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March 1983. Spanish painter Ocaña held an event for children at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, where he introduced them to his exhibition and creative process, answered their questions, and raffled off several artworks.
Carlos is a young priest who teaches at a boarding school for difficult or conflictive adolescents. The arrival of Jonás, a boy with a strong personality, whose tutelage is recommended to Carlos by the rector father, puts the balance in which the priest's actions and thoughts have always been kept on a tightrope, because Jonah symbolizes disorder, anarchy, even sensuality and, therefore, temptation.
Crispín is a young orphan who sets off with only the clothes on his back in search of his aunt. At night in the forest, an owl steals his bundle. The boy chases the owl, which leads him to a monastery where some friars give him shelter. One day, Saint Francis of Assisi appears to Crispín.
It reflects the transformation which a woman undergoes in the crisis of personal fulfillment that her husband is going through. In the middle of a complex process, marked by contradictions and failures, she will grow and express her independence as a human being. She will be another woman, determined to continue the difficult and unknown daily struggle.
Video-tape documentary program about the First Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting that took place in Bogotá in July 1981. The documentary includes interventions, interviews, photographs and other materials, focusing on the main themes of the meeting: feminism and political struggle, culture and sexuality.
The Earth is increasingly more atheist. Jesus must descend to Earth and take care of the small group of followers that he has left.
Cheo visits his friend, Manolo, who he hasn't seen for many years. They drink to celebrate their reunion and fondly recall the times they spent together in years past. As they reminisce, the two friends confront the revolution, evaluate their lives, and bare their souls.
Documentary portrait of José Domínguez Muñoz, better known as "El Cabrero" (French for "the goatherd"), Spanish libertarian flamenco singer born in Aznalcóllar, province of Seville, in 1944 and filmed over two weeks in 1988 in Seville, Aznalcóllar, La Carbonería de Sevilla and Marinaleda, and in concert at a recital in Bayonne. Politically committed, El Cabrero defines himself as a libertarian. Since the 1970s, he has been close to the anarchist movement. For many years, he was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist Confédération Nationale du Travail.
The plot of this videofilm deals with the story of a man from the "services" of the military dictatorship that devastated Argentina between 1976 and 1983, who had a double life: that of his family and that of his tasks as a torturer. This film was filmed during the aforementioned dictatorship in a surreptitious way and with small filming materials such as Super 8 cameras in order not to be noticed.
Matías is a young man with financial problems who frequently goes to Charo to ask for money. They have relationships that are not easy; reproaches and irony appear in each encounter. Matías accidentally discovers a somewhat special way of solving his monetary situation. Meanwhile, a Basque industrialist has been kidnapped
An exploration of New York's cabbie subculture.
Recovered Zulueta short.
Shows how underground water has carried out the caves, their features, extension, entrances, and more. On exploration visit of the caves of the Sistema de Cuevas del Río Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico.
This work recreates the spirit of frustration and is the result of scratching and painting the tiny super 8 mm frame without magnification. The soundtrack was performed with a percussion instrument and voice.
Tale about the fragility of power, the story of a David and a Goliath. Animated frame by frame with modeling clay on a light box's glass.
The documentary makes a tour through the streets of Bilbao, showing the daily life of the people and their customs. The images reflect the recovery of Bilbao's Old Quarter after the floods that took place in August 1983. The documentary shows, on the one hand, the floods that took place at the end of August 1983 and, on the other hand, events such as Santa Águeda Day, the market in Plaza Nueva, Christmas, the Athletic de Bilbao's Gabarra in the Nervión the year in which the Biscayan team won the League and the Semana Grande.
Recovered Zulueta short.
An American journalist arrives in Chile to study the love life of the locals.
This 1980 documentary presents an account of the life of Luis Muñoz Marín and an account of what happened during his death and burial.
Approaches topics such as reproductive welfare, gender, and women’s participation in local society and politics.
