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Set in a dystopian future, a lesbian couple seeks refuge in an abandoned childhood home.

‘Something deeply hypnotised me the first time I saw the images contained in the tapes that had been abandoned on my grandparents' shelves for decades. Although the quality of the digitisation was quite poor, those moments, recorded by my grandfather's trembling hands and starring my mother, gave off something heartbreaking.'

To film director Didier Ruiz at work with seven trans people is to set foot in a collective adventure from which no one comes out unscathed. We are thus witnessing, as the rehearsals progress, an outbreak. Filming the emergence of this word is a gift. A journey full of surprises where questions about the feminine, the masculine, the norm, freedom, archetypes, transgression, sexuality assail us and overturn all our certainties.

Five Salvadoran saleswomen want to take their cruel life stories to the stage. During the rehearsal process of their play, they’ll discover themselves as victims and victimizers in a cycle of violence that has plagued their families for generations.

On March 21, 1975, Triple A kidnaps, tortures, shoots and dynamite eight popular militants in the San José de Temperley neighborhood. This traumatic event is known as the Pasco Massacre and is part of a terrifying rehearsal room that pre-announces the so-called State Terrorism.

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

A story of tenderness and fantasy that really make us reflect on our lives and the parts of ourselves that we have lost. It is the story of Lili, an introverted 11 year old girl who uses her imagination as a refuge from the world around her; a world that has been falling apart due to the disappearance of her father, her mother’s indifference towards her, betrayed friendship, and disappointment in love. But everything changes when she cries herself to sleep under a strange tree, under the watchful eye of Mr. Crow. Through this tree, Lili’s soul travels to a timeless world that is populated by lost souls, even as her body lays slumbering on the roots of the tree.

Julio César Dely Valdés is the best Panamanian sportsman of the 20th century and one of those responsible for making football the country's main sport in a few years. This documentary tells the story of a Panamanian boy's dream of screaming goals in crowded stadiums and who, with effort and persistence, managed to mark the path of many others in his country.

Paraguay, 1933. A woman is waiting for her husband to return from war when she's disturbed by a strange whistle that warns of the arrival of a famous Paraguayan myth: El Pombero.

Violeta leaves a party, only to find out a sexual predator is following her.

Teslem, Dehba and Jadija work in a fish farm in the Saharawi refugee camps. Where? In Algeria, in the middle of the desert, far away from their land. They no longer have sea, but they have fish.

Who lives in the hermitage of the hill? Sand and clay animation short film

He calls the elevator and, inside, he will find an unexpected passenger that will make his life impossible during the short journey they will share.

The financial problems of a Jewish community are a nightmare for their leader, Rabbi Aaron. Cornered and overwhelmed, Aaron tries a last resort: embark on a trip to the Far East to get donations.

After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York City, undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa reunites with former college classmate Nicole, the director of this film. Through their creative bond, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and legalization.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. El Rubio left the crime underworld years ago, but a serious family problem forces him to rethink his life choices when drug dealer Júnior proposes him to steal his bosses' frontman…

A little girl is home alone. Or not.

A woman and her mother disagree over the choice of a wedding dress.

An illusory meditation on the street culture of New York City, represented through a collage of overlaid events and characters that collide at chance during the filming, chemical development and digital scanning process. Through this method, the artist embraces accidents and coincidence in favor of uncontrolled artistic expression.

A lonely security guard and a camera find themselves in an abandoned warehouse. Inevitably, this situation will tend to become a film.

Tonight is the monthly meeting of the 75s graduates class. The conversation flows until it suddenly acquires an aggressive tone when they discuss the continuity of some members of the Whatsapp group who don't participate much.

Super 8 / 18fps / silent / in-camera edited Kodak Vision3 200T

Sergio is dying from marrow cancer. His doctor, Millán, wants him to achieve his final will. Helped by the rest of the medical team, they will leave embarrassment aside to make his last dream come true.

The sea has always been a space where many fishermen have found beauty, calm and freedom. It is different nowadays, as they seem to easily find garbage and all kinds of pollution. This piece is an homage to the marine beauty they remember, a brief journey alongside these fishermen who work and fight to bring back what they once knew.

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

Jordi was born 51 years ago with cerebral palsy. Although he can’t speak, he tries to communicate using his letter chart. That’s how he tells Maider, the director of the film, that at the age of 21 he felt God talking to him for the first time. But today, now that he has moved out of his parent’s house into a home, he no longer feels God. Once a year, Jordi makes a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, where he searches for his connection with God, despite not knowing if God will come back one day.

