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The rocky desert in southwestern Algeria is the temporary home of about 150,000 refugees from Western Sahara. Goats grazing or the opening of a beauty salon are among the many scenes of everyday life of people who are eagerly awaiting the beginning of the film festival. The observational documentary captures the unwavering love of film in a place that the world has forgotten.
... there's a phrase from a song that I really like that says: "Life is so beautiful that it looks real"
Maria has always been the arms in which Mar has consoled herself. After a night of partying and fatal consequences, Mar finds no comfort. This time, Maria's arms will drown her desperate scream even more.
During the last dictatorship and in the first years of return to democracy in Argentina, the under movement suffered attacks, exiles, arrests, ridicule and disqualification for a large part of society and applause from a minor group of people. In that underworld, Transformism was located as a form of expression cultural and artistic. Bernarda is the homeland, deconstructs the gender binary from Lorca and those movements of culture of the 80 '.
In 1885, during the “campaña del desierto”, a man deserts the war against the natives and runs to an isolated cabin in the Andes amidst a snowstorm. In his struggle for survival, he lays out traps in the hopes of catching some animal for food. As days go by, he finds traces of blood in the woods and begins hearing noises at night. He will have to face the presence of a strange visitant who refuses to be seen while increasingly stalking him.
SOLO is a project in which the main character, played by Eneko Sagardoy, makes an instrospection exercise and suggests a different view of loneliness. He wonders why we always insist on avoiding it, and sets the conclusion he ends up reaching.
Laura and Carlos have a date. It begins as a pleasant encounter but ends violently. Laura, unable to accept what happened, faces the incomprehension of those around her.
Ignacio embarks on a trip driven by the coincidences that bring together the news that his young girlfriend is pregnant and an invitation to a seminar in Chile almost simultaneously.
Veso Golden, a transgender woman from Ghana who lives distanced due to the social rejection she faces and dreams of wearing the crown in the international beauty pageant.
An intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom. Two filmmakers who have been best friends since childhood, both part of the Cuban diaspora, share their intimate and emotional journey while they try to find themselves and each other in a foreign land.
This is the first and only feature-length documentary on the life and cinema of the late Jorge Grau, who is most famous for his classic social-political horror masterpiece "Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" (1974), seen by some critics as a fierce critique of the Franco government albeit set in a displaced foreign locale.
On January 8th, 1933, a general strike was declared throughout Spain. The strike was quickly quelled, except in Casas Viejas, a small village in Cádiz. During the repression, the security forces of the Second Republic murdered in cold blood twenty-two peasants, including women and children.
Amaia shares in this documentary the journey behind the creation of her first record.
Yeslie is a former FARC guerrilla who tries to reintegrate into society. Given the difficulties of life, mother of a 4-year-old girl and pregnant, decides to dig up some guns hidden in the jungle to sell them and get some money.
A professional dancer struggles with his cravings for human flesh until his 'hambre', or hunger, becomes all encompassing. Accepting his status as an apex predator in human form, he fully embraces his life as a carnivorous hunter.
After a woman loses her husband to a heart attack she begins to suspect his death may not have been from natural causes. With the help of a device that allows the dead to answer yes or no questions, Violetta interrogates her husband for the truth.
Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through its music and its people. Erfan is a funny and ironic young Kurdish man who wants to become a film director. He sings, writes poetry, lives with his parents and his parrot, but knows nothing about love...
A Barranquilla production, starring local actors. In this story we will learn about Javier's odyssey, a young virgin man who seeks to demonstrate his virility and talent in acting, for which he challenges himself to make his new neighbor fall in love with him in less than 1 week - Will he succeed?
Pedro and Simón travel to a village on the border with Brazil. They work on a yerba mate plantation, where they also live. One night they enter the forest and get into a fight with smugglers.
Based on a personal experience of one of the directors, this film is an ironic tribute to the famous hidden camera television show called "Taxicab Confessions", and to New York City.
In 1973, Chinese writer Sanmao (Echo Chen Ping, 1943-91) marries Spanish naval engineer José María Quero while living together in the Spanish Sahara. Sanmao recounts her daily experiences in Tales From the Sahara, a book that is a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao then becomes an icon for independent women and the protagonist of a life that takes on legendary overtones: love, adventure, literature and, finally, tragedy.
On the 11th July 2010, Spain’s national team reached its goal of winning the World Cup, a victory that was felt by the team and nation as a whole. Despite this successful ending, “La Roja” had to overcome various struggles and difficulties in order to become legendary. The team arrived in South Africa with the triumph of the 2008 European Football Championship under their belt and Vicente del Bosque leading the way. There was a general feeling of favoritism attributed to ""La Roja"" and while the defeat against Switzerland in the first match came as a shock, it motivated Del Bosque and his team to come together and focus on one intention: good football; and one goal: to make history.
