Documentary movies

A septuagenarian artist must face the passing of time in his works, his body and to confront his own fears. Naked Colossi, strong arms and big muscles struggle against oblivion. They fade into the blue and vanish like birds in the sky. A portrait of Ricardo Cinalli, shot between London and the Argentinian Pampas. An artist of the Renaissance amidst the 21st century.

On 19 November 1980, a young orca was caught in Icelandic waters. They named him Ulisses. He began his captivity in a water park in Tarragona and became one of the stars of the Barcelona Zoo for more than 10 years. Finally, in 1994, Ulisses was transferred to Sea Word in San Diego (USA), where he continues to spin around in a swimming pool. This is the story of your odyssey.

A story of a chilean family through vHS tapes and interviews in the present day. Drama and comedy to explain the estrangement between family members.

Documentary that recovers the figure of the singer Terremoto de Jerez and his legacy.

In 1982, the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in southern Mexico, buried the Zoque indigenous town of Guayabal. After 38 years, the owners of Nuevo Guayabal rebuild their lives while the volcano and the old village lurk under the brushwood. Trinidad, a poet born on the day of the eruption, has dreams which spark a collective effort in his community to unearth their old home.

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.

The life of the Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000), a brave and tenacious woman, was marked by her family relationships, her passion for writing and the success of her literary work, but also by misfortune and adversity.

A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.

The film appears to be an explicative documentary about the moon cycles and the eclipse. But when the blood interferes with the brightness of the moon everything is red, chaotic, erotic and pasional and it makes us travel through different emotions and sensations.

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

In Mexico, the town of Cherán is threatened by timber traffickers who plunder its forests and terrorize its inhabitants. Some villagers disappear, sacred trees are cut down, the government remains silent. Cherán, led by a small group of women, decides to rebel. This struggle leads the community along the path of its ancestral Purepecha traditions.

A year after Betti's passing, her children and grandchildren are still clearing out a house full of objects. Through them, they begin to remember and tell her story. This way, the family leaves behind the sad memory of a terminal illness and replaces it with the joyful person that Betti was and meant to them.

It is southern summer and a cruise is about to leave for Antarctica. Hours earlier, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. What seems to be the safest place in the world, becomes the worst nightmare of those who travel on the cruise when the first positive case is detected on board. Upon verifying the massive contagion inside the ship, all the countries refuse to receive it, except Uruguay. The country that had implemented an operation to repatriate thousands of citizens and resident migrants, was the only one that provided humanitarian aid to the Greg Mortimer cruise ship that, at the time of docking in the port of Montevideo, was collapsed by illness and anguish. A story where empathy, solidarity and organized action were key to containing the impacts of the disaster.

Based on an investigation of local botany, this film is an attempt to expand the possibilities of the archive. Under the cloak of cicadas, the plasticity of matter expands between poetic and philosophical reflections.