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María josé arroyo's life, how she learned to deal with pain through painting

On the 14th of November 2020 the Polisario Front considered breaking the ceasefire calling on the United Nations to intervene and declare a 'state of war' throughout the territory in response to an attack commited by Moroccan forces the day before. On the early morning of thursday to friday the 13th of November, at the border crossing of Guerguerat, Moroccan forces took action to expel a group of around 50 Sahrawi civilians who were, since the 21st of October, blocking the connectiong road with Mauritania in order to demand that the United Nations hold a referendum of autoindependence as was promised in 1991. In this short documentary the situation of the Sahrawi people after the events of the 13th of November is explained.

In the Bolivian Titicaca Lake, Lucía (10) faces a range of new, conflicting emotions when her father leaves. Lucía builds her daily life around the wait for her dad's return.

Clara appears naked and defenceless in a dense and mysterious forest just after a meteorite falls to Earth. With Pablo's help she lives again, falls in love, while trying to remember who she was and how she ended up there that night.

When a star falls from the sky, a strange child is left in the aftermath.

Luz (72) is a retired popular singer-songwriter, who decides to protect a young immigrant victim of harassment by a local fisherman. The close relationship between them will trigger a neighborhood conflict in a small village in southern Chile.

The new generation of musicians irrupts in the local scene, without any complaints or apologies. This film captures the twists and turns of trap as an arrogant form of speech, rock’s young promises willing to eat the world and “expression” as an unappealable art form.

Ester is a retiree who wants to learn English. Rodrigo, her young teacher, will teach her the language, but he will also serve as a translator during her online dates with an Australian retiree who is very enthusiastic about her. A miniature comedy about the essential mistake that governs us.

In a town whipped by drug trafficking violence, Luisa lives away from bullets and blood in the solitude of her home, where her whole life revolves around hope and memory.

Aurora is an elderly woman who lives alone in an apartment in Madrid. Since her husband passed away, and most of her friends, her only visitor is a small bird. She feels neglected as she looks at all the things that constantly remind her of her past.

The central idea of the report EL FALS DOCUMENTAL is to raise awareness and reflect on this documentary genre. It deals with aspects such as the social construction of reality, the critique of the discourse of the media and the artistic reflection of language and audiovisual codes.

The story of José, the captain of a soccer team who must leave behind his pride to understand who he really is.

The magic and the soul of nature.

A friendship between Kookoo Rikoo, the only Arab Christian Israeli clown, and a war survivor, a Syrian girl.

A 40-year-old babysitter endures the absurdities of precarious work, juggling entitled parents, low pay, and economic instability. Through sharp humor, the film exposes the quiet humiliations of simply trying to make a living.

Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual. The maritime atmosphere, the crudity of people’s lives and passions, and the complex, impenetrable personality of the protagonist come together in a tragedy which ferments and explodes in the din of silence and hearsay. New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden of London, the Opéra national of Paris and the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome

In a zombie apocalypse, German and Cristina, two self-conscious zombies, hunt for survivor meat to avoid becoming mindless and aimless zombies forever.

When a sharp-tongued court jester Rigoletto is cursed for his spiteful words, he is forced to hide his unworldly daughter Gilda from his own licentious master the Duke. For Verdi’s wonderful ambivalent hunchback, paradise is the peaceful home and family that he struggles to protect.

A documentary about the female inmates at the penitentiary of Can Brians 1. The film gives a voice to imprisoned women and reflects on the current prison system exploring if the judicial system is favorable to women from a health care, hygiene and bioethics point of view.

Winter in 1979, military dictatorship in Bolivia. A paramilitary captivated by a transsexual has to keep in secret his sexual orientation for the marriage engagement to the first-born of a wealthy politician, a man obsessed by a young prostitute and with the presidencial chair, so he organizes a coup that will be hampered by family secrets.

Breast cancer. A sloppy operation. A woman murdered in a brothel room.

A portrait of Guatemala City and municipalities adjacent to the Pan-American Highway from the eyes of the stray dogs living there.

