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Alex, a 10 year old child, faces the trauma of his parents' divorce, a new home, neighborhood, and school. Alex dreams of being a famous ballplayer like his father, but the instability of his new life makes him an insecure child and unable to recognize his talent. The arrival of Zompi, a virtual intelligent animal, transforms and helps him overcome all his fears.

The Silva family is pioneer and a role model within the community; it shows values and the goal to not let the candombe tradition fade away. Not only do they have an internal hierarchy, but also in his neighbourhood, Waldemar “Cachila” Silva is a respected leader. Cachila decide to pass on his legacy to his sons Matias and Wellington, who should now lead the family business, afro descendants playing candombe, a drum rhythm for the carnival contest and keep the privilege place obtained by the family. Patriarchy, hierarchy and cultural traditions are the concepts that drive this documentary about the life of a man of African descent and a dysfunctional family trying to perpetuate its power, which is crucial for the future of a culture.

Systolic/diastolic are the beats of the heart and it is this organ, which, more or less, symbolically tells the story of Ángel and Toño; a couple who have to face a terrible situation: Ángel's death.

An ordinary day in the life of a community on the Santa Elena Peninsula, on the Ecuadorian coast. The many characters in this documentary –simple people, heir to an ancient culture– present the true protagonist: death.

In the America of the Mayas, a ritual to offer two children in sacrifice is underway. The shaman that will make it expels the cortege, but after the first execution, the second child escapes.

On the day that a benefit concert for Darfur takes place in Barcelona, the inhabitants of this city are chiefly occupied with themselves. A short-tempered guy curses everyone crossing his path. A little later, we see him at work as a living statue. Meekly, he poses for a picture with a tourist. A thief robs her purse and runs through the alleys. On a scooter, the purse is taken to a suspicious-looking character, who is primarily interested in a concert ticket he finds . After these people, we follow countless other characters. We follow them for a few streets or catch snippets of conversations. Sometimes the topic is Darfur, but usually the urbanites are engaged in their daily worries.

A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.

19 of September of 1985. The Earth shakes under the City of Mexico. A morning of terror that leaves thousands of deads. The worse catastrophe lived by the Mexican capital makes visible the solidarity of the population and the negligence of the authorities.

Two brothers who never got along find themselves forced to share one of the most difficult experiences of life: they'll have to travel to Coquimbo to recognize the corpse of their father.

It deals with eating disorders affecting the Puerto Rican society, particularly children.

Life grows more chaotic as the family moves into a lavish new home, thanks to Armando's big promotion. Meanwhile, daughter Dolly is pregnant, and 2 members of the local police, the family's friends after years of responding to noisy arguments, are getting married.

This documentary tells the story of the bachata, Dominican Republic’s blues. It centers on the figure of singer, guitarrist, and songwriter Luis Vargas. It is also a tribute to the unknown heroes that transformed the bachata from a rejected music of the cabaret and whorehouses to a national pride and Dominican youth’s prefered urban music.

The brothers Alfonso and Antonio Montero are the greatest in the world of bullfighting. But a terrible catch in a strange mistake by Alfonso ends his life. Antonio decides that he does not want to go back to fighting without his brother and will end up discovering that the mafia that controls the bullfighting show in his city hides atrocious secrets beyond the burladero. Antonio Montero...it's time to finish off the job, cut off both ears and the tail!

The debate within a family from the Panamanian elite on a referendum for expanding the Panama Channel is illustrated through a poetic journey along a river, a coastline and an inter-oceanic channel. On this journey, the documentary inquires as to whether our understanding of development is at the service of man or if, on the contrary, man is used for the benefit of variables stemming from the notion of development.

Opposing forces, a government soldier and a guerrilla are trapped together in the heavily-bombed area around the Guazapa volcano. After a hostile meeting, an unlikely friendship develops between the two. When they come across a lost girl in the jungle, they decide to take her back to her family, and the odd trio find themselves having to look out for each other.

Documentary about children stolen during Argentina's dictatorship that collects testimonies from kidnapped between 1976 and 1983. During these years, thousands of people were kidnapped and murdered with impunity. In many cases, the state appropriated the newborns of pregnant women at the time of his abduction. The disappearance of 500 children is one of the darkest legacies of this period. However, the tireless work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo became possible that a hundred of these children were returned to their families.

Series of 32 10-minute episodes, in which each episode corresponds to the adaptation of an illustrated album from the editorial catalog of OQO editora. Aimed at a target from 4 to 9 years old, this series has the collaboration of prestigious animators from different countries, who make Never Ending Tales an original proposal, which brings us closer to stories from around the world through different plastic and musical manifestations.

At 21, his name was Moises, at 28 he changed his ID but on his social security file his name is still Ana. Life reminds him that he is a trans man before. Despite that his road has led him to reconciliation with his past and specifically with his "feminine part".

A bitter remake -comic at times- of the first work in the history of cinematography (La Sortie des Ouvriers de l'Usine Lumière), which happens to be the last film in history.

A story about three adolescents as they address the universal challenges of growing up in a time where drugs, sexual promiscuity, delinquency, and suicide seem to run rampant.

