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You Too is a social critic in the key of black humor. A disheveled boy is in a field with a baseball bat, hitting different toys that he has in a box. There is no emotion in his face. Everything breathes a strange tranquility that even drowns.
The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream. (Based on the short film The Fourth Kingdom, 2017.)
There was once, in 1910, a train able to cross the wild territories between Argentina and Chile, making possible a mythical journey, joining two oceans with a single ticket, from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. The last trip of the BAP was in 1979; in the nineties, its various branches were permanently abandoned. Since then, travelers have been inhabiting the railway landscape as they dream, desire, remember or yearn: as part of their own being and national history.
Documentary film on the critically acclaimed novel El traductor by Salvador Benesdra, a journalist in midst of crisis in the mid 90s. Unable to publish his work, he kills himself.
Zarzuela in three acts. Broadcast live from El Teatro de la Zarzuela on April 12, 2019.
In Bolivia, in a small mountain village, the daily rhythm seems marked by a time that no longer exists, by nature’s invisibles forces, by the will of the gods. In this place where there is no longer a difference between dreams and reality, during the festival of the dead, one can almost hear the voices of those who are no longer there, creating an invisible bridge between past and present.
Mozart's "Idomeneo" is a work about love, hate, jealousy, war and destruction. It shows in a disturbing way the musical genius of the Salzburg composer. Each figure is characterized individually without losing sight of the musical whole. In a way, "Idomeneo" anticipates Wagnerian techniques in composition. The direction of this production at Madrid's Teatro Real was in the proven hands of Robert Carsen, who brings the work to the stage in a contemporary, modern and very disturbing way. Under the sovereign direction of Ivor Bolton, Eric Cutler, David Portillo, Anett Fritsch and Eleonora Buratto are among the singers.
Alma's going to turn Javier's night into the most unforgettable soiree of his life.
Ana believes in absolute love. Lucia doesn't. Ana and Lucia go to an art exhibition. There they find a painting in which a man floats in the air while kissing a woman. Lucia doesn't like the painting. Ana does.
Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.
For time immemorial, the indigenous peoples of Latin America have used and venerated the coca plant, affording it the same respect as a person. Jiíbie is the Uitoto word for the powder made from the plant, which is produced here in the domestic setting of a Muiná-Muruí family (in the Colombian Amazon). A spiritual guide, a healer, a teacher and a communicator: these are just some of the roles assigned to this “plant of power”.
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.
Yolanda is a young girl who practices athletics, it's her passion. But she's not training the way she wants, there is something wrong on her life and it's about to explode.
A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.
An overview on the problem of waste management in the Dominican Republic, more specifically plastics.
An essay on parastatal violence that establishes links and points of contact between two little-known moments in Argentine history: the action of the CNU (Concentración Nacional Universitaria) in the seventies and the actions of neo-fascist groups in the present.
A 35 year old Chilean exiled mom reconnects an old college love through Facebook, that moments sets dilemma: she might turn into the woman she swore she will never be: her mother.
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 documentary about the filmmaker Juan Pinzás.
An oneiric journey through Alex’s life as a former FARC guerrilla leads to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. Alex tells his story of war and its legacy inside of a truck transformed into a camera obscura, a space where dreams suffuse with reality and a life in limbo is illuminated.
La Flaca is a young woman who lives with her two daughters in the house of the religious family of her partner David. As she thinks David is hiding a secret from her, she decides to confront him.
Joaquín Gaztambide’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was first performed at the Teatro del Circo in 1852. Participating in the revival of this comic opera are Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, the veteran musical director, who considers Gaztambide to be “interesting, enjoyable and the holder of an extraordinary musical quality”, and Marco Carniti, the stage director, who wants to make us enjoy the beauty of a work which cheerfully veers between dream and reality. The libretto has been completely revamped and the action moved to Rome in the 1950s. Broadcast live from the Teatro de la Zarzuela on February 10th, 2019.