Lino, the boy protagonist, wakes up in the middle of the night. He doesn't know exactly what interrupts his dreams, but he senses that the matter may not be of this world. On his journey into the unperturbed darkness of outer space, Lino may find the source of his unease.

After the disappearance of a student, their classmates mobilize for the case to be solved. A disturbing record about how physical absence causes a disaster in which astonishment seems to have the last word.

Vera, a 26-year-old girl, wants to gain the trust of Daniela, a “bad” girl, and to do so, she will put herself at her service in a mission of which she will not be proud.

Julia returns home to celebrate her mother's birthday. It is when they meet again, after a few days without seeing each other, that the appearance of an old conflict and the generational barrier that separates them become evident. At that point, Julia realizes that the distance that has grown between them is so big that it seems impossible to find a point of return.

María Fernanda and Roberto have a tortuous relationship: they spend most of their day fighting. Problem is, their fights irradiate a laziness wave that overcomes little by little all of humanity. Both of them will have no other choice but to work out their problematic relationship, before the Laziness Wave destroys the world.

They graduated from a boarding school in 1968. 50 years passed very quickly. Amelia and her classmates meet today at their old school to celebrate their past times at the boarding school, knowing that this may be the last time they see each other alive.

Documentary that recovers the figure of the singer Terremoto de Jerez and his legacy.

In 1899, German neurobiologist Christofredo Jakob arrived in Argentina to conduct his research at the Hospital de las Alienadas, an insane asylum for women. More than a century later, in a semi-abandoned ward of what is now the Hospital Moyano, the traces of that experience appear in the form of brains and heads preserved in formaldehyde, stuffed animals and photographs from the patients who inhabited the hospital.

The odyssey of the Mayice designers, who had to face to bring an impossible-to-manufacture piece to the Rossana Orlandi gallery, in Milan, in time to be exhibited at the Salone.

Clara travels to Buenos Aires to meet an old friend, but when she arrives in the city, there are no traces of her: just a letter, two friends with a pirate radio and a mystery around the sidereal space.

Peio lives in hiding in Brazil, something is tormenting him. The unexpected appearance of his adolescent son whom he did not know, makes him rethink his life. Quite a challenge for him, who neither knows nor wants to act as a father.

"Ningún Lugar Para Morir begins from an unexpected change of place. Everyday images in a territory with memories of war in southern Chile coexist with those of a childbirth. Light and darkness meet in colors, blacks and whites. The film portrays a forest, a death, and glimmers of light. Dedicated to Lena." - Lightcone

An Off theatre company of Madrid is getting ready for their release day

A zarzuela created by Nando López, with music from great composers like Ruperto Chapí, Federico Chueca, Gerónimo Giménez, José Serrano and Pablo Sorozábal. Part of 'Project Zarza': a zarzuela by, and for, young people.

Dora García proposes a soundtrack to the incredible feminist demonstrations that have been taking place – modifying and appropriating public space and public discourse – in Mexico City in the last 5 years. The film follows two paths: one, a collective recollection of images and sounds from these feminist marches in the city; two, the composition, recording and final performance of the film theme song by trans artist La Bruja de Texcoco.

A documentary about the ghosts of Joan Perucho, which wants to be an immersive experience in the author's universe, in his literature, in his landscapes, his fears and obsessions, his experiences, war, cinema, vampires, the fantasy genre and pop culture.

When Galindo, an acid unsuccessful film director, sees the triumph of "La gallina Turuleca" at the 2021 Goya ceremony, he discovers that there is a way to win a Goya automatically: to be the only animated film that comes in. Then Galindo decides to make an animated film to get a much desired Goya. For this he goes in search of his old companions of film adventures: Pablo and Dharma.

Documentary short

Lonely and about to retire, Miguel sells tickets in a theater when a request arrives from an elder's residence for a social volunteering performance. Rejected by the theater company, Miguel convinces the stage technician, stylist and waitress to rehearse and perform the play with him instead for the elders, risking their jobs if the company found out.

A couple makes coffee, when suddenly strange things start to happen.

The night forest hides Orestes' deepest terrors: darkness, the spirits of enslaved ancestors and his brother's homosexuality.

A statue that dreams and a very special robot cleaner that works in the museum.