Think about the metamorphosis is to refer to the idea of process. As if they were butterflies, Laia, Guanyem and the city of Barcelona are transformed during this documentary, changing skin and leaving...

Sexual harassment is a growing problem in Egypt, especially in Cairo. Through a series of interviews and social experiments, The People’s Girls takes a closer look at who is to blame, as well as how women are fighting...

The amazing story of how Benidorm became a major tourist resort thanks to Pedro Zaragoza, the legendary mayor with a Vespa. This unique man was able to create a modern city out of nothing, turn it into a leisure playground for the middle class, and then pitch it from London to Lapland with marketing strategies that still seem incredible even today. Did it all really...

A love tale between a clown about to retire and a young secretary that leaves Liverpool to become an actress in Italy. On the road, she meets a human cannonball man and decides to stay at a circus, considering that staying on an travelling circus is somehow...

“It was visionary, the awakening of a new era”, says Amha Eshete, the Ethiopian musical producer in the days of Swingin’Addis, the golden age. Recordings made between the 50s and the 80s, the Ethiopian music publications that crossed borders; while the contemporary musical scene of Addis Ababa remains practically unknown to the world. Music in Addis Ababa expresses everyday life and the processes of transformation in the city. This documentary explores this musical vitality as it observes...

More than 50 years of armed conflict among the FARC, the ELN, paramilitary groups and the Colombian government have left behind eight million victims. During this time, thousands of minors have been part of the armed groups. They are also consider victims because their childhood is always going to be linked to a weapon; the jungle was their home and the battalion, their...

Californian farmer Jesus Ramos was born in Mexico City and migrated with his family to the U.S. for a better life. He picked oranges in his youth and worked his way up to owning a 140-acre orange farm. As extreme drought wreaks havoc on the American West, Ramos finds himself on the front lines of a water shortage that threatens the future of his farm, his family and his community. As agricultural communities struggle while big coastal urban centers boom, farmers are cutting their losses and...

If you go out around music bars and venues in Addis Ababa, you will enjoy a very characteristic scene, but if you want to get an idea of the different sounds from the country, you will get a very narrow view of it; in some places some Amhara or Gurage music may be found but... what about the...

A traveller follows the steps of Camilo Jose Cela after his famous novel “Journey to la...

Too many memories for one...

A trip to the south of Spain searching the ruins of Comala, a small village that shares its name with a fictional town, that was invented by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo in his novel "Pedro Páramo". This short film is a journey between two towns, one fictional and another real.  The director takes the voice of the novel and he goes to the landscape of his family to think about belonging, myth and memory. Like in the twin cities described by Italo Calvino, Ruvira offers a game between the...

Dani Garcia, one of the best chefs in Spain, find himself and his career in a critical juncture. In January 2014, his restaurant closes, he is a chef without restaurant. The Michelin stars and his credibility are at...

17th February 2013: Rafael Correa wins the elections and becomes President of Ecuador for the 3rd time. 42 days prior, he sails on an epic campaign of echoing songs, speeches and interviews for weeks on end as he tours the country with his team, always saying yes to a handshake or a picture when surfing a crowd of future voters. Photographed in black and white, far from the campaign colours, the documentary distances itself from the vain representation of power and the sarcasm of the press....

A journey through memory accompanied by Buñuel’s photographs taken during the scouting of locations for “Nazarín”, as well as the ones made by Manuel Álvarez Bravo during the shooting of the film, along with the testimonies and reflections of artists, filmmakers and intellectuals like Luis Eduardo Aute, Jean Claude Carrière, Carlos Reygadas, Silvia Pinal, Arturo Ripsetein or Carlos Saura among many others, to re-discover the poetic, vivid and inspiring force of Buñuel’s...

Learning is a journey that lasts a lifetime. Falling down and getting back up. We are not all that different even though an ocean lies between us. Sometimes, distances are not measured in...

An inspiring story about Paul, a 12-year-old boy from the township Dunoon in Capetown, South-Africa. Paul has a dream, a dream he thinks about the whole day; he wants to become a surfer. But for boys from Dunoon it's not easy to surf. There is no transport to the beach and there is no money for...

In Pamplona, during all year, the arrival of the summer is expected, and with it comes the Running of the Bulls of San Fermin. The smallest ones dream to run when they become...

The beekeeper Shé Zuo Bin performs a traditional rite of spring on one of the rocks. He allows queen bees to be placed on his body who then summon worker bees. By the end, the beekeeper body is entirely covered by bees. In a kind of trance, he stands utterly still. The buzzing of bees dominates all. He trusts the bees completely, and for a moment they lose all that is dangerous, terrifying. They are a protective...

