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Zosimus, the patriarch, is about to die, and Leonidas, the youngest monk in his community, sees it as an omen of their grim fate. Deeply shaken and forced to venture into the city, Leonidas discovers a brotherhood of an entirely different order than his own: the bodybuilders of the Boa Gym. Convinced that he is destined to save his congregation from their own weakness, Leonidas rediscovers the power of his physical body and begins a radical transformation.

In a cave within an incisor, a shaman works ambitiously on a massive mural. When she runs out of paint, she travels to the wisdom tooth at the back of the mouth to gather new supplies. Her journey is arduous, as toothpaste storms sweep through the oral cavity: the television presenter to whom the mouth belongs prepares to deliver the weather report with a brilliant white smile.

In nighttime Havana, the dim lights that light up its streets rely on an unstable electricity supply- the same one that supplies the sound systems at raves. A group of young people, witnesses to the complete lack of energy, drift through the city, lost in delirious conversations, conspiracies and apathy as the city grows darker.

A cheeky dismantling of spy tropes and a love letter to Cambodia, THE SENTRY follows a suave Western agent who thinks he's about to make another routine kill. But some stories refuse to be footnotes - and this particular guard isn't finished talking. A genre-bending tale about the extraordinary lives we're trained to overlook.

Zazu, a teenager in the midst of discovering their identity, must choose whether to take part in their village’s traditional celebration by assuming a predetermined role, or stay true to what they feel.

A demon haunts Adela’s house, tormenting her and causing her harm. This drives her to visit a psychiatrist, where medication is presented as the ultimate cure for all her problems. But what she truly needs is for someone to listen to what is really happening to her. The only place where her reality seems to fit is within religion and folk rituals, leading her to visit a healer to whom she confides how and when it all began.

Kusanagi, a delivery worker, gets a complaint about a damaged package. With his boss Sakurai, he visits Heihachi to apologize. The tiger figurine was made by Heihachi’s son Jun. Heihachi asks, “How will you compensate for this masterpiece? How much is it worth?” and tries to make them buy it. While Heihachi is out, Jun says, “I saw my father break it. He cried. Don’t hate him.” As Kusanagi leaves, he returns the figurine: “Jun is your greatest masterpiece.” Heihachi is stunned. On the way back, Kusanagi and Sakurai talk about their sons.

Lita has feared lizards since she was a child. Every summer, she returns to Lagartera, where her family’s traditions run deep. During the Corpus Christi celebration, as her grandmother dresses her, Lita uncovers the roots of her fear.

An emotional journey through home recordings made by a thirteen-year-old girl, as the author revisits her own preadolescence and loss of innocence.

When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.

Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown.
A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.

Between Spain and Algeria, Soumaya reconnects with her family and heritage. Through laughter, prayer, and memory, three generations of women weave threads across distance, belief, and tradition.

FUCK THE POLIS is a film about an intimate connection with the world: a profound attempt to look at what surrounds us, where history coexists with the present and our memories and emotions intertwine with the objectivity of reality.

Based on a letter from activist Lili Massaferro to an American friend, narrated in voice-over, and using archival material from various Argentine media outlets, the film recounts Lili’s personal story and her political commitment, intertwined with Argentina’s own history: Peronism and the figure of Evita, the death of her son Manolo, and the Peronist feminist movement of the 1970s.

Documentary that captures the testimony of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, whose children were detained and disappeared during Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–1983).

Three archetypes of human dialogues and their logical impasses. Visual genius at the service of sarcasm.

This film is dedicated to those who transform the hard mass of glass into magical images of their poetic imaginations – Czech glassmakers. In search of inspiration, the artist looks dreamily out the window into the rain.

A young woman who engages in a series of romantic encounters, dating different men to find a suitable partner. Her choices are presented as a process of selecting different types of romantic experiences.

A little boy ties a knot in his handkerchief not to forget calling a plumber to the house. Distracted by football, the handkerchief takes life and explores the world around him.

The film is a dark grotesque about a blinded thief who is ultimately robbed of his most precious possession, his own blood, by his victims from the other world. The film is a mix of live-action with animation and with high artistic expression.

In the aftermath of a mysterious disaster, the few humans left find themselves unable to reproduce the species. All hope lies in the hands of five women who have developed the technology to create human life outside the body. But the researchers cannot reach an agreement on how and if to release it. In the absence of consensus, they immerse themselves in the study of pleasure.

Join us on the luggage rack of my bike for a sensory roller-coaster through a land full of cuddles.

“La Durmiente” explores the story of the medieval Infanta Beatriz of Portugal through fabulation and children’s imagination. Entirely shot at the Monastery of Sancti Spiritus in Toro, a space once inhabited by Beatriz and where her tomb lies, these children stage and interpret fragments of the life of this character erased by history, yet preponderant in the Portuguese dynastic crisis of 1383.

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s.
​Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?

After a computer crash, a girl struggles with the loss of her long-time virtual pet, Bubba.

A rock of cobalt channels a chorus of voices as it undertakes a trans-continental journey beginning in a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This hybrid documentary uses generative artificial intelligence to visualize territories of extraction in spaces that are usually understood as ‘resource-peripheries’.

Mia has spent her whole life freediving, fishing and gliding through seaweed and rocks. Time has passed, tracing its lines on her body, and shaping the landscapes around her. Loved ones have vanished. Tonight, Mia remembers.

