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Most of the highland inhabitants of the Mexican state Guerrero belong to indigenous communities. They are among the poorest people in Mexico, and frequent victims of the violence used by drug cartels to exert power. In an effort to counteract this force, and appealing to the autonomy of indigenous peoples, the residents of Ayahualtempa have created a Policía Comunitaria, which has many children among its ranks.
Self-portrait film shot on a single Super 8 reel. A camera films itself through the shadow cast by its projection on a screen; the gesture of pressing the shutter activates all the mechanisms.
A young man who has lived through a traumatic experience faces an extreme situation.
In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.
A video-dance adaptation of the short story "A Marquesiña" (The Little Marchioness), from the book "Cousas" (Things), by Castelao.
In 1990, David Vilaseca put an end to an unhealthy relationship. For David, his story could be told through the biography of Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. From Vilaseca's voice in the autobiography "Men and Days", this film essay puts David's story in dialogue with film history and the major conflicts of gay identity such as masculinity, sexuality and lack of referents.
Skateboarding is a life saver for this group of gender queer youth in Barcelona. As they make their way through a traditionally male-dominated sport, they also learn the true value of community.
Filomena´s life is struck by poverty and the sad obscurity of hardship and torment. Terrible occurrences will mark her character during her childhood growing up in a Galician hamlet towards the end of the 19th century. Might she have the opportunity to change her fate?
Spain, 1940s. Two young seamstress sisters, Maruxa and Coralia, have their lives changed during the Civil War. In resistance to the Franco dictatorship, the anarchists leave their house every day at two o'clock. Years later, they become the most photographed women in Santiago de Compostela, land of pilgrims. To find out what Maruxa and Coralia have done, director Uliane Tatit travels to the Galician capital and follows the paths made by the two sisters.
After a wild sex session in a brothel on his 40th birthday, Luis, bitter and haughty, tries unsuccessfully to escape from the blood stain that, without explanation, grows on the sheet over the bulge formed by his lover. Desperation and what he finds under the sheet means that the only option is to jump out the window of the room already full of blood. The blow plunges him into a strange dream in which a particular fairy godmother reminds him of the child that she still carries inside and the need to take care of him. Convinced of the teaching, by blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Luis wishes to become that child. Beneath the sheets, drenched in blood, he discovers the error of his desire.
During an ordinary summer, Alba lives day by day trying to find the way to her future: a job, a purpose.
The people who star in the documentary have a strong bond with the towns where they have decided to live freely their sexual orientation or gender identity. Their visibility makes them close references for LGTB+ children and young people, as well as for the rest of their neighbors in the municipalities of Huelva where they live. As Alex's mother says: "We eat our heads with all the bad things that can happen and, sometimes, things turn out well".
In 1936, after the coup d'état perpetrated by Franco against democratic Spain and the subsequent dictatorship that followed a bloody Civil War, women suffered physical, sexual, economic, educational and political violence, leading to the largest theft of babies in the world. History of recent Europe. 'Las vencidas y no derrotadas' is a documentary with the testimonies of these women, whose faces bear the mark left by unhealed wounds. Its protagonists tell us about real events, reliving events that were milestones in their families, towns and cities, supported by graphic documentation of family and personal memories, as well as images and audios from historical archives.
Agadiri and Oussama, two Moroccan friends, laze around and survive while the camera explores their bodies and faces. But things are by no means simple. Both have only been in Spain for a short period and are facing a supposedly temporary situation, which must culminate in their futures being defined in the midst of a pandemic. Filmed indoors, Monte Tropic gradually travels towards a more indefinite and dreamlike space to question the memories and desires of these young people, whose inactivity vindicates their right to be above the disastrous political use of their situation.
Special about Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde.
35,000 people came to the Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid on June 24, 2022 to see Vetusta Morla's last great show. This docu-concert recovers that magical night. With a masterful production we attended the band's most important concert after their latest album, "Cable a Tierra", an album in which the group brings its sound closer to the folklore of here and Latin America to explore new rhythms and take our roots to the rock, pop and electronica. Between songs, the members of the group tell us how the album was created and the night of the concert. Accompanied by El Naán, Alibori and the rapper Wos and by unusual traditional instruments in events of this magnitude, the band performed their sixth studio album and their best-known songs in a concert that has already become a must-see music event in Spain.
