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...

William Waldren (1924-2003), a multifaceted, restless, charismatic and controversial artist, arrived in Mallorca in 1953. A pioneer and self-taught in archaeology and the study of the prehistory of the Balearic Islands, he excavated the sites of Muleta (where he found more than a thousand Myotragus Balearicus) and Son Matge (one of the oldest witnesses of human settlement in the Balearic Islands). He applied the Carbon 14 dating method for the first time. Epicentre of the cultural movement in...

The Canary Route has become the main access route to Europe from Spain. The context of the COVID-19 health crisis has hindered the implementation of reception protocols for migrants from Africa, showing that the immigration regulations have been insufficient when it comes to managing the arrival of small boats to the coasts. The documentary makes an analysis of the European regulations through professionals from different sectors and the first-hand testimony of those who have lived it. "They...

A forced disappearance doesn't only end with the life of the person who has disappeared, but generates, like the ripples of a stone thrown into water, an enormous emotional scar in their families and in society. In the early 1980s, José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, alias Naparra, a member of the Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos, was disappeared. Between crossed statements, numerous vindications and judicial indifference, his family will try to find an answer for his disappearance. More than...

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...

Wilderness explores the unknown life in ten deserts around the world. This is a documentary built from impericia, from misunderstanding, from surprise and mutual amazement; It is a film that reflects on the idea of community, the relationship of man and his environment in which nature, beasts and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a world that is supposed to be...

The Roca brothers and The Macallan, driven by their curiosity and thirst for new knowledge, start an exciting food discovery journey around Scotland. To create a surprising menu as a tribute to Scotland, the brothers will explore amazing products and ingredients, guided by the country’s farmers, breeders and most innovative...

When a filmmaker is accused of sexual misconduct, he decides to make a documentary to condemn the senselessness of the new wave of feminism. However, as he tries to expose the arguments of those who defend it, he realizes that he has been on the wrong side of the...

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...

Maria (15) and Kevin (17) have been a couple for three years. In the summer of 2020 she discovers that she is pregnant. Despite the contrary opinions of their respective families, they decide to go ahead with the pregnancy. On 8th April 2021 their son is born. Romeo is the name of the...

The Ayoreo were (and still are) a group of hunter-gatherers and incipient nomadic farmers whose ancestors have inhabited the Chaco for thousands of years. Threatened by deforestation, since the 1950s and 1960s some families have decided to leave the jungle and settle in sedentary communities. They had forest to hunt and gather comfortably. The last group to leave the Mount, in 2004, was formed by several Ayoreo Totobiegosode families. With other Totobiegosode they founded Chaidí. The filming...

Ventotene is a very small island in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, where, since the 1920s, people were confined in complete isolation because of their ideas. Ventotene is however a paradox, because from this place of exclusion, the idea of the European Union started to grow. Today, starting from the new artwork by French artist Daniel Buren (“Un Manifesto Colorato - A Colored Manifesto” - 2020), the documentary wants to bring European discussions back on the island, to look back at...

In "Bocas de ceniza", a town that bursts out from the course of the Magdalena River and the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. Julio Núñez spends his days fishing and weaving nets, the memory of his wife and his displacement from his homeland bring this story to...

In this episode we discover how Austrian and German scientists escaped from the Nazi regime in the 1930’s and found refuge in the newly created Turkish Republic under the cloak of University reform. These great scientists of their era in escaping the Nazi regime; were pivotal in raising the standart of Turkey’s eductaion system. Filmed on location in Austria, Germany and Turkey; this documentary tells the story from the perspective of the children who were born and witnessed these...

Finita (84 years old) talks every night to her German boyfriend, Manfred. She lives in Torrevieja, and he lives in Eppenheim. One night, Finita tells Manfred that she has discovered some old super 8 tapes in her house. That's how she decides it's time to go back to the past. She will challenge her grandson, and director´s film, to reincarnate the...

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...

Siblings Amaia and Aitor are close to turning fifty, do not have children, and since they were young they have lived away from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, who are now retired. One summer the four of them get together and go on a cruise called FANTASÍA. On the high seas time seems to stand still. But beyond the horizon, reality forges ahead...

