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Homophobia is the aversion or hatred towards homosexuality - and when it comes from within it is more ingrained, harsher and more inhumane.

"Unarchive" juxtaposes the filmmaker's father's life with the political history of Chile – his birthplace – over the past century. It reflects on how we remember and how we forget, and the role of the camera in transcending the complex space in between.

Excited by the illusion of political and historical change, three filmmakers join the protests of the Chilean social explosion of 2019. There they meet Ettiene, a 7 year old boy, who is more afraid of fire and protests than of the police. Surprised, they meet him again to understand how he lives apart from what is happening. The next morning and after all the euphoria, the city becomes hostile showing the deep cracks that separate the country.

Images and stories from the early years of LGBTIQ+ activism in Paraguay until today, in the middle of the pandemic. It's a quest that tries to generate audiovisual memory with voices from the main players of local activism and their accurate analysis of human rights and the political situation in Paraguay.

Melisa is a young Mapuche woman who at a young age migrated with her family from her Mapu lof to the city, in search of better living conditions. As an adult and soon to finish her university studies, she begins to experience unexplainable situations and dreams... she has received an ancestral call.

This short 40-minute documentary collects the testimony of twelve women survivors of sexual violence in Colombia. They were victims of the paramilitaries, the FARC and ELN guerrillas and agents of the State. Their heartbreaking testimony is the imprint of the deepest pain and, at the same time, the greatness of transforming it. Each of them agreed to speak after a process of more than five years with the No Time to Callar campaign, which has accompanied them and worked alongside them, at different times. Violet Butterflies, in addition to a journalistic short, is an act of memory.

In the beginning, there were caves. Or maybe not. But the caves in Mónica Naranjo Uribe’s work seem to have been observing us for a lifetime; waiting for someone to find them and to feel the revelation that we believe can only be achieved through the hardest, deepest and most arcane states of nature.

1939. Thousands of refugees were concentrated in the last republican sectors of Catalonia to cross into France. Through the Camprodon Valley, in the Pyrenean region of Ripollés, some 100,000 people crossed to the neighboring country: civilians, military, international brigades, including doctors and wounded. The war in Spain was ending, but soon another would begin. 100,000 people left their homes behind. Many would return, others would continue the fight.

#PrecarityStory is a short documentary that tells the work story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher, and researcher in the same British university. Her story stands as an example of the increasing casualisation of university labour and its human consequences. Filmed during the 2018-2020 UK higher education strikes, #PrecarityStory exposes the little-known reality of the academic precariat and fuels the ongoing public debate on the devastating effects of neoliberal policies —and, now also, Covid-19— in British higher education.

Massacre live show on Sunday, November 1, 2020, in what was the seventh date of the Renault Drive In show cycle at the Mandarine Park Drive-in - Punta Carrasco (Buenos Aires). New format for shows with the protocols adjusted to the Covid-19.

A woman living in a transparent box, oranges floating on the seashore, and the movement of an oscillating stone are stories that are interwoven by the Tramuntana wind; a wind explored in this film through the people of Alt Empordà, through their experiences and imagination surrounding this mythical power [Punto de Vista].

A B-roll behind-the-scenes featurette providing insight into Pain and Glory’s production, with interviews from Almodóvar and Banderas.

In the mountains of Córdoba hides a historical scar. In 1575, hundreds of Hênia-Kâmîare women, children and elders jumped off in order to avoid slavery. A free, poetic view at the very place where the largest mass suicide in the history of the territory known today as Argentina took place. The film is a phantasmagoric trip within this geographical extension, taking it as a vast, green cemetery.

Isabel takes a carry-on suitcase and begins to fill it with clothes under Patricia's watchful eye. Each item of clothing that she puts in it will be one more step to overcome her fears and rebuild her broken dreams.

Intiwawa is a short film that tells the story of Amaru, a young member of the Aymara community of Santiago, who after the death of his son falls into alcoholism, which brings him the rejection of the community.

Koki makes a living in Guatemala City by winning the trust of people while arranging the theft of their possessions. By day he is a guide to tourists who get mugged at gunpoint, by night he seduces men only to lead them back to Carlos’s hotel, where they will be robbed. Koki and Carlos function as two sides of the same coin, justifying these violent activities through the need to survive. When Koki becomes the target of one of his victims and, as a result, is swiftly replaced by Carlos with another young good looking boy, he can observe what had up to then been his life in what feels like a disembodied experience.

A homosexual couple arrives in Mexico City, after fleeing Jamaica where they were imprisoned for their sexual orientation. At the same time, a trans refugee from Honduras embarks on an odyssey to the United States where they will be abducted by a drug cartel and will have problems with Central American gangs due to their gender identity. The two stories intersect in a house in Mexico City that becomes an oasis in a hostile world.

Adonis rests peacefully in the forest.

