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...

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...

In 2018, the naturalist and explorer Nacho Dean, decided to embark on the challenge of swimming around the world, linking the five continents to warn about the conservation of the oceans and document the state of marine ecosystems. Since he was not a professional swimmer, he needed more than 2,500 kilometres of swimming training in order to conclude the Nemo Expedition, after 24 months, 5 crossings and 90 hours of...

After fifteen years without setting foot in Argentina, Rodrigo travels from Madrid to Buenos Aires in order to attend his father’s funeral, a well-known painter. Experiencing mourning with his family and managing more than two thousand artworks left in an old studio triggers a reunion that leads him to reconsider his future...

A documentary about the legendary transgender club The Way Out in London and its founder, Vicky Lee. As the club celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023, we look back at the last 3 decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community as a safe and unique...

After a serious mistake in an illegal operation, four detectives have 48 hours to try to clean their tracks and get rid of an investigation that accuses them of drug trafficking, torture and...

From her empty nest in Santo Domingo, Dominique is waiting for her first grandchild to be born abroad, and she eagerly expects a baby girl. When Carmen, her live-in maid, vanishes without a warning and leaves behind her 7-year-old granddaughter, Dominique takes the girl in. As she deals with pushback from her family, Dominique finds herself challenging her own...

Ara and Edu have been lovers for a decade, when they were a novice actress and screenwriter. Apart from their official relationships, they always find a moment to be together, an oasis in their lives. Right now, the two are in serious relationships (very serious, in fact) with their respective partners, But even this much-desired truce is not free of the lies and nostalgia of their real...

Diego Rodríguez de Silva and Velazquez. Velazquez. From being the grandson of a hosier and the son of a modest ecclesiastical notary, to becoming the son-in-law of the influential painter Francisco Pacheco, protected by Count-Duke of Olivares at the Court, chamber usher, bailiff, chamber painter of King Philip IV, Assistant to His Majesty, Assistant of the Chamber, Superintendent of Works, Royal Ap othecary, portraitist of Pope Innocent X, supposed hidalgo, knight of the Order of Santiago. And...

The lyrics of Pablo Hasel, Valtònyc and Elgio have not only been condemned by an unjust and vindictive judicial system, but have also been victims of a media tactic that presents them as criminals and "enemies of democracy". This film addresses their cases from a personal and artistic perspective, showing the experiences that have led them to be political victims of reprisals as well as the consequences that this repression has affected their lives, whether due to disqualification, exile or...

Coque Malla became famous at the age of sixteen leading the band Los Ronaldos, but when they dissolved, he found himself at the age of 30 and having to start from scratch with everything against...

The Free Thought School is a Philosophy project for intellectual disabilities, in an agora where everyone, regardless of ability, is welcome. The extraordinary is poetically inscribed in the ordinary, appropriating what is natural to it, materializing the possible...

A journey through the immense figure of Tofol Castanyer, the first Spaniard to win the ultra trail world championship. His origins in athletics and how he became the first of the “hill runners” before “hill running” even...

Celsa covers her skin with roots and leaves from her garden. She feels the torture endured 45 years ago in a concentration camp in...

For twelve years Boa Mistura has been involved in communities around the world betting on art as a means of social change. A circular journey that part of the periphery of Cape Town, South Africa and travels continents transforming human...

Mirza Delibašić, a European basketball legend of the 70s, voluntarily stayed with his people during the Bosnian War instead of escaping with his family, becoming a symbol for his country. Today, his son Danko moves between admiration for his legacy, the weight of his shadow, and the hurt of his absence. A journey to rebuild his figure as a national hero will lead Danko to discover his own place as a...

A documentary film that addresses gender, identity and the construction of beauty through five diverse characters and their participation in the Miss Gay Venezuela beauty...

Balika tells the story of Dipendra and Sushmita, two teenagers living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. The protagonists, like all his friends, were abandoned by their...

Plants and animals in Antarctica are fighting on the frontline of global...

With archive material, the director starts from her family history (famous chefs who marked the Spanish culinary tradition) to elaborate an alternative story about the history of cooking and the anonymity of...

Three women of different generations live with an eating disorder. Three dark and hopeful realities marked by a childhood trauma that they will try to face in order to come back to...

Argentina. Sandra and Cecilia have spent all their lives locked up without committing any crime. A Spanish NGO fights for their release. The big inconvenient is that none of them are human, they are great...

Between ravines and nature, fundamentally, we will learn from a real volcano in eruption, which is Borja Marrero. A chef with academic training and great future projection. A thinker and critic. A lively and hyperactive soul, from whom we will learn a lot about our flora, fauna, as well as many other aspects of the society and history of Gran Canaria and the Canary Islands as a whole. Gran Canaria and the Canary Islands are not only visualized in images in this documentary, but also in the...

A group of children and adolescents, from Mexico and Latin America, waits in shelters of Tijuana for a resolution to the asylum request to enter the US. The wait is long and...

An ode to music, this invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex or drugs. Conceived as a cinematographic wave, this documentary essay takes us from Canada to Italy via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their various backgrounds, illustrate our essential connection with rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily lives and our collective...

Belga and Salvador, a Cuban mother and a Dutch father and filmmaker, undertake the impossible by trying to explain their 2-year-old son Luca the absurd story of his uncle Ezequiel in Cuba, who has been sentenced by the revolutionary court to six years in jail for selling his own cow. Their journey leads them to the remote village of Sibanicú in the heart of the island Cuba. There we see how Ezequiel's criminal case and the intimate story of Belga and her family turn out to be a result of the...

Why would an architect focusing on collective architecture and his studio Recetas Urbanas participate in Art Basel, the highest-selling international art fair? Does applying his radical methodology in Switzerland, one of the world’s richest countries, make any sense? What are the dynamics behind the contemporary art market, and furthermore, how does the market produce art? Through testimonials and conversations this documentary addresses controversial issues exploring the status quo of the...

After growing up in the streets, facing death and devastation in prison, a courageous young tribesman is about to break the circle of misery, by building a village for dreamers together with his rural Ghanaian...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the dynamics of communication,transportation, work and interaction of societies in Mexico and the world, but for the patients hospitalized by the virus, all possibilities of contact with their own were...

Death causes us so much fear and confusion that we can hardly look it in the face. In our aseptic societies, pain and suffering tend to be covered up. Although it was not always like that. In fact, until the late 20th century it was customary to photograph the dead in places all around the world, from the United States and Europe to Latin America. Something that today is rather unknown, had its reason for being. The representation of the deceased was a way to mitigate the sorrow for the death...

Sergio arrived to the Oaxaca highlands and created a project for indigenous kids to discover their own capacity to dreams through basketball. Through studying, effort, and will power they struggle to break the cycle of poverty around them and defeat their most powerful rival:...

A bittersweet family dynamic and a strong sense all resilience mix into this thoughtful portrait of the most famous pastry shop in...

Ashley Solis is a high school senior who must divide her time between school and supporting her family as a second-generation Mexican American. Located in a California working class town, the harshness of agricultural labor in the strawberry fields shares a stark contrast with the beautiful nature and relationship to her spiritual ancestral upbringing. This film documents Ashley’s life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern...

William Waldren (1924-2003), a multifaceted, restless, charismatic and controversial artist, arrived in Mallorca in 1953. A pioneer and self-taught in archaeology and the study of the prehistory of the Balearic Islands, he excavated the sites of Muleta (where he found more than a thousand Myotragus Balearicus) and Son Matge (one of the oldest witnesses of human settlement in the Balearic Islands). He applied the Carbon 14 dating method for the first time. Epicentre of the cultural movement in...