Matías De Stefano, an Indigo child who was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina in 1987. From the moment of his birth he has the ability to remember everything he has done before birth and can understand, in a simple way, how the Universe works. His memories take him to travel the world and share what he knows with thousands of people. His trips help him discover his purpose in life and fulfill a mission that he could not complete thousands of years ago.
Ultrashow by Miguel Noguera at the Sala Russafa.
It was Thursday when we met her at Puerta del Sol. Sandra is a seventy three years old woman who’s life is dedicated to fight injustices, towards others and the ones she suffered herself. Everytime we meet we learn something new that she once was not allowed to say.
Isidro meanders through the rainforest as he recounts his various encounters with death.
In 1999, during the transition to the digital era, is produced one the most successful album of the last 30 years in Chile, the album "VIVO" by Joe Vasconcellos. "Que buena onda" tells the making and details of this record, through exclusive archival material of concerts and testimonies of the main stakeholders of this story.
Guillermo has HIV and his boyfriend, Miguel, feels sexually insecure, so they want to use the preventive pill, not yet accesible in Spain. Virginia, Guille's sister, has an idea: Chenoa, a famous singer, will sing the PrEP hymn.
When Spanish Civil War ends in 1939, some of the women who played a leading role in the creative and literary boom known as Generation of 1927, stay in Spain, freely or not, sacrificing the spirit that had enlightened them, adapting themselves —or pretending to do so— to the new feminine role imposed by the victors, who were determined to cage these free souls at home, to live just as wives and mothers.
Fernando is Kamëntsa, indigenous and autochthonous to the Sibundoy Valley, in the south of Colombia. He is over 40, but still lives in his grandmother’s house and often parties. He is popular and earns a living as a broadcaster on the local radio. His family does not approve of his behaviour since he does not seek to change his lifestyle, in which he finds pleasure. Fernando was recently elected Sheriff.
Infernicus, directed by V. Lynch, final masterpiece of the New Cagne Trilogy.
A double story of music and companion; this documentary portraits two different and itinerant social bands.
In his documentary feature debut, filmmaker Mauro Colombo immerses himself in the Darién Gap, a dense and mysterious jungle that divides Panama and Colombia. At the dangerous border between the two countries, guerrillas, immigrants, indigenous people, farmers, drug traffickers, local police and wild animals cross paths.
The tale of the project 'Yarn against sexist violence'. From the origins of the Harituz association in Astigarraga (Basque Country) and guided by its protagonists, it describes the meetings, stories, actions and voyages at home and abroad. In this project, knitting is the vehicle which unites very different women, who become knitters in the fight, and who stand up to sexist violence from sisterhood. The Yarn, an enormous collective bow in progress, which is already more than 6 km long, is a space of symbolisation, where every stretch represents a life taken by sexist violence.
A documentary about the refugee camp located on the South Sudan/Uganda border.
Story of Isabel Carrasco, the president of the provincial government of Leon.
An old man in need of medical care is referred to an unofficial medical center in the outskirts of the city by a shady nurse. In the hopes of getting what he needs, the man ends up in the hands of a corrupt and sinister medical association of doctors who engage in organ trafficking in their spare time.
Juan tries to rescue Ulises from oblivion by showing his latest paintings, which have been hidden for 20 years. A documentary that is also a love story between two free men and that marks the debut as a director of Sergio de León.
An untold story in the realm of Nargual Review. Now unveiled - A Pengle Pongli Story
The life and career of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah as told from his daughter's perspective. She travels to his final home to learn more about his life and work.
After going through a difficult economic situation, a father loses his job and becomes depressed. When the relationship with his wife and son deteriorates, they attempt to help him.
A group of musicians seem isolated from the world playing beautiful pieces. But in the darkness of the night, and from their minds, there are melancholies on earth, loves and families that they left behind. Their silences, their letters, these elements shape the poetic intention of this documentary.
Haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin, an isolated woman finds a stranger in the woods and struggles between her safety and her sexual desires.