In the middle of the social crisis and repression in their country –Chile–, Leonor and Manuel have an ongoing relationship that has hit rock bottom. Due to the uprising, a curfew has been imposed, and Nico spends the night with the couple, twisting things up. The next morning, engulfed in fear of what’s happening outside and confused about their own relationship, Leonor and Manuel learn how to live and take care of each other in the midst of these unknown and frightful times.

During the confinement of a global pandemic an astronaut talks to his couple about love, death and loneliness.

A complete circle around the solar year.

A faithful portrait of Cuba's recent history and of the efforts of the American administration to gain influence in the caribe politics. From the War of Independence and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution to nowadays with the presidency of Miguel Diaz-Canel and the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton by the Trump administration. The beginning and the consequences of the American blockade, the changes that are happening in the country and the bilateral relations of the island with the USA.

A retrospective (2010-2020) on authentic gamechangers in rap with Madrid as a reference point. With the testimonies of Israel B (Corredores de Bloque), Jerv.AGZ, Fabianni, I - Ace and Kigo (Agorazein), Elio Toffana, Dano, Kael and Cabal (Ziontifik), El Coleta, Miguel Grimaldo (Urano Players) and Yako Muñoz.

Andreas Homoki realized this production in the middle of the pandemic, and its extraordinary premiere was celebrated with only 50 audience members in attendance and a huge television audience watching on Arte from their homes. Homoki created fleshed-out characters, as well as a clear and suspense-filled narrative arc. In order to facilitate the opera's multiple time periods, his production allowed for imaginary spaces of memory.

In the year 2017, contestants from the TV show RuPaul's Drag Race arrived in Lima, Peru. This documentary is not only focused on that, but also on the local drag queens, their dreams, points of view, their art and their identities.

The Casa de Campo is one of the largest public parks in the world, a real forest. In the images, its 2019: the green of the earth shining anew for us or the children's unexpected use of bridges and ponds. In the sounds, its 1936, the forest torn in two, the defence of Madrid: "buzzes and explosions, clattering of machine guns, dry crackling of rifles" or the words of those who invented a revolution and a taste for good life in the midst of that turmoil.

A film based on the reports of children appropriated during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). To rest the look on a face was an impossible task. The glow of the memory swallowed everything. Dancing movements, calculated, but wrong.

Piece of Zarauza where he speaks of Santiago from a cultural, architectural, human and existential point of view.

Josep Ramoneda's documentary tries to portray new ways of understanding ageing.

The tobacco plant was introduced to Granada (Southern Spain) in 1923. It became a monoculture in the region until the end of the century. When the tobacco production stopped being profitable, the farmers switched to new crops like wheat, corn or asparagus. However, the lands of Granada are still replete with tobacco barns: large empty houses where the leaves used to be hanged to dry. They inhabit the landscape like architectural ghosts.

In full swing of the agro-export model in Argentina, Andrés Carrasco, renowned Argentine scientist, denounces the harmful effects of agrotoxins on human health. While putting the state-subsidized scientific system in check in collusion with companies, it became a benchmark for the victims of the model.

Ana is on her way to pick up her boyfriend, Gabriel, to go to a party together. Upon arrival, she finds something that makes her reconsider their attendance to the party and jeopardizes their relationship.

Relámpago Negro is a professional wrestler who lived in his own flesh the golden age of wrestling in Guatemala. 40 years later everything has changed, except his passion for the sport. Relámpago Negro tells us how his passion leads him to keep wrestling alive after so long, building a legacy for professional wrestling until this day.

In a Harry Potter themed costume party, a group of people start arguing and nobody knows why. Three of their friends will tell each one a tale of what they think happened.

The singer and songwriter Florencia Núñez is from Rocha, a coastal department in southeastern Uruguay. Her first compositions took place at her parents' house, in the classes she shared with the composer Enrique Cabrera, or on the shores of the ocean when she spent the summer in Costa Azul, her usual beach town. Today, she lives in Montevideo, she listens to her songs and wonders: what is the origin of all these melodies? This film is her desire to relive that music that made her grow. A tribute to the music of her department through the reinterpretation of five songs that marked her songbook. With that map in mind, Florencia goes out in search of answers in conversations with authors, interpreters or actors from the Rochense scene who were witnesses or protagonists of the construction of the local folk. A journey through the essence of a department that traces a route between melodies and landscapes, poetry and culture, and voices and roots.

In this documentary, lawyers remember their shared decades-long fight for democracy and civil rights in Spain during and after Franco's dictatorship.

This short film documents an up and coming drag collective known as House Of the Show. The collective shares their experiences and struggles of keeping up with their monthly and sometimes weekly performances, as well as their thoughts on their first anniversary as a group.

Autobiographical documentary by Juan De La Mar. Join me to plant myself back to live.