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...

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...

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...

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...

Spain, 1939. War is on its dying stage. In the Port of Alicante, thousands of people are waiting for a ship. Docked, the cargo ship Stanbrook is witness to the...

A long time ago, before there were rivers in the Amazon rainforest, a Kukama God stood poised in his canoe, holding aloft his bow and arrows.The arrows fell one by one creating vast, winding rivers, which the Kukama people have navigated until modern times. In a world that puts a price tag on nature, this animation takes viewers inside the magic and beauty of the Amazon region and reminds us of our sacred connection to...

At the Basque Culinary Center, 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. The “Bihar dok amairu” menu prepared by the young chefs will be served during a special...

Sara Rus is a survivor of the Shoah and Mother of Plaza de Mayo. Her mission is to keep the memory alive. Her granddaughter wonders what to do with her grandmother's memories and experiences, what is the exact distance to the past, what to do with that...

More than 40 years after the end of its last military dictatorship (1976-1983), a discovery has been made in the north of Argentina, in the province of Tucuman: the human remains of people who disappeared during those years are starting to emerge. La noche del mundo focuses on Pozo de Vargas, a clandestine common grave used for an unknown period of time, where more than 70 people were thrown, some of them even...

Documentary film that tries to bring to the public the figure and work of the Spanish poet Luis García...

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...

The film is the result of the intersection between a series of interviews with people that live in Harlan today and the voices from the past gathered by Alessandro Portelli. While the places are the same, the themes, though connected, are often in opposition. Today's Harlan is facing the crisis of the ming industry and, as a result, poverty, crime, social isolation, and drugs are on the...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

July 1944. San Miniato, Italy, is occupied by the Nazis. Paolino, the local tailor, receives a visit of the SS officer Rudolf Schmidt, who commissioned him a...

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...

In the pond in Franciscu's garden there are still colourful fish swimming about, but there is one which nearly always stays at the bottom. She doesn't come up to the surface like she used to. Anyone who says that fish have no memory has obviously never met Juanita the...

After General Franco’s death in 1975, francoists and anti-francoists agreed on the transition to democracy. The amnesty law allowed the release of political prisoners, but it didn’t mean the end of government officials’ career. Franco died, but his police, army, judges and secret services survived him into democracy. Xavier Vinader is probably one of the best examples of this kind of journalism in Spain. He investigated many subjects, always dedicated and truthful, trying to get to...

Tha last 80 years of progresive transformation made because of tourism, in society and in Putiusas territory, with the 30´s as starting...

Good Night Sarajevo is the story of a voice. The voice of the Bosnian journalist Boban Minic and Radio Sarajevo during the siege of his city in the Bosnian war. A voice that night after night moved its listeners away from the brutality. Boban Minic decided to stay in Sarajevo to defend his city and become a soldier without a rifle. His only weapons were...

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...

With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Apartheid regime, and the death of the greatest leader in that struggle, Nelson Mandela, a group of independent documentary film makers set out across South Africa in search of what is understood about Apartheid and its legacy. The journey captures personal experiences from the country widely known as the “rainbow nation” and a vivid story is revealed that reflects on both separation and reconciliation following the fall of one of the most...

Hendaye, 1940. The German armies just beating France and reaching the river Bidasoa outposts, from this date until 1944 the country will be submitted and this region will become a rest area Hitler's...

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...