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...

Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his whereabouts. At the same time, Marcia tries to pretend everything is under control for the sake of her 8-year-old...

In the final chapter of his remarkable life, Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla embarked on an awe-inspiring endeavor, capturing the essence of his homeland in a kaleidoscope of vibrant brushstrokes. His monumental work emerged as a testament to the deep unity woven through our diverse world, celebrating the tapestry of shared experiences that define our humanity. Now, a hundred years later, embark on an epic cinematic odyssey, following in the footsteps of the visionary artist himself and unearth...

In 2018, the naturalist and explorer Nacho Dean, decided to embark on the challenge of swimming around the world, linking the five continents to warn about the conservation of the oceans and document the state of marine ecosystems. Since he was not a professional swimmer, he needed more than 2,500 kilometres of swimming training in order to conclude the Nemo Expedition, after 24 months, 5 crossings and 90 hours of...

Jamyang Lodro Rinpoche, the 47th inheritor of the Tibetan Buddhism Jonang sect, founded an intangible cultural heritage institute in a remote poor Tibetan settlement in China. Teaching Thangka painting and other traditional Tibetan culture for free, the school breathed new life into this...

After a serious mistake in an illegal operation, four detectives have 48 hours to try to clean their tracks and get rid of an investigation that accuses them of drug trafficking, torture and...

Roc (13) and Sara (14) have arranged to meet through an app. Although they have previously discussed all they’ll be doing, they both feel nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Under pressure to lose their virginity, Roc and Sara meet at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of the city. They have decided to stop being children and become...

Tito wants to prove his worth and join the neighborhood gang. One morning of re-engagement, his new “friends” turn the party into a macabre joke in which they force him to commit a robbery as part of their initiation...

Lara and Roque, two queer and isolated teenagers in the Spanish countryside, face the end of a bitter-sweet...

Philomena Franz, a Sinti woman survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, recalls life before the National Socialist regime, her passage through several concentration camps (especially Auschwitz-Birkenau), her courageous escape and life as a survivor, from the fight for the recognition of the genocide of the Roma...

Passionate conservationists from different backgrounds are squaring up to inaction from the government to protect historical sites and real estate developers who would rather see the immediate profit than what our protagonists see is their immeasurable historical wealth. Among the people trying to preserve Beirut’s buildings and historical spaces are Urbexers, a community of urban photographers that through pictures posted on social networks try to raise public awareness of the existence of...

With archive material, the director starts from her family history (famous chefs who marked the Spanish culinary tradition) to elaborate an alternative story about the history of cooking and the anonymity of...

Two African migrants helped by two human rights lawyers take on the Spanish authorities, claiming their right to have rights before the European Court of Human Rights. A case that puts Europe’s core values and the future of rights throughout the continent to the...

By 2036, one in three people in Japan will be over the age of 65. While the nation wrestles with a shrinking labour force, the Robot Revolution Initiative was launched to expand robotics into every corner of Japanese economy and society. Circuits of Care follows anthropologist David Prendergast as he meets researchers developing and testing assistive technologies for older adults. From cybernetic walking supports to companion robots and automated sensor networks in nursing homes, older adults...

A visual symphony conducted by 8 elder women  who reflect on different topics concerning the conception of their own bodies inside a patriarchal system that constantly attempts to posses them. In between documentary and video arte, [B]ELLAS successfully breaks the stereotype that conceives ageing women as vulnerable, dependent and pleasing beings through a vindication of their experience, bodies, capacities, wrinkles and...

After 3 years in Syria fighting against Islamic State, Arges Artiaga visits UK to join his former brothers in arms in the funeral of one of his best friends. He's 43 and his life has to change: either he forgets about the war or he comes back again to the...

The wildlife ranger is patrolling the protective area, while his soul is intertwined with the nature and all the creatures he is protecting. He runs freely and lives with the animals, surrounded by beauty. But, as fate would have it, he is confronted with some...

The short documentary film Becoming LEV tells the inspiring story of Valerii, a young boy from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Valerii has one dream; to become a professional football player just like Evgeniy Levchenko (LEV). It takes dedication, passion and family to reach this goal. Valerii had a rough start in life but thanks to his supporting foster family he is able to dream again. The production of Becoming LEV was made possible through a unique collaboration between many organizations and individuals...

Kichi, a young Japanese, moves to Los Angeles chasing his dream of becoming an...

Through a trains window that travels at night, we can...

Between ravines and nature, fundamentally, we will learn from a real volcano in eruption, which is Borja Marrero. A chef with academic training and great future projection. A thinker and critic. A lively and hyperactive soul, from whom we will learn a lot about our flora, fauna, as well as many other aspects of the society and history of Gran Canaria and the Canary Islands as a whole. Gran Canaria and the Canary Islands are not only visualized in images in this documentary, but also in the...

In a Madrid where everything has changed and Nitrogreen is now the most important thing, a taxi driver must make the most difficult decision of his...

Ashley Solis is a high school senior who must divide her time between school and supporting her family as a second-generation Mexican American. Located in a California working class town, the harshness of agricultural labor in the strawberry fields shares a stark contrast with the beautiful nature and relationship to her spiritual ancestral upbringing. This film documents Ashley’s life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern...

A Northwestern Argentinian teacher leads a mobile cinema crew to the most isolated school in the Jujuy high-altitude valleys, undergoing a 20-hour journey on foot in adverse conditions. Their arrival involves us in the high-altitude educational values, portraying the isolation in the Andean worlds and how communities engage with the earth. “The Andean Screen” is a poetic analogy between cinema and travel; a choral history spun by Silvina Velázquez, principal of the school, whose tenacity...

Trained Monkey is a documentary about primate explotation that follow the stories of Toni - a chimpanzee that was caught from the jungle and sold to a Portuguese circus - and Cheeta, the sole survivor of the infamous Oasis Park Zoo escape of 2015, which ended in a tragic...

One of the most important people in Prudence's life has been missing for a while. She still does not know how to deal with his absence and goes out every night to look for her, when he finds her, he loses her...

A journey to rediscover the beef sector from the different perspectives of its protagonists. A sector very punished from the environmental point of view, animal treatment and health. We delve into the lives of three different farmers, each one in a part of Spain, showing their love for their profession and their vision of it by getting closer to their deepest...

The irruption of the pandemic has made one of Spain’s economic foundations tumble: tourism. “Here Comes the Sun” offers a sociological, urbanistic, ecological and cultural analysis on the birth and development of the “sun and beach” tourism on the valencian Mediterranean...

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...

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:...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A short yet sweet film about booze in Lebanon. From Beirut to the Bekaa Valley, exploring the history, distillation and appeal of the grandfather of all spirits -...

Everything is born with a riddle. A riddle with a very simple answer, but for many people the answer is not so obvious....

Global warming and pollution, as well as the increase of diseases and epidemics are closely linked to economic growth. The economic treaties that seek to regularize trade at the expense of the rights and freedoms of millions of workers, as well as the wars we are experiencing, for the control of natural resources, see what many call "collapse". Meanwhile, the mass media direct public opinion to other issues that are much more superfluous, which makes us suspect who obey. There are too many...

Eric's ex-girlfriend Mia goes back to Barcelona for a fertility treatment and asks Eric a huge favor: she needs someone to accompany her to the...