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Shopping carts take control of a parking lot and prevent a man from leaving it.

Alex is a shy dreamer looking for love. When David arrives at the cinema where Alex works, he gets so dazzled by David that will go on an afternoon around the city, following him.

A sophisticated and hypnotic fiction with inlays of reality, a kind of literary Friends—the television series—or a costume party at Entropía, where the characters move through the Buenos Aires literary scene while playing at being others, trying on new connections. It is an experiment on discourse, roles, and settings, in which each sequence turns out to be more charming than the last. At times Resfriada seems like an expansion of the publishing house’s discourse, and at others an unexpected recess.

Mexican heist film.

The border city of Tijuana, Mexico, is experiencing a crisis of unprecedented violence and lack of governability, this situation affects the daily lives of its inhabitants. Every week, a group of people get together at what they call Tijuaneados Anonymous, to share experiences and find a way to stop the social problem that affects them, making them “tijuaneados.” With painful or amusing stories, absurd human tragedies and heroic deeds, the characters in this documentary present a reflection on the city, imagining how they want Tijuana to be, and how they want to be as individuals.

Awserd refugee camp, Tindouf. Fatma has not seen her brother for 30 years, since they parted after the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara. Now he is coming on a United Nations flight to stay for a few days. While Fatma and her family prepare for the visit, they describe their life in the worst corner of the Algerian desert. Meanwhile, human rights activists in the Sahara itself are persecuted by the Moroccan authorities. Leading figures and specialists in the subject set out their theories for securing a fair solution to this conflict, which has already continued for too long.

'Parking' isn't just a film; it's an experiment that proves cinema is still magical. Filmmaker Roger Gual brought together sixteen people with no filmmaking experience with the challenge of creating a film in one month. No script, no locations, no open casting, and no money. With these elements, David Lillo wrote in one week the story of Pedro, a company manager who decides to leave his top-floor office to work as a parking attendant in the basement. The second week was dedicated to pre-production, location scouting, and rehearsals. The filming ultimately took place in seven days and one night. The result is 'Parking': magic and cinema.

Luis Raúl celebrates 20 years of his stand-up career at Centro de Bellas Arte Luis A. Ferré (Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fourteen were sentenced to death and shot at the castle on September 8. Designed to honor their memory, the documentary denounces the manipulation of information surrounding the recent history of this country and reflects on historical memory and social amnesia.

1873, Quito, Ecuador. One of the most recognized psychiatrists of the city, Mr. Romero, is experimenting new hypnosis techniques as a healing tool with his patients, finding out that hypnosis has never been tested in a dying human being. Romero wonders if this technique could stop or delay death in dying patients. Valdemar, a Brazilian diplomatic who suffers tuberculosis, is willing to collaborate with Romero and agrees to be hypnotized the night he is supposed to die. The experiment will have dramatic consequences, Romero will be accused of Satanism and sentenced to death by the Ecuadorian president. His only chance of survival, is to persuade the presidents' secretary that he is innocent. He has only one chance to tell the truth.

An exploration of the passionate dramas experienced by people who spend too much time lying at the beach.

It's a love story in Havana at the begining of the 19th century, between a young women from Haití and a German man. Both of them create the most important cofee plantation in Cuba with a very special philosophy of the slave work and comunity.

This documentary gives a platform to Sahrawi refugee voices who tell us how they experience this situation, the opinion they deserve from international position, and especially, that of the Spanish government, which they believe is the solution, and what their dreams and hopes for the future are. In recent years, a disturbing stance is becoming generalized especially among young people, "To regain our land we must return to war".

“Kulechov’s things” is an experimental short film inspired by L.V. Kulechov, in which we try to put the elasticity of MONTAGE to the test in order to reflect on the fragility and veracity of what we see and hear.Film editing serves as a metaphor for the most unjustified and cruel type of montage: WAR. Travelling through the landscape, customs and current situation in Galicia, we present a fictitious armed conflict in which an invading army attacks the Galician coastline. Thus we have created a “mock documentary” in which thewartime fleet is played by the mussel beds cultivated on rafts in the inlets, the attack on the beaches is represented by the shellfish collectors as they work along the shore, the bombs are the firecrackers and rockets launched duringfestivals, etc..

To the Evuzok, a tribe in the South of Cameroon, there are two kinds of diseases that are cured different ways: the “natural” ones and the ones from the night world, caused by sorcery. Dance to the Spirits is the story of Mba Owona Pierre, the village chief and ngengan (healer). He deals with the sicknesses that come from the night world where spirits live and attack his people. Pierre has a special gift and a responsibility towards his fellow villagers. The dance to the spirits is his main healing ritual.

Martín, an attractive young man in love with his girlfriend Paula, wakes up worried. Without knowing why, he feels severe pain in his anus. He goes to the bathtub to try to relax, but begins to bleed. The bathroom door is unlocked and his roommates are about to arrive. What to do when you don't know who you are, and life is full of locks (and closets).

An experiment with live choreography generated in real time to ironically and critically reinterpret the traditional touristic image of Galicia, this video includes images in cities such as Lisbon, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela and can be prepared to integrate those from any other, adapting choreographies to live music. It covers all of Galicia’s typical locations that serve as backdrops for the choreographies.

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.

After 22 years an old photographer finds lost negatives of El Popular, the newspaper he worked for when it was closed down by the dictatorship in 1973. A teenager is looking for the way to deliver to it's owner the treasure he had found playing in the garage as a child, inside a hole in the wall. A building reveals a secret that has been hidden inside it: fifty thousand ever enduring negatives with the untold story of a country.

She wakes up slowly, confused between the caress of her husband and the sound of the radio. A moment later she gets up, tidies up the house, takes a bath, has breakfast, and leaves for work. In the afternoon she returns, prepares dinner and wakes up her husband. He helps her with some chores, takes a bath, eats and goes out to work. The story is too common. Like them, thousands of couples cross and estrange away, day after day.

It is an independent film focused on the controversial figure of the Argentine guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara, with images and unpublished testimonies. Unlike other jobs, "Guevara, Anatomy of a Myth" features testimonials from Che companions in Cuba, Congo and Bolivia, with a special emphasis on the violent and authoritarian character of the guerrilla.

Elena is driven by her great curiosity to venture into forbidden games, entering a dark world with no return that will unleash evil spirits, for which she will pay a high price.

A man awaits to be free.

Mr. Edgar putters happily around his cuckoo clock waiting for the return of his adopted birds in the spring. Catastrophe threatens when one of the clock’s gears falls off! A brave firefly comes to the rescue, proving that friendship can light up your life.

Documentary about the professional career of Miquel Porter i Moix

DVD made with the collaboration of the Spanish Television Archives (RTVE).

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.

Gipsy Kings: Live at Kenwood House in London

September 1936. The last republican towns located next to Portugal are conquered by General Franco's troops. As in Badajoz and other towns, the repression they unleash is brutal. The support of the Portuguese dictator Salazar for the coup plotters does not make it advisable to flee to Portugal, but for many it is the only way out. In this way, hundreds of people decide to cross the border, closely pursued by the rebels. The usual procedure of the Portuguese authorities is to hand them over to their Francoist allies. However, thanks to the humanitarian intervention of the Portuguese lieutenant António Augusto de Seixas, two refugee camps were created next to the town of Barrancos to house and protect this group of Spaniards.