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Could my father be Japanese? Short film from Spain about a man's journey to Japan to find his lost father.

"The Other Mexico" focuses on that nation's poor and indigenous citizens who have no voice in the political system. Many of them have gravitated to the growing Zapatista movement led by its leader, Subcomandante Marcos. Some feel Marcos is a true folk hero while others view him as an opportunist seeking personal fame. Leading journalists and scholars debate the pros and cons of the movement as it tries to organize the country's disaffected before the 2006 presidential election.

At the entrance of a jazz club, one rainy night, a teenage drug dealer awaits the arrival of his best client: the club's singer. But what he believes to be a routine deal turns into a final farewell. She tells him that she is leaving the next day. Despite the ban on him not to enter the club, he decides to take a risk and go in to listen to it for the last time.

The life of Raúl Sendic, the legendary Uruguayan guerrilla and union leader, is brought alive in the words of his comrades in the struggle, his friends and members of his family. In this documentary we learn about the rice plantations, the cane fields, his life in hiding, and the hard years he spent in prison.

"El Derecho de Jesús" is a character driven drama in which Jesús, a Mexican-American college student tries to overcome contemporary family issues and unstable love relationships. His past and present eventually collide forcing him to take a stand.

Félix Costa, an anarchist militant who has lived in exile since the end of the Civil War, discovers that the Administration has left him for dead and decides to return to Spain. As he tours the place where they say he was shot dead, he reflects on the validity of his struggle and the fact that he has fallen into oblivion.

Imagine finding yourself in a seemingly empty bar. Imagine finding a bartender who knows something you don't. Imagine finding out something that blows your mind, and there's no turning back. Have you made the right choice?

City of Seville. Due to the decision to resume work on the Metro, which was abandoned in the late 1970s, after more than 20 years with the tunnels closed, a race of beings hungry for fresh meat has emerged, clumsy in their movements but lethal at close range, whose bites turn you into one of them in a matter of minutes. To put an end to this plague, a special elite corps has been created to exterminate these beings: the Deadhunters. They will go wherever they are needed, sometimes with dire consequences, until they discover the nest from which the infection is spreading.

Shostakovich may have secreted a subversive cipher beneath the surface of his life-saving Symphony No. 5. This is all the more shocking since another bad review from Stalin’s totalitarian forces could have meant a sentence to the Gulag or worse.... When he penned this fifth symphony, the composer was literally writing for his life. The risk was so high that Shostakovich slept on the stairs outside his apartment so the secret police would not wake his family when they came from him, as he was sure they would. This Keeping Score episode, investigates the arresting symphony that would either redeem Shostakovich or doom him. Did he dare hide a kernel of musical criticism in what appears to be a paean to the Motherland? Join Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony as they explore the hidden language of this masterwork. Episode includes full-length concert performance of Dimitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor by the San Francisco Symphony.

Documentary about the figure of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta on the occasion of the centenary of his death.

At the beginning of World War II, a mineral became necessary for the German state: wolfram. Galicia became “El Dorado” for many people who were looking for easy money and/or work in those hard years of the Spanish postwar. Miners, adventurers, guerrillas, civil guards, political prisoners, etc., lived together in the Galician mountains and intertwined their lives. This is the story of those people told by themselves.

In 1942, nazi leaders met in Wansee to organize the final solution to the Jewish problem. The Warsaw guetto was first. Treblinka was created in a rural village near the Polish capital. 900.000 Jews and 500 Gypsies were murdered in 13 months. On August, 1943, the prisoners revolted and destroyed the camp. Only a few survived. Less than 10 worldwide remain today. Despite Treblinka tells the story of Mr. Rajchman, Mr. Wilenberg and Mr. Teigman. The movie follows the protagonists' paths in fairly chronological manner, from pre-war years, through Treblinka and the uprising, to the recent past and present, where a series of vignettes, often hilarious, show the possibility of living “despite” the horror.

Six college students investigate the death of a journalist in a village in Honduras.

