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Between 1947 and 1949 the photographer based in the Canary Islands Bonifacio Hernández Gil made numerous photographs for the army and the colonial administration of the so-called Spanish West Africa. In his images appear new cities as scenes of science fiction movies, surrounded by the desert and half-empty, prepared to welcome the new man that the regime designed. Impossible cities that the film says from the present in the only possible way, as Calvino wrote: from the relations between the measurements of its space and the events of its past.

Pruebas de Fuego are six stories about how much life can change in just 10 minutes. A couple of lovers, a husband who loses his son, an ex-convict who leaves prison, a young man in love, a wife locked up in his house and a nurse with his dying mother.

“The European Dream: Serbia” is an investigative documentary by journalist Jaime Alekos about the tortures of Hungarian police to the refugees and migrants they catch trying to cross their border and the harsh living conditions in which they survive in Serbia awaiting an opportunity to enter the EU.

A documentary that follows children in the town of Entrialgo, Asturias, Spain over a year as their language and way of life slowly disappears.

Laura (23) receives a call from the cementery where she is told she must exhume her father's body who died eleven years ago. From six siblings different perspectives and beliefs.

General Alfredo Ovando Candia was a decisive figure in 20 th century Bolivian history. Through old home movies and institutional footage, Mauricio Ovando goes in search of the figure (and the shadow) of his grandfather, interweaving his history and History while going after an uncomfortable truth.

A bizarre "ménage à quatre" where everyone is half alive.

A short drama film that is a raw and emotionally charged exploration of love, secrecy, and power dynamics within a lesbian relationship. Set against the backdrop of Barcelona’s picturesque Hotel W, the film immerses viewers in the complex world of Lena and Elena. Their passionate yet fractured 3-year romance is depicted with utmost authenticity, delving deep into what appears to be narcissistic abuse.

Every two weeks, the world loses a language and with it, a piece of human history. Ese Eja is one of the language in danger of extinction. Many stories and myths have been forgotten, but through dreams, the memory of the ancestors fight for remaining in the Ese Eja community.

Three teenagers spend a day in an a apartment that doesn't belong to them. They pretend to live the life of the owners, until fear and jealousy break in. Things don't go so well and a foreign guest tests their strength.

Three women meet at the emergency room of a hospital at dawn with a common link: the three have just lost their partners in a traffic accident.

Benedicto, is a retired police officer who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life, helping young drug addicts and homeless people in the rural town of Corozal, Puerto Rico. His story takes place day by day in a little humble house in the death road of the municipal cemetery of Corozal, a rural municipality of Puerto Rico with a high population of young homeless people, alcoholism and drug addicts. The door of Benedictus little house on the death road to the cemetery is the deviation between life and death for these young people in need.

A cold,husband has his marriage on the verge of failure. One day he will begin an affair with an eccentric and impulsive woman who will awaken the sensitive and affected man who slept in him. But this new attitude of his will make his wife believe that he is interested in her again, reliving the relationship. Thus, when the situation becomes untenable, the husband must make a difficult decision between moving forward with his recovered marriage or go along with a vertiginous romance that could make him a better person.

Matilda can't fall asleep and starts playing with her bedside lamp until the lightbulb finally burns out and she finds herself plunged into darkness. She overcomes her fear and, using her torch, starts exploring her room in the new light, discovering all the wonders of the night.

Horror is a warm, sunny day.

Natalia after a long relationship, decides to break up with her husband and tell him the whole truth.

For several years now, a select group of architects has been regarded as celebrities. Some of their buildings have become symbols of major cities. Perhaps the most iconic example is the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, which have come to define Kuala Lumpur since 1998. César Pelli was convinced that an architectural design could become a work of art, much like a fugue by Bach or a painting by Rembrandt.

This film goes beyond being a window that shows the natural and cultural heritage of Aralar (situated in the heart of the Basque Country), it also makes the viewer reflect. The testimonies of the experts and the journey through a dreamlike world, not only make the value of this mountain range known but also make a clear call to conserve it.

Between 1937 and 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, thousands of minors were evacuated by their own families from the Republican zone to the Soviet Union to prevent them from perishing in the indiscriminate bombings that the rebel army directed against the civilian population. Taking advantage of the 80th anniversary of this epic, a team went to Russia to record the testimonies of some of those “childrens of war.”

A tour of the workshops of the artisans of music.

Colette is a 70 year old French woman that works as a fortune teller in her apartment in Madrid. She lives alone, spending her live doing videocalls and having sporadic encounters with a young neighbour. Her peculiar relationship with her past floats in the ambience.

