The identification, in 2018, of the remains of my great-grandfather Miguel Varga in a mass grave turned a decades-old family mystery into a vital need to reconstruct the truth through a trip with my father to the site of the events and a personal letter to my great-grandfather.
This film follows our search, using my family's story to look at something much bigger: Spain's long, unfinished process of digging up its civil war dead. 90 years on, thousands of families are still waiting to know where their relatives ended up, and why.
More than a century ago, Flosi Björnsson and his eight siblings isolated themselves at the foot of Vatnajökull, Iceland’s largest glacier and devoted their lives to the glacier. None of them ever married or had children. The farm remains closed to this day. Photographer Ragnar Axelsson returns where he spent his childhood summers. Flosi’s voice echoes once more, summoning pilgrims to the glacier.
Is it possible to dream of a future in one of Europe’s cities with the highest unemployment rates?
In besieged northern Gaza, Osama, a former artistic photographer turned war documentarian, struggles to protect his wife and newborn while capturing devastation around him. Amid hunger, loss, and trauma, he persists, driven by duty and hope, offering a raw, intimate portrait of resilience and humanity in wartime.
Using a combination of animation, documentary and animated photo techniques, Clodomiro explains the development of capitalism in today’s society. A digitised version of a 16 mm projection print belonging to the Film Library at the National Autonomous University of Mexico is screened.
Buddy Clodomiro relates the story of the class divide within the communities and how oppressor and oppressed nations emerged in history. A digitised version of a magnetic media copy belonging to Martín Salinas’s personal archive is screened.
This animation film relates General Pershing’s punitive expedition as an epic narrative, when he fought the US Army when it entered Mexico and pursued Villa’s revolutionary troops. The film is based on the Mexican folk ballad of the same name, whose verses recount the clash with the humour and the imagination typical of this popular genre. A digitised version produced at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola from a 16 mm projection print belonging to the ZINEBI collection is screened.
There are people who spend their entire lives in the same house—the house of their birth, where the family past rests. At eighty-seven, Benigno still sleeps, eats, and dreams in the home that saw him born, a home rooted in the earth yet rising toward the sky.
Julen (30) and Aitor (27) will meet in a café in New York for a conversation they have long been waiting to have. As time goes by, unresolved matters from the past resurface.
Charo secretly collects abandoned objects and gives them a place in her home. When her family leaves her to look after her niece, her routine unravels and she must decide whether to keep playing the role imposed on her or choose her own path.
When a baby cries, they should be fed. A good mother wouldn’t let them die of hunger. A good father wouldn’t wish to murder him.
Sometimes, the hardest step in a day is the first one. In «Loose Sleep», our hero fights a battle against himself: is it worth it to leave the comfort of the duvet and live life outside?
In the late 1980s, a socialist revolution abolished work, and since then the State has covered all the population’s needs. In return, citizens may be called upon to present a public service television programme.
Lidia and Asier, a couple, arrive in the village of Siurana, surrounded by cliffs, to visit a friend. There is tension between them. Lidia becomes increasingly fascinated by what she feels as she wanders through its streets. A local legend tells the story of an Arab woman’s escape. Asier tries to reach out to Lidia, but she remains distant. When they reach the village church, Lidia stays outside. That will be the last time Asier sees Lidia.
A body covered with a bloodstained sheet lies on a ping-pong table, set on what appears to be a stage. Based on this image found in the Colombian news archive, this documentary piece shows how death, paradoxical and ineffable, has inhabited a place not intended for it: the León de Greiff Auditorium at the National University of Colombia.
The film follows an encounter between the ghost of a possessed girl, trapped for centuries within a stone, and the director’s 102-year-old grandmother, confined to her living room and waiting for death. The ghost, tied to a Polish folktale about the mysterious Kontrewers stone, becomes drawn to the pious older woman, mistaking her for its long-lost mother.
On the train trip home to Kyiv, a filmmaker Mariia Volodymyrivna Ponomarova searches for her lost patronymic — a middle name connected to her father. Questioning the leftovers of patriarchy and the postcolonial legal inertia with witty irony, Mariia explores the fragility of tender family bonds.
The young Taiwanese woman Kai visits an alternative farming project in rural Germany. When vegetable soup is served, she discovers a swastika embossed on her spoon. Nobody at the table knows where the spoon came from — or what to do with it now.
It's an ordinary day at a racing stable nestled in the mountains, two hours from Bangkok. Humans and animals repeat their daily tasks. As the routine unfolds, a portrait of bodies working under strict discipline takes shape: racehorses in the foreground, with jockeys as a counterpoint, the two mirroring each other.
