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A woman's day dream gives an ironic view of one of the most dramatic situations suffered by women at home, achieved by swapping the roles of men and women.

This documentary focuses on a little-known episode in the recent history of Uruguay: how hundreds of Uruguayan citizens took refuge in the Mexican embassy at the time of the military dictatorship. Between 1975 and 1976, Mexico was the only country whose embassy gave shelter to people persecuted by the regime, and this sparked off a difficult period in the relations between the two nations. We learn about conditions at the embassy at that time and how the fugitives lived. Sixteen of the men and women involved talk about what that period was like and the events that led up to this confrontation between the two countries. The documentary is also a homage to the Mexican ambassador, don Vicente Muñoz Arroyo.

According to legend, God gave Vincente Ferrer, patron saint of Juchitan, a bagful of queers, and everywhere he travelled, he left behind a homosexual. But when he reached Juchitan, Vincente's bag came undone, spilling all the homosexuals out in the town. This is the story of a town in Mexico that has a very different attitude toward homosexuality than any of the areas surrounding it.

A Pepe Carvalho story.

A sensual portrait of an urban community that explores human desires, ambitions and fragility through the daily activities of a swimming club.

Las Betizú are an unassuming underground band. A series of circumstances leads them to compete in Uztarrock, the biggest festival in the galaxy, organized by Buff Alu, a famous magnate who owns almost all the galactic record labels. Surprisingly, Las Betizú will be selected as the breakthrough band of the year. But one of them accidentally realizes the sham that is Buff Alu's musical empire, and Las Betizú are accused of plagiarism and rejected by their fans. They soon have to come up with a plan to save their musical career...

Take back the airwaves: Mexico’s video art doyenne Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show Tombola, toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the televisual flow itself.

October 2004. Uruguay. After three years away Mariana returns to her country to be reunited with her family and also to vote. After the economic crisis that plunged the country into a terrible depression, Uruguay is on the brink of a real change. We are shown day to day life in Melo, a small provincial city, we are given an intimate insight into a family of militant leftists, and we accompany a Latin American people in the month leading up to a historic political event: the first ever election victory in Uruguay of a party from the political left, the Frente Amplio.

It is a pleasant summer day and the first bathers have come to the beach. The camera takes a fixed shot within what could be a video of manners. People walk calmly, oblivious to the fact that they are sharing the beach with a strange and unexpected visitor.

After nine months and nine days in the depts of the South Pacifc, three Mexican fishermen are found adrift near the Marshall Islands. The journey transforms them into heroes. Joe Kissac, book editor from Atlanta, finds in the shipwreck a message from God he must tell the world. Weeks later he signs with them a 4 million dollars contract to produce a film of their trip. It seems that touching land was just the beginning of the real journey.

A group of unrepresentative young people: cerebral girl, crisis expert, all-hearted girl, terrifying comedian, taciturn with an alien air. They have been going out together for a long time and it seems that nothing happens between them, until one of them announces that she is going abroad and that leads to a total rethinking of their relationship. A story of friendship, and the need to dare.

Recreates in an artistic way the emotions human beings face before death. It is achieved using a selection of artistic work creations; painting, music, and literature that express pain, perplexity, mystery, meaning, and the inevitability of death.

A reflection on the absurd destiny of the war.

The history of Latin jazz in Cuba from the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna to Irakere.

This documentary shows the torments and comrade disappearance ocurrences in the Moroccan Occupied Western Sahara through the eyes of Yahia, a young Sahrawi person living in Barcelona. It tells of the the precarious living conditions in the Algerian refugee camps and the situation of immigrant Sahrawis in Spain, the old colonizing power in Western Sahara. Similar to the majority of young Sahrawis, Yahia has come to the conclusion that after so many years of supporting the pacifist route, war is the only option for the Sahrawi community to regain their territory.

José Alfredo Jiménez is a cab driver. His friend Reinaldo Cruz (a fascinating, most endearing, one-of-a-kind character) is a shoeshiner. Both live on the outskirts of Mexico City and share a dream: participating in the “jaripeos”, this is, in those rodeos where bulls are ridden. The experience they have in these matters is non-existent and, nevertheless, they challenge some scary pros.

This documentary takes us to the three most important festivals of the year in Aceguá, and thus tells the story of the town. It sits on the border between Uruguay and Brazil, but it is on an imaginary line as this is a dry border as there is no river or stream to mark the boundary. We meet the characters, we watch their activities and we are introduced to their customs.

Spain passed a law in 2005 allowing same-sex marriages. This is the story of a gay couple, Julia and Aída, who decide to have a baby. They approach Francesc, a gay friend of theirs, as a sperm donor. The documentary charts the 3-year story from the start to the birth of Kenia, their baby girl. The couple's quest and the reactions of family and colleagues are faithfully and sensitively portrayed in this true-life story.

Documentary that focuses on the last days of the famous Bodega Bohemia, Local decadent varieties Barcelona. The film portrays the sadness of knowing artists performing their latest performances.

