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A comedy like no other, in which three political parties compete in a very peculiar way to win the presidency of the city of Real del Monte. The incredible candidates are Aniceto Thomas, who represents the indigenous people and wants everyone's votes, including animals and gods; Transito Gallon, representative of the Green Party, whose slogan is "if you don't cheat, you don't get ahead"; and Angelito Castulito, representing the Parish Party, who represents salvation, aided by all the saints, of course. The situation is even, and the only one who can help decide the votes is La Beba Corpiño, owner of a cabaret with some very sensual students. Which party will manage to recruit her? Laugh out loud from beginning to end.

A 40-year-old woman feels that people do not value her as a person, so she decides to woo a colleague with the help of an actress and a table-tennis coach.

Leonora is a woman obsessed by the death of her daughter. Since then, her life has been assaulted by a repetitive dream that will make her initiate a strange journey, in which oniric spaces start melting with reality.

This documentary traces the history of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals from prehistory to current time. The most prominent Spanish LGTB activists give their collective and personal testimonies, among them: Armand de Fluvia, Jordi Petit, Beatriz Gimeno, Carla Antonelli, Boti Garcia, Mili Fernandez, Arnaldo Gancedo, Tony Poveda, Ruben Sancho, and Antonio Girao. They give voice to those who have suffered from persecution, repression and even death.

In this clay animation tour de force, Pablo Picasso has a series of unnerving encounters with characters from his art.

Experimental work of animation constructed with photographs shot with a broken digital camera. It's a simile between a broken machine and the death of the human body. All the photographs were taken from the point of view of a sick person laying in bed, and the sound was recorded from the same point of view. The photographs and the sound were not manipulated in any way.

This film is a combination of genres (docu-fiction, comedy-musical, mockumentary and drama-ponele) endowed with grace. It is a culebronizado backstage of the rehearsals of the musical Ella, homage to Rafaella Carrá, where Christopher Guest entrenches a group of dancers and choreographers, following them closely in their problems of love and of makeup. It shows situations of contagious pop vitality, and music and dance set the stage for a shocking ending, which kindly suggests rethinking various representation problems: Schipani and Montiel seem to have known in advance that it is dangerous to always tell the truth

Live concert by Los 7 Delfines, recorded at the Broadway Theater in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2005.

We meet a group of rural worker and their families in the north of Uruguay, people who are struggling to continue their lives working on the land. Mandiyú is a group of small milk producers who are landless. In 2007 they finally ran out of patience waiting for an official ruling about a plot of land, and as there was no response from the Institute of Colonisation they occupied an unproductive space belonging to the Uruguayan state. This documentary tells the story of these workers and their families.

La Restinga is located in the principal Peruvian Amazonic city, Iquitos. It is an association that works supporting endangered children and teenagers, such as street working children. Their saint is the Shoebox's Jesus Child, represented as a shoebox kid. One important work of La Restinga is to organize the children in order them to produce videos and reports. Amazonico follows the kids and films the characters they present: a disabled man who dances for a living, a gay soccer team, the well-known orchestra The Explosion Group, Huerequeque -who was an actor in the Werner Herzog`s film Fitzcarraldo-, a story-teller known as the Llullampero, and amazonic painters.

A shootout in the center of Stockholm, which is the cause of a tragic and casual reunion after a long time, between Manuel - a gang leader - Lena, who it was his great love, aspiring to police officer, and Kalle, who was his great friend and now he is a janitor of a discoteque; in a night they will never forget and that would change their lives forever

In late 80s Peru, a precocious, rebellious schoolgirl finds that the personal truly is political.

Miguel, an university teacher keeps an affair with one of his students and things go smoothly until his daughter finds out about it.

The installation of an oratory in the ground floors of a block of flats led to the protesting of the neighbors who complaint about the place not having the conditions to accommodate a place of worship. The Muslim community had been given a provisional license by the Town Council so that they could celebrate Ramadan and then move somewhere else. But the neighbors complaint because they had been deceived by the Town Council: they had been protesting for months against the opening of this oratory. Once the conflict ended with the relocation of the oratory in a waste ground outside Santa Coloma, "No mosque!" tries to be a documentary about dialogue and reflection, about the facts, reasons and consequences of a case which is neither the first nor the last of this nature and which is more and more common in the European society, recipient of a great number of immigrants.

12 teenagers go to a remote house to party for the weekend, but they are also joined by a hooded figure who kills them off one by one.

Documentary about the repression and persecution suffered by gays and lesbians during Franco's Spain and in the first years of the Transition. Through its own testimonies, the documentary relives the suffering they had to endure and reveals a hidden chapter in the recent history of Spain.

Retrospective piece that features the director reflecting on several aspects of the film a quarter-century after the fact, including the performances of the actors, the development of the sound effects and music, the special effects.

Hermes connects with a non-human woman through a magical ritual. She shows him an unsuspected reality.

