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Documentary film director, producer and teacher. Among others, directed O Futebol (2015) and Querido Fotogramas (2018), and the short film A Story for the Modlins (2012), which won over one hundred international awards. Coordinates the documentary film department at the Madrid Film School, teaches at the Elías Querejeta Film School and is a member of the committee of experts of the Ikusmira Berriak programme since 2016.

Film director and producer. Has a degree in architecture. Completed the course on documentary film direction at Ateliers Varan and a master’s degree on documentary creation in Barcelona. Founding member of the production company Terratreme Filmes, where he produces his films and works with several directors and producers. Teaches film directing at the Docnomads international master’s degree on documentary film since 2012 and is a member of Ateliers Varan.

A film director who is part of the “new Spanish auteur cinema”. La décima carta premiered at San Sebastián and was nominated for the Forqué Awards. In 2018, Improvisaciones de una ardilla won the Biznaga Award at the Malaga Festival for best documentary short film. Her installation Respirar, Correr, Mirar (2019) was exhibited in several galleries and during the last edition of Gijón International Film Festival. She has been a tutor at Arché since 2019.

Llamadas desde Moscú
by Luis Alejandro Yero
Production: Daniel Sánchez López, Luis Alejandro Yero (Cuba)
Co-production: Cosmic Productions (Germany)
Estimated length: 70’

Days before the Ukrainian invasion is announced, four young Cubans visit a Moscow apartment for a 24-hour stay. In their phone calls, the present and future coexist: their stories as undocumented immigrants, and the distress after the outbreak of the war.

by Mariana Bomba
Production: Vanessa Ragone (Haddock Films, Argentina)
Estimated length: 70’

The love story of two women who, at the beginning of the 90s, link their lives with an invisible thread that soon becomes an overflowing feat of experimentation, joy and bonds of one of the fiercest generations of female filmmakers in Argentina.

Alguien se acuerda?
by Natalia Solórzano Vásquez
Produção: Natalia Solórzano Vásquez (Costa Rica)
Duração estimada: 70’

Virginia had a stable family in the 1950s in Costa Rica. One day, a post-partum depression and a psychiatric hospitalization left her with nothing. In desperation, she wrapped herself in gowns and sequins and became the country’s most famous fortune teller.

Casa feta de boira
by Alberto Dexeus
Production: Montse Pujol Solà (Boogaloo Films, Espanha / Spain)
Estimated length: 80’

Alberto writes a letter to his dead grandmother, in which he comes out to her, albeit at the wrong time, and in which he asks her a series of questions related to the death of her sister in the fascist bombing that destroyed the Liceu Escolar in 1937.

La lengua del agua
by Jeissy Trompiz
Production: Jeissy Trompiz (Alamar Films, Venezuela), Gregorio Rodríguez (Casa Latina Films, Dominican Republic)
Co-production: Pauline Tra Van Lieu (Hutong Productions, França / France)
Estimated length: 70’

Jofris is the last speaker of his indigenous language. After fleeing his community many years ago, his grandmother manifests herself in dreams to warn him that he must return. Jofris must obey his grandmother’s wish even though it goes against his will.

by Diego Bedoya Abad
Production: Fabiola Aliaga, Diego Bedoya (Viento Invierno, Peru)
Co-production: Alejandro Small (Gallinazos Cine, Peru)
Duração estimada / Estimated length: 75’

A mining town refuses to disappear. Miners explore the ground in search of a promised prize. The metallurgical plant has been paralyzed for more than a decade. The union is holding vigils while the fear of a major conspiracy grows. At night, music resounds in the pubs.

Por ti, Portugal, eu juro!
by Diogo Cardoso, Sofia da Palma Rodrigues
Production: Sofia da Palma Rodrigues (Divergente / Bagabaga Studios, Portugal)
Estimated length: 104’

During the Colonial War, thousands of Africans fought in the Portuguese army and risked their lives for a homeland they thought theirs. African commandos from Guinea tell their story and demand that the promises from 50 years ago be fulfilled.

A Savana e a Montanha
by Paulo Carneiro
Production: Paulo Carneiro (Bam Bam Cinema, Portugal), Alex Piperno (La Pobladora Cine, Uruguay)
Estimated length: 90’

The threat of a mining operation by a multinational causes an uproar in the population. They look for strategies to face the enemy. From the top of the mountain, the ranger watches the first trucks arriving. In the valley, an army is getting organised.

Tres balas
by Génesis Valenzuela
Production: Génesis Valenzuela (Dominican Republic, Spain)
Estimated length: 90’

Experimental documentary that relates the murder of Dominican migrant Lucrecia Perez, the first case criminalized as racist and xenophobic by the Spanish justice system in 1992, and the racial colonial system imposed in America 500 years earlier.

Bienvenidos conquistadores interplanetarios y del espacio sideral
by Andrés Jurado
Production: María Rojas (La Vulcanizadora, Colombia)
Co-production: Kintop (Portugal)
Estimated length: 90’

As part of the Moon trip training, astronaut Neil Armstrong is abandoned in the Darien rainforest where he meets a native. They exchange glances and some trinkets. Then the native disappears. Armstrong wonders if he’ll be eaten by a wild cannibal.

Una temporada en la frontera
by Ileana Dell’Unti
Production: Lara Decuzzi (Argentina)
Estimated length: 90’

An epistolary documentary that follows the exile memories in Sweden and Argentina of two architect sisters during the last Argentinian military dictatorship through the correspondence they regularly kept between the 1979 and 1989.

Yõg Ãtak: Meu Pai, Kaiowá
by Sueli Maxakali, Roberto Romero, Luisa Lanna
Produção / Production: Layla Braz (Associação Filmes de Quintal, Brazil)
Co-production: Firelight Media, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA)
Estimated length: 90’

The film follows the journey of indigenous filmmaker Sueli Maxakali and her sister, Maisa Maxakali, to Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) in search of their father, the shaman Luis Kaiowá, from whom they were separated as children during the Brazilian military dictatorship.