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Victor is a model child, while Sid is the complete opposite: a rebellious child. Victor wants to help Sid become a proper child. But perhaps nothing is what it seems...

The day Aminata was born, her mother, Duturna, saw her life change forever. Motherhood was not what she had expected or what she had been told it would be. She was forced to pack her bags and flee her home with her daughter in her arms. She was very young, alone, had no resources, and did not know for sure what the future held for her. Only one thing was clear: she had to save her daughter's life.

Game night. Alicia and Álvaro have been assigned to spend seven minutes alone in a garden shed. Isolated. Everything seems idyllic until Candela's abrupt arrival.

The story of Osel Hita Torres, who was called "the Spanish Lama boy" when he was recognized as the Western reincarnation of one of the greatest Buddhist masters.

One thing is clear: contemporary artists can dispense with their manual skills and place as much or more importance on intellectual work than on the artistic object itself. So what does an artist do? Artefacto 71 attempts to answer this question by reviewing the work of a working-class artist such as the Catalan Martí Anson, establishing a dialogue between the artist and the filmmaker as equals.

Young Darwin is feeling bored in his Yucatan village. Playing games on his parents' phone or using the forest as a playground with his brother doesn't help shed his gloom. So he decides to find out if Shaman Charli's stories are true and plucks up the courage to visit a forbidden cave.

A dance film that has as it's premise to explore the poetic and romantic union of two objects, such as the spinning top and the rope and how do they give each other heat, warmness and safety by intertwine themselves in to a hug, which will help them to generate an endless spin similar to the one of the earth on its own axis.

In the dusty town of Mazarrón, 'El Rubio' is an enigma. He arrived almost a year ago, and no one knows why. Every sunrise, he faces the same existential question that haunts him beyond the dunes. 'El cowboy sin montura' is an introspective western about the search for purpose and the echo of the past in a silent present.

The film delves into the universe of thoughts and memories of Camilo, a teenager with a muscular disorder, as he transitions into adulthood. The film's dialectic, crystallized in an extensive 16-year film record, navigates between the writing of philosophical texts and conversations he has with his friend Luis, with a critical eye toward social systems, his own relationships, and himself. His way of feeling propels the temporal leaps in one direction or another, with their drifts and reveries, similar to the ways in which memory operates. Time becomes both theme and vehicle.

Ouka Leele, photographer of the Movida Madrileña, broke the mold with her unique way of creating painted photographs. Rebellious and feisty, she overcame cancer at the age of 20 and raised her daughter alone while her career took off. She is an essential figure in photography and broke new ground in art.

Nothing is the same since Lucia's death. Nothing is right. Nothing is in its place. Marta, her little sister, is not even able to feel good in her own skin. The banality of the funeral, the coldness of the house, the terrible feeling of not being able to return the favor to the one who gave so much for her. It all piles up on her mind and crowds behind her eyes, but Marta refuses to cry. To do so would be to betray Lucia's memory. She prefers to work and let herself go in an eternal repetition. And yet Daniela has other plans for her. After all, her loss does not belong to her alone.

A silent city symphony, projected from gorgeous black and white 16mm film. Materia vibrante lets the resonating frequencies of the urban environment create the inaudible hum that keeps the engines of society running, absent of the inhabitants running around like little ants toiling away.

Mario forgets his son in the car, triggering a tragedy that deeply affects his marriage. Facing moral judgment and his wife's resentment, the relationship fades away under the weight of pain and guilt.

Agathe, a 22-year-old woman with gender dysphoria, undergoes a chest masculinization operation after almost two years of waiting in a public hospital.

Non-fiction short film about the fragility of memory and the places that human beings create to safeguard it. People disappear, like the buildings they lived in, the places where they worked and were happy. Those faces and those lives were once part of the written memory, a memory that will disappear because nothing is forever. What the water brings, the water takes away.

