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Documentary by Mateo Gutiérrez about the life of his father, Héctor "Toba" Gutiérrez Ruiz (1934-1976), which includes interviews with people who witnessed moments in the life of the former president of the House of Representatives, assassinated by the Uruguayan dictatorship

Documentary about two young Spanish filmmakers who challenge Jean Luc Godard to a tennis match, and in the way to the game, they will visit his colleagues, and friends in order to know him, and offer a new approach to his work and his personality.

Luis and David, a gay couple, both study at university and David also has many gay friends. Luis will argue with his boyfriend because he is jealous to think that his son can flirt with other men. And he asks for something impossible: to leave his "queer" friends.

Primitivo, our stone age character, is walking through a desert landscape, looking for stones. He doesn't like the ones he finds until he sees a hanging chain and pulls it, dropping a stone, which is the one he was looking for, from which he makes a television, happily surprising him with the programming.

Throughout the streets of Huelva, a man with his guitar has been disambiguating for years, day and night he goes out into the streets to make a living asking for money in bars and terraces. His guitar almost never has the six strings, his hands are dirty, his mind long ago could not stand the life that he had to live, and he continues as he can stuck to that guitar with which he expresses himself continuously, indefatigable. That vagabond, an omnipresent street artist, is the "Niño Miguel", considered by many to be the best guitarist in the history of flamenco, a genius who revolutionized the guitar with only two records in the 70s, a source of inspiration for all other guitarists... a guitarist of guitarists, a living legend, a mystery, a misunderstood genius, excluded from society: The shadow of the strings.

Sergio Abel lives in a small town in Central Cuba and he videotapes his life. He is also a grade school teacher. A beautiful documentary that incorporates Sergio’s observations and footage and his student’s aspirations for the future with the outsider’s eye to tell his story.

Matías Piñeiro's first film, produced when he was a film student.

A family of Bolivian immigrants living in Argentina operates a greengrocer in a neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires. In order to get employees for their business, they travel to Bolivia after eight years of absence. During the trip they meet their family, their friends and their abandoned traditions. But everything has changed and Bolivia does not seem to be its place either.

An avarage man dreams of becoming a famous entertainer and thus fulfilling the wishes of his late father.

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the dictatorship, censorship and the critical situation of industry and society.

Heber tender love between a Chinese boy who lives in Buenos Aires, and Jaqueline, a girl from the suburbs. She cares for him, protects and serves as a translator, although he already has three years in Argentina and speaks fairly good Spanish. On that happiness a shadow looms: Heber wants to emigrate, to find his sister in Canada. Love story in two stages: one contemplative, with lovers lost in their youthful love; other harder, threatened by the specter of separation.

After a long exile in Venezuela, filmmaker Mario Handler returns to his country, Uruguay. There, the dictatorship is still present in the media, public opinion, and in the memory of people. The director feels he owes something to the comrades, those who could not leave the country. This debt translates into poetry, black humor and conscience, in a sharp and accurate atmosphere of this dark time of Uruguay.

A series of interviews to relevant personalities who lived the valencian transition to democracy.

A man in his twenty-something is drinking his coffee when he suddenly sees a girl that calls his attention. She also notices him. The short is a love story between the two, and the coincidences of an important aspect of their lives that links them.

A Goya award nominated short animated feature.

The story based on an idea by Antón Reixa and inspired by a real case, describes the adventures of a modest football team that, due to various ups and downs, has been sponsored by a girls club. What follows, is the imaginable scandal on the part of the traditional sector of the town, and the subsequent reaction of "living forces." The three main ingredients of this comedy are soccer, with a constant presence in our lives, prostitution and other activities condemned by established morality, and love.

When a tourist bus stops at a gas station, Chencho, one of the passengers, decides to go to the toilet.

Nono is a young schizophrenic who believes himself destined to stop the global arms race. He has always lived alone with his overwhelming mother, now he meets crazy Ramon.

Short film made to promote organ donation in Spain.

A young woman and her friends revenge on guy who rape her, but who knows when she's gonna pay the same...

