Alba Sotorra

Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.

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4th February 1975. It's the first day of the historic actors strike that would bring the country's theatre activity to a halt for nine days. They demand one day off a week. What started out as a demand develops into political challenge. Concha Velasco, Ana Belén, Tina Sainz, Juan Diego and José Sacristán are some of the artists who risked their careers and their freedom. This is the story, narrated by its protagonists, as it has never been told before.

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Inspired by the music and life of Robert Wyatt, ​“Rock Bottom” is a self-destructive love story between Bob and Alif, a young couple of artists immersed in the creative whirlwind of the early 70s hippie culture. Drugs will turn a passionate summer into a nightmare in a journey through the themes of Wyatt’s music: the euphoria and anguish of artistic creation, the unconscious fascination with drugs, the disenchantment with routine and physical and mental degradation.

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With the Cold War about to break out in Afghanistan, young, lifelong friends Suraya and Sima must question their life choices and moral principles when they get involved in opposite sides of the conflict.

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Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their professional careers and start a family in 'the land of opportunities'. But upon entering New York airport's immigration area, they are taken to the secondary inspection room, where border officers will subject them to an unpleasant inspection process and a psychologically grueling interrogation.

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Waiting for answers that don’t seem to come, Sica stares at the waves crashing against the coastal rocks. Her father, a fisherman, drowned in the sea. In an isolated corner of the world, Sica doesn’t lose hope. Even if she needs to go against the current.

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Catalan Francesca Llopis is a visual artist. She draws, paints, sews, folds, films, photographs. And she dates. One night at a wine-fuelled dinner, the vivacious – and single – grey-haired woman declares she longs to find a partner. Her friends protest, telling her she will find no better company than them. Still, she ends up downloading a dating app on her phone and starts setting up dates. Her beloved daughter has just flown the nest to explore the world and play music, so Francesca is left alone to deal with the new emptiness rumbling in her heart. She fills the gap with splashes of bright red paint as she calls her daughter and listens to her heavenly voice, which provides the beautiful soundtrack in a gloriously life-affirming tale about the art of staying young at heart.

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Three college friends go on a creative retreat in the countryside to finish their dissertations. After university, Jana is planning on moving to Canada to study and Alba and Zoe want to live together. The hours spent together and the questions that emerge at the end of this chapter in their lives will mark their time in the house with nostalgia and an impending farewell.

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Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries to join ISIS. When they return, their countries don't want them back.

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Zilan, a young woman, returns to her home town looking for traces of her dead brother, killed by ISIS. But her town is not what it used to be: social and political tensions have escalated into a state of war. The people have risen up to demand their political autonomy and the police and army repress them with brutal force. But the city’s resistance will go on for more than 100 days and Zilan will not remain a passive witness. Based on the diaries of those who died fighting and the testimony of survivors, who are the protagonists of the film, Çelik's first feature explores concepts such as hope, friendship, sacrifice and loss in the struggle for freedom of a group of young people.

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On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely wounded, forcing her to redefine herself in this empowering tale of emancipation and freedom.

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Four children from Kobane, after years without playing because of war, rediscover their old playground among the rubbles of the destroyed city.

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The film, inspired by Goya’s paintings – mostly his darker works – and made in the same way as 2017’s Loving Vincent.

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Lola is a U.N. human rights activist whose life unravels when her Syrian friend Fariya disappears while attempting to enter Europe. Consumed by an obsessive search, Lola risks her career, relationships and personal safety to uncover the truth, ultimately confronting the brutal realities of the migration system she once believed in.

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Mar, an 11-year-old living in the Ebro Delta, discovers that her home is threatened by climate change and a dangerous river transfer project. Mar embarks on a journey of reconnection with her surroundings and her family's past, discovering the power of collective action against the climate crisis. A sensory and hopeful story about the deep connection between nature and humans.

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