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Carmen Sánchez is a woman of 84 with an extraordinary story to tell. He was a great artist of circus that toured Europe rise on a Trapeze until an accident changed his life. She lives alone and does things that are unbecoming in someone her age; in your everyday world, everything is possible.
A religious leader goes into the forest to free a peasant from a terrible curse that he suffers: transforming into a werewolf. The townspeople accuse the cleric of making a mistake.
Seville, 2002. A group of young people squat in an abandoned warehouse in the Pumarejo neighborhood with the intention of rehabilitating the space and creating a social center. After 5 years of squatting, the CSOA Casas Viejas is a meeting space for the social movements of Seville, financing and supporting different autonomous groups. After resisting a first eviction attempt in March 2006, Casas Viejas is under threat having to face a trial in February 2007. This video aims to summarize what these 5 years of squatting and struggle have been, as well as to spread the resistance campaign against the eviction that is taking place today.
In the future, the governments of the world create an organization to fight crime called "Cop Models". Trained to maintain law and order on the streets and show off their beautiful bodies on the catwalks. In this mission, the city of Starlight City is attacked by a strange squad of mechanical zombies coming from a nearby landfill.
A woman is tied up and blinded in a dingy room. A TV is talking to her. Is she going crazy or is she in terrible danger?
A film about a child with a passion: The little girl loves everything that flies high. She lets herself being pushed on the swing until she is almost out of the frame, and she loves her new balloon. But then she gets caught in the clutches of a bird dealer who locks her up in his flat on the top floor of a high-rise. The only way out is through the window.
This documentary is called “Current”, which is the title of ansong by Jorge Lazaroff, and the film is a homage to that talented Uruguayan musician, who was a mainstay of Uruguayan popular music during the dictatorship and who died before his time. We feel the spirit of “Choncho” Lazaroff” through words and songs by Leo Maslíah, Daniel Viglietti, Carlos Da Silveira, Jorge Bonaldi, Luis Trochón, Jorge di Pólito, Daniel Magnone, Rubén Olivera, Mauricio Ubal, Raúl Castro, Eduardo Lombardo, Pablo Routín, Cecilia Prato, Fernando Cabrera and Eloy Yerle, to name but a few.
A street kid named Lito says he is an angel that has broken his wings when he fell from the wky. Along his way, Lito finds friends and enemies; some protect him and others persecute him. But at night, everyone, young and old, dream of Lito.
A documentary about the martial art, in which you learn about much more ...
Short Costa Rican drama
Live recording of Pedro Aznar singing Brazilian iconic songs. Recorded February 2005.
Said, a Moroccan child, crosses the Strait. On the other side, in the country of opportunities, he discovers that the world is not as beautiful as he had been told.
Very few athletes admit to having taken doping substances, but positives in anti-doping controls are constant. Erythropoietin, Nandrolone, Cortisone..., all of them substances of exclusively medical employ, with an almost magical power when used by elite athletes. The athlete that takes them can beat his own record or improve his performance and reach the podium. Dopes can make athletes win medals, a match, a stage... The athlete ends by being the victim of a system that more and more induces to doping. Technicians, clubs and directors benefit from the victories that doping produces, but when the athlete is 'marked' in a control, he is the only one that faces the consequences, not only sportive but also in his health. Athletes who have given 'positives' in controls do not admit taking dope, nor do they blame anybody in their entourage but they all attribute the 'positive' to a scientific error; such is the case of Alberto García, or the footballer Carlos Gurpegui. Only a cyclist, ...
This is the story of a group of boys who live in very harsh conditions in the sewers near Bucharest's North Station. They are the “aurolacs”, so called because of their addiction to this brand of synthetic paint.
Documentary that follows the personal pursuit of Albert (a journalist born in exile in 1962) to rediscover his roots, within a double exile. His father, the Spanish politician Pauline Julien, who became a key figure during the Spanish Transition, was forced by his political exliliarse Franco in the late 50s. Now, after a life full of fascinating personal and political experiences, Jordi has launched a new internal exile, this time no return: fight against Alzheimer's. His memory is fading day by day. This documentary tries to recover the memories of lives atypical in that mix historical figures such as Santiago Carrillo, Jorge Semprun, Manuel Fraga and Jordi Pujol, with little known episodes of the struggle against Franco and the Cold War. For Albert, many of these experiences are fuzzy memories of a child. Travel from one exile to another trying to restore the memory of his family, his own memory.