Four iconic sequences in the history of Spanish cinema are aesthetically revisited. A strictly geographical search that places the camera in the very same spots where the shots of the original films were taken. No lighting. No audio edition. No actors. Just whatever there is fron of the camera.

Spain, 1970. The groups Tábano and Las Madres del Cordero emerge from semi-clandestine and underground to bring to the stages of Madrid a show that revolutionized the theater scene of the time: Castañuela 70.

The camera witnesses the preparation, the rehearsals of a play. It captures the faces, the space in which they meet, the voices. It is not about the show, but about the whole creative process that precedes it. Bodies that change, that transform, and that are observed through the gaze of the lens.

Francisco Maldonado is sadly involved in a series of dreams that have tormented him, in which generally he, wielding multiple weapons (the machete, the shotgun, his own mother) attacks his father, with whom he has lost intense contact since the death of his mother. This December 31, the old man, Don Juan Cristo, his father, with whom he also adjoins his farm, appears again at his door, so that they finally agree, on this last day of the term after ten years of the death of his mother , the destruction of the fence that divides their lands, so that she stops being a soul in pain, and so that the municipality does not take these lands at its will.

the daily life of a park in Paris. "I come here because I can meet people, even if I don't know French. In my town in Portugal there is a lot of nature, that's why I like coming, I feel a bit like in my town."

A desperate man makes a call to customer service looking for an answer.

In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.

Using observation as a starting point, the filmmaker constructs a dystopian science fiction chronicle in La República. Ironic observations on the trans-Platonic republic.

A cigarette lighter is lost in a restaurant and begins a hand-in-hand trip passing through the lives of different people. During the voyage we meet different couples and their conflicts in love.

A short Costa Rican drama

Jaime is frustrated by the feeling that some time ago he let the woman who would have been the woman of his life slip away. He now lives in Madrid, is married and the father of a daughter. On the occasion of a trip he has to make to his parents' house in Pamplona, he remembers the summer of 1992 when he met Eva. There, in Pamplona, Jaime prefers to spend the San Fermín festivities in the swimming pool, lying in the sun and devoting himself to his favourite hobby: observing the girls and portraying them in his sketchbook. Jaime looks at the smallest details to classify people, especially one: he is fascinated by girls who bend their legs when they talk. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

In this musical documentary we are shown a period in the cultural history of Uruguay after the dictatorship ended, told through the story of Tabaré Rivero and his rock group. There are anecdotes from people who took part in that story and archive material, and we are treated to an intimate and amusing reflection about the role of the artist in contemporary society, especially in Latin America.

A scarecrow, a magpie and treason.

The most anticipated night for all, where a boxing champion fights for his title. A woman tries to commit suicide and a fugitive tries to find a way out. Together by chance and united by their circumstances while the fight is held, they struggle to cling on to life despite having lost everything.

In this story of love, life, and friendship, three Puerto Rican women from very distinct socioeconomic classes are united when they must fight the same battle. Their lives collide at a doctor's office when they are diagnosed with a life threatening illness. Each has her own struggles, but they come together to survive and support one another on a luxurious weekend away in a beautiful beach resort. When they return to reality...how much have they changed?

Jim's past and present are irreconcilable. Jim lives haunted by the emotional aftermath of his past. His wife, Louise knows nothing of his former life, but Jim's past and present meet when Louise is confronted with the reality of Jim's world - his life with Catherine. Jim is taken back to the past, to relive what destroyed his future with Catherine. He has to confront the veracity of the moment - what happens when someone kills, but no one is to blame?

Chronogram is a photomontage that explores stillness, motion, and memory. Using a 35mm still camera, multiple exposures were composed and edited in-camera, creating frameless sequences of images printed on 35mm filmstrips. When projected, these images become a non-linear, non-synchronized collage. The ephemeral quality of the images—their transparency, layering, and repetition—invites us to reflect on the role memory plays in perception, the ways we mentally reconfigure fragments to construct stability and meaning in an environment of perpetual flux.

A retiree who is thrown out of the lodging where he lives with a closet, his only belonging, meets a girl from the street and will keep each other company

A thief sneaks into the house of an aristocrat and her maids, all of them lesbians. When she is discovered, she will be held there to give herself to their sexual desires.

Documentary about the Argentine punk and hardcore scene, from the early 80s to the mid-2000s. It includes interviews with various people in the environment, both musicians, producers and journalists, as well as archive material.

A conspirator? A man with his own ideas, obstinate in making them come true? An arm-wrestler? The greatest mocker of Franco's censorship? Someone determined to change the world by putting a mirror in front of it? A schemer? The most important name in the history of Spanish cinema?.... For some, he is the prototype producer, guilty of the existence of many excellent films, discoverer of directors like Erice, Saura, Chávarri, Gutiérrez Aragón, Armendáriz, Ricardo Franco, Martínez Lázaro, Gracia Querejeta, Fernando León? For others, the cause of some of the most passionate controversies of our cinema. Elías Querejeta, a different look, a different cinema.

A young artist starts a friendship with his neighbour, a criminal who, tormented because of one of his crimes, seeks forgiveness.

Five women talk about their occupations, aspirations, and the rights and status of women in their Muslim countries.