collaborative film directed by James Benning and starring himself and Sofía Brito. It is a journey, an interview. The connection between a film director with a great carrier and a young actress who decides to film the creative process that thrives between the two. A film-essay in which these two beings find ways of overcoming the language barriers.

A cold,husband has his marriage on the verge of failure. One day he will begin an affair with an eccentric and impulsive woman who will awaken the sensitive and affected man who slept in him. But this new attitude of his will make his wife believe that he is interested in her again, reliving the relationship. Thus, when the situation becomes untenable, the husband must make a difficult decision between moving forward with his recovered marriage or go along with a vertiginous romance that could make him a better person.

She fears having lost her, they were once together and were happy but things change, times change, it seems that she has lost her, but it is curious that something so small can keep hope, she will have to go through walls of time and space to find her again.

Language and landscape as a gate into a new life. A young Galician filmmaker emigrates to Sweden, where he performs different part-time jobs. His learning of a new language and fascination for the Swedish landscape become a driving force against the difficult life conditions. As he learns about the culture, society and lifestyle, he develops a new identity.

A woman of the Mexican Revolution. An armed militant who puts us in touch with the pulse of the field, a waterfall of colors and gaits, in the footsteps of a woman who vindicates her struggle that never ceases to exist.

The story of the mythical anarchist begins to weave on May 1, 1909, when the police repress a massive anarchist march in Buenos Aires, leaving dead and wounded. A few months later, the carriage of Ramón Falcón, the police chief who commanded the repression, explodes and flies through the air. For the attack, a young Ukrainian is arrested: Simón Radowitzky.

Children at recess are witnesses to the conflict between riot police and strikers. The neighborhood of a mining town is transformed into a battlefield for the last time. After the failure of the strike, calm returns to the streets and workers to work, with the certainty of knowing that the closure of the wells can no longer be stopped.

Through a letter, a son narrates the disappearance of his mother on the night of October 2, 1968, as well as the search that his father undertook until death without finding it.

Fatma, who lives in Asuerd’s refugee camp in the Hamada of the Algerian desert, will listen in television to news that will give her a great idea … to contact with a girl from another side of the Atlantic Ocean: Sasha, one of the daughters of the president Obama.

Lookout is a film about a way of perceiving life beyond our common senses through an intimate portrait of the daily life of Pablo, blind since age three, who lives by himself on a wild area close to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he makes liquors and records poems.

Some arms do not stop tearing down walls and houses. Others insist on cleaning and tidying rooms that will be gone the next day. Collapse and resistance coexist. In A punto de despegar we witness the disappearance of San Agustín, the last town that survived the era of the great haciendas of Lima. The expansion of the airport causes the eviction of the entire place and with its demolition comes the end of several traditions and ways of life. Modern Peru is a one-way train where the archaic has no place. A respectful camera preserves the faces, gestures and words of those last days. A film built after a decade of friendship with the neighbors. A farewell that radiates affection, intimacy and uneasiness in equal measure.

Explores the voyage of a Puerto Rican photographer to New York for the first time, as he embarks on journey to forget.

46-year-old Agustin has lived with a dissociative identity disorder resulting from the rape of his own father when he was just 10 years old, this disorder has caused physical and psychological damage to Agustin, now he must survive himself.

Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.

Carmen, a sixty-year-old woman, travels from Mexico City to the town where she was born after forty years of absence. There she begins to look for the traces of her father, who left her at birth, whether he is alive or dead. She wanders among distant relatives and flashes of her past. A story divided between melancholy and the luminous sky.

Ateneos is a community theater troupe. Its members work during the day and meet to rehearse at night. For the most part, they are people with a lot of sensitivity who found a way to express themselves there. The film explores the mechanisms that human beings have to deal with pain and continue to create despite everything.

During the Pinochet dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert became an instrument for the Chilean secret services, who forced him to work for them in an extremely violent way. He was able to escape from Chile and became a war photographer based in Belgium. Today, his son Andrés takes him back to the places of his unfinished past.

A humble Cuban fisherman is having a harsh winter on the open sea. For the sake of his family and against all odds, he needs to capture a fish tonight.

As I´m tiny, the night seems to dark to me, so I swicht on the light in case the wardrobe monster is scared.

Olivia is a young girl who wanders around the Patagonian forest. She is found thieving and is fiercely chased. Someone unexpected will save her life but at a high cost.

A woman confines herself to her apartment and to a daily routine that keeps her sane, but a brief encounter with the outside world threatens to dismantle her meticulously maintained refuge.

Three high school graduates search for their best friend while backpacking through Europe after he gets lost in a train station bathroom.

Solar Quadrant reflects on the gaze of the sun in cinema. The film, in a cyclic and diagrammatic way, articulates dialogues between twenty-four authors. A montage that, like a clock, superimposes the images with the sun as its central axis.

I’m walking through Sarajevo. I’m waking up. I don’t remember.

Transito II is an exploration through images of the urban landscape that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, exploiting gestural qualities own of video and motivated by distinct reflections since a dislocation place respect to itself and the environment.

Carlos comes home and is told that his dog Rocco bitten the neighbor's boy. The neighbor is angry and threatens to call police.

Álex is a teenager who has a secret nobody can find out about; not even her best friend.

Sebastián's inspiration, motivation and hero-like figure in life is his grandfather, Mario. But death drew them apart, and their time was cut short. This is a story of perseverance, discovery, and innocence, where Sebastián, an 8 year old, seeks through various means a way to regain contact with Mario to show him one of his greatest achievements.

Luis Alberto Quijano declared himself a witness in the “megacase” of La Perla for one of the worst crimes against humanity in the province of Cordoba during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. El hijo del cazador follows Quijano’s life story.

Are we transforemed into energy once we are dead? Energy made visible when death stares at us up close.

"Negra? Don't call me that," Maryuri retorts, on the day she dances, bleeds, and might risk her life and run away, or ease the world's misery in the arms of her lover, a fisherman from Cartagena.

Juan Pérez is an ordinary Chilean; one who goes through his monotonous life unnoticed, surviving debts, his crushing work, minimum wage, and loneliness. Until one day, out of luck, he prevents a robbery and is given hero status by the media. This lasts 24 hours. Forced to return to his routine, Juan falls into a spiral of excess and madness, and ends up the opposite of the hero he wanted to be.

David, a clueless and cocky Spanish video blogger traveling in Africa, arrives in Benin, where he accidentally finds the truth behind an ancient legend.

Through the job inside a prison in Mexico, men reveal the perception, the illusion and the decadence of a isolated reality, as well as organized.

Something down a deep dark well in a coastal forest calls forth an unsuspecting young man.

Felipe just wants to watch a movie at his girlfriend Alegría's house, but his friends have a very different idea of what the date will be and they give him romantic advice.

In a society where homosexuality is prohibited, Lucas and Maxi are arrested and taken to a Detention Center for Young People with Sexual Deviations. After being subjected to different treatments to "cure" their homosexuality, they will find themselves under the dilemma of undergoing the system to preserve their life or be themselves, regardless of the consequences.