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North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.

Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: Pademba Road. The adult prison in Freetown. In hell, Mr. Sillah is in charge, and there is no hope. Chennu got out after four years. Now he wants to go back.

Nacho has been working away from Málaga, his hometown, for a year. He comes back to take his driving test for the eighth time. He is so ashamed that he has only told his best friend, Jorge. But this is not the only secret Nacho has kept from his friends.

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

Departing from this Madrid Centre’s rebellious past, Wonders Wander takes the wonders out of Malasaña to explore off-the-mainstream nouveau queer generation that includes refugees, migrants, functional diversity, transfeminista, transfeminism, open family, subversive motherhoods, sustainable living, and the rise of auto-defense practices for self-empowerment. Wonders Wander with its gps guided city-walks tracks sites of documented homo-trans-phobic attacks that extend to peripheral Madrid.

A striking political activist and refugee from Paraguay escapes to Paris and falls in love with a rich law student changing their lives forever. The beauty of their love is challenged by a fervent devotion to fighting for a cause. "Two Autumns in Paris" has won more than 130 awards and was the most awarded Venezuelan film of 2020. A historic examination of class, refugees, and political rebellion that subtly speaks in parallel to the world today. Its turbulent romance set with the background of the 'City of Love'.

Abstract animation based on the idea of perverting the concept and aesthetics of two vintage devices related to mass media and mind control: An old CRT television and a brain machine intended to modify brain waves to relax.

Ivan wakes up tied to a table. He works fixing little things in houses. Marta, one of his last clients had kidnapped him. He has to do right the chores he did wrong in her house. For every mistake she will break him a finger and if he confess she will forgive his live. But is there anything to confess?

A teacher tries to help a student so that she does not drop out of school. This leads him to receive accusations that get him into trouble.

Garralda is a troubled college student who only has to pass one last subject to obtain his academic degree. When his teacher catches him copying on a test, he requires him to perform a very unethical task in exchange for passing and thus achieving his goal.

Damian is a 45 year old lawyer, married and with two daughters, who undergoing a deep crisis, finds refuge in an abandoned building down town. One night Damian meets Estela, a local transvestite prostitute who takes advantage of the privacy of the building to satisfy her clients. It's at this moment, when a particular relationship starts between them. Through Estela's eyes, Damian begins to look at things differently and to get to know himself better. From now on, everything will change in his life.

In the not too distant future, a wealthy couple, Juan and Clara hire the services of "youcare", a company that educates your child for you in your own home in a comfortable and simple way.

Gartxot is a Twelfth Century minstrel from the Pyrenees who is sent into exile by the new Abbot of Roncevallis. This Abbot's goals are to capture Gartxot's only son, Mikelot, and forcefully convert him into a singing monk. After being captured and tortured, the child manages to escape and sings once again beside his father having him promise to never allow them to lock him up in the monastery again. Their songs become a symbol of the struggle against oppression. Time and time again with the help of folk, they manage to shake the authorities off. In the end, as authorities manage to surround them, Gartxot remembers his promise to his only son leading to a tragedy that to this day is remembered

The premiere of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd in Madrid is undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Teatro Real's bicentennial celebrations. Its magnificent libretto, based on the novel of the same name by Herman Melville, tells the story of the sailor Billy Budd: a handsome, loyal, generous, strong, naive, and kind young man whose beauty and personality drive the ship's master-at-arms mad. Unable to control the situation, the master crucifies the naive young man without mercy. This new production by the Teatro Real is being presented for the first time in Madrid, in co-production with the Opéra national de Paris, under the direction of Deborah Warner, one of the great names in stage direction today.

A young Irish soldier falls prisoner after the English Invasions in Buenos Aires, in 1806. Encouraged in these lands by the same libertarian sentiments that inspired him in his country, his ideals will connect with the nobility of Luisa Ochoa, the young and vigorous widow he meets during his captivity. Love, loss and dignity are concurrent themes in an atypical work within Argentine film production.

Sebastian comes to live in Santiago, to the home of his sister Rebeca, In a process of self-discovery, he realizes that she is a transgender woman. Start taking hormones to hide from Rebeca, fearing that she will judge her. One night, Rebeca finds hormones, and confronts Sebastian. Sebastian confesses that he is now Noa. A woman.

From his office in Barcelona, where he usually works, Spanish writer Juan Marsé speaks of his novels, the movies that have been made from them, their relations with the classic American cinema and its influence on his narrative.

In an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.

After traveling far from home in pursuit of a better future, June comes back to her hometown to try to restore broken bonds with Diego, her first love, and her father. She will try to bring back their teenage years dream of moving to Berlin. However, she will soon realize that years have changed Diego, he is now reclusive and never leaves his house.

Former European boxing champion Santiago Rojas has been completely disconnected from the world of boxing for several years. He now works at a small kiosk in the busy Barcelona Metro. Besides reading, one of his greatest curiosities is uncovering the secrets behind the popular and mysterious 'law of attraction'.

Dr. Vikström, a scholar of Kabbalah, mysticism, symbology, and dead languages, discovers the lost tome of the "Edda" written by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson. This book not only contains a prophecy about Ragnarok and the awakening of Fenrir, Loki's son, destined to kill Odin, but also how to stop the end of the world. The only way is to discover a man whose future is completely unknown. The chosen one must compose a mystical music and play it on the Organ of Eternity, hidden somewhere in Turin. The magical city par excellence witnesses a race against time, in which eight characters cross paths.

Patricia's Velásquez's feature debut follows a Costa Rican boy who hopes to attend a soccerschool his family cannot afford -but that his brother is determined to sen him to by any means necessary. Two Waters is a beautiful tale of friendship and loss, moral compromises great and small, and the persistence of dreams.