This documentary tells the facts Lorca inspired to write "Blood Wedding", through the eyes of Maria Botto, actress whom Rafael Amargo intends to participate in the girlfriend role in a montage, mixing theater and dance, on the well-known work of Spanish poet and playwright. What initially began as a simple interest of an actress to know and understand her character, ends up becoming a rite of passage in search of the reality of the facts, the crime of Níjar, occurred on July 22, 1928 in a small town Almeria.

Tells the story, through surrealist and oniric images, of an alien invasion that feeds on spanish children.

Lucia is a girl of about 30 years, vital, attractive and successful. Live intensely all day despite not having a very happy past. One morning, in the midst of a busy day, receives a mysterious letter. Mindful of the received and true to their character and desires, thinks it's time to leave and start the fundamental quest of her life.

XV in Zaachila. A town in Mexico, a family, a daughter, a bull to be killed, eight godfathers, a party that lasts two days, six chamberlains, 850 guests… and all this for her fifteenth birthday.

Aurora lies in bed and suddenly receives a divine call revealing the unknown whereabouts of a relative. The old woman enters a brothel called 'El Buen Camino' (The Good Way), frequented by folkloric and religious transsexual prostitutes. At the end of the joint she finds her relative and after a chase she shouts: Mateo! He stops and starts a tense discussion where religion and transsexuality will be united with an Andalusian folkloric touch.

A historic review of the life and work of Simón Rodríguez, forefather of the American thought, whose legacy had an influence on Simón Bolívar. Simón Rodríguez is attributed to be responsible for planting the first ideals of emancipation and freedom in the Liberator.

Legend has it that Sarah Clockwork, a great virtuoso terminist, disappeared in the middle of a performance at a large theater in New York in 1928. It is said that she was "abducted by Martians." In 1986, young Fran, using his precocious scientific abilities, builds a Theremin. He intends to use it to communicate with Sarah Clockwork, his platonic love. What began as a simple game leads to strange events that lead Fran to believe that the Theremin truly has the power to attract Martians.

Men are brutally murdered, while the women are kidnapped and taken to the depths of the forest where they take part in a bloody ritual.

The story takes place in Colonia del Sacramento, a charming little colonial town in Uruguay. It narrates a day in the life of three members of a family: the son, the mother, and the grandfather, taking as a common thread an old cookbook. Contemporaneity, love and death come together in the lives of the three characters.

A young man prepares for an invasion of alien robots while desperately trying to connect to his own family members.

Vatican archaeologists found a tomb in the catacombs of Rome with 1,000 skeletons with signs off source. Who are these people? Why were buried there? Accompanies scientists in this search.

R2 is going through hard times: his past failures have earned the anger of the Chief Inspector. He finds consolation visiting Didi's bar to cheer listening to music, especially blues. In addition, the Chief Inspector is jealous since he knows that R2 receives letters from the Palacio de la Zarzuela. Aided by his trusty and faithful Inspector Cardenas,he tries to solve all the cases that are presented, using methods rather unorthodox, including the use of disguises. One day, he decides to solve a very interesting case: the blackmail to a rich businessman who is threatened by the kidnapping of his young wife.

When the corpse of Encarna Abellan appears destroyed on a beach in Barcelona, the detective Pepe Carvalho begins the research and travels to A Coruña. She was married to a wealthy owner belonging to a well-known A Coruña family and had traveled to Barcelona to undergo a fertility treatment, but had previously had relations with Ginés Larios, a merchant navy officer and ex-boyfriend, whom he had left to marry the rich heir The suicide of the latter seems to be the case by closed, however Carvalho decides to try to clarify everything.

Eclipse metanoico emerged from the improvisations of Pablo Sax and Andrés Castro for the Noia Festival. Pagán created a video piece specifically for this performance: over six months, he filmed a pear tree and everything unfolding around it, shaping a turbulent, hypnotic composition that we will see in its original form.

Final film by José Antonio Nieves Conde.

4 of the world biggest astronomical observatories have been built in the Atacama desert (Chile). A new observatory, the ALMA, is going to be constructed close to an Indian village established in the same Cordillera for centuries. The film questions the co-existence on the same territory of two visions of the sky: scientists’ "rational" view and the Indians’ "magical" one.

1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina

A man spends the night at an hotel in an unnamed city in southern Chile. It's late and he finds himself unable to sleep. He's bored. He feels confused about what to do next. He wishes to eat and to urinate. He's sexually excited. The image of a naked woman appears on the TV screen.

Young people from different social classes feel the same deep sense of abandonment and dreams become the only company in an arid and incomprehensible world.

'Puerta Beta' was based on the site specific performance ‘Fuera de la fábrica Beta’, a collective creation directed by Nilo Gallego, in which the public, located inside an abandoned factory, a symbol of the industrial decline of the area, could observe the busy transport routes that connect the outside with the centre of the city of Bilbao, through a game between the everyday, chance and a series of interventions in which the residents of the Zorrozaurre neighbourhood participated.