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...

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...

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...

Ventotene is a very small island in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, where, since the 1920s, people were confined in complete isolation because of their ideas. Ventotene is however a paradox, because from this place of exclusion, the idea of the European Union started to grow. Today, starting from the new artwork by French artist Daniel Buren (“Un Manifesto Colorato - A Colored Manifesto” - 2020), the documentary wants to bring European discussions back on the island, to look back at...

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 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...

Everybody has a mother. But motherhood still remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ -always patient, caring, happy and the reality of mothers around the world. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, MALAMADRE narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mother’s point of...

Four women's lives changed after the war in Syria. Strangers whose paths crossed in the midst of a dire situation: one marked by violence, neglect and death. They now live in Lebanon and Jordan, where together they are rebuilding their own...

The story of the popular protest that shook Hong Kong in 2019. The movement started in response to a proposed law that would have allowed the extraditions to mainland China of Hong Kong citizens, but soon morphed into a larger revolt against China’s control over the semi-autonomous city. The population of the former British colony is struggling with accepting China’s rule of law, which comes with reduced freedoms and civil rights. Into the frameset of the harshest economic and geopolitical...

After decades of oblivion, the life of Lélo Fiaux, a 20th century Swiss painter whose life and painting are definitively inseparable, will finally be brought to light in a film. A fiery personality, nomadic throughout the world, she lived without concession her passion for painting and her freedom in love. Fictional scenes punctuate the story, allowing us to grasp all the facets of this extraordinary...

November 1985. Mikel Zabalza, a young bus driver, is arrested along with other people by the Civil Guard as part of an anti-terrorist operation. When the rest of the young people are released, they report having been savagely tortured. But Mikel is missing. Although the authorities allege that he has escaped, everything indicates that he did not survived the torment and they try to hide it. And while the hopes of finding him alive are fading, the streets of the Basque Country burn with a shout:...