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The voice of girls and women from Muslim families, born here or arrived as children, who rebel against the patriarchal tradition and demand the protection of their rights in Catalonia.

Transformation of urban space by the tourist economy of platforms and the apparent neutrality of screens.

"Not so long ago we were owners of our land, but when they built the road, the last mill in the valley stopped working. We lost sovereignty. Today we are going to cut the road and recover the grain. Do we have to ask for permission for that? Because we are owners of our territory?" In the last town of Cunqueiro, a group of neighbors organizes to recover the grain after a mistake that others made when building the new road. "Il mulín", with the Asturian forests as a backdrop, shows the importance of neighborhood and family as an act of rebellion.

For the protagonist, breathing therapy and anti-stress techniques become a starting point for a life change. He enters the world of freediving, i.e. diving while breadth-holding. Risking his life, he starts practicing holding his breath for increasingly longer periods of time. Where is the boundary of his capabilities?

A transgender woman resumes her hormone treatment while her daughter begins puberty and menstruates for the first time. Mother and daughter experience changes, doubts about their bodies, and face the fear of going to the beach for the first time.

Serrana is a project about the harsh reality of prostitution and the exploitation of poor women for profit. Prostitution as one of the most sexist institutions par excellence, present throughout history. Recognized and unquestioned for a long time.

Two roommates fight over who goes to buy the bread.

Nuestras son (Ours they are) takes stones as the axis to talk about a series of issues related to memory, the body and space. To take a stone and keep it is understood as a gesture that seeks to collect a part of reality. An apparently arbitrary gesture that hides a way of understanding our surroundings, of remembering certain movements and incarnated memories. A deposit of sediments that goes beyond its materiality and that intertwines with with other corporal and landscape materialities, that give rise to the exchange and the desire to mark an imprint on everything that accompanies us. Our hands guide us as mediators between the different textures of the landscape and are established as a link between that which can be touched and remembered.

Police control and the closure of certain crossings on the Bidasoa river, natural border of the Pyrenées-Atlantiques Department, imposed by France in summer 2018 to prevent the entrance of immigrants on their way to other European countries, caused 10 deaths in a single year. Seven people died from April 2021, drowned in the waters of the River Bidasoa between Irun and Hendaia, while another three lost their lives in October 2021, hit by a train in Ziburu. This documentary, as well as putting a voice and face to several of the activists who work on either side of the river, as representatives of the Harrera Sarea (Reception Network) and Bidasoa Etorkinekin (The Bidasoa with Migrants) associations, also recalls those who lost their lives, giving them a name and an age, following their journey and their dreams, discovering the history and the people behind the cold figures of the deceased, giving the tragedy a more human aspect.

On another day, a group of policemen guard the outskirts of a city. There is no one else on the streets. They wait for an order to go into action. However, that order never comes and a state of confusion and disorientation begins to take hold of them, until they forget what they were doing there.

Dani is a widowed father who spends his days caring for his daughter at the hospital. After learning that his daughter's condition is getting worse, they decide to try an experimental treatment that Dani can't afford. He turns to his best friend, but even so, the only solution seems to be to ask his former mafia boss for money.

On February 23, 1981, Spain experienced a major coup d'état that shook the country to its foundations. In the midst of the chaos, rumors surfaced that King Juan Carlos I had recorded two speeches: one in case the coup succeeded and one in case it failed. 'The Second Tape' is a 17-minute short film that delves into this conspiracy, following the entire recording process and decisions made during the critical hours.

There are pictures that do not exist. And pictures that exist twice. Neither of these places exists any more.

In 2016, the Barcelona City Council allocated plots of land to cooperative housing projects. One of these plots of land was assigned to Sostre Cívic, to be used for 27 units of social housing in the Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. The driving group, Cirerers, was set up in September, 2017. The documentary gaze accompanies the members of the cooperative in their debate about access to decent housing in Barcelona’s neighbourhoods, which are becoming more and more gentrified, the value of communal space and the need to return to taking care of the community as a way to combat the financialization of life. In March, 2022, Cirerers was inhabited by 32, co-living units.

Super 8 / 18fps / silent / in-camera edited Kodak Vision3 500T

Live broadcast of Verdi's opera starring Luca Salsi, Erwin Schrott and Sondra Radvanovsky.