A long time ago, in a place now known as the eighties, in Puerto Rico you were either a “cocolo”, somebody who listened to music from the ghetto and the streets, or a “rockero”, those who listened to American pop music. Javier is a “cocolo” who’s trying to find the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams. Laura, the prettiest “rockera” in their school, is trying to regain her popularity after her friends reject her for being a flirt. During a mix up at their high school, Laura and Javier are forced to enter a TV dance contest. In order to win, the snotty rich girl and the guy from the wrong side of the tracks have to discover that comedy and teenage angst move to same beat.

"The Princess Happiness" tells the story of Eva and her best friend since childhood, Alberto. Eva is a childrens book writer who confuses reality with fantasy. Together, they embark on dark journey where they will find that the only real truth is their friendship.

Writing with images: this is the departure point in this documentary. A portrait of four graffiti writers from Madrid and Barcelona: SUSO33, ISRA, SIXE and KAPI. They are part of a pioneering and illustrated generation in Street Art. For that same reason, their words and the development of four pieces (one by each artist) are the guides through this documentary. Shot in High Definition AEROSOL shows these four people's passion about a new, radical, urban and deserving of greater respect art.

In Spain, they have been the others for decades, those whose names are not known because their faces never appear in front of a camera; those whose voices are linked to the best performances in the mind of any cinema aficionado. They are the other actors, those who work in the shadows, those who are often criticized by the cinephiles who defend the original version, the purity and integrity of the motion pictures. They are the dubbing actors.

Enrique Bunbury & Nacho Vegas at Liceu BCN as part of "El tiempo de la cerezas" tour

Portrays the cultural changes experienced in Puerto Rico since the 1950's until 2000, through the story of a family.

The journey of a young woman, who travels to Uruguay in search of what really happened to her family during the darkest years of the Uruguayan dictatorship. Through her father's eyes and her seven aunts and uncles' confessions, she tries to understand why they kept their memories silent for so long. From the French Bask country to South America, she follows their steps and explores their individual struggles, whether these were through union or legal political actions, or through clandestine activities within an urban guerrilla organisation called the Tupamaros. A silence that has left so many wounds yet to be healed.

A young man's family has trouble adjusting to his sudden transformation into a giant bug.

An approach to Sahrawi culture, different aspects of daily life, culture and the struggle of the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, and in the area of the liberated territories of Tifariti.

The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.

The story revolves around a love story between an older woman and a young man struggling to change a future that not excited.

A worldwide documentary about the spread of the Chagas disease, which has infected about 20 million people and kills about 50,000 per year. A filmaker's personal quest to stop the dying and find a cure in the face of ignorance and indifference.

Héctor wants to have a normal day, in which neither his mom, friends or university classmates realize that he has broken up with his girlfriend Paula after five years of relationship.

The Parténope is a baroque opera directed by the prestigious opera and theatre director, Gustavo Tambascio. This documentary tells the story of the preparations and premieres in various cities of this production, which won the Campoamor prize for the best lyric production of the year.

Andrés Ortíz is a precocious filmmaker and director of short films but at the same time is the worst student of his school he has reprobated twice and is going for the third time. His parents turn their backs on him and so do his best friends. At the same time his teachers will want to take advantage of his situation by blackmail him in the most twisted ways.

Disinformation, ignorance and the lack of dissemination of the Catalan reality in the rest of Spain make it necessary for civil society to reach an understanding.

In the hard scrabble of life in Havana, Gabriel attempts to build his perfect musical scale.

During his tour of Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Italy, Peru, the United States and Chile, the dancer Julio Bocca makes an account of his career.

Iluminada lives a poor life but her luck turns around when she wins a prize from a Rina brand soap.

This is an interesting look at the Baka pygmies of Cameroon. Instead of an anthropology documentary in the style of National Geographic, it is the recounting of a legend, all told from the point of view of the tribe. It's quite interesting in how it deals with their mythology and culture, which are of course introduced along the way, often cleverly in the way of an elder explaining to youngsters.