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First seen in Naples in 1827, this farce of a “theatre within a theatre” narrates the mishaps of a second-rate opera company as it stages the great serious drama Romolo ed Ersilia in a provincial theatre. The unbearable tensions between the two lead singers are finally resolved with the decisive intervention of one of their mothers. The co-production by Ópera de Lyon along with the Grand Theâtre de Genève and Teatro Real is brought to life by Laurent Pelly, a tireless champion of Donizetti's comedies.

A cyclist has an accident while training. Badly injured and unable to move, he is trapped in the mountains. The appearance of a dog will mark the fate of his survival.

Nacho, a freelance photographer, barely makes ends meet. One day he sees the opportunity to provoke an accident for profit. The consequences will bring out his inner conflict and his regret for a simple moment that costs a boy his life.

Camilo is the adopted son of an indigenous couple of the Quillasinga tribe. He is the only black man in his community and has always felt different. That is why he embarks on a journey in search of his origins. With the truth revealed, Camilo manages to find his identity.

How does a starving and helpless vampire survive in an unknown city? The question harasses the protagonist in a Montevideo that she summons, with incomparable grace, the figure of the fearsome being that has become fragile, trapped in a destiny that she has not chosen and from which she cannot escape.

Patología mamaria is an intimate portrait that brings us closer to the relationship of women with their breasts. Throughout several years of recording, Olgha Montero Arce, painter and actress, recalls her adolescence trying to hide the total absence of breasts, her happiness thanks to some implants and, again, the suffering of hiding a disfigured breast after being damaged in a mammogram.

Exploration between the characters and the filmmaker. A quest into a universal existential problem, how to inhabit the world. Members of a family leave their home and in the middle of the Cuban Sierra Maestra struggle to find a new one. During this process they inhabit scenes of a routine life in the middle of nature, outside of a closed space between four walls, place and concept they long and project. It concludes with the departure of the patriarch and the already palpable absence of a father with dark gaze who dreams of going far away from his country in the pursuit of something different, becomes a reality. Contemplative meditation of an internal torment.

An essay on memory that explores the vision of life and death in the Far East. Shot in five Asian countries over three years, it recounts the director's real experiences.

A performance film by a non-binary artist.

You carry lots of cards in your wallet; when you drive, for the gym, the library… However, when it comes to having a child, the most important decision someone makes in life, no card or accreditation is needed. This leads us to the following question, who hasn't asked himself, why is there not such a thing like a paternity card?

Antonio is stuck to his routine. During the night, he works in a recycling plant and during the day stays with his family with whom he doesn’t really get along. One day, while working, he discovers that he can begin to make decisions about his life and change it to his will.

October 18, 2019, Santiago, Chile. An increase in the price of public transportation sparks an unexpected riot. Popular anger explodes, rooted in decades of discontent as a result of a savage neoliberal system that has deprived people of the most essential services, in a country that has never returned to true democracy thirty years after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship. Since the first days of the rebellion, we begin to hear about a new urban legend, the Primera Linea, a spontaneous security service that defends protesters. Scenes of protest and urban guerrilla warfare cross the streets and squares in the country. The people crowd the famous Plaza Italia, the zero zone of Chilean demonstrations, now renamed Plaza de la Dignidad (Dignity Square). The repression by the Chilean police is brutal.

The film portrays the return to home and encounter with lost memories. Air Carnations explores the possibilities of filmmaking to put pieces together through the editing process. Researching different perspectives on the filmmaker’s childhood home in Chile, interviews with their mother and sister reveal complex family dynamics.

From found footage and using the natural deterioration, scratches, fungus and noises of the original material, the different layers of sound, music, text and their interaction with the image raise questions about the idea of nation, identity and the passage of time.

Something is happening in Soria ... Several stories are being spread on WhatsApp and Social Media. Renowned journalists and youtubers are reporting on curious events but there is one that can change the reality of our country. Now, “Ground Zero” is Soria.

A surprise visit from his parents forces a young man to deal with coming out to his parents or losing the man he loves in the process of keeping things hidden.

Set and shot in a restaurant kitchen, this ethnographic short film shows the work environment in the hospitality industry, with a focus on the most disadvantageous features and the most challenging daily chores. All the elements, including the staff, who are all migrants, reflect current working conditions in this unseen London.

