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Susana has gathered all her friends to celebrate a very special evening: it's Toni's birthday, and for the first time he's away in Germany, but the distance is not going to stop them from celebrating together. No one suspects that after the party their lives will change forever.
During the summer of 2010 François Daireaux left France in order to discover and experience the city of Daireaux in Argentine. He walked along for days on end, filming the city which carries his name. Throughout his nights at Daireaux hotel, he’s had numerous dreams.
An illusory meditation on the street culture of New York City, represented through a collage of overlaid events and characters that collide at chance during the filming, chemical development and digital scanning process. Through this method, the artist embraces accidents and coincidence in favor of uncontrolled artistic expression.
Viviana Rocco is a photographer, visual artist, activist, model, actress and trans woman. This documentary takes us inside her life so that through her work she can show us the trans world and give voice to those who are part of a minority.
In a 25 years-old home video, a kid insistently asks his dad if he can play with the camera. Once an adult, he returns to reflect on how all those years that passed have affected a place where time seems to have come to a halt. The cycle of life as seen by its protagonist and spectator.
In June 2013, actress Rosa Novell was diagnosed with cancer. While battling the disease, the treatment affected her optic nerve, leaving her blind. Among her unfinished projects was the Catalan version of Colm Tóibín's play ‘The Testament of Mary’. An approach to this work ultimately became her own testament.
Follows the rehearsals of Luis Alberto Spinetta y las Bandas Eternas on November 2008 and the reunion of Pescado Rabioso 36 years after playing their last show together.
Portrait of the painter Manuel Moldes, from Pontevedra, Spain, about the work he does in the preparation of a retrospective of his work.
Don Salvador, the town barber, is an undercover informant for the Vigilantes (Autodefense) civilian troops in the fight against the drug cartels. He will be the middleman for a key piece of information; protecting it will face him against retaliation and his own values.
Tito the Colombian is a tattoo artist who learned his trade in the darkness of Lecumberri jail. He remembers everything about his stay there, but very little about his place of origin.
Valentina is a luthier and artisan, the greatest heart builder in the world. On this day she has to rush to get Salvador, and save the love of her life.
A very short story about a rat.
You have been thinking about leaving for years. Look at the photo. Again. You know where it is. A pigsty. Go. Kill him. Don't talk, say nothing. Whiskey. It's midnight. He can't explain it. She can't either. This city is rotten. Where is the life your parents promised you?
Insistence on images try planting a sign, like a groove in the retinas to recover what could be a memory, an echo of that other time when the parties were possibly a whole. The eternal myth of the androgyne.
After finding out that his girlfriend cheated on him in his Star Wars bedsheets, Nico decides to reencounter with his true love: Cinema. For this, he reunites his former university friends in order to shoot a low budget short film. Together, Nico and his friends go through wacky situations, between reality and fiction, which makes them question their friendships as well as their lives.
When a disabled Latino immigrant living in Los Angeles struggles with loneliness and questions life he begins an unexpected conversation with God and faces his connection with humanity.
Taking a breather from the crisis of her marriage, a surgeon named Celina visits the country house of an old friend who she hasn't seen since their university days. When she gets there, she realizes that something is going on with Paula, her friend's step daughter. Soon she learns that Paula attempted suicide, but Celina is in no shape to help anyone, because she is fleeing a dark secret of her own and has come to the worst place of all possible places to save herself. In the limbo of this hellish little town, her ghosts are reborn, infecting everyone around her...
Immersed in the middle of the Colombian jungle, surrounded by nature and the violence that gravitates in the area, Mr. Ca left the city behind to be a mentor to the community. This is his portrait.
The outbreak of the economic crisis in Spain led thousands of horses (a symbol of prestige in the years of plenty for nouveau-riches) to be abandoned by their owners. On the southeastern coast of Spain, a 45-year-old British woman, aided by her volunteer helpers, has set up a rescue farm; a modern-day Noah’s Arc that offers refuge and healing to undernourished and tortured horses (and other animals). A humble yet noble tale of perseverance and endurance and a parable for our times, which applies to people as well: once our shine comes off, society deems us redundant.
Lorenza is about to be 80 and has just become a widow. She decides to return to her youth home, but her daughter does not agree. However her granddaughters, Sofia and Alba, decide to go with her. It’s a minimal story as simple as necessary.
A woman with a strange look is sat drinking in a soulless bar on a desert area road. She’s waiting for the arrival of a man, maybe an old love that abandoned her there, leaving the place looking for a different life. The reencounter is tense, almost like a duel, and arises the resentment of the one that stays, the guilt of the one that leaves, the overcoming of the instilled tradition...
A man encounters, encountered, or will encounter a woman in an elevator of an office building. They are destined to meet each other again, yet both are thrown into the maze constructed by time and space through images and sounds that might be different from one’s daily experience in reality. Possibilities have been created, yet further and further away from reality.
