After nearly a century of tradition, a cider-making family celebrates their one-hundredth harvest, marking a milestone in their legacy. "The Big Apple" chronicles the journey of cider from an Asturian village to cosmopolitan New York, uniting generations and cultures as the cider faces the challenges of an ever-changing...

Song of the Hands explores deafness through music, following Jennifer, Gabriel, and José—three Deaf musicians from Venezuela—as they face the challenge of staging Beethoven’s Fidelio in Sign Language for the first time, under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. The film reveals the isolation the protagonists experience due to their deafness, ultimately showing that music is not only their refuge, but also their salvation and their...

Why do so many Africans dream of Europe? Sunu Gaal follows young Senegalese debating whether to stay or embark on a journey full of...

After 15 years in a relationship, David feels the time is right to marry his partner. He plans an ideal trip across Route 66 and a wedding in Las Vegas. But when he pops the question, he's rejected in front of everybody! Determined to experience what having a wedding feels like, he's committed to moving on with his plan. Now, he only has 10 days left to find someone else to...

GOD SEES IT explores the creative world of Oscar Tusquets Blanca, where architecture, design, painting, and writing merge freely. A provocative genius, he blends art, irony, and rebellion. Through collaborations with Salvador Dalí and moments with Miquel Barceló, Antonio López, Albert Serra, Milena Busquets, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julia de Castro, the film reveals his bold, irreverent...

The controversial conviction of six refugees for the fires at Camp Moria marks the beginning of a moving search for humanity – uncovering the dark sides of an oppressive, often inhumane...

After the sudden death of his wife, Mr. Jochec takes on the responsibility of caring for his two teenage children, Vanesa and Pete, who has severe autism. Previously away for work, he now faces the challenge of managing everything alone, balancing the care of his children, maintaining financial stability, and running the...

THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT follows four women in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country facing the aftermath of one war and the threat of another. As they build lives of hope and resilience, war disrupts their world once again, forcing them to take up arms or flee as refugees. Their journeys reflect a homeland lost and the enduring power of storytelling to preserve...

A family retreats to their cottage for winter break, only to discover signs of an intruder. While the parents focus on rallying the community to replace the gatekeeper, the children wander around unsupervised, making reckless choices. When tragedy unfolds, security becomes the least of their problems, and the family is forced to bury a dark secret of the horrors committed by their 12-year-old...

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, retired entrepreneur Dan Fine was one of the first to help rescue animals near the front. After meeting Krystina, a brave pet rescuer, Dan, with her and other Ukrainian volunteers, started the mission of saving animals and people from the new killer besides the war itself -...

Two Tarahumara brothers with a deep competition spirit and great running abilities become distant. Omero, the youngest brother is set on becoming a running champion, whilst his brother gets involved in a local gang in search for a better life. They will have to join forces to overcome life’s difficulties, sorting out each one’s...

CURL POWER follows a team of teenage girls as they pursue their unusual dream of becoming Canadian National Curling Champions, and seek out their own paths amid the legacies of their world champion mothers. This intimate and imaginative coming-of-age documentary tells a story of angst and ecstasy, following the funny and tender evolution of five best friends as they reckon with their bodies, minds, and the great...

Mariana and Javier try to recover from the loss of their son Tomás. After a suicide attempt by Mariana, they move to the family's old hacienda with the intention of remodeling it and thus, also, rebuild their lives and their marriage. Upon arriving at the hacienda and for no apparent reason, hope is reborn: Mariana recovers her spirits, their relationship improves, and they become pregnant again. However, a strong and imposing presence from the past is manipulating the couple to get what it...

The incredible story of a friendship that has survived pirates, tribes and above all, the cultural difference. For the past decade, Spanish filmmaker Paula Palacios has been following Ali, a young man who fled the war in Somalia at the age of 14. Their meeting in a prison in Ukraine in 2012 turns Ali's life upside down, but also Paula's. Shot in Ukraine, the USA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, often by Ali himself, this film is both a coming-of-age story in an uncertain world and an exploration of...

In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbors of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her...

When the prison gates open after two years, kind-hearted Dalibor (23) is greeted by his damaged family. The only one missing is his younger brother Kevin (12), who lives with their abusive alcoholic father. Dalibor confronts his father and helps his mom with the fight for Kevin’s custody to spare him from further abuse. Caught up in a vicious circle of pain, Dalibor finds refuge in a shabby wandering circus. There, he learns to heal his scars by becoming a...

Vilma, a young nurse dreams of a better place to raise her upcoming baby, along with her disabled husband Ivan. She tries to change their reality using her nursing skills and competing as a shooter, but nothing seems to work in their stuck society. Until, a tornado sweeps her away and she wakes up in a place where it seems her dream will come true. But appearances can be deceiving, and she will have to find determination to return to her life and...

A group of left-wing labour lawyers go into hiding in a house when the coup d'état takes place in Spain on 23 February 1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, staying in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain's fledgling...

On a summer day, Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother’s wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she’d left behind resurface during this visit. Still haunted by the tragedy of losing her father in an accident at sea, Deniz learns that her mother will leave her the family house requiring her to confront her...

An intimate portrait of a successful and single Hungarian woman in Barcelona who embarks on a unique journey towards motherhood and co-parenting with a gay...