The young Soto rebuilds his childhood home. The leaking cement that needs to be smoothed awakens the memory of an absent father: Soto will never be like him. An intimate and hopeful documentary about the dream of a family nest.

It's Friday night. Diego comes home after work and all he wants is time for himself. His friends want him to hang out with them, but Diego prefers his quiet plan alone at home. It seems that the universe does not agree.

Blessed Carlo Acutis was an apostle of the Eucharist and dedicated many years of his brief life to investigating Eucharistic miracles throughout the world. The film contains recordings of Carlo Acutis himself with his original voice, fragments of animated drawings about eucharistic miracles, and as well as fictional recreations about the life of the protagonist.

Audiovisual essay that focuses on border zones to explore the control practices exerted over different spaces to keep them separate. Structured as a series of “fields” ordered from largest to smallest scale (from vast protected natural areas to tiny bodily spaces), “Ecotone” critiques contemporary forms of capitalism such as surveillance capitalism and biocapitalism. Using a wide variety of visual material, it combines and demonstrates the relationships between economic, political, historical, and environmental aspects.

This is the psychotic, murderous response of victims who, thanks to the famous Barbie doll model, felt excluded from the feminine canon imposed by 20th-century ideals of the perfect, modern woman, where physical stylization, fashion, and professional integration are the hallmarks of success.

After forty years of fighting Moscow, Washington won the Cold War, and NATO found a way to expand eastward; however, there was one loose end to the problem: Yugoslavia was not a satellite of the USSR…

A man attempts to reconnect with himself by observing a partially abstract landscape.

After the driest April on record in Catalonia, rain finally arrived in May. May 25th saw the highest precipitation in Barcelona, while not ending the drought, did slow it down. On that day, we extracted climate data from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Meteocat, and transformed it into Generative RAIN: an audiovisual experiment that generates stories automatically using artificial intelligence (AI) models. Every hour, based on the forecast, we modified input instructions, resulting in the creation of texts, images, and sounds. We then selected and organized these elements into an audiovisual experience.

The table is set for the medium to contact the missing, the lost, those who are lost, and those who do not want to be found... but the door opens both ways...

Ángel is the new member of a company whose mission is to sift through all types of information on the Internet in order to make it a safer place. Berta, his partner and instructor, teaches him the ins and outs of his new job, involving all kinds of images, false information and even videos that Ángel would never have imagined seeing. All this, accompanied by an incessant hum, makes him reconsider the fact that this job is not for everyone.

Through a film letter, Lara communicates with her great-grandfather Paco, whom she barely knew. She explains to him what has happened since he died.

A girl frustrated by her work begins to realize that she has the power to make her wishes come true. All this leads to a tragic end, not only for her but for all humanity, which she will not be able to remedy.

A documentary and non-fiction project in the shape of a child's game that tell us about a wounded land and vulnerable bodies.

A super 8 film by Blanca García

Tells seven stories about women that serve to illustrate a trip to a world of emotions, with questions about beauty and imperfection, and the importance of the small things in life.

Sebas, a lifeguard at a resort swimming pool, Sergio, a fisherman, and Lorenzo openly live out their sexuality. They never thought about labels or sexual classifications, but just want to enjoy the sun, the sea, beer and their bodies. When Sergio goes missing, Lorenzo believes that his own mother might have something to do with it. She is a forewoman at the fish market where Sergio sells his wares and has found out that Lorenzo is having sex with Sergio. But can this be true? Lorenzo’s mother is also looking for Sergio. Everything changes when Lorenzo and Sebas finally find their friend Sergio.

An "anticipation film" made during performative actions in Paris, Madrid and Rome. Iván Argote deposes monuments, portraying them as symbols of vertical power marked by images of domination. The effigies descend from their pedestals to travel through the city, highlighting the fluidity of historical narratives and sparking surprise and perplexity among passers-by.

After studying and thinking about it considerably, author Carmen Martín Gaite said that one of the conclusions she had reached is that single women who are not out to find a husband are marginalized or caricatured, but they are never really spoken to. In Solteronas -Spinsters- we give them a voice, they tell us about themselves and we show how they have shared, and continue to share, their stories.