A portrait of the performance poet Umar Bin Hassan and his personal struggle with the revolution he propagated himself with The Last Poets. As a member of The Last Poets he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan’s personal life, in which he still fights his demons. “Deep inside, Umar was scared of the revolution himself,” says fellow member of The Last Poets, Abiodun...

Nimble fingers belong to the Vietnamese women who work in factories owned by some of the most popular electronic brands. Bay is one of the thousands of young migrant workers. She comes from a remote Muong village on the highlands of Northern Vietnam.Now she lives, with the other workers, in a Hanoi suburb, a district developed around one of the biggest industrial production sites in the world. These workers’ life strictly follows the rules of the great Industrial Park of Than Long. Every...

Sparked by backlash to a neo-Nazi rally and a stream of strict anti-immigrant laws passing in the state of Arizona, a group of activists organizes to build Phoenix Allies for Community Health, a unique free clinic serving undocumented immigrants. The film follows their journey, delves into the heart and history of the clinic, and chronicles the poignant stories of undocumented patients as well as their courage and...

Elías was a documentary filmmaker that fantasized with making a heist film. Flako was the most wanted bank robber in the hard times of the Spanish Crisis. Flako was in jail. Elías was in the street. Some films must be prepared in the...

Sara Rus is a survivor of the Shoah and Mother of Plaza de Mayo. Her mission is to keep the memory alive. Her granddaughter wonders what to do with her grandmother's memories and experiences, what is the exact distance to the past, what to do with that...

A group of swimmers from developing nations have access to facilities and techniques unknown for them, and train hard to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their...

Independent documentary that addresses the different environmental problems in the north of Quintana Roo region, located in the Mexican Caribbean, caused by the rapid tourism development and uncontrolled population...

The constant struggle to live a normal life and control the intense desire to consume is the hell of these testimonies that tell in first person the great undesirable effect they suffer day by day due to their addiction to...

The young couple Denize and Filip have it all prepared: the crib, the pram, the tiny clothes, even the car seat is ready for the baby they're expecting any day. But at a routine check up close to expected delivery date, the midwife's face suddenly freezes. There's no heart beat to be heard. Little Inez has died in the womb. After Inez is a film about how to survive grief. It explores individual differences in mourning, as well as gender patterns and taboos in our society. And finally, it leaves...

In some villages of the Pyrenees, the one-room schoolhouses are still working as they once did. A classroom, a teacher and a handful of children of all ages who play, learn and have fun together. That's the way it is and will be, as long as the school and the people remain...

Nick, 35, has cerebral palsy and still lives with his parents. His loyal twin brother Chris has always felt guilty about the daily struggles Nick goes through, which he doesn’t. As Nick finally gets his wish to move out on his own, Chris has to deal with his own fears and feelings about this...

Visiting Ikea, an Asylum Center, Google and a Motorcycle gang, these grotesque, humoristic, poignant, political and personal works investigate Dan Geesin’s search for an...

Ed is commissioned to make a documentary intending to change the habits of society that are detrimental to animals. But completely alien to the animal-loving culture; he will realize that to carry out the project, he must first convince himself. The process of documentation and liming of the documentary and the conversations with Jenny, a collaborator of the animal foundation that commissioned the film, will serve to contrast his doubts and to look for answers about veganism and in general, how...

HERMANOS tells in parallel the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, with the story of an American woman who lost her house and today believes she can get it back through Trump’s promises. Their journeys take them on road trips to meet with their past and with relatives who they believe can help them achieve their...

Carla gets a call from her sister: her father, to whom she hasn’t spoken for some time, is ill. That same day, Carla takes a flight to Almeria, her home town. There, the doctors give her father a few months of life. She refuses to accept this and, against everyone’s opinion, decides to take him to Barcelona for treatment. The two of them set out on a journey to escape a reality that neither dares to face. And it will be on that escape that they end up finding themselves and can say finally...

A documentary film about the origins, development and expansion of one of the most elitist and secret organizations in today's world: The Bilderberg...

The utopian city of Brasilia is in transition more than half a century later. What is it like to live in someone else’s idea? A meditation on living in one of the most planned cities on earth. Brasília is unlike any other: a concrete utopia designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa that spawned out of the desert. Featuring a haunting, intimate score and images that take us deep into the city, this documentary brings a human face to the utopian...

Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded to flee to USA but her emigration inflicted consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-years-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system. Her "American Dream" turns to be an "American Nightmare", while her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle so he can come and live with her in...

The story about teenage archers in small countryside who are searching for the perfect 10 points, X 10. A coming of age story of young men who decided to follow their own path, unlike most other Korean teenagers whose only dream is to have a secure life, bland and boring as it may be. This film is about their joyful but tough one year challenges for their...

Six Middle-Aged women are learning to live with chronic pain and the associated symptoms of Fibromyalgia (FMS), but nothing compares to living with the shame that comes with this gender specific illness. In a general context of suspicion they live misdiagnosed, overmedicated and accused of exaggerating and faking their disease, but when they meet Dr. Palop and his team of humanist doctors things start to change. Shedding light over the patriarchal structures still operating within spanish...