In January 1933, workers who were part of the CNT marched in the streets, demonstrating and believing that they were starting a revolution. Somehow during the demonstrations, two guards were wounded. The Civil Guard and Assault Guard arrived in Casas Viejas on January 11. Many of the villagers fled, but some anarchists tried to resist arrest and barricaded themselves in the home of an anarchist.
A young woman gets caught up in a mystery while looking for her boyfriend during Ramadan in Morocco.
Short film by José Luis Egea
A gang leaves the school. They go for a bike ride, and when they find a wallet, the mystery begins. An amateur film made by primary school students from the Lekeitio ikastola.
The silhouettes of a couple in the window were filmed with few directions for the protagonists. They suggested the synthesis of cinematic space and the universality of their figures. The camera draws attention to moments, gestures, and actions, all inserted into the parentheses of a fade-in/fade-out. Cinema rediscovered as an effective memory machine.
Student/radical returns to Argentina after years in exile, renews his old friendships and stalks a politician from the bad old days.
After crossing the river, Mauricio has a hard time finding work, so he throws in with a gang of cocaine smugglers.
After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past. In this documentary the CEMA camera team roam the city streets and find out what Montevideans think about bringing armed forces personnel to justice. This tour reveals a climate of scepticism, a climate of fear and suspicion, but also a will and a desire that justice must be done.
History of a Committed Cinema is a primer for the Nicaraguan audience to what they are watching on the screen. A critique of Western & Hollywood cinema, it outlines the difficult technical, cinematic, and political tasks confronting INCINE (Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine) as it strives to build a native film industry.
Two women tell each other about their sorrowful lives, sailing in a boat that returns from the party of Jesus on Caguach Island.
This documentary examines the lively spirit of plena music, which celebrates and satirizes daily life occurrences. The film looks at the historical and cultural development of plena as well as its significance and importance today.
March 1952, days after Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members made an armed assault on the U.S. Congress. Tomás, a journalist and former Party member, attemps to obtain an interview with Pedro Albizu Campos, the Party's leader, shortly before his arrest.
Experimental short narrating the love story of the bullfighter Bombita and his tragic final.
Explores through interviews, photos, and old movies, the development of the tobacco industry in Puerto Rico, focusing on the role of women in their family environment, work, and community.
A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.
Short film by the basque filmmaker Koldo Lasa
The title Un enano en el jardin is an allusion to the Super 8 format and the setting where the actions that comprise the film unfold. A catalogue of extreme experiments with the mobility of the camera coordinated with brief improvisations by the Brazilian dancer Alice Bloch. It was mostly filmed with an Instamatic m22 camera (possibly the simplest and lightest Super 8 camera, with a fixed lens and manual diaphragm), so resistant that it functioned in conditions that would be unthinkable with a more complex camera, rotating at high speed around the optical axis or tied to a 35mm reel rewinder.
Short documentary on the history of spanish football with the colaboration of the Real Sociedad football club.
Documentary about three artists from the Basque Country.
An enigmatic and terrifying character known as the "victim" escapes from prison and sows fear among the inhabitants of Salamanca. He manages to hide and mock the persecutions around the city to fulfil a specific mission.
Erre, a teenager that lives with his uncle, his aunt and an almost absent sister, is erased from the roster on his school. From then on, he just wanders in places where the strange is barely hidden under an imitation of the ordinary.
Animated documentary that collects the Christian tradition of the visit of the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born and adds elements typical of Puerto Rican national folklore.
This family story contains a private reading of ten years in the history of Spain, from the birth of two brothers of the author until the death of the Spanish dictator in 1975.
Film by Ignacio Pardo
The filmmaker returns to the subject of Picasso, who he had first filmed in a documentary short made in 1950,then using material from studio archives and shooting stock provided by Cinematheque curator Henri Langlois.
Ana wants a change of scenery. Not Benito, but she, who is a woman with fixed ideas, gets her way.
Brothers on a farm fight over a woman, so one emigrates to Texas, to a town where the KKK is terrorizing la raza.