Atlas de la desaparición exposes Valle de los Caídos, where technology unearths the truth buried beneath fascist monumentality.
The German Empire was behind a genocide in the region in the early 20th Century. As many as 80,000 of the local people were killed between 1904 and 1908. The area now known as modern-day Namibia then became a German colony. It finally gained independence from South Africa in 1990. German tourists still love to come here but the German government remains wary about either fully admitting to the mass slaughter 120 years ago or paying reparations.
Union Town completes Barbara Kopple's trilogy on labor rights following her Oscar-winning Harlan County Usa and American Dream, two landmark cinéma vérité documentaries. Set against the backdrop of New York City, the film follows delivery industry workers as they take on some of the world's most powerful corporations, revealing the challenges, passion, and humanity at the heart of this growing labor movement.
After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the filmmaker finally admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, Being John Smith takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illusion founded on poetry.
Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the painting then becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned.
Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.
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.
Known for his 10 Basque Melodies, Guridi is the most important Basque composer. His inexhaustible body of work consistently achieves results of the highest quality, and through his sensitivity, he helps shape part of our musical history. Guridi stands out for his humanity and subtle irony, as well as his professional rigor, combined with an artistic quest that aims to leave a legacy of beauty. Through 9 of his compositions, we explore the composer and his era:Is it the entertainment industry or art? Is musical language a craft or an artistic expression?
In 1970s Spain, Ali, a young Moroccan student, faces discrimination at university while trying to pass his math class. With the unexpected support of a classmate, he challenges the rigid norms of the dictatorship.
Chemotherapy leaves Candela feeling insecure and undesirable. To brave love again, she must confront her shame and reclaim her femininity.
Emma no longer recognizes her neighborhood. And now, she has become invisible: in a neighborhood that, with each passing day, looks more and more like something else, where does she belong now? Putanesca is a short film that explores an invisibility that is no mere metaphor—an invisibility born of loneliness, grief, and a city that is transforming into something else.
Sofía travels to Ibiza to work during the summer. Before returning home at the end of the season, she invites her girlfriend, Luciana. Between walks, chance encounters, and sunsets by the sea, Luciana discovers the island through Sofía’s eyes—and in her gaze, she confirms a truth she had sensed for months but had not dared to name.
I am grateful to the Chinese for the invention of gunpowder — it feels as if they made it for me. Its discovery happened by accident, originally conceived as a way to ward off evil spirits. This film begins in China, then moves to an event in Cartagena, and ends centuries later in Bogotá.
Teotiste has decided that she does not want to continue living alone in the countryside after her husband's disappearance. Still, a force she does not understand prevents her from leaving without first doing something in life.
Eleven-year-old Fer travels with his family to a countryside resort a few hours outside Bogotá. Although Fer’s father will be doing business, he has promised to make time for family fun, something that has been missing from their lives for a while.
In the mountains of Colombia, Juan, a 13-year-old mestizo boy, son of an Indigenous woman and a journalist, is forced to flee from the monster of war. Along his journey, the earth itself protects him and, guided by the voices of his ancestors, he awakens an ancient power called Tucuna, which allows him to transform and be reborn. Transformed into Tuktu, a Taita of extraordinary strength, he understands that his destiny is not only to survive, but to return and heal the wounds of war, sowing peace in the land that gave him life.
Ten years after Álex Angulo’s death, Dodó, the daughter he adopted in China, returns from Taiwan to discover who her father was. With his secret suitcase, she travels through Bilbao and Madrid, reconnecting with relatives, friends and colleagues from film, theatre and television. Their stories and excerpts from his work piece together Álex’s life as an actor and a father, while Dodó renews their bond and explores her own identity.
Alice narrates her reflections on art as we immerse ourselves in a liminal journey.
A married couple and their daughter struggle with the child’s behavioral issues. The birth of a baby in the household disrupts an already fragile balance, pushing their shared life into disconcerting and darker directions.
