Christian, a former organized crime member, seeks redemption by founding Ángeles Soccer, a team that trains kids and women on a once crime-ridden lot in one of Mexicali's most dangerous neighborhoods, aiming to rebuild the community he once harmed.
A Bulgarian theater company struggles to adapt Herman Melville's epic "Moby Dick" for the stage, revealing the obsessive dedication and creative challenges faced by cast and crew in their quest to bring an unfilmable masterpiece to life.
A visual story that captures the essence of the Giffoni Film Festival, described by François Truffaut as “the most necessary of festivals.” It is not a simple documentary, but an emotional diary that mixes daily observations with creative narration. It is an intimate and collective look at Giffoni, a place that every summer is transformed into a small cinema town, inhabited by real emotions and personal visions. A tribute to cinema as a tool for growth and to a festival that manages to give a voice to those who, through cinema, seek to better understand themselves and the world.
A documentary exploring the essence of Irapuato, Guanajuato, through the fervent passion its people feel for their soccer team, "la Trinca Fresera." Through its images, the documentary immerses us in the local identity and how it is intertwined with the love and loyalty towards a club that, more than just a soccer team, represents the pride and history of its people. Through emotional testimonies, archival footage, and local music, Con Dios y con la Trinca portrays the deep ties that connect a community to its legacy and its future.
For Ahmad Joudeh, a stateless refugee from Syria, dance is not a choice, it’s a lifeline – etched onto his very skin with the words “Dance or Die.” Having defied war and family disapproval to join the Dutch National Ballet, Ahmad found sanctuary in the Netherlands, becoming a UNHCR and LGBTQI+ Ambassador. But haunted by the trauma of his past, he makes a perilous decision: to return to Syria for the first time since the war, risking everything to bring the healing power of dance to a community still ravaged by conflict.
Through personal archive footage, Martín reflects about depression, the difficulty to free himself of the past and the uncertainty of a present/future. Using VHS videos from his childhood and the insertion of tweets as a personal diary, it creates a dialogue between nostalgia of an evocative past and the dynamics of an online world.
A year in the life of the Sightless Cinema audio drama network, as they embark on their biggest show to date. The Sightless Cinema network is a group of blind and visually impaired people who create audio dramas for performance in theatres and cinemas. Founded in 2015 by theatre director Ciarán Taylor, and sound artist Rachel Ní Chuinn, Sightless Cinema has grown from a tiny group to a nationwide community. Director Gareth Stack followed Sightless Cinema as they rehearsed and performed their new show across Ireland. Members of the group candidly discuss their sight loss and how their lives have been shaped by blindness. We watch their creative process in action. As Sightless Cinema turn their lived experiences of blindness into compelling audio theatre.