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...

Telmo, a young man who aspires to become a filmmaker, arrives to the remotest part of the Amazon jungle. He arrives loaded with innocent illusion, romantic ideas and a camera. Nothing that happens from then on responds to his plans. The Amazonian reality is unpredictable, absurd, poetic and surprising. As Telmo enters the jungle, the world is increasingly strange and his gaze, more filmic. The travel takes Telmo to the limit of reason and his world, to the place where the uncontacted...

The lyrics of Pablo Hasel, Valtònyc and Elgio have not only been condemned by an unjust and vindictive judicial system, but have also been victims of a media tactic that presents them as criminals and "enemies of democracy". This film addresses their cases from a personal and artistic perspective, showing the experiences that have led them to be political victims of reprisals as well as the consequences that this repression has affected their lives, whether due to disqualification, exile or...

For twelve years Boa Mistura has been involved in communities around the world betting on art as a means of social change. A circular journey that part of the periphery of Cape Town, South Africa and travels continents transforming human...

Three children wander along the Cuban coast. There, they have created their own world and are free: the sound of the wind and waves is their music, and shells are their toys. However, as the day slips by, we begin to see a darker dimension to their intimacy and...

Farming fish in the desert is all about withstanding high temperatures and constant sandstorms. It's about adapting to a new and very different...

This story examines how hundreds of women in El Salvador and four other countries end up getting imprisoned following an abortion. Maria Teresa managed to escape this nightmare; after nearly a decade of social and legal persecution, she fled to Sweden to become the first woman ever to get international protection for this...

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...

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...

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 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...

Yeses portrays the life of a theater company formed by women in prison. Thirty years ago, in Madrid women's prison known as “Yeserías”, a prison officer called Elena Cánovas was encouraged to bring the theater to prison, creating a company with the inmates. “Teatro Yeses" was...

The action of a firefighter in the Port of Bilbao, by refusing to participate in a shipment of weapons to massacre the population of Yemen, initiates a social movement that will unveil the dark interests and implications of this...

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...

The portrait of a popular bullfighting festivity in North Colombia, which reveals the contradictions of a society complicit with its very own games of...

The empowering story of 9 Indian girls who are chosen by Karunalaya Social Service Society to represent their country at the Street Child World Cup 2018 in Moscow, Russia. The girls who all had a rough start living on the streets, where they faced abuse and violence on a daily basis, are an inspiration to everyone who meets them because of their positive and uplifting spirit. They see the event as an opportunity to share to the world their plight. They hope to become a role model for other...

Two ordinary guys with nothing to lose because they might have already lost everything, they decide to run away heading nowhere. But sometimes running away is not the...

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...

Who is Jair Bolsonaro and how he became the president of the sixth most populous country in the world? "Our flag will never be red" answers this question by examining the influence of the Brazilian media in the socio-political events that took place from 2013 to 2019. Brazil has "6 berlusconis" that together control 90% of the national audience in all types of media. According to the interviewed, the Berlusconis were responsible for one of the greatest journalistic frauds of all times: a...

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...

"What does Latin America say?" is a documentary that explores various socio political views from an authentic and critical perspective of the people living in different countries in Latin America. Through the stories of these individuals, the film uncovers social situations that are often hidden behind media paradigms, prompting essential questions about life and the different ways of perceiving...

In the Skaramanga’s Refugee Camp Greece, a group of refugee children from Afghanistan at the age of 10-13, paint their experience and memories from the war and their journey to Europe. They describe through their drawings their city as they remember it, the city that they have found shelter in and the city that they wish to live in the...

In a cramped apartment in Mumbai, a family considers eating their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their...

A young woman finds her lover inadequate in fulfilling her emotional needs. A series of events leads the viewer to contemplate humanity’s fixation on finding a flawless...

Children, youth and women spend their days in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. They want to go home, a look for affection, but only the pigeons fly...

Hounded by the memory of a violent event, a man abandons his family and farm to take a journey into an uncertain...

Nimble fingers belong to the Vietnamese women who work in factories owned by some of the most popular electronic brands. Bay is one of the thousands of young migrant workers. She comes from a remote Muong village on the highlands of Northern Vietnam.Now she lives, with the other workers, in a Hanoi suburb, a district developed around one of the biggest industrial production sites in the world. These workers’ life strictly follows the rules of the great Industrial Park of Than Long. Every...

Sparked by backlash to a neo-Nazi rally and a stream of strict anti-immigrant laws passing in the state of Arizona, a group of activists organizes to build Phoenix Allies for Community Health, a unique free clinic serving undocumented immigrants. The film follows their journey, delves into the heart and history of the clinic, and chronicles the poignant stories of undocumented patients as well as their courage and...

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

Independent documentary that addresses the different environmental problems in the north of Quintana Roo region, located in the Mexican Caribbean, caused by the rapid tourism development and uncontrolled population...

Nick, 35, has cerebral palsy and still lives with his parents. His loyal twin brother Chris has always felt guilty about the daily struggles Nick goes through, which he doesn’t. As Nick finally gets his wish to move out on his own, Chris has to deal with his own fears and feelings about this...

HERMANOS tells in parallel the story of two Mexican brothers that want to go back to the US after being deported for life, with the story of an American woman who lost her house and today believes she can get it back through Trump’s promises. Their journeys take them on road trips to meet with their past and with relatives who they believe can help them achieve their...

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

Few days before Epiphany, Antonio and Carmen read the letter that their son has written to the three Wise Men. A very special gift on the list of the child will test the convictions and love of the...

The utopian city of Brasilia is in transition more than half a century later. What is it like to live in someone else’s idea? A meditation on living in one of the most planned cities on earth. Brasília is unlike any other: a concrete utopia designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa that spawned out of the desert. Featuring a haunting, intimate score and images that take us deep into the city, this documentary brings a human face to the utopian...

Through various characters we know the violation of human rights suffered daily by the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip and the situation of blockade and postwar for which it tries to survive. All this in the face of the complicity of the international community and the impunity of...

Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded to flee to USA but her emigration inflicted consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-years-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system. Her "American Dream" turns to be an "American Nightmare", while her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle so he can come and live with her in...

Pemba is a Himalayan Sherpa, however, she has never climbed a mountain; she is a folk singer who fled Nepal years ago due to the civil war in the 1990s, and that now has a new life in Spain. Twenty years later, Pemba decides to return to her hometown, Goli, a tiny village located in the heart of the Himalayas to organize a concert and discover what remains of the paradise where she grew...

The story of the struggle of a small African community against a factory that poisoned their lives with lead, a killer industry operating across Africa in front of the eyes of careless governments and global...