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...

A Northwestern Argentinian teacher leads a mobile cinema crew to the most isolated school in the Jujuy high-altitude valleys, undergoing a 20-hour journey on foot in adverse conditions. Their arrival involves us in the high-altitude educational values, portraying the isolation in the Andean worlds and how communities engage with the earth. “The Andean Screen” is a poetic analogy between cinema and travel; a choral history spun by Silvina Velázquez, principal of the school, whose tenacity...

The Canary Route has become the main access route to Europe from Spain. The context of the COVID-19 health crisis has hindered the implementation of reception protocols for migrants from Africa, showing that the immigration regulations have been insufficient when it comes to managing the arrival of small boats to the coasts. The documentary makes an analysis of the European regulations through professionals from different sectors and the first-hand testimony of those who have lived it. "They...

A forced disappearance doesn't only end with the life of the person who has disappeared, but generates, like the ripples of a stone thrown into water, an enormous emotional scar in their families and in society. In the early 1980s, José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, alias Naparra, a member of the Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos, was disappeared. Between crossed statements, numerous vindications and judicial indifference, his family will try to find an answer for his disappearance. More than...

Pedro, an unemployed architect travels to Cantabria to sell the animals inherited by his grandfather. Among valleys, mountains, cows and donkeys Pedro will have find an unexpected paradise, a new meaning in his life, a bond with his late grandfather, and Paula, a Mexican student who steals his...

Rich is a 30 year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his place in the world, but not the same feelings. A weekend with her and her young, polyamorous friends will make him question his life so far and his concept of...

The true story of two mentally ill people rediscovering life anew, healing through love, and finding refuge in nature whilst facing prejudice from their families and the small town where they both live. An unexpected event brings morality into...

A series of events, apparently casual, lead Silvia Monteferrante to suspect that there was something else behind the accidental death of her...

In 1992, three teenagers disappeared when heading to a party on another town; 75 days later, their bodies are found half buried in the middle of nowhere in an advanced decomposition stage. As the police begins an exhaustive search for the criminals, their families ask for...

Guided by idealism and family tradition, Laura joins a squad of riot police, in her first outings she already notices her taste for adrenaline; but a big mistake exposes the corruption atmosphere of the institution, putting at risk her services and her...

Khalil, an elementary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre. The footage eventually leads him to join a network of video activists fighting for more attention in the media. In helping them, he hopes to reconnect with his long-lost sister, who is working as a camera operator in the combat zone. With his actions becoming increasingly influenced by the distant conflict, Khalil is forced to question not only his values but also his entire life in...

Claudio is the new insurance expert in a small town far from the capital. It seems like a simple job, but when he arrives, he is faced with the worst series of intentional car fires the town had ever seen. Cornered by clients, Claudio must discover what and who is behind the attacks, without being able to trust anything or...

Melién is 15 years old and has an incredible imagination. She loves to read mystery books, draw monsters and write horror stories. She is happy with her way of being, even though at school they say she is “The strangest girl in the world”. But, the problem she has is above that, apparently, her drawings are coming to...

The film is a story about love and friendship, class distinction and our times. The main character of the film, the author Frej, is both lover and friend, eyewitness and foe – all rolled into one. In the upper class girl Stella Rabell, Frej finds a true soulmate, and their relationship lasts for decades, even if they won’t live together or make love. The story moves intensely from love to jealousy, from life to death. This is a film about how memory works: stormy love, family ties and...

A group of friends in their thirties are struck by the death of Sam, the youngest of them all. After the funeral they must fulfill his last wish: a peculiar game that will bring to the table fears, desires, prejudices and hidden...

Three women meet every Thursday for a morning walk before going to work. It is the occasion to tell each other what worries and happens to them. Despite their differences and disagreements, there is something that unites these protagonists: the age and the burden they feel knowing they are halfway through their lifes. They are united by the sad sensation, that the passing of the years has displaced them in a space where they feel out of place and almost...

Recovering from his condition and getting their marriage back on track. Life on the lonely island suits Vicente fine, and he eventually asks his wife to extend their stay and spend the autumn there. He feels better and better every day until, after a shipwreck in the middle of a storm, a mysterious and amnesiac foreign woman appears on the island and bursts into their lives. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the...

