When the prison gates open after two years, kind-hearted Dalibor (23) is greeted by his damaged family. The only one missing is his younger brother Kevin (12), who lives with their abusive alcoholic father. Dalibor confronts his father and helps his mom with the fight for Kevin’s custody to spare him from further abuse. Caught up in a vicious circle of pain, Dalibor finds refuge in a shabby wandering circus. There, he learns to heal his scars by becoming a...

Vilma, a young nurse dreams of a better place to raise her upcoming baby, along with her disabled husband Ivan. She tries to change their reality using her nursing skills and competing as a shooter, but nothing seems to work in their stuck society. Until, a tornado sweeps her away and she wakes up in a place where it seems her dream will come true. But appearances can be deceiving, and she will have to find determination to return to her life and...

A group of left-wing labour lawyers go into hiding in a house when the coup d'état takes place in Spain on 23 February 1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, staying in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain's fledgling...

In between prejudiced gazes, Margarita, a free spirited woman and salsa music lover, walks away from her marriage searching for her own identity. At night Margarita finds refuge in a seashore kiosk, where improvised salsa parties take place. Her path crosses with Liana’s, a deaf tourist who arrives at the peak of the party. Seeing in Liana a world foreign to her own, Margarita finds the perfect company to explore her true being, and decides to teach Liana how to dance, understanding her...

On a summer day, Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother’s wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she’d left behind resurface during this visit. Still haunted by the tragedy of losing her father in an accident at sea, Deniz learns that her mother will leave her the family house requiring her to confront her...

Marina, a young actress from Andalusia, discovers that her grandmother's Alzheimer's is already very advanced during a visit to her Catalan family. The situation worsens when she sees how lightly her mother and the rest of the family take the disease. Between the post-lunch coffee and Grandma's return to the residence, Marina will have to decide what role she plays within her estranged family and how close she wants her relationship with her mother to...

Between love and his past, a taxi driver with a double life struggles with his reality, unleashing a dance of secrets and decisions that change his destiny.

An intimate portrait of a successful and single Hungarian woman in Barcelona who embarks on a unique journey towards motherhood and co-parenting with a gay...

Spain is made up of people who are very different in their origins, history, dialects, way of life, work, cultural and gastronomic tastes, even in their character, ideas and values. In these differences, there is something that unites and brings us all together: the passion for the...

Eleven stories reflect that we are all more similar than we think. No matter where we come from, who we are, or where we were born, we all feel love, fear, happiness, hope... and these feelings unite...

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected. Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on his weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for...

Three friends face a world marked by corruption, each caught in her own battle. Valeria, a DJ, drowns her pain in parties and excesses after an irreparable loss. Ana, a journalist, fights to maintain her integrity in a sensationalist television channel. Encarna delves into politics, uncovering a corrupt and sexist system. As they fall and become disillusioned, they find in their friendship the strength to resist and reinvent themselves. A story of love, struggle and sisterhood in a hostile...

The Galician Mountain Horse breed is disappearing, only a few wild horses resist harassed by cattle thieves, by wolves and now by multinational power companies. By their side the small village of Sabucedo preserves something unique: an ancestral and intimate bond. Both horse and villager live in a mirrored situation: the end of the ones brings the end of the...

Tomorrow will be September 1st. Tomorrow marks 5 years since Lua's sister's wedding. Five years since Mateo, Lua's ex, left her. Five years and Lua still hasn't gotten over the breakup. But tomorrow something strange will happen to her. Lua will wake up and realize she's back in the apartment she shared with Mateo. She has traveled back in time and wakes up beside him on the same day he left her Through Lua's eyes, we will relive that day, accompanying her on this emotional journey where she...

Guinea-Bissau, a small West African country with the closest coastline to Latin America, has become the continent's gateway to drug trafficking par excellence. "Bissau Way" follows the trail of the cocaine criminal network from Sinaloa to the paradisiacal islands of Bijagós. A quest to understand how the large networks of the drug business have settled along this passage and whose merchandise will end up in...

Since the outbreak of the war in Syria there are women refugees who have spent years working as day laborers in the Bekaa Valley under exploitative conditions. Her newborn daughters upon entering Lebanon also work in the fields to this day. Their future it's uncertain. They cannot prosper in Lebanon because it does not recognize them as nationals, nor their refugee status or protect their basic rights. They cannot return to Syria while there is war. "Aamelat. Day Laborers of War" exposes...

Sweet Death follows Dr. Philip Nitschke, one of the main advocates of euthanasia, when his medical license is withdrawn and in a moment of crisis he decides to try Stand Up Comedy telling in his show how you can die. In parallel, we meet Kathy who after attending a conference of the doctor decides to travel alone to Mexico in search of a drug to die in peace in case she inherits her mother's...

Malena, a survivor of domestic violence, fled to Mexico City to rebuild her life after losing custody of her children despite her fierce fight. Now with a new partner, she aspires to create the family she always dreamt of, despite challenges such as IVF treatment, societal judgment, and the resentment from her teenage children who feel abandoned. While patriarchal norms may seem daunting, her determination for a brighter future is stronger than...

I Am Somebody is the inspiring story about six street-connected children who represent their country at the Street Child World Cup in Qatar, which will change their lives...