Two friends are taking a break from the costume party that one of them has organized at his house, until boredom leads them to play a game that will change their relationship forever. Will they be able to tell each other their best kept secret?
Galder is tired of being self-righteous. Tonight he is determined to try something new and different. Feeling excited and nervous at the same time, he goes into the unknown in the toilets of a discotheque where he hopes to live a unique and unrepeatable experience.
The dialectic between the daily life of bathers and a look that naturally opens to the perception of what lies beyond. An exercise in search and vindication of the images that are located in the margins.
Cintia and Alegría, friends and classmates, have agreed to study Literature but, at 17, concentrating is not easy at all, especially when one of them has such important news to give.
The true story of composer Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera, completed by him in Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt and rediscovered, thanks to a miraculous chain of events.
“The ocean is the only crossing to reach Mount Analogue. Through each wave, which breaks into each of the primary colours, a gateway opens to a new perception...”. First piece of a short film series, inspired by the pre-Hispanic myth of the Sixth Sun.
As they get ready to hang out with friends, a young person questions their gender.
This story is the tale of two breaths: that of Iratxe Sorzabal and that of Mari Nieves Díaz, Iratxe's mother. Both, each in their own way, have suffered the lack of breath caused by torture, together with many other kinds of suffering. Bi arnas is a testimonial on torture, the reflection of an injustice and a dialogue never offered before.
A musical show by a spirited Cuban band as part of the Las Noches del Monumental series on Spanish television... The Cuban Michael Olivera is closely connected to the jazz scene. He is one of the most important drummers in the contemporary music scene. Despite his young age, he has more than 50 recorded albums and hundreds of projects with which he participated in important festivals. He performed his art at Jazz a Vienne, Montroux Jazz Festival, Barcelona Jazz Festival and many others. In 2021, together with The Cuban Jazz Syndicate, he presented his album "Y llegó la luz". During a concert at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid at the beginning of 2022, Olivera and his bandmates performed not only songs from the mentioned album - "Para Tito Puente", "Bolero Danzongo" or "Danza del Carnaval" - but also other hits, such as "Mozambique"
This is the story of the fight between Mikey García and Sandor Martín in California, told in the first person by the Spanish boxer, who made his childhood dream come true.
Discover the other city, the one we often call the periphery. Change the historical perspective of the hills as checkpoints and defense, as borders of the city, to reveal the boundaries between the mountain and the city as a point of connection with the origins
Ángel feels depressed after breaking up with his partner, wandering the streets, he meets Ángela, with whom he instantly falls in love.
A girl has to give up love under her father's order.
Laila meets Eliyas on a rooftop over the city of Barcelona, with one determined goal- revenge. A movie about war and terrorism, about the cycle of violence.
Atlantic Yellow is the name of the unique variety of granite from Serra da Groba, located on the most rectilinear and southern coast of Galicia, and a passage of initiation paths since the Sumerian culture. Still and moving images combine and are stained by the film material itself, redefining those notions related to the love for the insondability of the wild, but structurally assimilated as illusion and ignorance.
In 'Be Right Back', we meet Mateo, a young worker, who faces a harsh reality when he realizes that he is not capable of supporting Sara, a wealthy young woman with whom he ran away.
A report on Xabier López, a surfer from the Basque Country. We will follow him on his trip to Cape Town (South Africa) to train for the European winter, which has just begun.
Sierra Leone is the second poorest country in the world. After overcoming one of the toughest and bloodiest civil wars, in 2014 they had to face one of the most devastating epidemics in living memory, Ebola. The consequences of those horrors ended up extinguishing the spark of development and plunging the population into total darkness in which they have been living since 1992. The lack of stable light supply is a major constraint for the development of medical work, directly affecting the life expectancy of Sierra Leone people. The images obtained are part of the reality encountered after the hospital wardens in the Koinadugu district.
An intimate portrait of Aleix Cantón, a young transgender person diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Alesh has become a public figure through his profile of Tik Tok, we break taboos and share his experience on what it means to live with an autism spectrum disorder and gender transition.
The worldwide elder population is growing fast and put aside. José, an alcoholic retiree, tries to feel useful; Víctor, a peculiar doctor, follows the presidential candidate in search for justice; and Braulio, a kind grandfather, mourns his wife's sudden death. The film explores the other face of Mexican masculinity that, in loneliness, stop executing their societal imposed role as providers. It is an introspective journey into remorse, loneliness and death.