A documentary about the lives of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps (Algeria). A didactic video for families hosting Sahrawi minors in the Vacations in Peace programme with the objective of them learning and being introduced to the Saharwi culture and customs so that they see what life is like in the camps for these children.
A man in chains, a young man who dreams of being part of something, to become a militant for an armed group who must wield a cruelty in which he may not believe in. The characters, each voluntary or involuntary part of a mechanism that overcomes them, reveal their greatness or misery in the “minimum” tasks that they perform to survive. From that sometimes morbid poetry of the everyday and the irrefutable truth of the details, we see a country whose social body is sick and injured.
A bedridden war veteran relives his experiences endured in the battles of Tacna and Arica between Chile and Peru, revealing untold secrets and mysteries that history never told.
Shooting in Santiago de Okola, the rural Bolivian village where his father was born, Miguel Hilari notes how the place intimidated him as a child. In The Corral and the Wind Hilari focuses mostly on children and animals as he records the stark beauty of the highland landscape while suggesting undercurrents of struggle and toil. Whether recording schoolchildren from the village as they perform songs and poems of resistance or an encounter between his uncle and a neighbour joking about a dog, the distance and formality with which Hilari treats his subjects implies both an admiration for these people and a longing for a deeper connection with the culture of his Indigenous ancestors.
What would you be arranged to do for having 100.000 fans?
Catalan director Albert Serra’s follow-up to his magisterial The Death of Louis XIV is another forensic documentation of the Sun King’s final breaths. Here, however, Versailles is replaced with the glow of the gallery.
Highlights the importance of integrating the arts into school curriculum, and particularly raises the question: what is the impact of musical theatre in Puerto Rican youth?
2015 marks the 20th the anniversary of the film "Stories of Kronen" by Montxo Armendariz, based on the novel written by José Ángel Mañas. As a result of the success of that novel, a great number of writers bursted onto the Spanish literary scene: The Kronen Generation. In those years, Luis Mancha wrote a book called "Kronen Generation", made up with interviews of those writers. Now he tries to reconnect them to recall what happened with them in the forgotten 90 years and what is going on now.
Andalusia. Summer. One of the world's worst places to fight a fire, where temperatures up to 45º meet with vast vegetation. To fight them, there is a special organization, an elite group, the tackles fires in a way that is unique in the world: direct attack. This group is called BRICA. A helicopter transports them to the front line of the fire and, armed only with chainsaws, axes courage, they fight flames that are 50 meters high. Through three of its members - Gustavo, the leader; Abarca, the veteran about to retire; and "Curiño", the rookie who has just joined the group- we see their day to day lives.
Tomás and Andrea are standing opposite at a zebra crossing in Gran Vía (Madrid) Their eyes meet in the distance and they start smiling to each other. What they don't know yet is that fleeting encounter will mark their destiny.
Part of the crew of Honor of the Knights travels to La Mancha to see the real settings of Quixote’s life in order to shoot a film.
To film director Didier Ruiz at work with seven trans people is to set foot in a collective adventure from which no one comes out unscathed. We are thus witnessing, as the rehearsals progress, an outbreak. Filming the emergence of this word is a gift. A journey full of surprises where questions about the feminine, the masculine, the norm, freedom, archetypes, transgression, sexuality assail us and overturn all our certainties.
Matias suffers from annoying nightmares, which don't let him move on with his life. Meanwhile, he passes his days between Eugenia, his wife, and Silvana, his lover.
Two brothers, one a talented amateur magician, dream of joining a circus. On their quest, they discover that all is not what it seems.
The documentary portrays the everyday way of life of a group of young people from Quito, who being fans of hardcore and for different personal reasons decided to become Straight Edge. The Straight Edge is an urban culture, young people who together or separately make the decision not to consume psychotropic substances, alcohol or tobacco.
The story of two friends who met on the eve of their fiftieth birthday: musician Astor Piazzolla and architect José Pons. They never imagined that their friendship would change their lives forever.
Colette is a 70 year old French woman that works as a fortune teller in her apartment in Madrid. She lives alone, spending her live doing videocalls and having sporadic encounters with a young neighbour. Her peculiar relationship with her past floats in the ambience.
Michel is a dropout. He lives a self-determined life in the nature, free from societal norms by a lake. Far away from the big city roar, a whole new world opens up to him.
Daniel David and Anita Salinas are trying to build the first comic book company in Chile. But inexperience and personal problems will end up causing more trouble than they would have expected.
On November 6, 1975, a few days before the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish version of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, originally written by Tim Rice and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, premiers in Madrid, starring and produced by singer Camilo Sesto, a controversial work that became a mass phenomenon.
In the mountains of Costa Rica, Lya Battle gives a second chance to over 1,000 stray dogs at her sanctuary, and hope for those who have yet to be found.