A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species. Although we don’t know it, the engines are still running, unstoppable.
Jan, a mysterious character haunted by a deep feeling of guilt, tries to get Violeta back, a youth love he lost 20 years ago, with a sickening plan.
In a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona (Spain), a sick old shepherd and his flock of sheep live near a high-tech laboratory dedicated to health research and animal experimentation.
Bugarach. Nothing ever really happens in this bucolic village in Southern France at the base of the mountain that gives it its name. But the villagers' peace and quiet vanishes when the news story circulates around the globe like a viral video that this close-knit community of 194 inhabitants will be the only place on the planet to survive the December 21st apocalypse foretold by the Mayans. 'Bugarach' dives deep into the subject of the apocalypse to reflect on the fears and coping strategies of humankind in times of deep material and spiritual crisis in the Western world.
Andrés Rabadán was headline news after killing his father with a crossbow. But beyond the chatter of the media, what is the true story of the young man who became known as the “maniac with the crossbow”?
Paula, a thirteen year old girl, starts to experience certain complications in the relationships with her family and friends. In order to be with her ill grandmother, which she barely knows, she spends the summer in Ojos Negros. There she will meet Alicia, a girl her age, who also stays in town for the summer. Together they will venture into the adult world through a stifling summer that never ends.
In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.
A community of women lives in an old convent that falls apart. They never talk and strive to keep everything clean. One day, Irene realizes for the first time that there is much more beyond the routine she and her sisters keep doing over and over. Irene, following nature’s signs, starts a journey of reconnection with her own impulses and body to finally find her own voice.
After serving a prison sentence, Laurence Burton lives a simple life in the desert with his wife. His dream is to build a flying saucer with renewable energy. Together with a group of British pensioners, he tries to make it come true while trying to reconcile with his family's past.
"Boy from the Blaze" is the survivor of a tragic accident that destroyed his life and that of his family. About to turn 18, without a job or an education, he spends his days in the darkness of his room. Consumed by pain and anger, his only hope is writing songs for an imaginary crowd. Inspired by a friend and encouraged by his mother, he will find the strength to go on stage and overcome his fears.
A first-person chronicle of the journey of Barcelona activist mayor Ada Colau in the form of a personal diary.
Max is around thirty and lives with Emma, his intimate friend. Unexpected news create a gap between them causing doubts and concerns to grow inside Max, pushing him to go out at night. Walking aimlessly, Max spends the night alone and accompanied by picturesque characters in remote places of Barcelona. A night of absurd and fantastic drunkenness that is at the same time an inner journey for Max. Yo la busco is a portrait of two friends, their breakup and the strange transforming walk through the nightlife of Barcelona.
One hot spring day, Lluís has a strong argument with his father at the construction site where they work together as architects. As a result of this confrontation, Lluís forced himself to abandon all his responsibilities, pushing his deepest fears to the limit and feeling overwhelmed by the world around him. Instead of going to pick up his daughter Julia at his ex-partner's house, he begins an intense journey that will lead him to decide whether or not to take control of his life.
A found footage documentary film made with home movies that approaches to new forms of self-representation and exhibition of our intimacy on the internet and social networks. Made with home-movies where private experiences or intimate situations, turned public and ex-posed on the web, give rise to new self-narratives. Through tutorials or confessional videos, this work illustrates the dynamics of repetitions and iterations that determine the way we show ourselves on the Internet. The films are particularly centered in the forms of construction and exhibition of genre identities.
Marked by a tragedy, Lluc, a biologist, travels to Quest, a mysterious and uninhabited island, to carry out scientific research.
Multidisciplinary Catalan flamenco singer Francisco Contreras Molinas, known by the artistic name of Niño de Elche (The child from Elche), sets off to Bolivia aiming to discover the origins of music and reach the very core of the art creation process. Along this existential quest in the depths of the Latin American soul, full of extraordinary acquaintances and experiences, he will reacquaint himself with his innermost feelings, reshaping his relationship with music, with his family, with life as a whole. A self-awareness journey embarking for the final liberating destination: the child hidden inside us all.
An examination of cultural psychology of domination and submission as how they relate to labour, race, gender and class.
