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...

Spain, 1939. War is on its dying stage. In the Port of Alicante, thousands of people are waiting for a ship. Docked, the cargo ship Stanbrook is witness to the...

Tolya called his father all of a sudden, on Wednesday, and said that they need to meet. Why today? So many years have passed after they parted because of a big...

Maria is 93 years old and lives alone in her small flat, where time seems to have stopped 50 years ago. Her only contact with the outside world is the weekly call to her childhood friend. This is until she forgets her phone number forever, becoming even more isolated from the...

Hearing that her teenage sister is planning to commit suicide, Toranj is in limbo not knowing how to...

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...

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young working girl. She picks her up to take her home but the girl (Negar) who has never had a female client before, becomes suspicious of Zahra’s intent and sexual...

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...

Second World War. Marie wakes up wounded and disoriented in a Blizzard. In front, a mysterious forest separates her from her...

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...

During a therapy session, conducted by the prestigious psychiatrist Patrice Allen, the mentally unstable patient Kenneth reveals that he killed his own father when he was a teenager, to protect her mother and himself from his abuses. Soon Dr. Allen finds out that Kenneth is emotionally connected to her neglected daughter, who’s dealing with severe drug issues, and he blames her for...

Little Luci runs into the woods looking for her cousin Salva. The forest will then guide and protect her from the imminent confrontation between Civil Guards and...

A young boy, Anselmo, faces his fears of bullies and his drunk abusive father. He escapes reality by reading his comic-book "The Mighty Blitz" and learns to stand up for himself with the help of his...

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...

10th grade student Melisa confronts her teacher during a literature exam. In front of all her classmates, Melisa questions the school system and the usefulness of what they are studying by asking a very uncomfortable...

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...

As part of an experimental therapy, a depressed employee must navigate his office job with a personal narrator who speaks aloud his every...

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

Pedro decides to maintain his daily routine, in spite of some adversities which are causing him some instability. These new events will force him to venture towards anuncertain...

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...

A man wakes up in a world where the water has disappeared. There’s no water in the pipes nor in the bottles. Not even one drop falls from the clouds. The sea itself has become a desert. However, everyone acts as if nothing happened. In the bars they sip from empty glasses, from a springboard a diver falls into a dry pool. Alone, the protagonist realizes the incredible disappearance – and nobody pays attention to...

Claudia returns to the old family house where she used to spend the summers. Once there, she is haunted by ghosts of her past, seeing no other option but to face the truth from which she has been running all her...

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...

A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the...

Celina and Alejo have gone through a rough patch for a while, almost as long as they have had their son Camilo, who is 4 years old. Alejo’s mother gives them a voucher for a hotel night and offers to look after the kid for the night. The proposal feels weird to them, but they do their best to live the experience enthusiastically. Cecilia uses her best perfume and Alejo wears skinny pants, which will cause some trouble. Finally the night does not turn out to be what they...

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...

Middle aged sisters Carmen and Julia endure their last days with their father, who is terminally...

From the memory of the performers and artists Fernando Fernán Gómez and Emma Cohen, this short documentary poetically explores the relationships the living maintain with those no longer...

On Easter Sunday, Plínio, a retired carpenter, waits for his family's visit, but they don't show up. Anselmo, the gardener of the home he lives in, offers him a lift home. Plinio revisits along the way his memories of the neighborhood where he was born and raised, but when he gets there, a surprise puts his memories in...

Two friends. A dress for their university graduation, which is just around the corner. One of them has something to say. She’s bursting to say...

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...

Quique, an artist from Cadiz Carnival, has a huge life-twist the day he begins to work in Spain´s biggest impounded drug deposit. Due to El Tuti, a local dealer and Quique´s big fan, who is planning to steal this entire drug before the deposit’s opening and the burning of every piece of drug it has. But in order to get it, Quique must be part of the...

A little girl runs through the forest as if something or someone were stalking her. When she reaches a small clearing, she finds another girlp playing alone on a...