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The Invasion of the Barbarians [La invasió dels bàrbars]
1939. A young curator at the Museo del Prado is questioned about the disappearance of a painting that a colonel wants to keep. Eighty years later, her granddaughter searches for her remains.
The chants of Ekai [Los cantos de Ekai]
EKAI hides an unspeakable secret as a result of which he has lost his voice. He lives isolated in an institution alongside other beings with crippled bodies and minds considered abnormal. His cravings for beauty and love enable him to recover his memory, in which there is no clear distinction between reality and dreams.
Rehearsal for Revolt [Ensayo para una revuelta]
In a small village of Córdoba, a group of women perform an unknown popular uprising led by other women in the past: the “Bread Riot of Cordoba” of May 1652. Theirs gestures and words awaken the resonances of their own experiences of struggle and resistance: hard works, being women in rural Córdoba, their own memory war, dictatorship, and hunger, and the memory of their grandmothers.
When Noa, a 48-year-old transgender gypsy woman, is released from prison after an eight-year sentence, she struggles to recover custody of her twin children, who are under state care, and to create the home she never had.
DANIEL, is a hobo that lives on the streets. AINA, a young woman, works for an NGO, is interested on him. She tries to help him, without success. Insistent, she will lead him to discover who he was, a big-shot executive who got fired and decided to vanish, leaving his wife and two children. Thanks to her, DANIEL will be able to face to his old life, discovering that life is worth living.
A childhood tale [Cuento para la infancia]
A neighborhood faces one of the great problems of today's Europe, the coexistence of people from different origins. The impulse to move forward, mixed with an increasingly harsh daily life, will determine the possibility of a joint future or not.
Aamelat. Day Laborers of War [Aamelat. Jornaleras de la guerra]
“Aamelat. Day Laborers of War” exposes the survival situation experienced by these Syrian women and girls who are refugees in informal settlements on the outskirts of Bar Elias and puts de media spotlight on it to unveil their reality. An author documentary that narrates their life conditions and their power of resilience.
Argumosa 11, Living in Emptiness [Argumosa 11, Habitando el Vacío]
Argumosa 11 is a Madrid building in resistance whose inhabitants are evicted by a fund investment. Reverberations of ex-neighbors survive as memories as the tense calm of those who wait is withering the building. With no other weapon to defend themselves than their own voices, the families that stay prepare to fight for their homes.
In a small regional public hospital, a delivery room led by midwives supports childbirth with a humanized approach: placing women at the center and respecting their rights. We provide a realistic portrait of childbirth, while constructing a collective narrative about obstetric violence and its terrible consequences, told by its victims, the UN, and the WHO.
Black Butterflies [Mariposas Negras]
Lobuin, Vanesa and Soma are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of the global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
"Bullying" is the exposure that a child suffers to physical and psychological harm intentionally and repeatedly by another child, or a group of them, when they go to school. Bullying is a new project in podcast format, more accessible to young people where three victims of bullying talk about their experiences.
The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise [La marsellesa de los borrachos]
In 1961, a group of Italian anthropologists traveled clandestinely through Spain to record anti-Franco resistance popular songs. They were prosecuted and censored. Sixty years later we recover the unpublished recordings.
Grandma & the Foreigner [L'àvia i el foraster]
Teresa is a dressmaker. She meets Samir, the greengrocer, who is actually a great tailor who had to emigrate from Pakistan. Enric, in the midst of a life crisis, returns to the village to attend the funeral of his grandma and discovers the relationship he had with Samir.
Stéphanie and Ncuti, two Rwandan actors, and Simon, a Belgian technician, meet at the former headquarters of RTLM, the propaganda radio station during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, to rehearse a program that conveys to its listeners ideas of forgiveness and pacification. But they will discover that they have a common past and they will see that reconciliation is not as easy as they believed.
When her daughter emigrates, a religious grandmother learns how to use the internet. An accidental encounter with pornography, poses a dilemma for her: does she uphold the beliefs with lay down how to be a decent woman or does she surrender to the tempting search of a delicious and shameless orgasm?
Lola lives very happily with Bruno. An unexpected pregnancy revolutionizes their plans. The couple is very clear that they do not want to have children, but during the three days they have to wait for their appointment at the clinic, doubts arise.
Nature of the extraordinary [Naturaleza de lo extraordinario] [La naturalesa d´allò extraordinari]
The School of Free Thought is a Philosophy project for intellectual disability, in an agora where everyone, regardless of ability, iswelcome. The extraordinary is poetically embedded in the ordinary, appropriating what is natural to it, materializing the possible utopia.
Told in real time over the course of one night, a rider has to delivery an order that puts his life in danger while he tries to resolve various pressing personal problems in a series of phone calls.
Sultana´s Dream [El sueño de la sultana]
Taking her inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
Eight months pregnant, Yuri, her son Santi, and her partner Mike flee Honduras with the first migrant caravan. Determined to give birth in the United States, they escape the poverty and violence that proliferates South America along with 7,000 others. Full of hope, they face a dangerous journey of 5,000km to reach one of the most defended borders on Earth.
The Immortal Memory [La memoria inmortal]
A grandson makes a trip to reunite with his paternal grandmother, sick with Alzheimer's, who stopped talking to him when he was little. Through family archives, he will try to understand what happened, while his camera becomes a tool against oblivion, just as it was with his maternal grandfather, who suffered from Alzheimer's years ago.