Landscape documentary about inequality in 21st century U.S.A. as seen entirely through the lens of a dash-cam. The car drives slowly through metropolises, rural neighborhoods, and natural and urban landscapes to capture a country with one of the largest and most visual economic, industrial, and social divides in the...

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...

Paloma Pujol, tired of being the only freestyler woman in Spain, challenges herself to open the female category in the Spanish Football Freestyle Championship, but she needs at least four more girls to achieve her...

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...

This film retraces the story of Cuba's enthralling golden decade of revolutionary cinema, while following young passionate Cuban filmmakers' in their present-day struggle to revive the island's film...

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:...

Aleixo Paz A.K.A. "Boy from the Blaze" is the survivor of a tragic accident that destroyed his life and that of his family. About to turn 18, without a job or an education, he spends his days in the darkness of his room. Consumed by pain and anger, his only hope is writing songs for an imaginary crowd. Inspired by a friend and encouraged by his mother, he will find the strength to go on stage and overcome his...

Carlos Bosch, famous argentinian photographer, returns his achive of the Catalonian political transition in the middle of the actual autonomist conflicto. He reecounters the memories of him from the people that had apparently forgoten...

Mothers of Derick portrays the daily life of these four women who, together, raise Derick, a nine-year-old boy. The four women – lesbians, bisexuals, non-monogamists and anarchists – built a house to raise their child in a forest on Brazil's southern coast, despite threats of expulsion by the...

Luca and Silvana are in love and dream of getting married. But there are many bureaucratic obstacles to overcome for those who – like them – have Down Syndrome, so their marriage is postponed year after year. Perhaps their desire for an independent life together will remain just a...

Burlesque is the new punk rock according to Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York City’s Off-Off Broadway underground scene. Transgression, performance, humor, sex and political satire from the magic and wild side of the city that never...

An 87-year-old woman from the Asturian town of Luanco, has serious health problems, and faces it with such an optimism and joy that offers us a whole life...

A woman puts on her running shoes at the age of 28 and by the age of 30 becomes one of the first women to run a marathon in Europe while wearing a hijab and the first covered European to compete at the IronMan triathlon. Her name is Nudžejma which means Little Star in Arabic. Little Star Rising follows one woman's journey of overcoming social and political barriers by the sheer will to own her own life and choices. It is a compelling story about the power of inspiration, drive and will to...

Yeses portrays the life of a theater company formed by women in prison. Thirty years ago, in Madrid women's prison known as “Yeserías”, a prison officer called Elena Cánovas was encouraged to bring the theater to prison, creating a company with the inmates. “Teatro Yeses" was...

The action of a firefighter in the Port of Bilbao, by refusing to participate in a shipment of weapons to massacre the population of Yemen, initiates a social movement that will unveil the dark interests and implications of this...

In 1998, Zoilamerica accused her adoptive father of rape and sexual abuse. Almost 20 years later, she lives in exile while caring for her 10-year-old son. Her adoptive father is Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista revolution and current president of...

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old...

The portrait of a popular bullfighting festivity in North Colombia, which reveals the contradictions of a society complicit with its very own games of...

In the private farm, a butterfly is born only to be sold as a prop for a concert. Its journey to the music hall reflects the struggle to survive in the modern-day...

In the late 70's, Yan María Castro founded the first lesbian-feminist group in Mexico. Within a climate of discrimination and repression, Yan María and her group organized a political movement to win their place in...

Five elite female athletes fight for acceptance and recognition in the sport they love - that continues to exclude girls and women. This is the story of women in baseball, fighting for a "league of their...

Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “Birth Wars” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save...

There is a law gap for French single women going to Belgium to get an artificial insemination with donor. No Man’s Land explores the unspoken territory of independent women making the choice of emancipation and...

A long time ago, before there were rivers in the Amazon rainforest, a Kukama God stood poised in his canoe, holding aloft his bow and arrows.The arrows fell one by one creating vast, winding rivers, which the Kukama people have navigated until modern times. In a world that puts a price tag on nature, this animation takes viewers inside the magic and beauty of the Amazon region and reminds us of our sacred connection to...

Ed decides to leave his life in Barcelona to take a trip to the United States to follow his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker there. Close to turning 40, and with his wedding just around the corner, he realizes that his life has not worked out as he had planned. An identity crisis begins which makes him leave everything and try to make his childhood dream —the American dream— come true. With the script of a film he wrote a few years ago under his arm, and the idea of trying to make...

The empowering story of 9 Indian girls who are chosen by Karunalaya Social Service Society to represent their country at the Street Child World Cup 2018 in Moscow, Russia. The girls who all had a rough start living on the streets, where they faced abuse and violence on a daily basis, are an inspiration to everyone who meets them because of their positive and uplifting spirit. They see the event as an opportunity to share to the world their plight. They hope to become a role model for other...

What was once the “Island of Calm” is now on the verge of collapse. Multiple alarm bells are starting to ring. Is this model of tourism sustainable? Could Mallorca become a reference for so many other places suffering from the same...

Ubicada en una remota isla portuguesa, "La cabeza y la mano" es un retrato contemplativo de dos señoras con discapacidades que pasaron décadas viviendo juntas y, a pesar de los desafíos que enfrentaron, encontraron alegría en su independencia y...

Bellatrix is the name of a constellation star of Orion and means Warrior. Laura (Elisa Heidrich) begins to wonder about the political positions she has seen on TV. From there, she goes to researchers and people working the gender issue to discuss and better understand where the social differences between the sexes we observe daily. Inside her mind, Laura finds her Bellatrix...

Juan of the Witches honors 82-year-old Juan Medellín's legacy as a founding company member of Mexico City's prestigious Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernández. An intimate portrait of a life richly lived and a testament to the power and the force of art, the film uses colorful hand-drawn animation to illustrate cherished memories from Medellin's childhood and introduction to dance to his heyday with the Ballet during its golden era in the 1960s and 1970s. Born from the director’s first...

Street performer Paul Cooper brings joy to audiences around the world with his endearing roving act Tubby the Robot, yet he struggles to find joy within himself. Paul’s childhood was disturbed by a tragic family accident and he now suffers from depression and anxiety. Often feeling disconnected and broken, he goes through the motions of life like an automated machine. Ironically, it is when Paul performs as Tubby that he feels the most functional, the most human. Paul and Tubby inhabit very...

A reflection on the essential and universal questions of architecture through the most relevant Spanish works of the last 60...

The Roca brothers embark on a new challenge: exploring Scotland. Their journey will see them rediscover a cuisine that has kept itself hidden from the world in the past...

Enrique was separated from his mother at birth and Ascensión was forced to hand over her daughter after giving birth to her. Both are victims of the “stolen children” conspiracy; a slippery slope for the Spanish government. Whilst they continue their legal battle, they’ll continue with their searches and live alongside blame, rejection, and the construction of their own...

The story of Ara Malikian, multifaceted violinist of Lebanese origin and Armenian roots. The film portrays his professional trajectory and personal story. Music saved his life when he escaped the war. He left Beirut when he was only 14 and ever since then, has lived a nomadic life, bringing his music to all the...

Overcome the hell in which the Arctic becomes winter, in West Greenland the Inuit face the sweet respite offered by the summer to hunt and fish, continuing the ancient traditions that have inherited from their ancestors. Documentary about the current life of the Inuit of West Greenland. Hunting and fishing practiced by their ancestors are still today the center of their culture and their...