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The cables of the Madrid metro tunnels through variations in colour, movement and speed.
The talent scouts of the Boca Juniors athletic club travel the most remote clubs, courts and paddocks with the aim of discovering the future cracks of Argentine football. The film takes a close look at the work of evaluating more than 40,000 boys, looking to find the most talented.
Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.
Miguel is a small soybean producer dedicated to the production and rent of the farm. He lives with Juan, his neighbor and childhood friend, who survives with his small fraction of grass, a cow and a canoe to fish in the river. Both understand life as cycles of nature.
An experimental short film
Documentary about Brazilian actress Sandra Bréa.
In a run down neigbourhood in east LISBON (chelas), a public square undergoes rennovation work which lasts three years. In this space, designed in pink, a depressed community, concentrated on their daily routine, lives out their lives increasingly indifferent to the outcome of the interminable public works.
A documentary following Sasha Fatsevych as he turns his love for retro cars and film into a thriving business.
A four-part psychological test created in the USA in 1930 and used in Spain until 2016. A new law of the Community of Madrid approved in December 2023 foresees the return of a new exam, not yet published.
This documentary analyzes the life and political legacy of Puerto Rico’s first elected governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, covering his early career in the late 30’s through the 1960’s.
By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel Castro Caldas and from conversations at home."
The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other talents, Mr. Price can throw two (and, in certain situations three) baseballs simultaneously to different people. The catchers can be side by side, with one high and one low, or standing on the pitcher's mound and second base while Price throws the ball from the catcher's position. He can even perform these feats while suspended upside-down.
Documentary of the life and work of the notable Peruvian writer and the recreation of an afternoon with the visit of his grandchildren in his mansion in Miraflores in 1919. “Palma is not only the extraordinary writer that we all know he is, if not, a notable model of Peruvianness. “He embodies the spirit of Peru, but not only in his vast and multiform work, but in himself and in his hectic and laborious life.”