Thousands of foreign workers support today the most known Italian excellence: agri-food production. A docu-musical shows their daily...

Dani Garcia offers a tribute to one of his gastronomic idols, Nobu Matsuhisa, the main exponent of Japanese cuisine worldwide. In his kitchen, an element is present, umami, which provokes different interpretations among chefs from all over the world. Taking advantage of the company of the best Spanish chefs gathered for this event, the documentary, as well as reflecting on those days, try to explore the opinions of each one of them about...

The condition of Italy is unique in the world: it has a priceless historical and artistic heritage and is at a high risk of earthquakes. ArtQuake looks at this exceptional situation, discussing in depth the relationship between human communities, natural phenomena and artistic creation: a relationship that is upset and reasserted by every...

Manuel Barbero, father of a sexual abuse victim, and Joaquin Benitez, the pederast who abused the son of Manuel and 20 more kids, are the main characters of this documentary. For the first time, a pederast speaks and confesses with his face uncovered in a documentary....

Taking its name from a poem by Marinetti, and with noise as sound material, "Esplendor Geométrico" is the band that inaugurates the age of industrial sound in...

Wanja was diagnosed with ALS nine years ago. While she’s busy making plans for what’s left of life, she meets someone and everything changes. It turns out that having a fatal illness doesn’t mean that life is...

Pemba is a Himalayan Sherpa, however, she has never climbed a mountain; she is a folk singer who fled Nepal years ago due to the civil war in the 1990s, and that now has a new life in Spain. Twenty years later, Pemba decides to return to her hometown, Goli, a tiny village located in the heart of the Himalayas to organize a concert and discover what remains of the paradise where she grew...

The story of the struggle of a small African community against a factory that poisoned their lives with lead, a killer industry operating across Africa in front of the eyes of careless governments and global...

The life of Arrabal narrated by Arrabal. The son of the condemned to death by Franco goes into exile. From Paris he fights the dictatorship. Arrabal will be able to perform as a universal artist together with the great creators of his time. An original story in search of the meaning of existence through art and...

More than 40 years after the end of its last military dictatorship (1976-1983), a discovery has been made in the north of Argentina, in the province of Tucuman: the human remains of people who disappeared during those years are starting to emerge. La noche del mundo focuses on Pozo de Vargas, a clandestine common grave used for an unknown period of time, where more than 70 people were thrown, some of them even...

Documentary film that tries to bring to the public the figure and work of the Spanish poet Luis García...

Shaped in a travelogue, Turkish Way tells the journey and experiences of the three Roca brothers in their trip across Turkey. Its describes their process of learning about one of the most unknown , powerful and ancient cuisines of the world. The owners of the world's best restaurant, made a trip from their different disciplines: salty , desserts and wines that reveals a country and a group of young Turkish chefs who are on the edge of a culinary...

Raúl, a teenager with cerebral palsy shows his concerns and thoughts through a mime. Among them, David's life, a boy with autism who loves planes and is always carrying with...

Breoghan's Tower is a transversal creation that is born thanks to the diversity of his different artistic expressions: the music of the Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia and of Luar na Lubre - symphonic and folk- the audiovisual scenography in 3D and the creativity of some authors that inspired in the legends of the celtic mythology, melted under the look of a filmmaker with the personality of Jorge...

Every year in Spain, some 16,000 Fiestas are organized, during which animals are used. Honoring the Holy Virgin and the Patron Saints, and with the blessing of religious and political authorities, entire towns -including children- are involved in celebrations of unbelievable cruelty. 60,000 animals are hence abused each year during these “Fiestas of...

The documentary explores the issues women face when pregnant, the lack of resources makes that many of them reach birth with no medical monitoring at all along the process. Then at the hospital, those who cannot pay a private doctor, have to bribe the doctors and nurses in order to get a proffesional service. Romania is one of the poorest countries in EU which barely supports pregnant...

The King of Rock and Roll its a documentary that shows the process of making a record. ¿How a record is made? ¿How do musicians write songs? ¿What is the work of those involved? Follow the artist Paul Zinnard in the making of his last album while musicians and people from music envelope such as Mike Watt or Ariel Rot explain the whole...

The documentary “The Adventure of Catalunya” describes the professional and personal experience which represents the beginnings of the Restaurante Catalunya in Singapore. We’ll hear the voices of its protagonists, who explain, in first person, the dreams, fears and all of the emotions they have felt over the two years that they have spent travelling; but, above all, we especially hear the voices of the two Catalans who have led the project: the director, Pol Perelló (who spent twelve...

Michael Ta’Bon spent 15 years in prison, where he promised himself that one day he would start a movement to prevent young people from repeating his mistakes. Now married and with two kids, his fierce commitment to community activism may ultimately cost him his...

October 30th, 1988. Madrid. Spain. The famous entrepreneur Emiliano Revilla has been kidnapped for 249 days by the terrorist group ETA. María José Sáez, a recent journalist graduate, ex intern in a news agency and unemployed, is the first person to see Revilla...