Children, youth and women spend their days in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. They want to go home, a look for affection, but only the pigeons fly...

A documentary that denounces the exploitation in Japan of underage girls in business of a sexual nature called JK (acronym of Joshi Kósei or high school girl student), and the use of the high school girls as a sexual object in everything related to...

Chen Jianguo (Foundation of the Republic) and Jian Ping Liu (Small Law) are two men who frequent the Center of Chinese Elders of Usera, in Madrid. During the preparations for the Chinese New Year, one of them dies and a series of electrical problems begins to happen in the club that threaten to spoil the...

A powerful, stylized portrait of the 80 year old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka who philosophizes about life, love, regret and...

Shadows are not always under the...

More than a million children have sought refuge in Europe, many of them completely alone. A whole generation that has fled the war and now, instead of being children, have to face bureaucracy, distrust, waiting, frustration, incomprehension and fear. This documentary looks directly into their eyes and listens to their opinions, their feelings, their desires, their...

In a hidden basement of one of the best film schools in the world, female students gather to break their silence and share their testimonies. With the promise of anonymity, a dark reality previously unspoken about starts to emerge and the real truth about being a woman in film is finally brought to...

Mariam fled her country, she is pregnant, and she is looking for a safe home for his baby. This travel led them to cross the sea in a small boat that carried only women until they arrived at the border city of Melilla. Due to the hazards along the way, women prefer to keep their stories secret. Nevertheless, Mariam has decided to tell her story to her child Treasure before giving birth in...

Fred has to make a choice that will change that will change his life for ever, but things don´t turn out as planned as he gets stuck in his...

Through various characters we know the violation of human rights suffered daily by the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip and the situation of blockade and postwar for which it tries to survive. All this in the face of the complicity of the international community and the impunity of...

The story of María José Corrales, a flamenco dancer and teacher who lives in Barbate, Spain, a town affected by unemployment and hashish...

Life can be complicated and hard, but the attitude of each one can change...

For all of us, life is a film with a predictable ending. With 7 billion future clients in mind, Spanish and Portuguese companies from the funeral sector meet every year in Ourense to show off their latest products and services. There are diamond-studded and mink-lined coffins, hardwood urns, Swarovski crosses as gifts and luxury cars for a high-class public. No, in death we are not all equal, although obviously it comes to the rich as it does the poor in the end. In The Final Fair, morbid...

While Bollywood films feed the imagination of young people in India, projecting wonderful and passionate love stories, the reality for many of these young people is very different. Their parents will decide their fate with the Sagai: a ceremony, a contract in which they will commit their children to a future spouse that their children probably don’t even know and who they will marry once they reach the age of majority, or even before. Where is the love, beyond the...

Every year in Calpe which is located in the south of Spain some of the streets are closed for the week. The street area changes its normal appearance and becomes a cage. All the residents of Calpe and other towns nearby wait for this event to happen all year round. The bull arrives and hundreds of people end up in the cages. But is it really what makes the celebration of “Bous al carrer” that...

Ilona and Erzsébet are sisters living in the small Hungarian town of Tura. They make "big strudels on small tables" in much the same way their beloved mother did when they were children during the communist era. What starts as an ode to a disappearing way of life quickly becomes a beautifully harmonic anthem to sisterhood, freedom, mothers and, of course,...

Alina suffers from sleep paralysis and several parasomnias which make her have a high-powered medicine called Orfidal. The project immerses within her mind showing her illness as a gift and trying to teach, from an artistic perspective, and a different point of...

Bolingo. The Forest of Love tells the story of the journey madeby several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “european...

For over a century Felipe Conde's family has been handcrafting Spanish guitars. From its small workshop in downtown Madrid, theirs has become one of the most prestigious brands, having among Its clientele outstanding players such as Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola, Leonard Cohen and Lenny...

At 16-years-old, Hassan Beickhorasani fled the oncoming revolution in Iran and ended up in Coleraine. Now his son Fabian, born and brought up in Northern Ireland, returns to see a country, and meet a family, for the first...

“Brave kids” takes us to the world of ballet dancers preparing their final recital on stage. Through the story of five youngsters we discover what goes on both backstage and in their every day world. The classes, the long rehearsals, the pressure of their work and the sacrifices they must make, forge in their spirit and in their bodies their achievements, their dreams and the goals they reach. We see ordinary people transform into marvelous human beings. The way on which they face up to...