A deteriorated film, shot in 1982 in a Latin American country, presents a succession of everyday images, among which a few stand out that testify to the violent events that took place on May 9 of that year. Interspersed between the images, a man's voice presents the official version of the events. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicion that what really happened was covered up.

Rin finds a roll of film left inside a used camera. Curious, she has it developed. As she moves through the quiet changes of her life, the people and things connected to the film start to cross her path in unexpected ways.

In a world that demands community participation, individual desires inevitably collide. A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

The image of a neighbourhood beside the motorway, with the city in the background, is followed by a theatrical canvas. On the outskirts of Córdoba, Spain, the final year pupils at Federico García Lorca primary school are looking for a film to make. What would you do or what would you like to see if we were to make a film about Roma culture or the Roma people?

Following the death of his mother in 2011, the director embarks on an intimate journey through the personal belongings and memories she left behind. This short documentary delves into grief and illness, exploring their ties to dignity, caregiving, and legacy. It reclaims cinema as a powerful tool to unearth the past.

A woman travels from Paris to Galicia in search of the person who took care of her when she was a child.

A middle-aged man reflects back on his tumultuous adolescent phase while sitting in his childhood bedroom. Through intricate and deeply personal musings somehow all tied to his hair - hair growing or hair receding - we, over time accumulate meaning into the larger journey of his life.

While dealing with a strange being that lives inside her, a woman seeks to reconcile with her sister over an incident from their adolescence. By exploring the experiences they share through their bodies, she manages to confront the nature of what inhabits her.

For a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes has been in search of a mysterious elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, a wooded plateau — virtually uninhabited, but in size as large as England. He sets out with master trackers from Namibia, the best remaining in the world, but there is a deep underlying question: would it not be better to keep these gigantic elephants rather as a dream, as ghosts, as the White Whale, than finding them in reality?

In the wake of Palestinian memory, National Pride: From Jericho to Gaza follows Hassan Al Balawi, a diplomat based in Brussels, returning to his homeland on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat—a tutelary figure of the liberation struggle and leader of the PLO. Filmed in 2019, the film traces his journey from Jericho to the Gaza border, through an occupied West Bank where every checkpoint, every landscape, bears the imprint of broken promises.

The quest for “La flor de Irupé”, a long-lost film by Guillermo Fernández-Zúñiga, pioneer of Spain’s early 20th century scientific cinema, unfolds as a journey through memory, family, and the nation’s archives. As we watch the slow growth of the yrupẽ water lily, different layers of images and silences begin to surface.

Animated documentary based on authentic recordings presents the struggle with addiction through visual symbols and shortcuts. Alongside the characters we take a journey out of the vicious cycle of addiction, from one end of the spiral to the other. There lies the memento and uncertainty, but also hope.

Mr. Gnome is sunbathing in his garden when suddenly a little cloud hides the sun. Mr. Gnome is pretty annoyed but, fortunately, he knows precisely what to do with such clouds.

Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with imagination and hidden dreams. Isolated in her fantasy world full of made-up busty dolls, plastic men’s body parts, juicy strawberries and dentist tools, she builds up her own relationships with her body and sexuality. Diving deeper and deeper into her childhood memories, she again experiences rebellion against her mother and mixed feelings for her father. Electra has to go through the most painful memories to let her suppressed feelings come out. In the end, she is ready to reveal what has really happened during her 10th birthday.

Furry lives in a clearing surrounded by dark woods with a pack of animal friends. Their only food is rare orange seeds that transform into large glowing fruit as soon as they touch the ground. Furry’s friends are afraid to venture into the scary woods, but he’s bored doing nothing but waiting.

A short animated film from a world much akin to ours. It begins with a family that leaves their small suburban home, something the house cannot abide. Thus begins its journey to find the family. The one clue left to the house is a shiny red business card that leads it to a strange part of the city, occupied by robotic, automated houses. Will this be where the owners can be found?

The Kite deals with the topic of death in a metaphorical and symbolic way. Through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, the film shows that none of us is here forever and all living creatures must die, but at the same time it reminds us that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

This short film about life after the loss of a loved one uses techniques of both live-action and animated film to deal with a difficult topic. The real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people prematurely exposed to death.

Once upon a time in a small faraway village, carps were preparing for a peaceful and happy Christmas Eve, as tradition demands. But Christmas, which has become the peak of year-round consumption, no longer fulfills these values. Some may even lose their lives in the honor of these sacred days.

Hurikán rushes to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst. Despite getting the keg, he succumbs to temptation.

A dog carcass, a dump, and beautiful moths high in the sky. This is the life of Steve, a parasite desperately looking for a soul mate. Unfortunately, all his attempts to be close to someone end in disappointment The bird he saves from another dog dies; the rat that touches him dies; the cockroaches, pretending to be his friends, take everything from him but the last bone. Absolutely helpless in the skeleton of a former wearer, he almost loses his life under the wheels of an evil combine harvester, but at the last minute, the bird from the beginning of the story re-appears to save him. But it´s not really the same one Another parasite is now living inside the bowels of the dead bird. Steve has finally found his soul mate.

Sylvie’s life beats in a rhythm of responsibilities. And she is efficient, flawless, wonderful and - tired. A small accident happens and everything changes... or maybe not.

The passion for high speed can nowadays almost be seen in the new-born. The film shows that such passion, if not controlled, is self-destructing and even suicidal. At least this is the way Trnka presents it in this satiric story.

A girl finds new toys under the Christmas tree and loses all interest in her previously favourite rag puppet. She goes to bed in the evening. The boy puppet comes to life in her dream and tries to regain the heart of his friend.

Toy maker Josef Hoblík makes a puppet of Adolf Hitler one evening. However, an SS man who is walking down the street, sees something suspicious and sneaks into Hoblík’s workshop. The master throws the wooden dictator into the fireplace and escapes through the window.

A stagecoach is driving across the prairie, carrying a beautiful girl and her father. A singing rider, a skilled gunslinger, appears next to the carriage, confesses his love to the beauty, and then disappears into the wilderness again. In a gorge, a sly stranger boards the stagecoach and begins to seduce the girl.

An anti-war film with a strong pacifist appeal, it warns that human history has been intertwined with violence and warfare since the dawn of time, from the caveman with a club to the atomic bomb, which can completely destroy all civilisational efforts.

Ernesto, a 90-year-old man living in a care home, decides to reveal the secret he has kept hidden all his life: that he is gay. By doing so, he faces the unwanted loneliness he has endured for keeping it secret. Meanwhile, Aitor receives the shocking news that he will die soon, which makes him rethink his life and start living experiences he had previously rejected. Marta, a widow for many years, struggles against the monotony of her daily life, trapped in a routine of memories, until an old love unexpectedly reappears in her life.

"Esa Maravillosa Niebla" is a trilogy that seeks to help normalise the various developmental disorders. As its author explains, it is a literary/musical project reflecting the social evolution of these disorders over the last century, promoting education in diversity and equality. Taken as a whole, the work stands as a tribute to inclusion and fairness.
The first instalment, published in November 2018, focused on raising awareness of autism. The second broadens its scope to include both autism and Down syndrome. Finally, the third and final part aims to address the topic of mental health without censorship.

“Two Iberias” is a historical documentary exploring the connections between Georgians and Basques. Through history, linguistics, and folklore, it compares two cultures that, despite their distance, share structural traits and parallel paths. Based on the hypothesis of a common pre-Indo-European origin, the film doesn’t aim to prove it but to analyze similarities in language, traditions, and cultural resilience. Filmed in Georgia and the Basque Country, it includes interviews and scenes showing how both societies have preserved their identity against empires and globalization.

Joseba Lekuona, a stone artist, sculpts exclusive pieces of art only within the reach of a few. Simeón Hidalgo, a retired teacher with a passion for rural Romanesque art, barely maintains the Petrus museum, a tiny and exciting cultural project in the middle of nowhere. Elsa Plano, mayoress of the area, has made the survival of the Izagaondoa valley, in Navarre, her crusade, regardless of political parties. The paths of Joseba, Simeón and Elsa come together, paths in which, each in their own way, they make everyday life a form of resistance.

Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!

It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early.
She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.

X is growing up in the 1990s, she makes prank calls as a child and gets her first job in telephone sales as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X's actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset. Am I Calling You At A Bad Time is an experimental documentary with fictional elements based on recollections of true events.

Inside my head, there's a cat, a dog, and a pile of rocks.

Starting with an excerpt from an Albanian feature film from the communist era in which a boy dreams of the construction of a modern city, EVERY EPOCH DREAMS THE NEXT reflects on how a cityscape changes as power structures shift and how these power structures can override the common good and the general public.

A day in the life of a woman who is busy taking care of her obese dog. Her lovely show of affection towards the animal is interrupted by the arrival of her partner, who, in need of the woman's attention, affects the cozy atmosphere of the house.

In Slet 1988, the dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through the utopian architecture of socialist modernism—her aging body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a teenage girl’s diary from 1988 and exposing the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body was creeping in, soon to shape the future of the country.

Under a burning sun, Adel and Moïse try to come to terms with the loss of their father. But as their grief turns into an obsession, a rift grows between the two teenage brothers and threatens to separate them.

After waking with excruciating neck pain, a woman descends into a surreal odyssey of fragmented memories, haunting dreams, and the relentless challenges of simply moving.

Animal Eye follows scientists and philosophers studying animal vision, confronting the limits of science, film, and philosophy in grasping how others see. Using ultraviolet, polarized, high-speed, infrared imagery it creates a kaleidoscopic encounter with worlds beyond our own. Blending method and wonder, the film asks how we engage with the nonhuman, inviting us to see animal visions as forms of thought that resist full comprehension.

Why do Iranian security forces in Protest of 2022 target the eyes of protesters, and thus vision itself? A duo of Iranian filmmakers in exile in Berlin take this as a ground line, they reconstruct narratives of images taken from social media during the protests. The film presents this search in the montage process, in which the filmmakers combine their distanced, subjective narrative with the images of the protest to examine the power of the images of the protest as a political construct.

Marianne and Pétion live in Haiti and wait impatiently for a call from their son in the USA. As silence sets in, their fears and worries grow, revealing the fractures in their own lives. The promise of the American dream now seems to elude them, as the line between hope and reality becomes increasingly blurred.

A group of mirror factory workers publish a book of reflections.
Based on a real mirror catalog from the USSR, the film reimagines the roles of the uncredited models within it as active producers of their own images.

Parallel lines sometimes intersect.

In the early 18th century, in the blue mountains of Jamaica, enslaved Africans who had escaped from plantations founded autonomous communities of Maroons. Queen Nanny, their supreme leader, led their struggle for freedom. She is one of the most celebrated figures from Jamaica, and embodies the victorious fight against slavery and colonialism, as well as the resistance of the island’s women. Her spirit remains very much alive.

In a discotheque stuck in the 80s, four lives intertwine as each search for connection and meaning amidst the pulsating beats and timeless allure of an era that refuses to fade.

Nastia, who has lived abroad for many years, begins to teach her mother how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. The complicated navigation of social media reflects a no less difficult path to communicate. While learning, the heroines learn a lot about each other, but will the intimacy regained by Zoom be defining for the further relationship between the two adult women?

A southwest Chinese family tries to purge a mysterious entity from their queer heir, torn between love and tradition.

As an aquatic malady threatens their forgotten coastal village, three young fishermen resort to illegal dynamite fishing.

A twisted utopia unfolds, as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.

Otoño de 2024, entre el campo y el bosque. Cuchillas refulgentes. Una meditación sobre un objeto y su propósito en manos humanas y en la eternidad y repetición del tiempo y el espacio.

At 18, a young man commits to 17 years in the military. Inside the system, he witnesses things he hadn’t thought possible. Many of his comrades consistently make mistakes or lack the physical and mental endurance. The military is well prepared and quietly removes the deviants from the countless formations they have to perform. The young man holds up well, but Frank, his roommate and friend, has a problem. His repeated failures have caught up with him.

The shooting of Franco Maresco's film on Carmelo Bene is interrupted. Maresco accuses the production of "filmicide" before vanishing. A friend steps in, investigating as a chance to explore one of Italian cinema's most corrosive authors.

Between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, the land quakes from time to time, and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. The ruins that lie below — Pompeii, Herculaneum, long-submerged Roman villas — tell of a future that was buried by time. From these traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, in black and white, a lesser-known Naples emerges and fills with lives.

Duela gutxi aurkitu zituzten Gazako bizitza islatzen duten 2001eko hiru MiniDV zinta. 1989an espetxeko kide ohi baten bilaketa gisa hasi zenak ustekabeko bidaia bat eragin zuen Gazako iparraldetik hegoaldera, Hasan bertako gidariak lagunduta, eta orain ez dakigu hari zer gertatu zitzaion.
Memoriari, galerari eta denboraren joanari buruzko gogoeta zinematografiko bat, zeinak agian inoiz berriz aurkituko ez diren bizitzak eta iraganeko Gaza bat irudikatzen dituen.

This short animated film is set in a cold Nordic country in the early 19th century and tells the tale of an old man who works as an awaker, waking people up. His life is always the same — until one day he gets a shiny old bell.

A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave her no support. Sometimes it's too hard to open your feelings and share it with a loved one. Sometimes it's too late. Let your painful memory fly away like a free little bird.

The death of a beloved pet is hard to deal with, and even if we try to prepare for it, it often takes us by surprise. This is the story of a boy and his dog Dede, who suddenly passes away. Lost in the depths of grief, the boy eventually discovers that her death does not necessarily mean that Dede is completely gone.

A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the inhospitable wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for animals.

The Big Sister – a person of colossal size – is trapped in sand of a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister. But The Big Sister keeps growing and sinking into her trap. Despite of The Little Sister’s attempts to stop it, she is left with one night to say goodbye and let go.

A documentary based on edited footage that explores the traumas of the post-war period in Spain, comparing images that remain alive in people’s memory and images filmed at the time.

Two transgressive journalists decide to transform a hundred-year-old wedding dress atelier into the first feminist culture center in the city. What if they wanted the entire work to be done only by women?

Lehen begiratuan, Kameleoik eta Kiwik bikote bitxia osatzen dute: lehenengoak atentzioa ematen du bere kolore aldakorrekin, Kiwi burusoilak, aldiz, ihes egiten dio arretari eta beti dago beldurrak jota. Baina hurbiltzen ari den ekaitz batek teilatua birrintzen duenean, ez dago desberdintasunentzako lekurik: elkarri lagundu behar diote itsasertzean zain dagoen ontzira iristeko! Ez da zeregin erraza, ordea! Arka hautatutako bikoteentzat soilik da eta, Kameleoi, bere mingain handiarekin, eta Kiwi begiokerra ez daude hautatuen artean. Azkenean, ontzian sartzea lortzen dute, baina arazoak hasi baino ez dira egin: Kiwi eta Kameleoi nahi gabeko eta ustekabeko zama bihurtzen dira, eta ontziko ordena hausten dute. Arka jada itsasoratu da eta lurra azkar gelditzen ari da urpean…

The Kite deals with the topic of death in a metaphorical and symbolic way. Through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, the film shows that none of us is here forever and all living creatures must die, but at the same time it reminds us that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

This short animated film about a little boy who longs for deep-sea adventures in a snow-covered city is a homage to Jacques Cousteau.

Bicycle Face is an audiovisual essay reflecting on the relationship between women and bicycles from a contemporary perspective. Through film fragments, archives, texts, fiction, and sounds, it creates a collage that celebrates women’s freedom, struggle, and resilience. It stems from a 19th-century event, when a fictional disease was invented to discourage women from riding bicycles.

A poetic and experimental essay on the idea of returning to live in the countryside. Filmed in Super8 and through camera editing, this project pays special attention to the smallest details, which often go unnoticed, and tries to make the return home more pleasant. Through animation and text, questions are raised about what it means to be human; the city tends to destroy the animals that we are.

Two friends chat about life on the shore of the sea.

Traditionally, women's bodies have been the object of regulation from different spheres, becoming regulated and disciplined bodies in order to fit into a specific statute, woman, in singular.

This is a mockumentary inspired by the real-life kidnapping of the “Sireno de Getxo” for protest purposes, which constructs a fictional story: ten years later, this same group of activists kidnaps Marijaia, the patron saint of the Bilbao festivities, to draw attention to climate change. Through fictional interviews with neighbors and witnesses to the kidnapping, it humorously shows how a rumor can become news and how it is possible to construct a collective narrative through a hoax.

Zazu, a teenager in the midst of discovering their identity, must choose whether to take part in their village’s traditional celebration by assuming a predetermined role, or stay true to what they feel.

Claudia works. Maider reads. Claudia cooks and Maider keeps reading. Who takes care of those who make movies?

Behind the orchard that surrounds the squatted neighborhood of Errekaleor, the constructions of tall and new buildings of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz grow.
While its inhabitants resist the threats of eviction creating a collaborative network, other species grow in the orchard and begin to dialogue with the community.

VIENTO is a visual story in super-8 where migrants remember and live the Andean wind from their memory. The two migrant directors collect seven testimonies and create a common story about the memory of the wind as a sensation, sound, smell, taste, image. The wind as a subject of movement, as a companion of migration, as that interstice of nostalgia where the mourning of migrating and the joy of moving meet.

The Arditurri mines closed in 1984. Nineteen years later, those who enter them have no idea that true terror awaits inside.

Maite, Unai and Merche are Alicia's bookbinding students. They share a workshop where they cut, sew and glue sheets to extend the life of books. While each one works on their book, they talk about life, grief and its variations.

Aurora, Dessi, and Samara, three Roma women, head to the centre of Bilbao to buy a birthday present for their niece Sarai.

Nora, a non-binary person living in Barcelona, reflects on them gender identity by connecting images of her childhood recorded by her mother with images that they have recorded on the streets of the city.

‘It is said that very soon, if God does not intervene, we women will have to go to war’ is the first verse of an old song that haunts Inés when she hears it in the voice of her grandmother Esperanza. A search full of women in whom Inés recognises her present.

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s.
​Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?

It’s the beginning of summer, and Ane is turning 30. After blowing out the candles with her family around the table, Ane finds out that her father did not die of natural causes as her mother Carmen had told her when she was a child. This revelation changes Ane’s life. At the end of the summer, Carmen tries to reconcile with her daughter by spending the day together at the swamp.

Sensei tells the story of a coach, Aritza Saratxaga, and her students. The generations that have passed through her school have left a legacy of surfers unique in the history of surfing in the Basque Country. A coach with a unique character who works hard to raise his students to the top of the competition. A unique vision in which you will see reflected the different situations that surfers and coaches go through.

On April 30, 2021 Frontex carried out the first test flight of the Heron 1 – a military surveillance drone stationed on the Mediterranean island of Malta. The continued effort towards an autonomous and militarised European border is engulfed in mystery and lack of information. A failed endeavour to track the medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, relocates the filmmaker inside a digital glitch – somewhere between Frontex, the military industrial complex and a local plane spotter community.

Immigrant workers built a shopping mall for the Munich Olympics 1972. In 2016 this same place becomes the site of a racist shooting.
“And now this hate.“, concludes a woman in a Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film “Addressee Unknown“ (1983).

The events of the movie unfold in modern Ukraine. A child is born into a poor family, the parents do everything possible to survive, but just when the crisis reaches its peak, a new danger flares up.

In autumn 2024, in the field and in the forest. Shining blades. A mediation on an object and its purpose in human hands and in the eternity and repetition of time and space.

During a hot summer day, a group of teenagers enjoys an illicit stay at a luxurious villa while the mysterious owner is away. But when Lisa, a CCTV camera operator, calls ready to inform the police she discovers that Mr. Ogre has something else in mind to spoil the party…

A couple’s arguments, taken from life, embodied by ghosts.

After being evicted by the local gangsters, an old carpenter goes on a futile search for his missing cat. As he meanders through the forgotten people and places, he is forced to confront the incurable decay of the town.

When a bus seat is pushed too far back, the passenger behind finds her journey taking an unexpected turn. Moving through ever-expanding spaces, joined by growing crowds along the way, she begins to question the boundaries and meaning of the space we all inhabit.

A unicorn that loses its horn will turn into a crow, but the starfish doesn't care about that until the barber falls in love with the fish. This is an animation inspired by Asian parent-child relationships.

It's a serendipitous encounter - two Chinese high school girls track a certain adult woman living in New York City, eavesdropping on conversations between her and her former friend in the mundane of everyday life, attempting to understand the meaning of growing up.

Four young flight attendants from the low-cost airline PanoramicAir find themselves in a hotel room the night before their flight. Two of them have never flown before, while the other two have. To ease their anxiety, they laugh and joke together, until a role-playing game disrupts the balance of the group, revealing a deep truth.

We live in a time of great ambiguity and confusion. Events keep happening that seem unreal and out of control. Hyper-flexible humanoid robots are getting ready to cook our eggs. Tesla cars are exploding everywhere. LLMs are unleashed on social media to generate synthetic data and consensus. Tech overlords are going all in on AGI, using war as their open-air R&D studio. All around them, the world is burning.
Composed of online archival footage, and part of a trilogy, the film is inspired by Adam Curtis and was dubbed with his synthetic voice.

Deep underground, embedded in old muddy rock, the oracle is waiting. A big bright square tells the story of our present on repeat. Slowly it descends over small motionless people stuck in the middle of a world consuming itself. How do you want to be forgotten?

FUCK THE POLIS is a film about an intimate connection with the world: a profound attempt to look at what surrounds us, where history coexists with the present and our memories and emotions intertwine with the objectivity of reality.

For a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes has been in search of a mysterious elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, a wooded plateau — virtually uninhabited, but in size as large as England. He sets out with master trackers from Namibia, the best remaining in the world, but there is a deep underlying question: would it not be better to keep these gigantic elephants rather as a dream, as ghosts, as the White Whale, than finding them in reality?

The impact of communism was huge. Orphans were taken from foster care into institutional care. This animated documentary, containing the testimony of the man who grew up in an institution and a woman dealing with the problem from outside, shows that despite 30 years of freedom from communism the Czech Republic still desperately needs a revolution in this area.

At first glance, Chameleon and Kiwi are a strange pair while the former draws attention with his changing colours, the balding and perpetually frightened Kiwi shies away from any attention at all. But when an approaching storm sweeps away the roof over their heads, there is no room for differences they must help each other to get to the boat waiting on shore! This is no simple task, however! The Ark is only for selected couples and Chameleon, with his gaping tongue, and cross-eyed Kiwi certainly aren’t one of them. Finally, they trick their way onto the boat but that’s only the start of their problems Kiwi and Chameleon become an unwanted and unexpected burden, disturbing order on the boat. The Ark has set sail, however, and the surrounding land is quickly flooding…

The village party has begun and Róza hasn’t been invited to dance. Suddenly, an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes. Róza starts to dance with great passion, quickly becoming the centre of attention. Soon after, she realizes she can't control the shoes, as the shoes are controlling her…

Animated short based on an urban legend from the era of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during the WW II. The phantom avenger with spring-heeled shoes jumps above the streets of Prague and fights the occupants. He has to stop the Nazis from waking up the Golem - a dreadful artificial being from The Old Jewish Town. Czech variation on classic superheroes. Apart from them it wasn’t created by the fantasy of comic writers. This one was created directly from the folk tales.

The summer of 1936 saw two thousand people executed throughout La Rioja, and among the “tumbados” (not fallen) was Agustín Martínez Royo, the Republican mayor of a small village on the banks of the river Ebro, Alcanadre.
When his body was exhumed during the years of the Transition, an almond tree had grown over his chest. This tree, born from spilled blood, serves as the guiding thread of this auteur documentary, where the search for truth intertwines with the uncovering of the senselessness of a dark and fateful time.

A courageous film director, an “enfant terrible” in his early days, who fought against censorship and constantly pushed the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicling the darkest side of Spain’s Transition, would fall into the depths of drug addiction. For more than a decade he would be forgotten, and at times even rejected, but he managed to emerge from ostracism to return to filmmaking, the addiction he was never able to quit.

Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!

At first glance, Chameleon and Kiwi are a strange pair while the former draws attention with his changing colours, the balding and perpetually frightened Kiwi shies away from any attention at all. But when an approaching storm sweeps away the roof over their heads, there is no room for differences they must help each other to get to the boat waiting on shore! This is no simple task, however! The Ark is only for selected couples and Chameleon, with his gaping tongue, and cross-eyed Kiwi certainly aren’t one of them. Finally, they trick their way onto the boat but that’s only the start of their problems Kiwi and Chameleon become an unwanted and unexpected burden, disturbing order on the boat. The Ark has set sail, however, and the surrounding land is quickly flooding…

The Kite deals with the topic of death in a metaphorical and symbolic way. Through the relationship between a little boy and his grandpa, the film shows that none of us is here forever and all living creatures must die, but at the same time it reminds us that death doesn’t mean the end of our journey.

This short animated film about a little boy who longs for deep-sea adventures in a snow-covered city is a homage to Jacques Cousteau.

A group of children visits the ethnographic exhibition at the San Telmo Museum (Museum of Basque Society and Citizenship in Donostia) accompanied by their tutor. The exhibition narrates the last 200 years of Basque Country history, up until 1980. After exploring the exhibition, they share their thoughts about what they saw.

Midnight. Jaime, a baker since he was a child, faces his last dance. The bakery machinery at the establishment works like an orchestra. In an intimate dialogue with the space, the man revisits the place where he has spent most of his life, as the actions of his everyday activities mix together with his memories.
A child plays basque ball and has fun playing around the building.

Following the death of his mother in 2011, the director embarks on an intimate journey through the personal belongings and memories she left behind. This short documentary delves into grief and illness, exploring their ties to dignity, caregiving, and legacy. It reclaims cinema as a powerful tool to unearth the past.

In an imaginary island, childhood inhabits a time without hierarchies. Among ancient trees, scattered branches, and a ship wrapped in mist, the film explores ways of coexistence that require no armor or systems of control. Inspired by real community experiences, Gombaut inhabits a shared territory between species, where life finds other ways of existing.

When death is more present in their lives than ever before, two friends decide to start a new chapter and move together to a rural village.

Memory is fragile, and mine perhaps even more so. I make notes or create clues that allow me not to forget, but at the same time help me cross the threshold of death. My seven-year-old daughter Iune has battled rhabdomyosarcoma. To find healing from the experience, I created a four-part ritual in four directions. A journey back home to Mexico. A journey that has been abstract and confusing, yet filled with symbols and meaning. This expanded cinema experience is built from the director’s random, yet sometimes methodical and systematic notes.

Three kids are looking for something to do on the outskirts of the city. One of them finds a dying animal. The three boys engage in a discussion about what to do with it that will determine their moral judgement.

Cristina isn't well, but not because of the imbalance her husband claims. She's devastated because she has discovered a terrible family secret. Amid all the pain, Cristina gathers the strength to bravely confront the true cyclops who has destroyed their lives.

When her father is involved in a scandal he doesn't want to talk about, Izaro tries to protect her little sister by keeping her out of it.

A demon haunts Adela’s house, tormenting her and causing her harm. This drives her to visit a psychiatrist, where medication is presented as the ultimate cure for all her problems. But what she truly needs is for someone to listen to what is really happening to her. The only place where her reality seems to fit is within religion and folk rituals, leading her to visit a healer to whom she confides how and when it all began.

Joxepi, eldest daughter of the Iparragirre farmhouse, has to carry out her father's job after falling ill: transporting a heavy package across the border with France. The night is dark and not as smugglers often say, for her the police are not the worst thing that the forest hides...

In nighttime Havana, the dim lights that light up its streets rely on an unstable electricity supply- the same one that supplies the sound systems at raves. A group of young people, witnesses to the complete lack of energy, drift through the city, lost in delirious conversations, conspiracies and apathy as the city grows darker.

Next to La Cumbre palace there are two bus stops with the same name. From one you can see the other, and from both you can see the entrance to the palace. The building, impassive, is sheltered within its walls while everyday life goes on.

NATURA FUGIT, an animated short constructed frame by frame from nearly 3,000 large-format drawings by artist Jesus Mari Lazkano over a period of four years.
Based on the painting by C. D. Friedrich in 1824, which depicts the Mer de Glace in the Alps, seized by the Nazis and disappeared. Standing on the glacier, we experience a time travel that dramatizes the progressive humanization of the mountains, as well as the indisputable reflection of climate change, global warming, and the disappearance of glaciers.

Ibai, a young consultant, is tasked with securing the ecological approval for the construction of a new Guggenheim museum in Basque Country's only biosphere reserve: Urdaibai.

In the 1960s (Basque Country), Gartzia, Miren, and their baby are barely getting by in an isolated farmhouse. In a desperate attempt to escape poverty, Gartzia buys a fighting bull, but the plan backfires when the animal becomes uncontrollable. Tension builds until one day, the baby disappears.

It’s 8 in the morning one summer in the early 70s. Ion, an ETA activist, runs for his life through San Sebastian’s Old Town with the police hot on his heels. The city is coming to life, and people are going about their usual routine. As he runs, Ion looks back at the story of his life. His memories of school, where he was forced to renounce his identity, alternate with the look in his father’s eyes and the figure of Madeleine.

Domingo lives for gambling. He takes bets at rowing boat races, pelota courts and the squares where all sorts of competitions are held. But it’s also an obsession that pushes him to take risks, always in cahoots with his cowardly and cynical sidekick, Kornelio. The loneliness of his wife Marcelina reveals the other side of a tale where tragedy could strike at any time.

It's the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early.
She's awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.

X is growing up in the 1990s, she makes prank calls as a child and gets her first job in telephone sales as a teenager. Office smells, heavy breathers, and meaningless greetings follow her from one workplace to another. Through archival material and amateur video footage, the narrative reflects X's actions as a faceless subject playing with her voice as a commercialised asset. Am I Calling You At A Bad Time is an experimental documentary with fictional elements based on recollections of true events.

Inside my head, there's a cat, a dog, and a pile of rocks.

Starting with an excerpt from an Albanian feature film from the communist era in which a boy dreams of the construction of a modern city, EVERY EPOCH DREAMS THE NEXT reflects on how a cityscape changes as power structures shift and how these power structures can override the common good and the general public.

A day in the life of a woman who is busy taking care of her obese dog. Her lovely show of affection towards the animal is interrupted by the arrival of her partner, who, in need of the woman's attention, affects the cozy atmosphere of the house.

In Slet 1988, the dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through the utopian architecture of socialist modernism—her aging body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a teenage girl’s diary from 1988 and exposing the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body was creeping in, soon to shape the future of the country.

Between Spain and Algeria, Soumaya reconnects with her family and heritage. Through laughter, prayer, and memory, three generations of women weave threads across distance, belief, and tradition.

The quest for “La flor de Irupé”, a long-lost film by Guillermo Fernández-Zúñiga, pioneer of Spain’s early 20th century scientific cinema, unfolds as a journey through memory, family, and the nation’s archives. As we watch the slow growth of the yrupẽ water lily, different layers of images and silences begin to surface.

Between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, the land quakes from time to time, and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. The ruins that lie below — Pompeii, Herculaneum, long-submerged Roman villas — tell of a future that was buried by time. From these traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, in black and white, a lesser-known Naples emerges and fills with lives.

Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!

An apartment building full of self-centred inhabitants an utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife, a widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard-to-resolve triangle, seeking absurd and irrational solutions. Consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story transformed into a wry contemporary narrative about how the world sometimes works.

The movie is about a homeless musician who was kicked out of the city after the queen saw his face. Even though the guards destroyed his instrument, he didn't lose the motivation to fix it.

In the ruins of the city, destroyed by the war, a small boy survives. He is hiding from fighting machines and collecting old broken toys that he carries to his shelter to repair them. They replace his friends and family. One day he finds a Christmas gift and runs away with him to the mound of the fairgrounds. The Christmas ballad is a story of a powerful magic of children's games, that breaks the walls of hatred and puts together apparent enemies. The Christmas Ballad based on the very last script by Bretislav Pojar.

José Corbacho and Catalina Solivellas reunite thirty years later to reenact a free adaptation of Don Quixote with amateur actors from Mallorca diagnosed with mental health conditions. Through theatre, the documentary follows a shared journey of humour, emotion, and resilience, where stage and life intertwine amid laughter, memories, and a few tears.

This documentary attempts to reflect the role played by Pello Rubio a person living in a Basque farmhouse who, in 1999, decided to unite two politically opposed worlds: Paco Egea of ​​the PSE (Basque Socialist Party) and Arnaldo Otegi of the Basque Nationalist Left. It took nearly six years of silent conversations that bore fruit with the end of ETA. Pello Rubio's role was key to bringing this entire process to fruition. This documentary captures his experiences, his fears, and his work promoting dialogue.

Manuel narrates his peaceful life with his brother Ramón until the arrival of a prostitute turns everything on its head. Esther’s presence sparks tension and conflict between the siblings until things come to a tragic end. The film explores family relations and repressed emotions in a rural environment.

Based on the novel of the same name by Arantxa Urretabizkaia, the film follows the life of a 30 year-old married woman and her son. The protagonist asks herself what drove her husband, Txema, to leave her alone with their child. Internal monologues serve to explore subjects such as motherhood, loneliness and everyday routine in the Basque society of the late 70s.

On April 30, 2021 Frontex carried out the first test flight of the Heron 1 – a military surveillance drone stationed on the Mediterranean island of Malta. The continued effort towards an autonomous and militarised European border is engulfed in mystery and lack of information. A failed endeavour to track the medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, relocates the filmmaker inside a digital glitch – somewhere between Frontex, the military industrial complex and a local plane spotter community.

After being evicted by the local gangsters, an old carpenter goes on a futile search for his missing cat. As he meanders through the forgotten people and places, he is forced to confront the incurable decay of the town.

The events of the movie unfold in modern Ukraine. A child is born into a poor family, the parents do everything possible to survive, but just when the crisis reaches its peak, a new danger flares up.

In autumn 2024, in the field and in the forest. Shining blades. A mediation on an object and its purpose in human hands and in the eternity and repetition of time and space.

During a hot summer day, a group of teenagers enjoys an illicit stay at a luxurious villa while the mysterious owner is away. But when Lisa, a CCTV camera operator, calls ready to inform the police she discovers that Mr. Ogre has something else in mind to spoil the party…

In the wake of Palestinian memory, National Pride: From Jericho to Gaza follows Hassan Al Balawi, a diplomat based in Brussels, returning to his homeland on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat—a tutelary figure of the liberation struggle and leader of the PLO. Filmed in 2019, the film traces his journey from Jericho to the Gaza border, through an occupied West Bank where every checkpoint, every landscape, bears the imprint of broken promises.

In south-eastern Spain, a great wall separates worlds. A healthy world, and one deemed sick, contagious. The sanatorium of Fontilles has been a sanctuary for those afflicted with leprosy. The filmmaker travels along and across this wall and encounters witnesses of the past and the present : the last residents, workers, a Franciscan sister, neighbours, and the landscape. Together, they embody fragments of its memory and become storytellers of a vanishing world.

The shooting of Franco Maresco's film on Carmelo Bene is interrupted. Maresco accuses the production of "filmicide" before vanishing. A friend steps in, investigating as a chance to explore one of Italian cinema's most corrosive authors.

After a violent police raid in a poor clandestine neighbourhood in Lisbon, a 7-year-old girl seeks to find her missing older brother. At the same time, a young newly released ex-convict tries to start anew, free from a life of crime. The fate of these two will cross in the worst way.

Johannes and Gabin are young, cousins and in love with each other: their story takes place in Southern France.

For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even 2 or 3 times a day. Her record is seven times. She currently has had 192 explosions.

February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three miniature actors who star in a kids’ TV series. After their creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.

Inspired by Norman McLaren's direct animation techniques on celluloid, the short film constructs an abstract narrative using fragments of films found in the trash.

A farce built on the supposed discovery of the last reel of a film long lost.

The music group Akelarre closes a chapter of more than 30 years on stage with a documentary that reviews its origins and the most representative moments of its prolific musical career. ‘Akelarre: marearen kontra’ is a film that unites the life of the group Akelarre with its fans through their passion for music. This documentary is a recognition of a way of understanding life.