On May the 25th 2014, for the first time in European history citizens were called to vote their representatives in a unified European Campaign. Only 28% of young people did vote, with a surprisingly high result for Euro Skeptical Extreme-Right Parties. Through three stories from England, Italy and Belgium, this film depicts the involvement of youth in the...

Based on the life of Javier García Roche, a boxer and owner of a junkyard, who helps young men of impoverished neighborhoods in Barcelona to overcome their struggles. An image of real courage: when you know you don’t have a chance, but you pursue your goal no matter...

Aida; the oldest flower vendor in Alexandria has been roaming the city streets for the past 50 years. Aida is a familiar face for the city residents, yet they don't know much about her, a face that holds within a long history of untold...

From her tiny office overlooking the US Interests Section, Lourdes counsels thousands seeking a travel visa for the US. She fine tunes her customers’ stories, so they have better chances to succeed. After a long wait, Lourdes time has finally come: her interview is set. Her dream to visit her dying mother was never so...

The Brazilian girls' football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams...

True smile is the story about a trip through the empty glance of an autist and blind boy who crosses 1.300 kms in tandem bycicle with his brother. This documentary inmerses us into the Sergio's unreachable world, that seems to the desert, the destination of their...

La Fura dels Baus distils what they consider essential in this world, their most intimate philosophies. The ideas behind the work, the way trouble is overcome, what is suffered and enjoyed, what excellence means to them; to sum up, how Mugaritz is created and destroyed constantly. Risk is constant, that is the idea behind the title, but it is also proof of the wisdom that comes from the effort and work of many people that have been, are and will be in Mugaritz; a place where the culinary goal...

Two young men travel on a 40-day caravan journey through the Canarian archipelago in order to re-discover their land, revalue their culture and bring a new point of view of the...

Those deprived of freedom are classified into being first, second or third degree. There are people who spend all their free time, for nothing material in exchange, visiting and helping prisoners return to freedom, return to the society they belong...

The deadly risks faced by teenaged matadors in-training are overshadowed by the threats to their livelihood when the controversial sport of bullfighting, and the values and traditions at its heart, is challenged in Colombia. In this poetic verité documentary, everyday gestures, images, and rituals transform bullfighting into a metaphor for the personal and social struggles of this group of at-risk Colombian...

Jazz Project is a musical documentary that addresses jazz in Santa Fe, Argentina, from a request made to musician Pedro Casís. In his journey, he interacts with friends, current and former students, trying to assemble the different generations as important pieces of the film...

The film chronicles some military activities carried out by the Italian contingent in Herat and Bala Morghab, Afghanistan.The film features 9 chapters with an ink on paper aphorism...

Given the situation between Israel and Palestine, it is hard to imagine how much the two territories rely on each other economically. Vadim Dumesh’s film focuses on this exact angle, more specifically on the trade in citrus trees for making charcoal in the Jenin...

Naomi Ducuara Bucurú, is an indigenous woman in southern Tolima, displaced by the armed conflict in Colombia. Like her, dozens of indigenous men and women victims of violence come to big cities to establish in suburbian areas, until they become invisible. This is how the Cutumay Rio de Oro community is born in the Martinica village of Ibagué, formed by others displaced indigenous who fight for a place in the city where they can recreate their customs and practices permanently so the...

My capacities show the daily day of a group of people with disability. They and their parents are the protagonists of this film, which aim to raise awareness, touch and, above all, inform to other families that may be living this situation in the...

A well produced and touching concert with Faroese singer-songwriter...

The best kept secret of The Andes will be revealed…For some, he is the thinker that set in motion a spiritual and political movement that passed through borders and extended from Argentina to India. For other, he is the leader of a sect, a skillful manipulator and demagogue. For most, he is still a...

Michael Thomasson has spent a lifetime amassing the world's largest video game collection. Now, with his mother sick and facing an enormous mortgage, Michael put his collection up for sale and hope that someone will pay enough to cover his...

Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, has been gripped by unrest in recent times. This is a unique portrait of a nation in suspense, a nation in fear, a nation in waiting. A rare and exclusive snapshot of the days after the riots but before the...

Cooking Up a Tribute chronicles an unprecedented journey in which one of the best restaurants in the world closes its doors for five weeks in order to go on the road. In their travels around four American countries, the team from El Celler de Can Roca pays tribute to Mexican, Peruvian and Colombian cuisine with their own personal reinterpretation of local ingredients and...

A journey through the life and work of José Luis Romanillos, spanish self-taught guitar builder. He emigrates to England looking for a job and there, following manual instructions, he manages to make his first guitar. Back in Spain after retirement, he introduces us to the old art of guitar construction. Possibly, we have attended the last guitar that has come out of his hands, which celebrates the 50 years of his life with...

A day in the life of Mr. Istvan and Ms. Magdi, neighbors for many years, is narrated by the building of Budapest where both...