Maître du Réel
In 1931, Sergei Eisenstein travelled to Guanajuato in Mexico to shoot a film. Building on the huge success of his masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (1925), he had previously been invited to the...
International Feature Film Competition
In the Aysén region in Chilean Patagonia dwell a population of 90,000 isolated souls sharing the harsh landscapes of an area about the size of England. Here where beauty seems to be...
Regard Neuf
In his previous short film, Flexing Muscles (VdR 2012), Charles Fairbanks took a trenchant and disillusioned look at the Mexican ‘luchadores', commodified poor imitators aping the popular heroes...
Premiers Pas
Andrei squats in the ruins of the former Barcelona casino on La Rabassada. Having become the unlikely keeper of a building that condensed the Catalan bourgeoisie's dreams at the start of the 20th...
Regard Neuf
A labourer, who is working on the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay, leads a double life. With a certain regularity, he crosses the bor- der with Brazil to go to see “another” family. In...
Focus Chili
Photography appears here as a power- ful means of testifying to one of the most terrible periods in the history of Chile: the Pinochet dictatorship, which marked the years between...
Focus Chili
This film retraces a little-known chapter of Chilean history for the first time: after their exile in Europe, militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) returned to the...
Focus Chili
A sandy beach at the ocean. Holidaymakers are beginning to converge, the lifeguard is carefully preparing his station. A Californian-style atmosphere pervades the first images of the film, but make no...
Focus Chili
In this family road movie, a mother and daughter set off together in search of one of their beloved ones: the sister for the mother and the biological father for the daughter. By seeking to shape an...
Premiers Pas
Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia; gypsy enclave and birthplace of flamenco. They get together every day at the “Colegio”, a former school converted into a ‘peña' (club), to sing with hearts ablaze....
International Medium Length Competition
At the foot of the Andes in Patagonia, Camilo Peña is an old gaucho suffering from an illness that is leading him resolutely to blindness. He decides to stay among his animals, in the harsh winter...
International Short Film Competition
In a retirement home whose daily life is punctuated with trivia, the petulant Josebe, age 88, dwells on childhood memories. She looks back with nostalgia on many moments, from slow dances in her...
Grand Angle
After having revealed what goes on behind the scenes in gold mining with Dirty Gold War , Daniel Schweizer tackles another issue that could tarnish Switzerland with a new scandal: the practices...
Premiers Pas
Pirate or English ancestors, revolution- aries who built a road, an American yachtsman taking shelter in a bay, lost migrants, carefree youths beneath the coconut trees... Cocodrilo is a...
International Medium Length Competition
What goes on behind the closed cur- tains of an itinerant circus? Director Luigi Cuomo takes us on journey to a world that is almost forgotten. Without any romanticised or fantasised preconceived...
Premiers Pas
A circular structure with evocative power reveals a phenomenon observed in the 19th century in the Ribes Valley (Catalan Pyrenees): the recurring presence of small people in the population. From the...
Premiers Pas
Angelica has a sexual problem: a psychological and physical block. Through a video diary shared with two other girls, she tries to understand what is going on in her body and mind. An exciting look at...
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