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A walk through the life and work of the Spanish sculptor, writer and illustrator Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), the so-called Poet of Space.

Dalia lives confined with her grandfather and her mother in a country house, since after a war many mines were forgotten near her house. Her grandfather becomes seriously ill and Dalia realizes that the only thing that can cure her pain are some flowers that are in the minefield. Dalia faces the decision to stay in her house and see her family collapse, or go out to look for the flower that could heal everyone's pain.

Several women recounted their experiences after the disappearance of their children and husbands in the seventies, when they were identified as sympathizers of the guerrilla of Lucio Cabañas. Facing the absence of their loved ones and struggling to find them, these women live and resist in the midst of the poverty and injustice to which the rural communities of Atoyac in the state of Guerrero, Mexico have historically been condemned.

Based on the poem "I Will Love the 21st Century" by Mark Strand

An old prostitute must choose between his street work or keep living with his abusive husband.

One of the greatest cultural and social revolutions in 20th century Europe took place in a tiny village on the Spanish seaside. In the 50's, a batch of American Marines build a huge military base on farming land bringing dollars, Marlboros, Cadillacs, night clubs and rock n´roll music into post-civil war Spain, an impoverished country ruled by a fascist dictator. Welcome to Rota, "The South European Las Vegas."

The experiences of a journey across South America are developing differents thoughts, ideas, concepts, preconcepts, memories and impressions of how, what for, and why people set off on a journey. Just like the trip is built in the memory, it is also built from emotion and perception.

Olivia is an old adventurous woman who awaits news from her husband. Through her daily routine we discover her bitter-sweet secret for happiness.

A heterotopia is a place which gives symptomatic expression to a social relationship. When construction of a high-rise block was abandoned in Caracas in Venezuela twenty years ago, nobody dreamed this building would one day become the world's tallest squat. This film provides an empirical, fractal insight into everyday life, exploring the hierarchies and intellectual life of the people who live there. The film also enters into a dialogue with the architecture of a tower which was once designed as a financial centre and now accommodates a parallel society.

Núria and Joan have been companions since they were 15 years old. The traditional roles within their marriage have given them 30 years of routine stability. The opening of a family business and the discovery of dance effect a radical transformation in Núria. At 56, Núria looks back reflecting on her past… and she decides to reinvent herself. Joan, sensitive and introverted, feels more and more distant from the Nuri of his youth, and misses her. She is not willing to go back to how things were. This documentary project, wrenched from the heart, gives us the inevitable reflection on the harsh human condition.

Tito the Colombian is a tattoo artist who learned his trade in the darkness of Lecumberri jail. He remembers everything about his stay there, but very little about his place of origin.

Abraham Bojórquez - Ukamau Y Ké - developed hop hop in the Aymara language and with his rebellious lyrics, shook up Latin American society in the early 21st century. At the cusp of his musical career he died violently the same day he finished recording his second record. Years later, his friend, the rapper and documentarian, Andrés Ramírez returns to Bolivia to uncover the reasons for his death and to find him among the Andean circular temporality. In this surreal journey, Ukamau y Ké is revived through archival footage, testimonials and in dreams.

On March 11, 2011, there was an earthquake in the coastal region of Tohoku (Japan). The rupture of tectonic plates expanded through an area of 100,000 sq km. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in the coastal area of Oaxaca (Mexico) a tsunami alert was issued.

An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.

Double Me is a film about the tragic misunderstandings between the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples of Colombia, and the ramifications of those traumatic experiences. Based on manuscripts, photographs and films belonging to the Colombian ethnographer Gregorio Hernández de Alba, Rugeles pieces together existing and new footage in this documentary punctuated with fiction and stories. From FICCI

The subtitle of Argentinian filmmaker Carina Sama’s first documentary movie is ‘diversity within diversity’ which aptly covers this close study of the lives of four transvestites and one transsexual in Bolivia today. Each of the five have made an extraordinary journey to reach the point of where they are now, and whilst most of have kept a remarkable sense of humor about their situation, for one of them, it all got too much in the end.

Luis died prematurely. Since then, Enrique's life has been sleeping beside his father's tomb. He tries to play with other kids, he tries hard to play the game of his life. Yet, he ends up curled up in his solitude, curled up next to his dad's tomb. This absence gets interrupted by Mary and Gold - a girl and her doll - who bloom in his life one casual day. The girl is both truth and lie. Mary is hope and she manages to make communication possible between father and son again, once again. But, unlike death, the opened door can't last forever.

