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

A gay couple comes up with a plan to gain a spot in the family photographs.

Ana and Jose go to the gym everyday. It's just one more day...but lately the exercises have been a little bit unusual.

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 story about freedom - both personal and political - set in Colombia in 1948. When a political assassination causes the streets to erupt into a violent civil war, a man finds himself trapped in the home of a female neighbor. As their evening together progresses, the two open up emotionally and exchange intimacies - and finally discuss that most dangerous subject of all: politics. By the dawn, neither one's life will ever be the same again.

Separated by the armed conflict and threatened by powerful interests over the Tapón del Darién (The Darien Plug) on the border between Colombia and Panama, the Tule Kuna try to stay together and defend their culture armed solely with their ancestral chants. The documentary accompanies the return of the Kuna people from Panama to their ancestral lands in Colombia three years after the massacre of six of the tribe’s ancestral authorities perpetrated by Colombian paramilitaries in a 2003 foray into Panamanian territory.

On any given day, two children will play in the park next to their house. In their play, the imagination and innocence of the two children will change the meaning of family love.

First sand animation by Cesarlinga

The film explores the notion of home within the context of the urban expansion of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country. It follows young adults who prepare for a new stage in their lives: How to plan the furnishing of a recently purchased apartment yet to be finished? How to cater for the birth of the first child? These personal experiences are juxtaposed with documentation of a lottery organized by the authorities to allocate subsidized apartments and of activists claiming the refurbishment of empty buildings in the center of the city.

The disintegration of the Balkans began and ended in Kosovo. The Kosovo War (1999) left the region, which is now under the protection of the United Nation, with lasting scars. The Kosovar Albanians wish to form an independent nation with or without Serbia's consent. Serbia is not willing to shift its borders and lose what it considers to be the "cradle" of the Serbian nation. NOESTAMODEPASO PRODUCTIONS exams the present and the future of this Balkan region that has the highest rates of unemployment and illiteracy in all of Europe. Furthermore, over half of the population is under 20 years of age. Gaps and inconsistencies in the law have turned Kosovo into a chaotic mess with few guaranteed fundamental rights. There is no freedom of movement, houses remain occupied and children are assigned to schools based on their ethnicity. Everybody wants to look towards the future; however, the pain of the past is still very present, making Kosovo the last scar of the Balkans.

Digital video by Eva Lootz.

"I would say that the most obvious thread running through my work is to do with loss, disappearance, traces, scattering, spillage, the presence of what's denied, the perforated being and impossible congruence, the gap between language and what's visible."

A documentary about Meera - a young girl living in a Kolkata slum.

Documentary about the bombing of Gernika carried out by Nazi aviation in support of Franco's troops. Contains testimonies from survivors and unpublished color images.

A housewife feels like a prisoner in her own home. She would like to escape but she can't make it on her own.

The Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Valladolid develops the project "All the names", which has as one of its main objectives the location and recovery of the bodies of all those Valladolid citizens murdered by Franco's repression.

A documentary about the recovery of the historical memory of the Malaga town of Archidona, a journey through the history of Archidona from the Second Republic to the last years of the post-war period. A work that speaks, above all, about people, experiences, emotions and feelings.

The military uprising of 1936 tried to eradicate all traces of the social transformation that had brought the Republic. There were villages like Guímara, in the Valley of Fornela (León), whose almost unanimous support to the Republic supposed a hard and systematic repression. This isolated village, of about 85 neighbors, suffered one of the most painful forms of punishment: deportation of adults to concentration camps, separating them from their minor children. In this documentary it is told the chronicle of this terrible repression that sought to subdue and subjugate the population through fear, trying to destroy family ties, solidarity networks between the people and personal and collective subsistence economy. The memory of lullabies from their mothers was the echo that reached their children from the forced exile who lived their elders.

Luisa is a disillusioned mother and housewife facing a dilemma: clean the house before the inminent visit of her mother-in-law or see the marathon of her favorite soap opera. Her decision will have terrible consequences.

A man finds a mysterious coin in his trousers.

The life of each individual is nothing more than a database meticulously recorded by the various mechanisms of social control. From birth to death, records, documents and references multiply. Through 10 stories, OP-1207-X offers a vision of a world under total surveillance and the implications of this control on the lives of citizens.

The history of the Asturian mining county from the mouths of its protagonists. Memories of survival are after the victory of the national side in the Civil War, the families decimated with the dead in common graves. The "fugaos" and the guerrilla struggle that they maintained under the slogan of the PC. The “normalized” return to the mines with surveillance by the Civil Guard, the first strikes, timid and disorganized, spontaneous; the organization then, unionized and clandestine; the “resistance boxes”, the constant pulse against Francoism…

Films projected at the universal exhibition in the city of Aixhi (Japan) in 2005

The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces.

Nicaraguan women tell us about their efforts to change the society in which they live, and about their collective struggle to achieve what has been denied to them. These women speak up and share with us their journey toward a better future for both men and women. Inés, Coquito, Avelina, Gerónima, are women who look ahead, and through a radio station claiming their right to live with dignity.