The Chillers are the people’s group. They came to smash glass, glass ceilings and walls. A world in which parity was conspicuous by its absence, 6 friends without any pretense decided to break the rule and jump onto a stage with minimal knowledge, but with desire to change the world.

A group of friendly characters get tangled in the streets of Buenos Aires between jobs, infidelities, plays, books and musical instruments. A young director takes refuge in movie theaters and declares a sudden muteness. Despite his own and other people's pressures, he refuses to direct a script that he hates. In the end, he makes an unexpected decision.

From impo­ten­ce to the loss of iden­ti­ty and cre­a­ti­vi­ty, he plays what she is fee­ling and living: the tran­si­ti­on from pain and loss into empowerment.

In a rural setting, a young nun, disenchanted with her faith, wishes to hang up her habits and looks into suicide as the immediate solution to her reality.

A camera. Landscapes in which dirt tracks barely hide the mass graves and in which the bodies of the ‘disappeared’ flow down the river. With an incisive tone, Cristina Motta calls for the memory of the people who fell victim to the violence in Argentina and Colombia, two territories she holds dear.

An experimental dance short film based on the poem by Idea Vilariño (Uruguay 1951), which explores body poetics to talk about heartbreak and diversity. While they are moved by the longing for past coincidences, the dancers engage in a dialogue about the impossibility of meeting. Thus, the dream becomes the non-place where everything will exist: a rehearsal to let go, an appointment to not find or another version of a farewell already known.

Three ages, three places, and three different ways of understanding cruising in Barcelona. Three individuals on a quest. A beach at dawn, shopping centre bathrooms in the afternoon and the woods at nightfall. Playful gazing, time spent waiting or the quest for something that may never come. Their first time, their idea of sex and their own way of seeing cruising. Told through their eyes and in first-person perspective.

At 78 years old, Oscar continues to be passionate about technology, during his long life he has shared his knowledge on television, radio and press, following every step of the technological world, but a skin cancer stopped all his journalistic projects, making him experience firsthand the poor state of the health system in Colombia.

A correspondence filmed during the health crisis in Ecuador. This letter documents both the notions of refuge and tragedy while discovering the news of missing corpses in hospitals collapsed by the pandemic.

The Serranía Baja de Cuenca (Spain) is a land where two species of almonds are grown: larguetas and marconas. When the artist went to shake the almond trees with they family, Cienfuegos understood "mariconas" (faggot, in Spanish) instead of "marconas".

A ghost arrives to a strange place, full of beings like him.

The documentary is a kind of master class on the pioneer of Basque-language films and the founder of Lekeitio’s Euskal Zine Bilera. Benito Ansola talks to J. J. Bakedano about the secrets of his major productions. In the space of 20 years he produced some twenty films, including documentaries and fiction shorts.

A forgotten box full of memories and found again in the Jeu de Balle square in Brussels takes on a new meaning thanks to the imagination of a filmmaker.

In a near and possible future, Reina runs an old folks shelter for LGTBI people. There they produce happiness hormones for a society that lacks them. Tragedy ensues.

In a little town, there’s an old genius of the electronics who is able to repair any electronic device. Neighbours know him as Joselito, and through his wife they give him every damaged device.

This "diary" is a reflection on a time full of illusions, but also of defeats; of girls, of trips, of stories and compulsive audios on WhatsApp. An apprenticeship in which the protagonist, learning, learns rather little.

Golgota is a film about extreme body art with a very pronounced sexual component. The film is told through a series of title cards per hour. It’s 6 hours in the life of Wendy, a woman with multiple paraphilias who has no limits.

Agustina has been a shepherdess for as long as she can remember. Throughout her life she has had three great loves. Between dreams and memories she sings about everything that has and has not been. Agustina lives with Dionisio in a rural community called El Saltillo in Guanajuato, Mexico. Serranillas are medieval spanish compositions dealing with some kind of amatory adventure in rural landscapes.

A teenager remembers his most special summer. In his mind, everything s is even more perfect than what he felt at the time. Moments that passed quickly and that he did not know how to value. And paradoxically, although that summer was the most perfect of his life, he remembers it with enormous sadness for a reason: it will never return.