After the death of his father, a middle aged filmmaker returns to his hometown to visit the friends he grew up with.

Warning! Disaster is coming! Ready for evacuation!

Blásida, 80 years old, travels accompanied by her grandson Felipe, 11 years old, looking for the remains of her husband who disappeared during the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, hires Pablino, a farmer who claims to know the place where he was buried; he guides them to "Kurusu Rebelde" (the cross of the rebel), he must leave when he receives sad news, Blásida and Felipe will have to continue the search alone.

An autobiographical and science fiction essay, in the tradition of Marker, whose core of paranoid anxiety has to do with the limits of identity: the concepts of "inside" and "outside" are deconstructed on the basis of diseases and an enigmatic species of silkworms. The familiar and public archival material is no less genius than the use of sound, and not only because of the rain born from the chewing of those tiny beings.

My reflection, a documentary that brings us closer to the reality lived every day by transgender kids, teenagers and young adults. Personal stories told by them and their families about their journey with the unique intention of understanding their situation better and make their demands more visible, after all, is the less that any of us would demand for our children, brothers and sisters or friends.

Narrated by Dominicans, Después de Trujillo tells the story of the violent dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo through the marks it left on the landscape. A mix of interviews, archival materials, and new footage, tracks the regime’s quests to tame the nation, and surveys sites where past trauma lives on. Myriad voices—from historians and architects, to activists and torture victims—guide this journey through monuments, memory gardens, and contemporary ruins, moving from the cyclone that devastated Santo Domingo as Trujillo came to power through to the modern architecture erected to consolidate his rule, and the testimonies of resistance that led to his demise. Amid the remanents of dictatorship that live on after Trujillo, questions arise as to how Dominicans manage this violent legacy. Can built environments and natural ecologies attest to the experience of dictatorship? Or, do they help it to be forgotten instead?

A multiple murder involves peasants and Paraguayan government forces. Suddenly, a peasant testifies against his own side. He is an unnamed secret witness. Perla Álvarez sets out to look for him. However, this person becomes elusive and new questions arise in the process. Curiosity turns into an investigation and Perla wants to know who is behind the massacre. Far from finding any answers, she becomes trapped in the incongruities of the legal system, while the witness becomes a myth. Perla calls off the search with more doubts than when she started out, and while looking out on the extensive soybean fields she awaits for better times to come.

What starts as a conversation of complicity between father and daughter, ends up exposing uncomfortable truths.

Narrates the migration of Miskito Indians to Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and their efforts to preserve their culture, traditions and language. Through the life of a reverend, a housewife and a young college student we see the story of a native people that struggles to preserve their identity even outside their native home. These people left their families and communities behind searching for a better life. Whatever their fate is, they carry their culture with them and do not cease to sing, speak or pray in the language they learned from their ancestors.

A trip through time, of the memories and life of Stephen Marsh Planchart, a musician and poet born on a US military base in Trinidad and Tobago, son of a Trinitarian singer and a US marine. In 1958, Stephen’s father was sent to the Vietnam War, when Stephen was only two months old, and nothing was ever heard of him since. In the film now, 53 years later, Stephen makes a trip down the memories of his past to discover where his father is and the meaning of his absence on his life. A documentary described through the symbols of memory; a portrait of a man who found in music a way to respond to his reality.

After the morning coffee and before going to work, José has a genius idea: he will dress as a cowboy. José will make a journey through his past, in a sensitive story full of humour. Morning Cowboy is an emotional story about dreams and a call to make every day count, to live the life that we want to live.

Deadly evil forces hunt four curious and ambitious teenagers who stole a black magic manuscript from a witchcrafter who wants it back.

In the small Mexican mining village of Naica, a troubling belief in witchcraft still prevails. A retired miner and self-styled witch hunter guides us into an abandoned mine shaft that supposedly houses witches. A hallucinatory ethnographic trip.

Edmundo Bejarano had already practiced the portrayal of poets with Washington Cucurto and Fabián Casas, but he had to return to his hometown in order to find a bard as punk as he is. About to turn 60, Julio Barriga is Tarija’s mustachioed Iggy Pop. In that scenery of dirt roads and empty patios, “he writes urgent letters to himself and practices the exercise of solitude he inherited from the late great poet Roberto Echazú, his hero in silence.” These letters –with verses as authentic and self-punishing as “You’re having lots of rock & roll / Wearing the same shirt”– are not the only things he writes: Julius (the fragile one, the unpredictable one, the poignant one) is about to become The Man Who Loved Amy Winehouse. To know him is to love him, or something like that.