Anita's beauty and popularity are unable to hide her from major problems, which lead her to escape from a world of incomprehension into an inner world where her only company are bugs.
This documentary gives us a profile of Carlos Molina, the Uruguayan anarchist who was also an improvisational singer and poet, through words, songs and improvisations by contributors including Daniel Viglietti, Coriún Aharonián and Mauricio Rosencof.
When summer arrives, the school semester ends, and the youngest animals on the farm go to summer camp in the woods, with Mariano the rooster. There they find out all about the mysteries of nature, and share some extraordinary adventures. They discover strange mansions, enchanted forests, and mischievous goblins. It’s a summer camp that the Ugly Duckling will never forget!
Documentary that highlights one of the most important sugar mills in Puerto Rico: the Central Aguirre, located in the town that carries the same name, of the municipality of Salinas. It tells about the culture within the corporate town of Aguirre, stories, anecdotes, and coexistence of the residents within the Central.
a one-woman stage reading of a Joan Brossa play
A definitive review of the long and arduous journey of the works of Spanish Artistic Heritage during the Spanish Civil War. The filmmakers travel the tortuous way back from Madrid to Geneva, passing through Valencia and Figueres, interviewing the protagonists of that unrepeatable feat.
Experts in code writing and breaking tell tales of heroic risks and cat-and-mouse secrecy, where science meets deadly adventure and everyone from queens to soldiers to everyday citizens can pay the price.
A small community of old people are living in a rural town, deep in the countryside in Uruguay, lost in a vast expanse of green grass. They do not have electricity or running water. They watch the time go by slowly and silently, but they do not complain or make excuses as they wait for the new day. That's just what life is like in Quebracho.
After thirty years of being a daughter, wife and mother, Dolors decides to see what happens when she tries thinking of herself for the first time. Dolors has to learn how to follow her own path to its end, and be strong enough not to look back - to home, and a husband she still loves and respects, but who has still to learn to listen to his wife and find out what her needs are.
This documentary consists of interviews with various Cuban functionaries, scientists and artists, plus a few minutes of newsreel footage. The interviews are brisk and to the point and they add up to a coherent whole. There is perhaps not much new material, but the labyrinthine details of the embargo, still in place, deserve exposure. The US though the blockade would turn the people of Cuba against its own government. A bully's reasoning; it was of course wrong. Undeterred, and unable to learn, the US has since insisted again and again, the last two instances Iran and now Russia.
A medium-length movie written and directed by Carlos Atanes in 2003 about Thelema, the abbey founded by Aleister Crowley in Cefalu (Sicily).
Joaquin Sabina's summer 2000 tour. Song List: Medias negras / Rosa de lima / Unacancion para la magdalena / Y sin embargo te quiero / Y sin embargo / Nos sobran los motivos / 19 dias y 500 noches / Conductores suicidas / Ruido / Noches de boda / Y nos dieron las diez
A woman recalls her mother's death while visiting her tomb.
Three women get locked in the bathroom of an airport. This confinement becomes some sort of therapy that reveals the truth of each one of them.
In April 2007, during the celebration of FiSahara, three friends embarked on the adventure of teaching a photography course in the Dajla refugee camp in Algeria.
A child rejected by his own kind, raised by nature... ¿how far will he go to protect it?
A tapestry of seemingly unconnected vignettes beginning with an extraordinary event at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, where the victory of the Peruvian football team was declared void. The film mixes the personal with the political and the historical, going from a portrait of an optimistic taxi driver to that of three waiters of a train to that of an alienated outsider living in the Amazonian forest region.
After three chapters and eleven years, Siminiani sets out the seven rules of efficiency that underpin his series "Key Concepts of the Modern World". Against a black screen, with a few words in white and fleeting images of people and his previous works, it is the voice that shapes the ideas.
A documentary which explains, through the experience of hosting a Sahrawi child for the summer, visiting the camps and speaking with teachers, politicians and doctors… the story of the Sahrawi people and the reasons behind the conflict. People from diverse geographical locations in Spain give us their opinion about the conflict.
Based on 'Frank Kafka"s Metamorphose story, the documentary presents 2 metamorphosis of the present society: anorexia, as an disruption of our self-perception; depression, as an isolating illness ; and physically handicapped conditions, as mobility problems.