Leo, Unai and Josepet are three boys growing up in La Ribera, in the heart of the Ebro Delta (Catalonia). During one of their last summers before adolescence, we witness their friendship and the small adventures that fill their days. Among rice fields, mud and swims, a sincere portrait emerges of a radically free childhood and of a rural world slowly fading away.
The director’s midlife crisis catches up with her in the summer, on the beach of Empúries, in the Catalan coast, just a few meters from the Greco-Roman archaeological site. Observing the excavated and yet-to-be-excavated terrain leads her to discover that time can be a very relative thing.
1957. As a farewell to her lover Teresa, la Zurda and her friends organise one of their usual weekend camping trips deep in the forest. Stolen time for rest, play and illicit pleasures, far from the repressive gaze of Franco’s dictatorship.
The tide sweeps Bárbara to a cove in the Serra de Tramuntana, where she awakens with a new mission: to reach the Valley of the Moon and help Juan Garaizabal forge a steel sculpture born of the landscape and the flesh.
A teenage girl studies half‑heartedly when a melody drifts in, drawing her to the window. Across the courtyard, a young man just out of the shower dries himself slowly to the rhythm of the music. Their eyes meet in the courtyard of lights.
During her parents' visit, a new Palestinian mother living in Amsterdam struggles to connect with her newborn. As family dynamics unfold, postpartum challenges and family expectations grow.
Blending CGI collages, photogrammetry, and real footage, Display Nature explores how urban and digital spaces mirror our idea of nature and ourselves. A reflection on perception, absurdities of commodification, and disconnect within artificial modern life. “Shape nature, to shape yourself.“
Through a series of encounters between a researcher, a beekeeper, and a group of children, the film explores the intertwined relationships between bees, beeswax, and mourning in the Basque Country.
Between quest and cathartic ritual, Mia builds objects and spaces filled with memories. It is also, and above all, the recreation of an architecture of violence through the eyes of a little girl who was sexually abused in her childhood home by her father.
A budgie finds itself in a luxurious wellness hotel that promises stressed birds peace and relaxation. But between the lulling sound of the fountains and soothing massages, it longs only to return to the safety of its cage.
Joseph is looking for Mara. Mara is trying to find herself. He meets up with her at a party. People are talking about a while whale that has been washed up on the beach. Mara wants to see it, and Joseph wants to follow Mara – never mind the gathering storm.
An animated documentary exploring the lifelong bond between identical twin artists Alicja and Bożena Wahl, where sisterhood, love and art become inseparable. The film is based on Alicja Wahl’s diaries - an intimate, unending dialogue with Bożena - as well as the artistic work of both sisters.
Life follows its routines in a small Georgian village during the festive days of New Year and Christmas. Nata and Dato's family appears harmonious by local standards, but beneath the surface lies turmoil. After enduring yet another violent incident at the hands of her husband, Nata decides to leave. only to face unexpected opposition from village women who pressure her to maintain the facade of normality. This intimate portrait reveals her quiet struggle for dignity against deeply ingrained societal expectations.
Every five years, the community of Taft, California crowns its Maids of Petroleum. The film follows teenage contestants as they rehearse and perform, from a Friday-night football game to the final parade. With oil rigs pumping at the edges of the celebration, they carry forward a civic mythology built around the resource beneath them. Filmed entirely in the present, the film asks: what does it mean to wear the inheritance of a place defined by extraction?
Now 87, the Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi does not have a passport, as a consequence of his 1970s involvement with the revolutionary Japanese Red Army. In a last-ditch attempt to apply for one, he obtains his photos from a small neighborhood shop, maintained for decades by an elderly widow at the mercy of her ancient, fiddly printer.
People, objects, and places have changed the way they relate—or at least, that’s how Oihana perceives it. Now the emptiness takes up space. A path, a window, a bed, a wardrobe, a mirror. With these, and what fits into a hiking backpack, she has all she needs to reset her coordinates and rest.
Please is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and to be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. (In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the sides we try to hide, such as feeling needy and pathetic.)