A short aged girl, daughter of pilot, discovers a forgotten world. The world of ultralight airplanes, the last reminiscence of ancient aviation, at the age of airś pioneers. Trough the eyes of her surprise and discovering spirit we also discover a diferent way to understand what means flying, not with the help of sosfisticated tecnologies, but by feelingsensations, enjoying of landscape, as the same way than did air's pionners more than a hundred years ago. Pilots shares with us their passion...

Yarsagumba, also known as the 'Himalayan gold' is a rare mushroom that is picked in the remotest corners of the Nepal Himalayas.'Mushroom at the Top of the World' follows a story of a village in Nepal's Rukum district, where in the aftermath of the People's War, the villagers have turned to mushroom picking in order to restructure their livelihoods. The documentary film addresses the issues of the precarious world of rural Nepal and portrays the people and their resilience in daily struggles to...

A group of four bike messengers commits themselves to the start up and with the support of experienced Dutch bike messenger Joeri Scholte, who settles down in Kampala, they try to build up a sustainable business model and organisation structure. After a promising start of Kampala Cycling Couriers the bike messengers face challenges and the tensions between them rise. Their commitment and courage are tested. Towards the end of Joeri’s three month stay in Kampala the future of the courier...

Ricard Camarena, whose vegetable-based cooking has earned him two Michelin Stars, faces the challenge of re-opening his restaurants after confinement. Unaware of the pandemic, València’s orchard has continued its natural cycle of...

A lighthouse keeper prepares for his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he bursts out singing, she begs him to stop screaming. When he tells her he wants to change his name to "Elf", she warns that his family will abandon him. Now, as Trausti’s hundredth birthday approaches and he senses the hand of death upon him he is on a quest to...

The Tallahassee Unified Family Court (Florida) specialises in judicial cases involving minors. It is the only court in the United States that deals with matters relating to children and parents. The families are summoned to this court when accused of abuse, abandon or negligence in regard to the minors. The objective of this court according to the Law is to reunite families as quickly and safely as possible. The movie takes its inspiration from the words of James Baldwin: “If one really wants...

The Russian industrial city of Karabash, which was known as the dirtiest city in the world, is to be planned to be transformed into an “Ural Switzerland”, an ecological green city. A close observation of how this mega project is being implemented and how it is changing...

Landscape documentary about inequality in 21st century U.S.A. as seen entirely through the lens of a dash-cam. The car drives slowly through metropolises, rural neighborhoods, and natural and urban landscapes to capture a country with one of the largest and most visual economic, industrial, and social divides in the...

Madrid, after decreeing the state of alarm for the global pandemic of Covid-19. Experts in matters such as health, politics and the economy, create debate and awareness about its precedents, its management, its consequences and how this health crisis comes at a historical moment where the need to, not only address the collapse generated is crystallized for cuts to public health, but also to understand how neoliberalism decides that some lives are more important than...

On August 22, 1960, Heinz Stücke left Hövelhof (Germany) with his bike and a tent. He was 20 years old. He said goodbye to his family and friends and never came back. He had chosen a nomadic life that he wouldn’t leave anymore. 36 years later, in 1996, he had already traveled all over the world and was recognized as the man who’s traveled more in history. The selling of his photos and brochures helped him to survive in an austere way of life. Now, he is 72 years old and stops for the...

Everybody has a mother. But motherhood still remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ -always patient, caring, happy and the reality of mothers around the world. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, MALAMADRE narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mother’s point of...

Four women's lives changed after the war in Syria. Strangers whose paths crossed in the midst of a dire situation: one marked by violence, neglect and death. They now live in Lebanon and Jordan, where together they are rebuilding their own...

The story of the popular protest that shook Hong Kong in 2019. The movement started in response to a proposed law that would have allowed the extraditions to mainland China of Hong Kong citizens, but soon morphed into a larger revolt against China’s control over the semi-autonomous city. The population of the former British colony is struggling with accepting China’s rule of law, which comes with reduced freedoms and civil rights. Into the frameset of the harshest economic and geopolitical...

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...

This film retraces the story of Cuba's enthralling golden decade of revolutionary cinema, while following young passionate Cuban filmmakers' in their present-day struggle to revive the island's film...

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:...

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...

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...

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...