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A man types on a typewriter while a ferocious wolf howls in the background. It is nighttime in the city of Ayacucho. There is a full moon and the howling continues. A woman cooks something on a fireplace and tells stories to other women. Meanwhile, at the local bar, someone finishes the last 300 drinks and heads home. The Pisthacu awaits him to extract the fat...

One is a former police officer, bodyguard and hairdresser. Currently retired, he takes care of his extravagant and almost hundred-year-old illiterate mother. He writes poems and hopes to see them published one day. The other, a declared womanizer, workaholic, and leftist, was imprisoned during the dictatorship, runs a small grocery shop, and controls the life of his young second wife. Both were born in the Uruguayan hinterland during the Second World War, and share the same name as well as the fact that neither has wished to change it. The film is a tragicomic portrait of a country whose cultural diversity, its peculiar history and the character of its inhabitants allow the existence of exceptional and remarkable persons that depict a live picture of Uruguay, with its plurality and contradictions, its small and large history, without departing a single moment from irony or reflection.

A documentary about the life of anarchist Felipe Sandoval.

One day in the life of a young software code writer, who in a distant future wakes up and can not remember anything.

After defeating the evil Bull and freeing Xanua, the Betizus head home in their spaceship. However, not everyone has boarded... After stealing the plans from Marroiri, Arratik has decided to stay in the desert, hoping to reclaim the lost treasure of the Xangadu cows. After some discussion, the Betizus decide to return to the planet Xangadu to follow Arrati's trail. Our protagonists do not yet know that they will encounter the mystery of the golden rind. Betizu and the golden rind is the sequel to the hugely successful Betizu and the Mystery of Xangadu.

A corrupt president dies and arrives at the gates of heaven, where he is given one last chance to make amends for his mistakes. Back to life, but in the body of a poor woman Julia, he must live with a lecherous husband, a meddlesome mother-in-law, and the temptation of an attractive daughter. With the complications of an austere life, to which he is unaccustomed, he will experience very funny situations in which he will have to survive until he manages to do a good deed. Worst of all, he only has a week to achieve it.

Without resorting to dialogue nor introspection, the film portrays the emotional destruction of a man as a result of alcoholism.

After serving 18 months on a murder conviction, Carmen is free; the Spanish court has reluctantly released her on probation after an appeal. Returning home to await a new trial, she finds reporters camped outside her gate, eager to feast on the private life of a closeted lesbian. Carmen’s claims of innocence are ignored. The press wants her blood, and the public wants her back in prison. Her son, husband and friends abandon her. Her beautiful attorney claims to be loyal, but merely tells her to smile and to go see a shrink. There is no one Carmen can trust.

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.

In the thirties, the modern industrial technologies applied to wars create a new situation: the mass destruction and indiscriminate instant, affecting both civilians and combatants. Barcelona was the first city bombed from the air, after the tragic bombing of Gernika. Between 16 and 18 March 1938, Barcelona was bombarded continuously day and night for three days, thousands of people lost their homes and in 1300 died (including 118 children). Events beyond the specific case of Barcelona, were decisive in establishing the foundations of the fateful World War II and the bombing of Dresden, Cologne, London, Hiroshima, Nagasaki ...

a one-woman stage reading of a Joan Brossa play

Plan Rosebud 1 is focused on the recent social debate around "The Historical Memory Act" in Spain, and the current relations between the sites of memory and the politics of memory that are produced through cultural industries. They are studied in details, in our case, through war tourism and commemorative tourism.In Plan Rosebud 1 we visit Museums and Commemorative Historical War Sites and these materials form the main part of Plan Rosebud 1. This study, is not only limited to the Spain, and especially to the Spanish province of Galicia, but it is presented as a comparative study with war and commemorative tourism site in Great Britain and Normandy as the European memory policy site of the WWII.

Vanitas is built from a game and a minimal narrative. In this case, a girl blows soap bubbles and the camera tries to fix them in the center of the shot. This small performance based on repetition and camera montage ends up being a succession of small films, or small notes or sketches, contained within a larger piece.