From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the streets still are nowadays. In three insightful conversations with female friends, collaborators and high school students, the director looks for a discourse about fear that is not fearsome, a discourse on violence that is not violent. Direct cinema, horizontal process, self-criticism and narrative breaks. Mostly, this is a tale of universal sorority.

Footage from summer of 2018 that explores the passing of time regarding the little things in life.

Juana, an 18 year-old girl bound to a wheelchair, is anxious to explore her sexuality.

The country is polluted due to carbon dioxide on Earth. But, Diego, Michael and Alejandro will do everything in their power to play their favorite sport.

"A woman about to give birth. A nurse who skips an unfair order. A worker who claims his rights. A child who begins to discover the society in which he lives. A teacher haunted by his identity. A young woman in a hostile world. Six stories that show us the day-to-day lives of the Saharawis who livein the occupied territories of Western Sahara."

The Wiñoy Xipantv is the turnaround of the year for the Mapuche People. It's a space of celebration, encounter, thought, religiousness and fight. It occurs in june, in the middle of the winter, when the 'mapu' (land) starts to reborn and the longest night lets the sun come in.

A physical and spiritual journey of the last heir from the ancestral culture of oral tradition that remains on Easter Island: María Elena Hotus. Before dying she has taken the decision to leave her legacy and appoint as her successor to her daughter, Aru Pate Hotus, an island that must fight against the deeply rooted and prejudiced patriarchal society.

Jacques Madvo's documentary, "Israel: Land of Destiny" (1977), is abstracted in "The Shifting Sands", a new film by Madi Piller. Piller's film asserts the intersection of history and identification with the Land through the personal struggles of the filmmaker's father as a young Jewish refugee, arriving in 1946 in Palestine. High contrast, repeated images of the war in 1948 immediately after the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel (to be known as the State of Israel) interact with Madvo's observations of Israeli society after its first thirty years of existence. The film juxtaposes images in a fractured timeline that reflects on the acceptance of the formation of a Jewish state. The work is framed within the philosophical thinking of Martin Buber and the recent history of Israel. Shifting sands can both erase and reveal human endeavour.

Eloy and Isaac are a couple who are about to commemorate their fifth anniversary together. They decide to surprise each other.

A film about an institution called "House of Theater", which lodged retired and forgotten artists and is the home of Oscar, a convalescing actor who longs to reunite with his son.

Seven stories portray Costa Rican culture through the eyes of 15 children who discover the world playing and exploring in their worlds full of innocence.

In the Peruvian highlands, a father and master of a 300-year-old bridge weaving tradition struggles to maintain his culture as his daughter tries to escape it.

A documentary film about cult director José María Zabalza. How he made pictures with very little money and was granted little recognition.

With the idea of ​​honoring the 25 years since the release of Hermética's album "Ácido Argentino", one of the fundamental albums of Argentine heavy metal, three-quarters of that lineup of the band (singer Claudio O'Connor, guitarist Antonio Romano and drummer Claudio Strunz ) plus bassist Carlos Cuadrado, all four who currently play as Malón, performed in 2017 several shows that were filmed, leaving a documentary record of the moment.

‘En el pueblo de Las Salinas’ is a short essay-based documentary made following the meeting of the young director with some pseudohermaphrodit people in the Dominican Republic.

Two opposite lives meeting on the way, a stream of feelings without limits. A story with no brake where there is no time for repentance and consequences.

Short documentary about the peruvian punk feminist icon Maria T-ta. "A transgressor among transgressors".

“Neuquén,” “Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?”... We know about those. What perhaps we don’t know is that there are fans that have turned palindromes into the passion of their lives. A happy journey through four countries, with dozens of men and women for whom the beauty of words lies in symmetry.

You usually leave me, is the tale of David, a guy from Caracas that goes on a date with his girlfriend Matilda, to break up with her.

New Year’s Eve is here. The city is in a trance-like state. Among blackouts, fireworks, and cheap cider, a girl lets herself flow with people she doesn’t know, hoping to feel something different.

Over the last two decades, Medellin has gone from being globally known as a drug traffic and extreme violence destination to becoming a thriving cosmopolitan city. Progress and peace have resulted in an exponential increase of tourism, but have also caused unexpected collateral damage: the rise in sex tourism in this Colombian city. Many of the illegal networks run by foreigners in the United States and Europe, offer Medellin guided tours that include underage prostitutes in their packages available for online purchase.