The first of PocketBookFilm's open cinematic project. A collection of books and filmed portraits. A group of people gather in the Retiro Park in Madrid with their favorite paperback books. The camera records and interacts with the covers, the words, the gestures and the faces of the participants on a spring afternoon. Participants: Zuriñe Lafón, Álvaro Feldman, Magdalena Orellana, Daniela Delgado, Martha Helga, Elisabeth Tascón, Ramón de Fontecha, Pablo Marín, Luis Lechosa, Nicole Remy, Guille Hormigo, Jorge Calvo Ibar, Julio César Martín, Biviana Chauchi, Gaby Feldman and Sofía Tudela.

A quiet off-season afternoon alongside the Mekong River in Luang Prabang, Laos.

A documentary that portrays the life and activism of Miguel Ángel Sánchez, a key pioneer in the fight for LGTBI rights in Spain. He led major organizations like COGAM, Fundación Triángulo, and FELGTB for over three decades. The documentary honors his legacy, showing how his work was vital to advancing LGTBI rights. With a discreet yet decisive approach, Sánchez embodied true activism—a relentless pursuit of equality and justice for the LGTBI community.

Two cats stare at a wall much more interesting than anything going on around them.

Umberto watches his father lose his job while he tries to save a sick oak tree. On Halloween, he meets Eli, a mysterious girl who will make him discover fear for the first time.

Ideas are an extension of who we are. We constantly expose ourselves to creative and introspective processes, because fiction always has a real impact and we bring characters to life through our experiences. Ultimately, we inevitably become supporting actors in our own stories.

In war-torn Syria, a 23-year-old fine arts student fights for her life to witness her graduation day after she is severely injured by a missile that hits her house in Damascus only four days before her graduation date.

Juan is an elderly man returning home by train who meets a young woman on the journey and strikes up a conversation with her. The conversation revolves around his profession as a railway worker and the landscape through which the train travels, but above all, Juan talks about love: love for his wife, for the life he has lived, and for commuter trains as a place for meeting and conversation, because there was a time when the important thing about the journey was not the destination, but who was traveling beside you.

A "sensory collage" that invites the viewer to confront their deepest perversions. The film is structured in a series of episodes introduced by the enigmatic John Villain, who guides the audience through different plots that, together, build a unique biography of Martanuelle, the protagonist.

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema, time, cities, and sharing memories with our loved ones.

A record of places as they are being made: construction sites, artist studios, kitchens, a garden—spaces in which a process, a state of incompletion and transformation, occurs. “It is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing; it is the thing itself that affirms or denies something of itself in us.” —Spinoza

Alguén me chamou Serpe Negra explores the tortuous path that memories and dreams take in our mind. Thanks to the texture of analogue hand-painted animation, the film is an invitation to an oneiric universe made of loose connections and revised spatial dimensions. Filmmaker Borja Santomé Rodríguez takes us with him on a journey made of images that play with love and adventure, childhood curiosities and adult desires, and in which the ultimate reward is to get lost.

Raquel kept 3 diaries between the time she was a preteen until adulthood. She read them and realized a problem, that they dealt with boys.

The documentary features the testimony of Domingo Espinel Reyes, a goatherd from Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Spain) who shares the story of his childhood and youth as a goatherd, memories linked to springs and fountains that are now neglected.

The film shows us the purse seine fishing of Portosín through local skippers and their families, bringing us closer to the maritime world in a very intimate way.

May 1970. In Yungay, a town in the mountains of Peru, the quiet life of Mateo, an eleven-year-old boy, and that of his inseparable dog, Lepanto, is altered when they begin to perceive strange things around them. Shortly after, a huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits the region, causing an avalanche that buries the entire town.

Rita and Berta are thieves. In an old red car, they drive around the surrounding roads in search of the adrenaline rush they don't find in their daily lives. However, after every climb there is always a descent. Berta needs a change and has made a decision, one that could break her bond with Rita.

A cosmic entity talks to humankind. Meanwhile, three dinosaurs cross the desert guided by a shooting star.

Luis, after asking some mobster's son for a favor, is required to return the favor by entering a garage and taking a couple of pictures. The whole plan switches its direction when he discovers that he is not alone in the garage.