For the first time in six years, Barbara Morgenstern, pioneer of German-style electronic intimate pop, works on a new album. Her laptop sits on a shoebox, in the privacy of her home she finds first lines and harmonies: “I like to be alone,” one song begins. One by one, musicians join her. Intuitive ideas take shape. A window has opened. Arrangements, rehearsals, recordings follow. Step by step, the music enters public space, images are produced, videos, narratives. Questions arise: New beginning or back to the roots? New Biedermeier or tough political comment? The bigger the band, the riskier the booking. The more crisis-ridden the environment, the more comforting the music-making.
The teacher of this second grade classroom, Celeste, has been transferred to another school and has a few days to spend with the elementary school students who started with her. Together they live the month of September, full of movement, changes in direction and revelations, in the endearing intimacy of a classroom in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico.
House With a Voice tells the story of six Burrneshas who, for different reasons, have decided to take on the social role of men. They have done this to circumvent patriarchal structures, to avoid misogynistic attacks, to support the family economically, to avoid compelled marriage and to be free. Our characters communicate with us intimately as they talk about their lives and bring us closely into their personal journey. They speak about freedom and oppression, about the promise of sacrificing their lives for the sake of their families’ survival. But also about the breaking of gender barriers and the power of the human mind to decide who we want to be.
Jamal Hindawi, a 50-year-old Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. Together with a group of friends, he is working on a play that tells the story of an old jacket that symbolises the Palestinian identity. One day, after rehearsals, Jamal goes into the mountains with his friend Zreik, and on the way there he loses the jacket on a bus. A journey unfolds that takes Jamal from the mountains through Beirut, a city in radical transition, where successive crises and protests have left deep scars.
A touching and humorous tale of gender roles and two people’s struggle to fulfil their dream of having a child – with the director herself in the female lead.
The rise of Latin music is explored through the lens of the groundbreaking Johnny Canales Show, a pioneering television program that showcased the genre and became a microcosm of the Latino experience in America.
Poirot, the Last Witness portrays Chilean photographer Luis Poirot (Santiago, 1940) as he opens his largely unpublished archive for the first time. Witness to key moments in Chile and Spain, from the Popular Unity (Unidad Popular) until now, we see him in action, in conversation, and in portrait sessions alongside figures such as Joan Manuel Serrat, Isabel Allende, and Pablo Larraín.
A documentary that explores the composition process of Raquel García-Tomás' new opera, National Music Prize 2020, inspired by the memoirs of Alexina B., a 19th-century intersex person. In this artistic journey, Raquel García-Tomás transforms the understanding of intersex reality into a source of empathy and inspiration, showing how each musical and narrative decision brings this moving story to life, culminating in its premiere at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
In her own words, over the years, Almudena Grandes shared her way of seeing the world, understanding life, and approaching writing. But Almudena is no longer here. The aim of this film is to keep her memory alive: to celebrate her life and work without forgetting the painful void left by her passing. Luis García Montero, her husband, steps into that void and, in doing so, completes the intimate portrait of a writer who, like few others, has been able to tell the story of our lives.