Drugs

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...

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...

In a summer mansion in the Costa Brava, a young domestic worker has to serve two rich kids while they enjoy their summer. Amongst cocktails, drugs and dishwashers, she will look for her own way of having...

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...

During a therapy session, conducted by the prestigious psychiatrist Patrice Allen, the mentally unstable patient Kenneth reveals that he killed his own father when he was a teenager, to protect her mother and himself from his abuses. Soon Dr. Allen finds out that Kenneth is emotionally connected to her neglected daughter, who’s dealing with severe drug issues, and he blames her for...

Quique, an artist from Cadiz Carnival, has a huge life-twist the day he begins to work in Spain´s biggest impounded drug deposit. Due to El Tuti, a local dealer and Quique´s big fan, who is planning to steal this entire drug before the deposit’s opening and the burning of every piece of drug it has. But in order to get it, Quique must be part of the...

With only a 5th grade education, Jabulile Ndaba, a tall black woman with a contagious sense of humor, never thought of herself as a manager. Now she is a leader-in-training at a women’s project near Johannesburg. The project, Kopanang, enables women to earn money through embroidery -- and enables Jabulile to learn management skills. Jabulile is the sole provider for her large family. Her husband drinks away his earnings at the local bar. When Jabulile discovers that their teenage son has...

Bruno is an evangelical priest who travels from Peru to Buenos Aires after his church mysteriously burned down. There he must work for ¨El Diego¨, an old friend from his distant past. However, Diego gradually introduces him into the world of drug trafficking and dancing nights. If he wants to stay at his job, and help his family, Bruno must make a crucial...

Dogs bark around the neighborhood while David drives his sister Angela to her training. Despite being blood brothers, they don't have a lot in common. However, when the night comes, the pack protects each other above everything...

The constant struggle to live a normal life and control the intense desire to consume is the hell of these testimonies that tell in first person the great undesirable effect they suffer day by day due to their addiction to...

A group of friends are smoking marihuana in a car, when they are intercepted by a groupo of corrupt police officers who bully them to let them...

Fred has to make a choice that will change that will change his life for ever, but things don´t turn out as planned as he gets stuck in his...

Carla gets a call from her sister: her father, to whom she hasn’t spoken for some time, is ill. That same day, Carla takes a flight to Almeria, her home town. There, the doctors give her father a few months of life. She refuses to accept this and, against everyone’s opinion, decides to take him to Barcelona for treatment. The two of them set out on a journey to escape a reality that neither dares to face. And it will be on that escape that they end up finding themselves and can say finally...

Carla is alone in her office. She gets a call, it's Raúl, a young guy who passes her cocaine. They've known each other for some years, but they've never exchanged more than two consecutive sentences. Tonight will be the last night that Raúl works as a dealer. He wants to change his life. He's going to Australia, to work as a...

Louis scapes from Amber's relationship looking for his new tinder target, Jennifer. This time he only can arrive there by Uber with Peter driving. Although these are not his only intentions in this trip, that changes their destiny...

Patricia is addicted to heroine and she is in...

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...

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...

It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short animated documentary about the drug-related violence in...

Two young drug addicts wander the streets of Madrid while they review their past lives. The employs they lost, their former love relations, and the experiences shared, all are part of their...

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless...