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.