People associated with the art world give their personal interpretation of verses taken out of context of the respective poem. We see images, hear sounds, they interpret… What is ‘the city and the world’? What is ‘the room’? What does ‘the jails of time contract’ mean? This piece reveals the feelings prompted by reflection on the simple wording of a poem, which is ultimately reconstructed to propose a discussion around time and where we wasted it.

The Blue Hand describes the creative process of an artist who lives in Lisbon when he is creating a series of big pictures, The Silent Music of the Flamenco Singer, inspired in types of flamenco songs which partially show faces. The objective is to try to capture his feelings, thoughts, doubts and impulses from the first line on the white canvas until he signs his work.

Two young men from Lima’s upper class take a break on a Sunday.

Explores the roots of one of Cuba's most popular dance and musical forms: rumba. This enthralling exploration features fascinating interviews, energetic Afro-Cuban jams and more than a few entertaining insights. Spotlighted artists include Chico O'Farrill, Jose Fajardo, Juan Pablo Torres, Alfredo Valdes Jr., Candido Camero, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Armando Lopez, Art Farmer and many more.

Urban Latin sensation Voltio -- a one-time gang member -- reconciles with his criminal past in this electrifying concert for prisoners in the notorious Caribbean prison Oso Blanco. Tracks include "Voy Pa'Dentro," "El Concierto," "Guerras Callejeras," "Baby Phillie 352," "Padre Nuestro," "Cementerio Para Los Vivos," "Locked Up," "En Mi Puertorro" and "Claro De Luna." Bonus features include rehearsal footage and scenes with the prisoners.

Tuizza is the story of the Sahrawi women, who through their effort, have made one of the most inhospitable places in the planet, habitable.

Documentary based on the films produced in Puerto Rico in the 1950s by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo). Of the more than 112 films produced by DivEdCo, five films were selected for this project to reflect in an innovative way on the changes and transformations during the last 50 years in Puerto Rico.

The origins of the universe. The mass of cells that is the earth and that is humankind. A confusing organic mass between triviality and barbarity. Pó de estrelas bombards us with images (experimenting with the formal meaning of montage) in a critique of the society of the spectacle

At the end of the seventies, in the throes of the Franco dictatorship, Paco Fernández, the teacher of Orellana la Vieja, created Escuela Viva. A renewing pedagogical experience, an assembly school model within a public school. Julián Pavón, a young university student, shot a 16mm short film with an old wind-up camera in 1976. about the experience and projects it in the different cultural athenaeums of Madrid. 25 years later, Julián Pavón himself searches through former students, former teachers and theorists, the echoes of that movement and its reflection in another current experience .

Another film about a squat, this documentary tells the story of Laboratorio 3, a squatted former print works in the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid that was converted into a flourishing self-managed political, social, cultural, artistic centre. Needless to say, the local authorities were not happy...

In the rush and noise of life, balancing independence and loneliness is difficult ... for everyone.

The sad story of a little girl from the coast who has to survive with her grandmother despite the murder of her grandfather, and who also runs the risk of being killed, all because her violent stepmother does not want a hidden truth to come out.

A quick trip outside and inside in which our protagonist explains the 24 hours of a day that must assimilate its present and its future.

A biography of Puerto Rican baseball star Orlando Cepeda, who started his career in the 60's and had to contend with racism inside and outside the ballpark. In San Francisco, he quickly became a fan favorite, which led to animosity with legend and fellow team member Willie Mays. He garnered many awards including Rookie of the Year, MVP, and won the World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals. After his retirement, he was arrested for drug smuggling and sentenced to a year in jail. He then turned his life around and became a Buddhist. In 1999, he was bestowed the greatest achievement any baseball player can receive -- induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In a massive shopping mall, four-year-old Diana finds herself in front of an escalator for the first time in her life. Getting on it will become an odyssey.