Seven women, three generations, one family and countless secrets and lies. Meet Canada’s Gayest...

On another day, a group of policemen guard the outskirts of a city. There is no one else on the streets. They wait for an order to go into action. However, that order never comes and a state of confusion and disorientation begins to take hold of them, until they forget what they were doing...

María, a twenty-five-year-old woman who works at the emergency coordination center, receives a call: Severiano is seeing a man in his yard doing strange...

The Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955-2000) is an essential figure in contemporary Spanish and international architecture. He is also a complex character, powerful for his artistic and intellectual side, a hypnotic, polyhedral man with many contradictions. A personality that, over the course of time, has become...

In the maximum security prison of Opera, three inmates responsible for murders, Ciro, Giuseppe and Cristiano, were chosen to handcraft, with their hands once stained with blood, hosts which are consecrated in churches all over the world, thus becoming the body of Christ. Their dream is to deliver them personally into the blessed hands of the Holy Father Pope Francis, to whom they write a letter. A true story unprecedented in the...

In a small public hospital, a midwifery led by midwives accompanies births with a humanised model: putting women at the centre and respecting their rights. "Birth" is a realistic portrait of childbirth, and a choral account of obstetric violence and its terrible consequences told by: its victims, the UN (United Nations) and the WHO (World Health...

Paula is coming back home when suddenly her car breaks down. She decides to wait for someone to show up an help...

Sushi is the story of Betu and Jaume, two men from different generations, who have yet to understand what parenthood means to...

They didn’t want to go back into the closet, to pretend that old age was taking away so much of their struggle. They had a dream: to live in the first public LGTBI residence in the...

When Helen David first founded her fashion label, English Eccentrics, in the early 80s, she was living in a Brixton Squat and selling her designs from a market stall in Camden. By the mid-90s, she was dressing stars like Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Prince, Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham-Carter. Then, at the turn of the millennium, during the height of her success, her brand unexpectedly collapsed. Twenty years later, her son – filmmaker Oliver David – investigates what happened. Looking...

In the late nineteenth century, Cileta and her family fall prey to Oleguer, a petty usurer, who, stripping them of their land, takes mastery over their lives. When he leaves the farm to marry the widow of a wealthy ex-notary, Cileta ponders her next steps – to infiltrate their house and apply the lesson learned: money above all...

A Californian backpacker travels to Buenos Aires to pay homage to the Argentine pirate who conquered his hometown of Monterey in 1818. Along the way, he becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the U.S....

Seas of the Atlantic Ocean crossed by a mountain from Chiapas. Through unknown horizons seven indigenous Mayan sail carrying a story of resistance. With this journey in the midst of the pandemic, the 4-2-1 Squad of the EZLN seeks to plant a seed in new...

Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and Harry Potter. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against...

Telmo, a young man who aspires to become a filmmaker, arrives to the remotest part of the Amazon jungle. He arrives loaded with innocent illusion, romantic ideas and a camera. Nothing that happens from then on responds to his plans. The Amazonian reality is unpredictable, absurd, poetic and surprising. As Telmo enters the jungle, the world is increasingly strange and his gaze, more filmic. The travel takes Telmo to the limit of reason and his world, to the place where the uncontacted...

An exciting and inspiring story about Zuko's life, which exemplifies the human spirit's preseverance and resilience in the face of adversity. He worked as a professional mountain guide for 15 years before being injured and losing the mobility of his legs. However, this does not deter him, and he demonstrates to us, through his inner search and the expedition to Kilimanjaro, that limits only exist in our...

Sandra is an 18-year-old actress at the time of the Spanish transition to democracy: a time where being young and beautiful automatically placed you in what was known as “cine del destape” – “nude” cinema. Alone and distressed by an unwanted pregnancy, she´ll try to make decisions about her...

Alvin has just come out of prison, he is on parole and is starting to work at a tool and die workshop in Staten Island. He lives in a project with his grandmother, who has feeble health. He keeps a low profile, avoiding reconnecting with the crowd who ended up with him in prison. His mother, who he has not seen for many years, unexpectedly calls asking for help: she needs money to bail her out of prison. To appease his grandmother’s anxiety and worried for her deteriorating health, Alvin...

Death at Torrevieja is a portrait of a stuck Spain, living on the daily and looking for easy money, working to attract and serve tourists, getting trapped in a vicious cycle of fast income in the summer and financial drought in the winter. Chetia thinks she’s the queen of Torrevieja, a NEET that makes money scamming tourists in illegal balconing bets, but her reality is far more difficult when she gets home: she has to take care of her son, Yeray, a kid she felt forced to have and that Bes...

Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his whereabouts. At the same time, Marcia tries to pretend everything is under control for the sake of her 8-year-old...

In the final chapter of his remarkable life, Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla embarked on an awe-inspiring endeavor, capturing the essence of his homeland in a kaleidoscope of vibrant brushstrokes. His monumental work emerged as a testament to the deep unity woven through our diverse world, celebrating the tapestry of shared experiences that define our humanity. Now, a hundred years later, embark on an epic cinematic odyssey, following in the footsteps of the visionary artist himself and unearth...