Since the outbreak of the war in Syria there are women refugees who have spent years working as day laborers in the Bekaa Valley under exploitative conditions. Her newborn daughters upon entering Lebanon also work in the fields to this day. Their future it's uncertain. They cannot prosper in Lebanon because it does not recognize them as nationals, nor their refugee status or protect their basic rights. They cannot return to Syria while there is war. "Aamelat. Day Laborers of War" exposes...

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...

When a war suddenly breaks out, a 14-year-old boy finds himself faced with a decision that could save his family, with no time to think, he embarks on a treacherous 250 kilometer journey to...

A Californian backpacker travels to Buenos Aires to pay homage to the Argentine pirate who conquered his hometown of Monterey in 1818. Along the way, he becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the U.S....

Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and Harry Potter. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against...

Sandra is an 18-year-old actress at the time of the Spanish transition to democracy: a time where being young and beautiful automatically placed you in what was known as “cine del destape” – “nude” cinema. Alone and distressed by an unwanted pregnancy, she´ll try to make decisions about her...

Alvin has just come out of prison, he is on parole and is starting to work at a tool and die workshop in Staten Island. He lives in a project with his grandmother, who has feeble health. He keeps a low profile, avoiding reconnecting with the crowd who ended up with him in prison. His mother, who he has not seen for many years, unexpectedly calls asking for help: she needs money to bail her out of prison. To appease his grandmother’s anxiety and worried for her deteriorating health, Alvin...

Death at Torrevieja is a portrait of a stuck Spain, living on the daily and looking for easy money, working to attract and serve tourists, gettingtrapped in a vicious cycle of fast income in the summer and financial drought in the winter. Chetia thinks she’s the queen of Torrevieja, aNEET that makes money scamming tourists in illegal balconing bets, but her reality is far more difficult when she gets home: she has to take care of her son, Yeray, a kid she felt forced to have and that Bes her...

Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his whereabouts. At the same time, Marcia tries to pretend everything is under control for the sake of her 8-year-old...

In the final chapter of his remarkable life, Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla embarked on an awe-inspiring endeavor, capturing the essence of his homeland in a kaleidoscope of vibrant brushstrokes. His monumental work emerged as a testament to the deep unity woven through our diverse world, celebrating the tapestry of shared experiences that define our humanity. Now, a hundred years later, embark on an epic cinematic odyssey, following in the footsteps of the visionary artist himself and unearth...

In 2018, the naturalist and explorer Nacho Dean, decided to embark on the challenge of swimming around the world, linking the five continents to warn about the conservation of the oceans and document the state of marine ecosystems. Since he was not a professional swimmer, he needed more than 2,500 kilometres of swimming training in order to conclude the Nemo Expedition, after 24 months, 5 crossings and 90 hours of...

They didn’t want to go back into the closet, to pretend that old age was taking away so much of their struggle. They had a dream: to live in the first public LGTBI residence in the...

Jamyang Lodro Rinpoche, the 47th inheritor of the Tibetan Buddhism Jonang sect, founded an intangible cultural heritage institute in a remote poor Tibetan settlement in China. Teaching Thangka painting and other traditional Tibetan culture for free, the school breathed new life into this...

Dani is a young geriatric assistant who starts his new job in an old nursing home taking care of Marisa, an elderly woman in the last few hours of her life. Dani aims to use the situation to get hold of some of the old woman’s jewels and valuables, and unleash some of his most personal perversions. However, Dani may have chosen the wrong...

After 30 years taking anxiolytics for depression, Mari Carmen begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Her husband and daughter will have to learn to live with the disease that will lead them to create a new relationship between...

Eugenie is at her grandmother’s wake. She grieves, but also wonders if there is a way for her to see grandmother again. It takes her on a quest into the pine grove and Grandma's house where memories of their time together are still alive. While the memories fade, Eugenie realizes that Grandma will always be with her, but in a different...

The fortuitous meeting of three women in a hospital waiting room will mark their lives forever. They don't know each other and neither can believe what is about to...

Aitana throws parties and parties at her fifteen floor rooftop in the madrilenian Gran Vía, hoping that the girl with wich she shared the madrilenian nights and that she is still in love with comes over to any party with her. A re-reading of Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby in the 2022 of the instagram, the Halloween costumes and madrilenian...

After fifteen years without setting foot in Argentina, Rodrigo travels from Madrid to Buenos Aires in order to attend his father’s funeral, a well-known painter. Experiencing mourning with his family and managing more than two thousand artworks left in an old studio triggers a reunion that leads him to reconsider his future...

After a serious mistake in an illegal operation, four detectives have 48 hours to try to clean their tracks and get rid of an investigation that accuses them of drug trafficking, torture and...

From her empty nest in Santo Domingo, Dominique is waiting for her first grandchild to be born abroad, and she eagerly expects a baby girl. When Carmen, her live-in maid, vanishes without a warning and leaves behind her 7-year-old granddaughter, Dominique takes the girl in. As she deals with pushback from her family, Dominique finds herself challenging her own...

Ara and Edu have been lovers for a decade, when they were a novice actress and screenwriter. Apart from their official relationships, they always find a moment to be together, an oasis in their lives. Right now, the two are in serious relationships (very serious, in fact) with their respective partners, But even this much-desired truce is not free of the lies and nostalgia of their real...

Roc (13) and Sara (14) have arranged to meet through an app. Although they have previously discussed all they’ll be doing, they both feel nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Under pressure to lose their virginity, Roc and Sara meet at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of the city. They have decided to stop being children and become...

Despite their age gap and the fact that they are in a mental health institution, Lena and Carmen will find in each other the strength to begin to...

A father desperately searches for his daughter Joe, missing from the building where he works. His loss will reveal a terrible...

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...

Pedro, an unemployed architect travels to Cantabria to sell the animals inherited by his grandfather. Among valleys, mountains, cows and donkeys Pedro will have find an unexpected paradise, a new meaning in his life, a bond with his late grandfather, and Paula, a Mexican student who steals his...

Rich is a 30 year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his place in the world, but not the same feelings. A weekend with her and her young, polyamorous friends will make him question his life so far and his concept of...