The flow of electricity, source of industry and life governed by switches and circuit breakers, affords convenience for millions around the world. ‘Read instructions for use´.

In 2008, Luis Raúl kicked off a farewell tour called "Chiquito pero juguetón" ("Little But Playful") with the intention of retiring afterward. The tour was highly successful in Puerto Rico and one of the venues where the show was taped was released as a film in theatres in the island titled "Chiquito pero juguetón: The Muvi".

No plug is a live album of the Spanish rock band M Clan result of recording an acoustic concert at the end of 2000.

A ship supposedly loaded with toys from the East, sails to the south coast of Argentina while hiding, inside its false bottom, a deathly load of radioactive residue

In the spring of 1950, some of Hollywood's brightest stars, such as Ava Gardner or James Mason, arrived in Girona and Tossa de Mar to film Albert Lewin's Pandora and the Wandering Dutchman. This event had a strong public impact. The premiere of the film around the world, the following year, made known the beauty of the Costa Brava. Documentary made by video play services, on the occasion of the commemorative exhibition organized by the Girona cinema museum

Ali Salem Hamudi Mohamed - Yahdih, was born in 1955 in El Aaiún (Western Sahara). He completed his secondary schooling in the "Spanish" Sahara. A scholarship allowed him to enrol at the Universidad de la Peninsula in 1975, but Morocco's invasion of the Sahara led him to return to the city of his birth and go into exile with his people, participating in the resistance and helping to organise the Tindouf Refugee Camps (Algeria). In 1980, the Polisario Front and the Government of Cuba offered him the opportunity to study Architecture at the University of Havana. On his return to the Camps in 1985 he worked for the SADR's Department of Construction. He designed more than twenty public buildings, including town halls, schools and nursery schools, and also collaborated with international aid organisations to build hospitals and training colleges. All of these buildings were built collectively by the Saharan people. ;In 1999 he emigrated to Spain. His family joined him five years later.

Sarcastic inversion of the ‘beautiful couple in love’ archetype. The ’40. Two people isolated from the rest for their physical appearance, meet in a cinema. A dark solidarity born between them leads to a relationship based on the denial of their ugliness.

In 1973 Roberto Saldivar was arrested and imprisoned in an old Salpetermine in northern Chile. The mine was used as concentrationcamp for political prisoners. 20 years later he returned to confront his memories. He has lived there since. Alone.

A medium-length movie written and directed by Carlos Atanes in 2003 about Thelema, the abbey founded by Aleister Crowley in Cefalu (Sicily).

The after a crash. A woman despairs. Incessant rain dominates the space. Victim and victimizer unite in the same body. A crime, a secret is revealed. Suddenly, a witness, someone who seems to have seen everything.

Filmmaker Carlos Carcas's documentary chronicles the extraordinary career of renowned Cuban musician Bebo Valdés, who remained a relative unknown on the international scene until winning two Grammys at the age of 81. Valdés's story is told through performance clips, footage and photos of his life in Cuba, and interviews with family, friends and colleagues. One of Havana's top musicians in the 1940s and '50s, Valdés left Cuba after the revolution.

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War-- "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

"Hija de Perra" (Daughter of Bitch) , a woman who together with his servant and slave "Perdida" (Lost) are engaged in selling in a free fair pies of pine made of human flesh. The obsession of Hija de Perra to revive Caballo, her dead husband, leads her to come into contact with supernatural beings capable of returning life to her beloved, in exchange for a great offering.

In 2002, Carmen Castillo returned to Chile and did a memory exercise centred on the life of her father Fernando Castillo Velasco, former rector of Universidad Católica de Chile and Premio Nacional de Arquitectura (1983). This film tells the story of this return centred on the desire to get closer to the mystery of the life and work of an enlightened man. It is the time for a memory, not an expeditious biography. Fernando recounts excerpts from his life, his work as an architect, university rector and mayor of La Reina. From the "Fifth", the place of childhood, he remembers with sincerity and simplicity. Like a watchman, like a lighthouse, he illuminates our present, like a compass shows us the way to build a world where affection and social justice prevail.

Using found footage, still photographs, animations, and occasional original footage, “The Mist in the Palm Trees” purports to tell the story of Santiago Bergson, writer, physicist, and sometime pornographer who sold arms to the Resistance in France, flirted with the Nazis, collaborated on Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast and helped build the A-Bomb.

This documentary, which is the first part of a long-term project, tells the story of Julia, a trans-sexual who even manages to get her identity document changed, and of her partner Ignacio. The couple let the camera into their world, and with complete candour and frankness they give us a kind of intimate diary on film.

The young wife of a millionaire hears some terrible news on the television. There has been a train accident near her house. It’s such a serious accident that it will be impossible to identify some of the victims. This is a terrible catastrophe for the city but it will mean something completely different for her.