Politics

A group of left-wing labour lawyers go into hiding in a house when the coup d'état takes place in Spain on 23 February 1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, staying in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain's fledgling...

Diego Rodríguez de Silva and Velazquez. Velazquez. From being the grandson of a hosier and the son of a modest ecclesiastical notary, to becoming the son-in-law of the influential painter Francisco Pacheco, protected by Count-Duke of Olivares at the Court, chamber usher, bailiff, chamber painter of King Philip IV, Assistant to His Majesty, Assistant of the Chamber, Superintendent of Works, Royal Ap othecary, portraitist of Pope Innocent X, supposed hidalgo, knight of the Order of Santiago. And...

Celsa covers her skin with roots and leaves from her garden. She feels the torture endured 45 years ago in a concentration camp in...

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...

The story of young rappers from Bedstuy, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, known to have been both the epicenter of the crack epidemic in the United States and the birthplace of the greatest African-American hip-hop figures and rappers (Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Notorious BIG, Kanye West, etc.). These young rappers want to follow the footsteps of their elders and role models, trying to escape the violence of the streets, the guns, the arbitrary arrests, and the death of African Americans who now...

A bittersweet family dynamic and a strong sense all resilience mix into this thoughtful portrait of the most famous pastry shop in...

In the drought-stricken town of Agua Dulce, in the California High Desert, a ten year old girl challenges her grandfather, a cranky retired firefighter, to follow a crazy plan and bring water back to the dry...

Two employees of the cleaning service of a parliament find a sealed envelope, with no addressee or sender. Both will have to decide what to do with it and its contents, taking a position and taking sides in the situation. A way of doing...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

In 1998, Zoilamerica accused her adoptive father of rape and sexual abuse. Almost 20 years later, she lives in exile while caring for her 10-year-old son. Her adoptive father is Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista revolution and current president of...

Enrique was separated from his mother at birth and Ascensión was forced to hand over her daughter after giving birth to her. Both are victims of the “stolen children” conspiracy; a slippery slope for the Spanish government. Whilst they continue their legal battle, they’ll continue with their searches and live alongside blame, rejection, and the construction of their own...

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...

We plunge right into the epicenter of the current crisis in Venezuela through the voices of its true protagonists. "The Broken Country" is five intertwined stories showing how the citizens are making their way through the remains of a run-down...

Argentinian photographer Carlos Bosch, goes through an intense creative crisis. Cut off from photojournalism, he is looking for a way to represent his present fears, inspiring a debate about image, freedom and...

A portrait of the performance poet Umar Bin Hassan and his personal struggle with the revolution he propagated himself with The Last Poets. As a member of The Last Poets he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan’s personal life, in which he still fights his demons. “Deep inside, Umar was scared of the revolution himself,” says fellow member of The Last Poets, Abiodun...

Fofo, a humble and honest retired worker, picks up strangers with his van to take them to the polling...

A hard worker of the new era, a...

A documentary film about the origins, development and expansion of one of the most elitist and secret organizations in today's world: The Bilderberg...

Every year in Spain, some 16,000 Fiestas are organized, during which animals are used. Honoring the Holy Virgin and the Patron Saints, and with the blessing of religious and political authorities, entire towns -including children- are involved in celebrations of unbelievable cruelty. 60,000 animals are hence abused each year during these “Fiestas of...

St. Agatha’s Eve is a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris), singing verses to the beating of long sticks. Building on this celebration, bertsolari Maialen Lujanbio composes a stark denunciation of gender violence. In verse after verse, she condemns the different manifestations of sexist violence and our inability to combat it. Based on these couplets, twenty young artists direct a collective-created piece,...

24 hours left for Rawan. She has to decide if she´s leaving her home in Europe to join a war in Syria, if religion is the answer to her loneliness. But in that last day in her hometown, coincidences are going to play an important role that could create doubts on her first...

October 30th, 1988. Madrid. Spain. The famous entrepreneur Emiliano Revilla has been kidnapped for 249 days by the terrorist group ETA. María José Sáez, a recent journalist graduate, ex intern in a news agency and unemployed, is the first person to see Revilla...

Ex-miner Les Moore cannot let go of the past. The bitter defeat of the Miners’ Strike 30 years ago hangs over his life and the bleak landscape of a village in the North of England. Beneath his feet the mine struggles on but employs only a few local men. Fearful that their struggle will be forgotten, that their voices won’t be heard, Les joins the fight to preserve the legacy of the mine and calls for the chance of a decent life for his sons in a hurt and forgotten...

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...

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 terrorist and his direct victim’s wife are in the same...

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...

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...

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...

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...

More than four thousand miners go on an indefinite strike against the historic cuts imposed by country's government. Daily protest begin: roadblocks, stay-downs, pitched battles, rallies, demonstrations, a march on Madrid”. But nothing is as before, not even the representatives of the last working class...

In response to widespread media silence, this documentary explores how and why Icelanders resisted the measures imposed by their government following the crisis of 2008, forcing the government to resign in...

Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble...

On July 19, 1979 become the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. The Nicaraguan experience was the last cry of freedom in Latin America, won the support of a whole generation of militants and led to believe that the dream of the revolution was possible. After more than 30 years of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution, a group of argentine “internationalists” recalls their own participation in this latinoamericam heroic deed. For some of them the revolution is as valid...

Cabo Polonio, a small, rough and charming beach lost in time and space located on the coast of Uruguay. The place attracts travelers, hippies and artists from all over the world. Since the place has no pumped water nor electricity, once you are there you can totally disconnect yourself from the madness of the modern life. To tell this story, we talked with a few locals, who explained what does being or going to Polonio means to them. They are: Martin Buscaglia (musician); Gonzalo Brown...

The Sark Case is a depiction of the last week of Feudalism on the Isle of Sark, and in Europe, during the week of its first democratic elections. A struggle between tradition and change, between conflicting interests... with a totally unexpected...

After 20 years in the dark a document comes to light which reveals the moments before someone was run over, an event which could have changed the history of the...