Last time Manuel saw his family he came out, and since then their relationship became tense. Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parent’s wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend, who ends up dumping him, leading to an existential crisis. This trip then becomes an opportunity to rebond with his parents, discover a secret everyone’s hiding from his brother, and find out what he wants for his...

A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intented to switch off and do all the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land they start to notice sings, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are...

Clara cannot accept her father's recent death: there has to be something else. Thus, seeking through papers, she finds signs that leads her to a remote lake in Tajikistan where she believes her father had another life. But once there, what is the use of revealing the deep secret of whom one loves? What's the point of revealing it? Does not striving to discover it respond only to her own pettiness? And she understands, building her own secret, that in everyone there is a very deep place, only...

Small provincial agricultural city. Cold, wind and dirt. A few days before her marriage, Magda witnesses several events that happen to people close to her and that involve her boyfriend. She takes silence and denies it. These events obsess and follow her. The following days her health begins to deteriorate without reason. Speculations speak of a strange disease, madness or possession of an evil. Until Magda breaks out in a crisis. But nothing and nobody will prevent her desired...

Wilderness explores the unknown life in ten deserts around the world. This is a documentary built from impericia, from misunderstanding, from surprise and mutual amazement; It is a film that reflects on the idea of community, the relationship of man and his environment in which nature, beasts and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a world that is supposed to be...

The Ayoreo were (and still are) a group of hunter-gatherers and incipient nomadic farmers whose ancestors have inhabited the Chaco for thousands of years. Threatened by deforestation, since the 1950s and 1960s some families have decided to leave the jungle and settle in sedentary communities. They had forest to hunt and gather comfortably. The last group to leave the Mount, in 2004, was formed by several Ayoreo Totobiegosode families. With other Totobiegosode they founded Chaidí. The filming...

The irruption of the pandemic has made one of Spain’s economic foundations tumble: tourism. “Here Comes the Sun” offers a sociological, urbanistic, ecological and cultural analysis on the birth and development of the “sun and beach” tourism on the valencian Mediterranean...

Siblings Amaia and Aitor are close to turning fifty, do not have children, and since they were young they have lived away from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, who are now retired. One summer the four of them get together and go on a cruise called FANTASÍA. On the high seas time seems to stand still. But beyond the horizon, reality forges ahead...

A writer. A novel. And how the new reality has ended up by being stranger than...

A group of four bike messengers commits themselves to the start up and with the support of experienced Dutch bike messenger Joeri Scholte, who settles down in Kampala, they try to build up a sustainable business model and organisation structure. After a promising start of Kampala Cycling Couriers the bike messengers face challenges and the tensions between them rise. Their commitment and courage are tested. Towards the end of Joeri’s three month stay in Kampala the future of the courier...

Ricard Camarena, whose vegetable-based cooking has earned him two Michelin Stars, faces the challenge of re-opening his restaurants after confinement. Unaware of the pandemic, València’s orchard has continued its natural cycle of...

A lighthouse keeper prepares for his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he bursts out singing, she begs him to stop screaming. When he tells her he wants to change his name to "Elf", she warns that his family will abandon him. Now, as Trausti’s hundredth birthday approaches and he senses the hand of death upon him he is on a quest to...

The Tallahassee Unified Family Court (Florida) specialises in judicial cases involving minors. It is the only court in the United States that deals with matters relating to children and parents. The families are summoned to this court when accused of abuse, abandon or negligence in regard to the minors. The objective of this court according to the Law is to reunite families as quickly and safely as possible. The movie takes its inspiration from the words of James Baldwin: “If one really wants...

Madrid, after decreeing the state of alarm for the global pandemic of Covid-19. Experts in matters such as health, politics and the economy, create debate and awareness about its precedents, its management, its consequences and how this health crisis comes at a historical moment where the need to, not only address the collapse generated is crystallized for cuts to public health, but also to understand how neoliberalism decides that some lives are more important than...

On August 22, 1960, Heinz Stücke left Hövelhof (Germany) with his bike and a tent. He was 20 years old. He said goodbye to his family and friends and never came back. He had chosen a nomadic life that he wouldn’t leave anymore. 36 years later, in 1996, he had already traveled all over the world and was recognized as the man who’s traveled more in history. The selling of his photos and brochures helped him to survive in an austere way of life. Now, he is 72 years old and stops for the...