On call 24/7 to respond to alarms wherever there’s more than a proverbial fire. Judith Zdesar accompanies volunteer firefighters in their everyday routines. With a focus on emotional challenges rather than on the spectacle, the portrait of the institution develops into a study of how people deal with crisis situations: it is impossible to predict when, where, and how the next catastrophe will occur. That it will happen, is certain.
Working the land always involves a mutual nurturing interaction. The body that works meets the species of the land that intervenes. A cycle of care is installed. In Miel the production of shared knowledge bee-human-earth configures a scenario of activities that is amplified in a film that walks the frictions that coexist with this community of beekeepers in the Colombian Atlantic.
In the stairwell of a pizzeria hangs an unknown painting. As one of hundreds of props in a First-Person Shooter video game, it receives no attention from the players. But its story reveals an unrecognized privilege.
Laura discovers stingless bee nests in the graves of her ancestors, which triggers a journey in which she questions death, violence and the sweetness of life.
Amid landscapes of confused memories, Doctor L, a missionary in southern Africa, recounts his journeys and adventures in the bush, intensive evangelisation efforts and surgical operations at the end of the 19th century. 150 years later, four inhabitants of the region send him a letter in the form of sound capsules, evoking a past whose traces can still be keenly felt.
A filmmaker, driven by an enigmatic painting he discovers in his grandmother’s living room, travels to Madrid to meet the artist behind the work: the legendary Latin American artist Julio Zachrisson. What begins as a simple encounter soon blossoms into a deep friendship that will change both their lives. This documentary, featuring never-before-seen interviews and archival footage, invites us to reflect on memory, history, identity, and art as a thread that connects generations.
In the 1980s, Taiwanese families arrived in Argentina; years later, many who felt Argentinean ended up in Taiwan. Parents leaving, their children returning; identities and memories divided, worlds we build to find each other.
Alejandra has committed a homicide for which she has a sentence of many years ahead of her. She is detained in the mothers’ ward of Ezeiza prison with her two-year-old daughter Aithana, who was born there. When Aithana turns four, she will be separated from her mother.
A record of the creative process of Spanish director Gonzalo García-Pelayo, together with his new artistic discovery, singer Anikka. During the shoot, he is seen radicalizing and, at the same time, syncretizing the two main themes of his filmography: music and sex.
Yasuo Inomata, the most important landscape gardener in Argentina, was born in a village in northern Japan and settled in Escobar in the 1960s. He created the Japanese gardens of Escobar and Palermo, but some internal disputes altered his work.
A Bunch of Questions with No Answers (2025) is a 23-hour film by artists Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn. Compiled entirely from questions posed by journalists at U.S. State Department press briefings between October 3, 2023, and the end of the Biden administration, the work removes the officials’ answers, leaving only the unresolved demands for clarity and accountability.
A boy tries to get in touch with his culture through a specific fish and to learn more about its history, but he is faced with the fact that he does not master his mother tongue. The film unfolds with tenderness, capturing the weight of what’s lost and the longing to bridge a gap that isn’t just about language but about belonging. Hauntingly beautiful images and a carefully layered soundscape guide the film as it traces the journey of the boy and of the fish: from the water to the hands of fishermen, into freezers and pans, touched by many along the way, and ultimately finding its way into the boy’s arms.
In this movie, Dmytro Dokunov and Richard Marx explore the question of the different realities which take place simultaneously: Richards in Berlin and Dmytro's at the frontline in Ukraine. How do you have to change your own perception of reality? How will the perception of your surroundings be changed too? The nature in which they live looks almost identical, but war is fundamentally changing the view.