A lesbian couple proposes to a friend gay couple to have a baby between the four through a fertility treatment. The thing gets complicated when they begin to realize the ridiculous problems that the situation entails and are in the uncomfortable situation of choosing which of the two men will be the sperm donor.

Absolute pleasure as an identity. Alfonso de Sierra, Luis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bents were “Els 5 QKs”, a group of amateur filmmakers who, in 1975, decided to get together and create a transgressive and courageous filmography breaking social, religious, and political boundaries; placing the faggot as leading role hero: proud of himself, shameless, beyond good and evil. In this documentary film, Luis Escribano and Ces Martí, only living members of the group, review, alongside some actors, their creative process and what those films, forgotten till now, meant to Barcelona during La Trancisión.

For years Paula has been battered by her father, a macho and drunk man. Now Paula's main support is her friend Clara, a girl of the same age who joins her the fondness for collecting abandoned watches.

A few trees, a few animals, lights, colours, spaces. Sensorial navigation through the hamlets of San Sadurniño, where seeing is retaining–perceiving, where the eye is not contaminated and takes pleasure in the adventure of perception. Quoting Stan Brakhage, "How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘green’ ? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye ? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be ?"

Miguel is a movie buff who is dedicated to filming Paula, a classmate with whom he is in love. Maria, his sister, is his great confidant. Both will exchange secrets that will change Miguel's life.

Between Africa and the catalonian Penedés stands the distance of a videocamera. A cut. What is what, where are we, where did the songs we sang while we worked go, where is the group, the colective, the community?

In 2007 Cristina Vázquez, a native of Posadas, settled in Buenos Aires, built a life, made new friends. I am one of her new friends. We work together in a restaurant. In that place happens the police raid that turns my friend Cristina into the queen of the hammer: a young woman rampant, drug addict and promiscuous who is also a murderer. Months later, without evidence, she is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. Fragments of an unknown friend in the story who wrote to Cristina Vázquez in the perfect suspect. A story that, without convincing evidence, is still in jail today.

In Mexico, nine women are murdered every day, and according to data by the UN, six out of ten women have suffered violence at some point of their lives. This short documentary tackles several levels of violence against women, from micro-violence that has been normalized, to street harrassment, to the most serious crime of all; femicide.

Gilberto must solve the great problem of traffic lights on a new avenue. Faced with the great workload, his wife Astrid claims the little time he spends with her and her son little Uriel. Gilberto is engulfed in a work cloister, to deduce that the answer is simple: distance over speed equals time. In the end he discovers that in his mission he has left spend three years realizing that looking for a time-saving formula he lost same.

In a nursing home, a word in a crossword, an unexpected call and a broken TV are the events that flip the daily life of three elders, who must go out in the search of answers.

In this ruminative snapshot, a swimmer with a clogged ear finds herself drawn back to the sea.

Miguel, a great undisputed fan of the king of pop, fights for his dream of being the best imitator of his idol, for this he will have to compete against important opponents at the most important festival in the area.

Meche can’t get over the loss of her son Raul and her life is suspended in time and space, just like Raul’s bedroom. Everything is intact except Lidice, the neighborhood where her family has always lived. Her daughters Anabel and Dayana try to convince her to leave.

Christian is a dreamer who cannot find his place in this world; for the past 10 years he's been living in London, a city of a million opportunities, and training to become a professional in martial arts. At 35 years old, nothing he aspired to has become a reality. When he finds himself unemployed, his girlfriend (tired of his endless excuses) kicks him to the curb. Now he will be forced back to his birthplace, Genoa, where he will have to rediscover himself, reinvent himself, and above all else adapt himself to a new reality of friends and family, a reality far different from that which he imagined.

Jean Carlos Renault, a.k.a. "The Salamander," has returned to Panama after committing multiple crimes in several Central American countries; only special agent Coster Bravo can stop him… as the rest of the agents are either on vacation or off-duty. Catching him will not be easy as The Salamander is protected by a well-organized criminal network.

Simona and Lucas embark on a trip to the countryside. During the trip they meet Alex, an androgynous teenager that they feel attracted to. With Alex in between, the uncertainty of the nature of their relationship comes to the surface. They must face what they feel for each other and their own sexual identities, making decisions that put their friendship at risk.

Ultrashow by Miguel Noguera at La Rambleta.

This documentary examines breakthroughs in neuroscience and technology, imagining a future where the human brain and artificial intelligence connect.

Cris, an environmental ecologist fighting to replant the forest, finds evidence that a forest fire will be intentionally started imminently. After preventing it, he discovers that whoever was behind the plot will attempt another fire soon, determined not to fail again. Cris will do whatever he can to stop the fire once more.