On a specific class a teacher comes and tells the students 2 + 2 = 5.

The Banfield Killer returns to face enemies even more sinister than himself: an art dealer, a corrupt policeman, an overly curious journalist, a vengeful man and a professor from Europe stand in the way of Tepes, who seeks to reunite with his mysteriously disappeared daughter.

A con man turns around the lives of a mother and her three children when a fake miracle becomes real.

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, the film director considers the issue of political commitment and the heritage left to the next generation in the form of a letter from a father to his children.

Historical documentary about the peaceful resistance movement against the bombing practices of the US Navy in Vieques, including the arrests of more than 200 civil disobedients.

Angel Nieto won 13 world titles as a motorcycle racer between 1969 and 1984, but always referred to them as 12+1 due to his widely publicized superstitious nature. The documentary covers his entire career and a wide array of competitors, cyclists inspired by him and reporters who covered his career contribute their opinions and impressions regarding his fight to achieve and sustain his goal of world champion.

Alaska and Nacho Canut are the fearless protagonists of the elapsing of non-existent time, while a dream within everyday reach, a reality where good friends also go, lies on another level of life.

"Palacio" is an unexpected visit to an old hotel filled with mysterious and unsettling architectural symbols. Delving among them, the most delirious symbols turned out to be some of its 1,500 neighbors. Luis and Raúl Alaejos, uncle and nephew, arrived in Montevideo drawn by who-knows-what, and somehow ended up in one of the most extravagant buildings in the world: the Palacio Salvo.

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

Two of my favorite films, A Movie by Bruce Conner and Fireworks by Kenneth Anger, include Respighi's “Pini di Roma” in their soundtrack, contrasting the epic of the music with the hilarious images. In the tradition of my favorite filmmakers, this is a film in the glory of the super-8 splendor, with some of the tricks and effects preferred by amateur filmmakers when playing with the camera.

In a land far away and full of ancient marvels, the battles of the young prince Ali, fighting for the succession of his land and the freedom of his people, take place at the hands of a terrible tyrant.

The Marañón River is born in the highlands of Peru and it flows across large areas of the Peruvian territory and through the life of a peasant family that dwells upriver, over four thousand meters high. It runs into the warm lands of the Inter-Andean valley, where a 13-year-old girl exposes herself to risk by selling fruit to truck drivers, and through the Amazon rainforest, where indigenous Awajun children make competitions to prove their knowledge. It eventually arrives at the mouth, the workplace of a river merchant. The core theme of the four stories brought together in the documentary is the challenge of surviving amidst isolation in remote regions bathed by the waters of the Marañón River.

César Menéndez confesses that he has lived and, at the same time, is a man condemned to paint. Through a brief tour we enter the interior of his work and his world, loaded with a great religious and sacrilegious metaphor, in the tradition of Luis Buñuel or Federico Fellini.

Harraga is an illegal immigrant who do it by land, by air or by sea. With no visa, nor passport. Out of the law (...) Yes, that's the key, outlaw ... but what happens when those harraga are kids?

Sahrawi children move to Basque country in summer thanks to the solidarity project Vacations in Peace. In the first part of the documentary, we see how they live, what they discover, what they learn and how these children enjoy themselves during their stay. The second part of the documentary takes place in the refugee camps in the desert which have held refugees for more than 30 years. We see their day-to-day life and, in passing, the reasons for the conflict and the Sahrawi struggle.

In Maria Llopis’ The Striptease of My Grandmother a series of stills of the filmmaker’s grandmother are combined with a first-person monologue by Llopis herself. The piece is a reflection on bodies, sexuality and age – putting at its centre the relationship between the two women and stressing the need for touch, care and affection.

A man interviews for a job as an artist's model, and then as a part of the interview has to meet the artist.

Insomnia: Four people cannot sleep. Two men and two women, four combinations. The same story is repeated over and over again, with different protagonists. Equivalent and interchangeable stories in a night that becomes endless.