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At a stage of his youth, Neto must face a series of vicissitudes that have been pursuing him for a long time. A family story that threatens to repeat itself and torment him - until an unexpected ending turns the story.
The gang advances through the darkness of an abandoned city. While the world asks for help, they only seem troubled by destroying the past and burning the roots. They dream of being the primal generation and not belonging to anything. They want to be the new art, to find eternity and finally to disappear. Teenagers, lo-fi science fiction, nihilism, and to cross to the other side.
In an ordinary town, a little girl transcends through her fragile life in spite of the petty relationship with the only person she knows, her mother. In that everyday journey where ignorance and innocence are mixed, she moves on by looking at the stars.
A documentary about the day to day struggles of teachers and students in remote villages in the north of Spain.
The main character of this story has been chosen to receive a one-way trip to Mars. He reflects on his big upcoming adventure before it takes place in ten years.
Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope for finding an inner mental peace will prevail. This movie is characterized for an experimental language, with purposed technical and performing imperfections, wrapped in an organic fantasy effect.
"Todo" (Everything) gathers the impressions of the filmmaker in her new surroundings, where she watches, classifies, and re-organizes everything that catches her eye. From a place of curiosity and amazement, she organizes an inventory of objects, characters, and situations. A tireless flow of images of the popular, the eccentric, the traditional, the new, the beautiful, and the ugly of the Matta Sur neighborhood of Santiago, Chile. An exercise of reflection on the destiny of images, their accumulation, classification, and order, modes of structuring the material, and the filmmaker's gaze.
A fascinating journey of Colombian archaeologist and anthropologist Carlos Castaño, who returns to the place he accidentally discovered 30 years ago due to a forced detour on his way to the Amazon to the denominated the Sistine Chapel of Latin American archaeology.
A short film
Historically, even the most divided societies can find cohesion in the magic of war, forgetting disputes with their governments and setting aside their frustrations. This stop motion short takes a lyrical approach to the phenomenon of war; which, in this case, transpires on a chessboard.
Roberto E. Olivera (67) has spent his life working the fields of Ventura County. As a boy, he survived poverty and a brutal stepfather. This film follows Roberto, now an old man, for one day, as he tours the fields where he used to work and recounts the lesson his late mother taught him — that everything in life is temporary.
Eva returns to pick up her things after Julia, her former lover, abruptly decided to take her own life. Filled with rage and frustration, Eva goes through the place where she once was happy but once there she will find the real reasons behind Julias death.
This documentary chronicles the fight for justice after the Valencia metro derailment, involving a media blackout and silence from the government.
Ana arrives at the city of Ourense to visit a woman she hasn't seen for many years.
The days of Rosa pass in tranquility together with her husband and her son. But something in her is not good. One day Rosa decides to get her nails done in her neighbor Dalia's beauty salon, and a friendship flourishes between them. One night both women end up sleeping together. After this experience Rosa gives her everyday life a new meaning.
A visual essay on the female body as a socially constructed discourse, Infinite Galatea showcases the model for man's experiments in privilege and power through time. From Greek mythology to Victorian gynecology to current AI technology, this is how gender, sexuality and desire have been ideologically shaped to fit a male fantasy.
Sebastián is a photographer who portrays homosexual men in Santiago de Chile, mainly by revealing their sexual expressions. It doesn't matter who or how many of them are involved, nor is it an issue the fact of their being exposed, as sex and the camera are a escape from their realities.
A theoretical exercise can stem from a physical one: using the camera as if it was the vibrating device placed on the olive trees for the harvest of its fruit, the final result is a series of original and intriguing images. The camera shakes, gets in and out of focus, and we don’t exactly know what is happening. At first this is a strange disorientation, but then you get used to it through the cyclical mechanical noise that joins the images. The words of a peaceful female voice allows you to frame the film: a visual exercise after all can also be free.
Portrait of the director's father facing the end of his family business. Lack of money forces him to drive clients who destroy his vehicle to bachelor parties, but he is not prepared to lose his dignity.
The events that took place at the beach of El Tarajal in Ceuta (Spain) in February 2014 - the killing by the border police of 15 people who were trying to reach the Spanish coast - are an example of how the police force can violate the laws of its own country and international conventions with total impunity. The worst part is that this violation of human rights is protected by the Spanish Ministry of Interior itself, which hinders any effective action by the prosecution. For this reason, the civil society plays a fundamental role in revealing the facts. This is where the figure of collective complaints (DESC Observatory and the association Coordinadora de Barrios) steps in.
A short film about farewells and searches.
In this universal, moving fable, a parent and child forced into exile embark on an odyssey that leaves them changed forever.
In the 1970s, the first manifestations of gay, lesbian and transvestite rights in Spain took place. In 2005, Spain became the third country in the world to approve same-sex marriage, and today our legislation is one of the more progressive. However, homophobia and invisibility remain a problem for many older people of this group.
A man receives a phone call. There is to go immediately to a restaurant, Laura has to talk to him. It's a matter of life or death.
Tobías Culasso guides us on the missions of a spy without fear of desecrating the orifices of audiovisual art.
Concert by the Punk Rock / Ska band Carmina Burana, recorded at the Vorterix Theater in Rosario in 2015.
"In a recurrent dream I keep on following your steps, always at your heels." A handicraft film, a travel journal where the lead character is the one behind the camera pulling the trigger regularly and composing the frame’s area and duration.
María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.
“My name is Rodrigo Cuevas and I’m a folkloric agitator ", this young Asturias artist presents himself. Transgression and provocation are his signs of identity. But beyond what the spectator may see on his shows, beyond the madreñas and the suspenders there’s a musician with great talent…
One boy sings a romantic song to another confessing his love.
A few days before leaving the country, Pia sets up a farewell camp, without knowing that Nina plans to establish a distance commitment. A long night and several cups of coffee will make them hesitate about the future of their relationship.
Mariana is a transgender woman who has to resort to prostitution to be able to afford her sex-reassignment surgery. Her brother ('Manotas'), is an alcoholic addicted to betting. He pimps her and keeps most of the money. Things get complicated when 'Manotas' cannot pay a debt to 'Sick Man', a violent individual.
An intimate portrait of the dreams and aspirations of the last fishermen who fished in Newfoundland, their hardships and sufferings. A personal history that will show what life was like on board a trawler, while revealing what went wrong during those years, how and why.
Juan, a young guitarrist that has inherited his father's business, meets Sofía, a girl who's about to get married. Together they start a road trip through Northern Chile, where they could seek answers to their destinies.
Jacobo Muños is a convict who, after an encounter with God, has regained his liberty. Now, he returns to home trying to put his life back together and help his family; however he soon discovers that this is not an easy job. Discriminated against by society and stigmatized by his own church for his delicate past, Jacobo will face an innumerable amount of difficulties and bit by bit his new beliefs will be put to the test.Everything becomes more complicated when Tony Cortés, an old partner in crime, shows up with an offer which could solve all his problems. Will Jacobo succumb to the tension, or will he stand strong in his faith? (Translated from Spanish)
A 5-year investigation which includes archive and press images, traces the tragedy of Antuco (2005), where 45 soldiers died due to hypothermia. Our protagonists tell us their consequences from their voluntary entry to the ranks of the army until its present 10 years later. In the middle of these stories we will see an experimental short that gives us the information of the physiological process of hypothermia.