Matthew "Matt" T. Burns better known by his ring name "Sick" Nick Mondo is a retired American professional wrestler. Burns is best known for his appearances with Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). He was known throughout his career for his willingness to take extremely dangerous bumps, such as being hit with a weed wacker or getting thrown into a table covered with barbed wire. Nowadays, he works on the cinema industry and directs films and short films, where he also acts. He tells us his story from...

The film is the result of the intersection between a series of interviews with people that live in Harlan today and the voices from the past gathered by Alessandro Portelli. While the places are the same, the themes, though connected, are often in opposition. Today's Harlan is facing the crisis of the ming industry and, as a result, poverty, crime, social isolation, and drugs are on the...

A documentary that approaches polyamory from the intimate point of view of an Afro-American family who decided to live an authentic life without denying the option of diversity in their love and...

Love in Porn is an insider's look into the romantic lifes of those that succeed in the world of adult...

The documentary record of the first edition of the Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival, held in Goa (India) is transformed in these frames into a celebration of what music unites and distinguishes as cultural...

Ex-miner Les Moore cannot let go of the past. The bitter defeat of the Miners’ Strike 30 years ago hangs over his life and the bleak landscape of a village in the North of England. Beneath his feet the mine struggles on but employs only a few local men. Fearful that their struggle will be forgotten, that their voices won’t be heard, Les joins the fight to preserve the legacy of the mine and calls for the chance of a decent life for his sons in a hurt and forgotten...

Sexual harassment is a growing problem in Egypt, especially in Cairo. Through a series of interviews and social experiments, The People’s Girls takes a closer look at who is to blame, as well as how women are fighting...

A love tale between a clown about to retire and a young secretary that leaves Liverpool to become an actress in Italy. On the road, she meets a human cannonball man and decides to stay at a circus, considering that staying on an travelling circus is somehow...

More than 50 years of armed conflict among the FARC, the ELN, paramilitary groups and the Colombian government have left behind eight million victims. During this time, thousands of minors have been part of the armed groups. They are also consider victims because their childhood is always going to be linked to a weapon; the jungle was their home and the battalion, their...

Californian farmer Jesus Ramos was born in Mexico City and migrated with his family to the U.S. for a better life. He picked oranges in his youth and worked his way up to owning a 140-acre orange farm. As extreme drought wreaks havoc on the American West, Ramos finds himself on the front lines of a water shortage that threatens the future of his farm, his family and his community. As agricultural communities struggle while big coastal urban centers boom, farmers are cutting their losses and...

A traveller follows the steps of Camilo Jose Cela after his famous novel “Journey to la...

Too many memories for one...

A trip to the south of Spain searching the ruins of Comala, a small village that shares its name with a fictional town, that was invented by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo in his novel "Pedro Páramo". This short film is a journey between two towns, one fictional and another real.  The director takes the voice of the novel and he goes to the landscape of his family to think about belonging, myth and memory. Like in the twin cities described by Italo Calvino, Ruvira offers a game between the...

An inspiring story about Paul, a 12-year-old boy from the township Dunoon in Capetown, South-Africa. Paul has a dream, a dream he thinks about the whole day; he wants to become a surfer. But for boys from Dunoon it's not easy to surf. There is no transport to the beach and there is no money for...

In Pamplona, during all year, the arrival of the summer is expected, and with it comes the Running of the Bulls of San Fermin. The smallest ones dream to run when they become...

The beekeeper Shé Zuo Bin performs a traditional rite of spring on one of the rocks. He allows queen bees to be placed on his body who then summon worker bees. By the end, the beekeeper body is entirely covered by bees. In a kind of trance, he stands utterly still. The buzzing of bees dominates all. He trusts the bees completely, and for a moment they lose all that is dangerous, terrifying. They are a protective...

Based on the life of Javier García Roche, a boxer and owner of a junkyard, who helps young men of impoverished neighborhoods in Barcelona to overcome their struggles. An image of real courage: when you know you don’t have a chance, but you pursue your goal no matter...

Aida; the oldest flower vendor in Alexandria has been roaming the city streets for the past 50 years. Aida is a familiar face for the city residents, yet they don't know much about her, a face that holds within a long history of untold...

Given the situation between Israel and Palestine, it is hard to imagine how much the two territories rely on each other economically. Vadim Dumesh’s film focuses on this exact angle, more specifically on the trade in citrus trees for making charcoal in the Jenin...