Interview about the life of Horacio Vásquez.
There's a lot of things I'd like to tell you now that there's time. — Now there is time, I dream at night with many things that I would like to be living and that stick to me for the rest of the day inside these four walls. Now there's time, I see more telebesura than ever and I look more at my phone than ever before. Now there's time, I do a lot fewer things than before. Now that there's time, I think of all the things I would have told you before if I'd known I wasn't going to be able to now. Now that there's time, I'm testing the audios I'd like to send you in front of the mirror. Now there's time, I'm letting my hair grow. Now that there's time, I get things we talked about someday, even if you probably don't remember. Now that there's time, I listen to a lot more sad music. Now there's time, I like to look at the works out the window. Now there's time, I miss it.
The Araucaria araucana is a prehistoric tree species, present on earth for millions of years. "Vestiges" tells its story from its origin in a visual and chronological way, showing its resistance to the different external forces it has to face, the different ways it has been related to humans, until the disease that threatens them, as a consequence of the climate change.
A making-off of the fiction in which we will discover the great secrets of its filming, with the testimonies of its creators, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, as well as statements from its protagonists Daniela Santiago, Lola Rodríguez and Jedet.
An unhappy art student feels deeply disturbed and is unable to sleep. One morning, she hears the trumpeting of an eagle that seems to herald unusual times, which is further materialized with the finding of a copy of The inmaculate conception, the book by Paul Eluard and André Breton, in her apartment's incinerator.
Two lonely characters wanting to find a partner, a romantic blind date, a decadent Russian restaurant... The New Year’s Eve could't be more promising until the dinner for two becomes a crazy dinner for four: them and their ghosts. And the main course is still to come.
What should school be used for today? This question led to an educational revolution through the Escola Nova 21 program.
A young girl struggles to reconcile with her single mother's faith when a masked prophet in black appears to her beside a wretched cross with an ominous invitation to worship.
"Who plays me, hears my voices”, shows a recent moment in the life of Gaston Lafourcade, a classical pianist and harpsichordist who, at the age of 83, enters a recording studio for the first time in his life to record a solo album and to join his daughter, Natalia Lafourcade, who during a recess period in her career, decides to embark on this adventure as a love letter to her father and as a way to enjoy what brings them together, beyond blood ties: their deep love for music.
Darkness hides in all of us.
A young couple has their first date. She has prepared something special for the occasion and invited him to dinner at her family's gourmet restaurant, which is open tonight just for them. The couple seems to share a special taste for exotic food, from endangered animals to human flesh.
The encounter of three movies, three territories. A personal story that portrays, through experiments revealed by images and extracts from a diary, lived meetings and inhabited places filled by forces of nature, colors, incidents and struggles.
A young Majorcan living in Barcelona, appeases his nostalgia by visiting his hometown via Google Maps. He soon discovers that a series of paranormal events are taking place in his small village.
Sergio lived alone in the mountains. While he was herding his goats in the mountains, he heard the sound of his bagpipes below, in the town of Veiga de Logares. Friends and neighbors tell us that he was a virtuoso piper and great artist of the town.
Pablo and Miguel, from Las Varillas, see each other after many years in La Cumbre when they are both on vacation with their partners. Secrets will come to light when Pablo's wife discovers why Miguel's presence bothers her husband so much.
An unconventional hitman gets into a contract that will redefine not only his life but that of his victims.
"During several months of this senseless year I went out to the terrace to look at the ceilings. I would go at different times of the day, as in a ritual, perhaps trying to find at those ceilings some kind of explanation. Something that mitigates grief." (Gustavo Fontán)
Rubén debates with himself on how to protect his six year old daughter before the illness he from suffers ends him.
Inspired by these intense exhanges and images partially filmed in the South of Tolima in Columbia. The final film of the trilogy focuses on the current systemic war led by transnational firms against the tiniest and most essential aspect of life: seeds.
The chronicle of a Land Art action that lit up 131 peaks of Montserrat to claim the referendum on self-determination of Catalonia, which took place in 2017.
Lionel goes to visit his father, who suffers from foot disease, after receiving news that he has had a relapse. This meeting will renew the family memory; the need to find themselves will unite them once again.
In 1969, artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi made the short animated film Homenaje a Tarzán (Homage to Tarzan), which ended with an enigmatic «to be continued». Ehiza (Hunting) is its continuation. It accepts Balerdi's aesthetic proposal, but steps away from the colonial perspective of the films that inspired that work to depict the harshness of our own reality: harassment, violence and destruction.
A journey through memory, gazing at the landscape of my adolescence.
Guillermo, a successful media businessman, hires a service to meet his clone and improve himself.