158 million people live in Indian slums under very extreme insalubrity. Millions of children play surrounded by rubbish, cows, rats and excrements. Garib Nagar slum, in Bandra district (Bombay, India) is Rubina's home, a 12-year old girl who aims to become an actress and change the slum into a more clean and habitable place.

Two artists from different cultures on a winter trip to the famous wine region of La Rioja in northern Spain. One of the men, composer Ignacio, who lives in Finland, is traumatized by guilt over his daughter's car accident; she is in an induced coma in a hospital in Helsinki and will be awakened within 10 days.

A homeless man and his girlfriend, who has been abducted by aliens, are the protagonists of this science fiction story that reminds us of the importance of faith to get overcome obstacles.

Three men and three women cross each others' paths at different times and places in Madrid during their daily life and amorous pursuits.

Freedom personified in a beautiful young woman, reflecting with thoughts written by Facundo Cabral and Kahlil Gibran. An intimate search for what freedom is and is not.

The marriage between Claudia and David has ended due to Claudia's addiction problems, in addition to the different psychological disorders she suffers from. Despite the dire state of their relationship, David does everything possible so that his beloved is happy and manages to lead as healthy a life as possible. That is why they both move to Galicia, where they will build a new and better life, and rediscover buried feelings.

Two apathetic twentysomethings spend the night of Saturday deciding whether or not to go to a costume party. As time passes by, more friends, more drugs are added and everything ends in a small tragedy that will completely change the fate of the night.

Alex wakes up in her bed after a night of partying. Next to her is Leo, her roommate, who doesn't remember how she ended up there. As of this morning, nothing will be the same between the two.

'Napardeath' closes de 'Ataun of the Dead' trilogy. After having revived in the first film and defeated the Vampire Nationalist Party in the second, Zumalakarregi will head to Pamplona to appoint himself king of the Basques. It won't be an easy road, since the Abertzale left will revive the mummy of Sancho the Strong, in order to restore the Kingdom of Navarre and recover the throne. Who will win this game of thrones?

Getting a rental apartment in the center of Madrid is almost impossible mission.

Enzo is employed in a neighborhood garage that borrows a luxurious car for a while and convinces his friend Richard to accompany him. Its owner is a cruel mafioso who will make them live a nightmare night to these guys who just want to have fun.

Noticing that a storm is coming, Roque and Macarena return from an afternoon of fishing. In the darkness of the road, they discover a bonfire lit among the trees.

In the middle of La Habana, three friends meet on the rooftop day after day to discuss their dreams and aspirations. Though they lack the proper resources, they decide to start their own business, a decision that pushes them towards maturity, although at an unforeseen cost.

A Spanish babysitter, Olivia, has to look after an American girl on a night that will not turn out as she expected, especially when she meets someone she should never have met, Mr. Tickles.

Manolita Chen became in the mid-eighties the first Spanish transsexual mother who managed to adopt. Through the documentary she tells us about that process, as well as her experiences as a transgressive woman at a time when Spain was not yet socially or legally advanced. We discover a life full of bitterness but without rancor in between, where she nostalgically recalls her facet as a businesswoman and vedette, gradually managing to integrate into her hometown, Arcos de la Frontera, where she currently enjoys the affection and approval of her relatives and neighbors.

Twelve-year-old Jeffrey works on the streets of Santo Domingo washing windshields to help his family’s finances, but dreams of becoming a reggaeton singer. With the help of his older brother, Jeyson, he composes and records songs about his life, their neighbourhood, and his dreams for the future. In this intimate documentary, director Yanillys Pérez highlights the resilience and dynamism of Jeffrey as he looks for customers, tries to avoid turf wars with other windshield washers, spends time at home with his family, and climbs his special tree. Full of dynamic music and dance sequences, Jeffrey captures a real-life story of a boy trying his best to turn his dreams into reality.

On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to regenerating the world through poetry. The controversial project triggers a series of situations dominated by words and desire.

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Tito, a blind boy who leaves the city to spend a few days in an inland town in Alicante with his grandmother Fina, whom he did not know. There he finds the selfless friendship of Candela and Patuchas, her dog, with whom he knows the simplicity of living in the countryside, the freedom and strength of being able to fend for himself regardless of his disability.

The Marchena family is living a great moment, but no happiness is complete. Manuel suffers from the cravings of Sobeida’s pregnancy and Modesto seeks the Woman of his Life. Susanita faces great danger and Mama Susana is diagnosed with a deadly disease. Because in life, money is not everything----will they be so lucky as to live in a united family?

La vida sublime tells the story of a grandson who finds the passion he seeks in the character of his dead grandfather, «El Cuco», and the trip his grandfather made as a youth to southern Spain in the early 1940s. A trip that should have remained a family mystery. The South and his grandfather open up a fascinating new world, a space in which a personal memory that immortalizes «El Cuco» can be created. A tribute by a grandson to the lost generation of the Franco dictatorship era, one which was not able to fulfill its dreams. A quest for the myth, and the sublime. A new writing of family history. A film that deals with the issue of borders. Borders between North and South, imagination and reality, present and past, grandfathers and grandsons, Spain and America, madness and lucidity

Winter of 1921. After fighting for France for four years, the combatants of Bizkarsoro (Lower Navarre, France) have returned from the battlefront. Like the yellow star of the Jew or the ear of the Cagots, children who speak Basque are marked with an stick called ANTI.

An outcast makes a journey through a dam in Sierra Maestra, place of origin of the Cuban Revolution. As in a short story, we are guided through this attenuate landscape gradually crossing the delineae cartography of a body that with every movement is diluted, finally becoming one with the habitat.

Her in the middle of the city, transportation, pollution, and others. A journey facing a being with the city, the big antagonist that affects us all.