Eleven stories reflect that we are all more similar than we think. No matter where we come from, who we are, or where we were born, we all feel love, fear, happiness, hope... and these feelings unite...

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected. Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on his weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for...

Three friends face a world marked by corruption, each caught in her own battle. Valeria, a DJ, drowns her pain in parties and excesses after an irreparable loss. Ana, a journalist, fights to maintain her integrity in a sensationalist television channel. Encarna delves into politics, uncovering a corrupt and sexist system. As they fall and become disillusioned, they find in their friendship the strength to resist and reinvent themselves. A story of love, struggle and sisterhood in a hostile...

The Galician Mountain Horse breed is disappearing, only a few wild horses resist harassed by cattle thieves, by wolves and now by multinational power companies. By their side the small village of Sabucedo preserves something unique: an ancestral and intimate bond. Both horse and villager live in a mirrored situation: the end of the ones brings the end of the...

Guinea-Bissau, a small West African country with the closest coastline to Latin America, has become the continent's gateway to drug trafficking par excellence. "Bissau Way" follows the trail of the cocaine criminal network from Sinaloa to the paradisiacal islands of Bijagós. A quest to understand how the large networks of the drug business have settled along this passage and whose merchandise will end up in...

Since the outbreak of the war in Syria there are women refugees who have spent years working as day laborers in the Bekaa Valley under exploitative conditions. Her newborn daughters upon entering Lebanon also work in the fields to this day. Their future it's uncertain. They cannot prosper in Lebanon because it does not recognize them as nationals, nor their refugee status or protect their basic rights. They cannot return to Syria while there is war. "Aamelat. Day Laborers of War" exposes...

Sweet Death follows Dr. Philip Nitschke, one of the main advocates of euthanasia, when his medical license is withdrawn and in a moment of crisis he decides to try Stand Up Comedy telling in his show how you can die. In parallel, we meet Kathy who after attending a conference of the doctor decides to travel alone to Mexico in search of a drug to die in peace in case she inherits her mother's...

Malena, a survivor of domestic violence, fled to Mexico City to rebuild her life after losing custody of her children despite her fierce fight. Now with a new partner, she aspires to create the family she always dreamt of, despite challenges such as IVF treatment, societal judgment, and the resentment from her teenage children who feel abandoned. While patriarchal norms may seem daunting, her determination for a brighter future is stronger than...

I Am Somebody is the inspiring story about six street-connected children who represent their country at the Street Child World Cup in Qatar, which will change their lives...

Seven women, three generations, one family and countless secrets and lies. Meet Canada’s Gayest...

The Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955-2000) is an essential figure in contemporary Spanish and international architecture. He is also a complex character, powerful for his artistic and intellectual side, a hypnotic, polyhedral man with many contradictions. A personality that, over the course of time, has become...

In the maximum security prison of Opera, three inmates responsible for murders, Ciro, Giuseppe and Cristiano, were chosen to handcraft, with their hands once stained with blood, hosts which are consecrated in churches all over the world, thus becoming the body of Christ. Their dream is to deliver them personally into the blessed hands of the Holy Father Pope Francis, to whom they write a letter. A true story unprecedented in the...

In a small public hospital, a midwifery led by midwives accompanies births with a humanised model: putting women at the centre and respecting their rights. "Birth" is a realistic portrait of childbirth, and a choral account of obstetric violence and its terrible consequences told by: its victims, the UN (United Nations) and the WHO (World Health...

They didn’t want to go back into the closet, to pretend that old age was taking away so much of their struggle. They had a dream: to live in the first public LGTBI residence in the...

When Helen David first founded her fashion label, English Eccentrics, in the early 80s, she was living in a Brixton Squat and selling her designs from a market stall in Camden. By the mid-90s, she was dressing stars like Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Prince, Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham-Carter. Then, at the turn of the millennium, during the height of her success, her brand unexpectedly collapsed. Twenty years later, her son – filmmaker Oliver David – investigates what happened. Looking...

In the late nineteenth century, Cileta and her family fall prey to Oleguer, a petty usurer, who, stripping them of their land, takes mastery over their lives. When he leaves the farm to marry the widow of a wealthy ex-notary, Cileta ponders her next steps – to infiltrate their house and apply the lesson learned: money above all...

A Californian backpacker travels to Buenos Aires to pay homage to the Argentine pirate who conquered his hometown of Monterey in 1818. Along the way, he becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the U.S....

Seas of the Atlantic Ocean crossed by a mountain from Chiapas. Through unknown horizons seven indigenous Mayan sail carrying a story of resistance. With this journey in the midst of the pandemic, the 4-2-1 Squad of the EZLN seeks to plant a seed in new...

Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and Harry Potter. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against...

Telmo, a young man who aspires to become a filmmaker, arrives to the remotest part of the Amazon jungle. He arrives loaded with innocent illusion, romantic ideas and a camera. Nothing that happens from then on responds to his plans. The Amazonian reality is unpredictable, absurd, poetic and surprising. As Telmo enters the jungle, the world is increasingly strange and his gaze, more filmic. The travel takes Telmo to the limit of reason and his world, to the place where the uncontacted...