It’s the end of the 19th century, Cileta and her family are victims of Oleguer, a Poor-squeezer, who expropriates and takes over them and their farmhouse.When he leaves the farmhouse to marry the wealthy ex-notary’s widow, Cileta sets up her next steps; infiltrate on their house to apply what’s learned: money comes...

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...

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...

Sandra is an 18-year-old actress at the time of the Spanish transition to democracy: a time where being young and beautiful automatically placed you in what was known as “cine del destape” – “nude” cinema. Alone and distressed by an unwanted pregnancy, she´ll try to make decisions about her...

Alvin has just come out of prison, he is on parole and is starting to work at a tool and die workshop in Staten Island. He lives in a project with his grandmother, who has feeble health. He keeps a low profile, avoiding reconnecting with the crowd who ended up with him in prison. His mother, who he has not seen for many years, unexpectedly calls asking for help: she needs money to bail her out of prison. To appease his grandmother’s anxiety and worried for her deteriorating health, Alvin...

Death at Torrevieja is a portrait of a stuck Spain, living on the daily and looking for easy money, working to attract and serve tourists, gettingtrapped in a vicious cycle of fast income in the summer and financial drought in the winter. Chetia thinks she’s the queen of Torrevieja, aNEET that makes money scamming tourists in illegal balconing bets, but her reality is far more difficult when she gets home: she has to take care of her son, Yeray, a kid she felt forced to have and that Bes her...

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 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...

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...

Dani is a young geriatric assistant who starts his new job in an old nursing home taking care of Marisa, an elderly woman in the last few hours of her life. Dani aims to use the situation to get hold of some of the old woman’s jewels and valuables, and unleash some of his most personal perversions. However, Dani may have chosen the wrong...

After 30 years taking anxiolytics for depression, Mari Carmen begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Her husband and daughter will have to learn to live with the disease that will lead them to create a new relationship between...

The fortuitous meeting of three women in a hospital waiting room will mark their lives forever. They don't know each other and neither can believe what is about to...

Aitana throws parties and parties at her fifteen floor rooftop in the madrilenian Gran Vía, hoping that the girl with wich she shared the madrilenian nights and that she is still in love with comes over to any party with her. A re-reading of Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby in the 2022 of the instagram, the Halloween costumes and madrilenian...

After fifteen years without setting foot in Argentina, Rodrigo travels from Madrid to Buenos Aires in order to attend his father’s funeral, a well-known painter. Experiencing mourning with his family and managing more than two thousand artworks left in an old studio triggers a reunion that leads him to reconsider his future...

Ara and Edu have been lovers for a decade, when they were a novice actress and screenwriter. Apart from their official relationships, they always find a moment to be together, an oasis in their lives. Right now, the two are in serious relationships (very serious, in fact) with their respective partners, But even this much-desired truce is not free of the lies and nostalgia of their real...

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...

Two friends meet one more night on the roof of the 29th. Life passes over them as they talk about their neighborhood, friendship, the passing of time and betrayal. Reflections aloud from two young people who have never been asked their...

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

The lyrics of Pablo Hasel, Valtònyc and Elgio have not only been condemned by an unjust and vindictive judicial system, but have also been victims of a media tactic that presents them as criminals and "enemies of democracy". This film addresses their cases from a personal and artistic perspective, showing the experiences that have led them to be political victims of reprisals as well as the consequences that this repression has affected their lives, whether due to disqualification, exile or...

Coque Malla became famous at the age of sixteen leading the band Los Ronaldos, but when they dissolved, he found himself at the age of 30 and having to start from scratch with everything against...

The Free Thought School is a Philosophy project for intellectual disabilities, in an agora where everyone, regardless of ability, is welcome. The extraordinary is poetically inscribed in the ordinary, appropriating what is natural to it, materializing the possible...

Simon suffers from Asperger's syndrome, but that doesn't stop him from trying to communicate with Valeria, a deaf-mute girl who regularly visits the same lonely beach as he...

A journey through the immense figure of Tofol Castanyer, the first Spaniard to win the ultra trail world championship. His origins in athletics and how he became the first of the “hill runners” before “hill running” even...

A father desperately searches for his daughter Joe, missing from the building where he works. His loss will reveal a terrible...

For twelve years Boa Mistura has been involved in communities around the world betting on art as a means of social change. A circular journey that part of the periphery of Cape Town, South Africa and travels continents transforming human...

Mirza Delibašić, a European basketball legend of the 70s, voluntarily stayed with his people during the Bosnian War instead of escaping with his family, becoming a symbol for his country. Today, his son Danko moves between admiration for his legacy, the weight of his shadow, and the hurt of his absence. A journey to rebuild his figure as a national hero will lead Danko to discover his own place as a...

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...

Tula is the cleaning lady at a private school for girls. During her workday, she meets the headteacher's fourteen-year-old daughter in the toilet. The girl is going to tell Tula her secret. Tula will have to decide whether to help her or...

In the 21st century, women's rights are being violated in delivery rooms around the world. Spain is one of the first European countries to promote a legislative change to fight this problem and explicitly name it obstetric violence. A growing network of women is behind this long-demanded change towards...

Balika tells the story of Dipendra and Sushmita, two teenagers living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. The protagonists, like all his friends, were abandoned by their...

Jim is going insane, he has been in the hospital forever. When the doctor finally arrives with his tests, the results are unexpected. A matter of laugh or...

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...

On October 23, 2019, the bodies of 39 Vietnamese were found in the trailer of an articulated refrigerated truck in Grays, Essex, UK. These were their last minutes 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...

Three women of different generations live with an eating disorder. Three dark and hopeful realities marked by a childhood trauma that they will try to face in order to come back to...

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...

Celia is 44 years old and she doesn't want to celebrate it to avoid thinking about what it means to have reached that age without a partner or children. She has invited her friends to dinner at her house, but she has told them that it is not a birthday party, but a Christmas dinner where she will offer them her famous eggnog for dessert, a recipe she learned when she lived in New York. The friends don't keep the deal and show up for the date with a strange birthday gift that will provoke a...

It is spring and grandma Margara teaches her four grandchildren how to plant in little flowerpots. Three of them decide to fly away from the family patio they live in and go out to discover the world. Years pass, grandma gets older and those who left are present, in their own way... but never like the ones that stayed. Distance might not bringa return and people can come back or no. But spring, yes, spring will always comes...

Amparo survives in an old deserted haberdashery with Carmela, a plastic bag which she considers her own...