La Memoria De Un Oído

The Trans Memory Archive gathers the images and stories of trans women for more than 50 years, preserving the memory of those who suffered the outrages of the police, the abandonment of the State and the hostility of the society that witnessed, indolent, a silent genocide. Cintia, Edith, María Belén and Trachyn survived. They share with us the intimacy and complexity of those who faced injustice and pain with humor and creativity, but also with organization and community. In the style of a documentary essay, the series is structured along four axes, each one starring one of them: they talk about carnival, affection, exile and organization, and through their personal experiences they open the door to understand the reality of an entire community.

After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost.

The quiet walk of a family is interrupted by the presence of a latent danger. This photo documentary reconstructs the spaces of the Parque de la Memoria through its works of art, while evoking the ever-present horror of the last military dictatorship.

Josefina's personal journey to Nuremberg, Germany, where she arrived as an immigrant from Franco's Spain at the age of eighteen, along with two million other Spaniards who left home to find a future.

Armando and Gualtiero are two elderly homosexuals who have been living together for fifteen years now. One day, though, the unthinkable happens: Armando, suffering from Alzheimer's, no longer recognizes his partner and, as if that weren't enough, he believes he is married to Paloma, their South American caregiver. Gualtiero's attempts to win back Armando turn out to be holes in the water, but where the man fails, the goldfish arrives, Elton John, who keeps a secret in his aquarium.

Documentary about the "cárcel vieja" of Murcia

Ten years after the Law of Expiration, this documentary analyses the historical background of Uruguay's recent past. It is a survey of the controversy stirred up in society by the fact that, thanks to this law, the armed forces personnel and police who committed crimes under the dictatorship (1973-1985) have gone unpunished, and it examines the scars the authoritarian regime left on a section of the population.

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mexico became one of the deadliest conflict zones in the world in 2017, second only to Syria. In 2008, the Mexican government sent the army to Chihuahua on the Mexico-Texas border to fight drug traffickers. What seemed like an attempt to control the cartels turned into state-sponsored disappearances and the murder of journalists, human rights activists and civilians. The survivors and those threatened by the conflict pushed at the unwelcoming border of the United States, hoping for asylum. With stunning visual poetry, director Marcela Arteaga weaves together a record of their memories told over the backdrop of the once-vibrant landscape of the Juarez Valley. She also highlights the extraordinary work of Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer born in El Paso, Texas, who fights to obtain political asylum for those Mexicans fleeing violence.

This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.

Franco’s dictatorship, one of the longest and most violent dictatorial regimes in the history of the 20th century, has been kept silent by Spain since the transition and the recovery of democracy. In December 2007 following the approval of the controversial Historical Memory Law, whereby the Spanish government finally intends to lift the veil over this dark period, and thus do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Francoism. From this starting point, the filmmaker José-Luis Peñafuerte (grandson of exiles) takes us on an authentic film journey through the roots of that hidden European memory, in order to open a window against oblivion.

What is memory made of? Stories, memories, fictions, images and sounds clinging to our skin .... The memory of an ear is a music-visual reflection inspired by Paul Ricoer and Leonor Arfuch’s approaches on memory. The texts narrated by the author are a personal reflection on the relationship between memory and sound.

Biography of Vicente García Riestra, an Asturian survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The documentary covers the flight to France together with thousands of Spaniards, their entry into the Resistance, their arrest and deportation to Bunchenwald, the Resistance inside the camp and the solidarity networks woven by the prisoners, until they regain their freedom. After the liberation of Europe, Vicente's life did not stop: he dedicated himself to visiting schools to warn young people about the dangers of intolerance.

In 1985, a containment embankment gave way causing the flooding of the tourist village Epecuén. It remained submerged until a few years ago, but a climate cycle of intense drought exposed the remains of a ghost town. In the fantasies of each protagonist, a common thread is being developed; they relate their own experiences and feelings that arise from what happened. In his illusions there is a look to the future. They maintain the hope that not everything has been lost and that Epecuén will resurface.

Freddy, a man with Diogenes’ disease, lives in his mother’s house, Rosa, who, in turn, suffers from acute senile dementia. In this place, Freddy has created a chaotic and hermetic world, which will be shaken after his daughter, Camila, visits him after five years without seeing each other.

Documentary directed by Freddy Más, creator of the film Dawn of a Dream, which treats Alzheimer's disease from different points of view: patients, relatives, scientists, pedagogues. The documentary not only reflects the experience and testimony of the different affected.

José Pérez Ocaña was one of the symbols of the counter-culture in 1970s' Spain. He was of Andalusian origin but adopted Barcelona as his hometown and Las Ramblas as his stage, where he promenaded in drag. He died in 1983, at only 36 . A painter, famous for his Andalusian virgins (et alia), he was a radical and multifaceted artist during the last years of Franco's dictatorship and during the period of transition towards democracy. An inveterate provocateur, he used transvestitism, surreal performances and extreme fetish acts as forms of artistic resistance, and he was a GLBT activist in the struggle for civil rights. This film features the memories of his family members and friends (Nazario, Jesús Garay and Gérard Courant) and rare historical footage from that period, some never previously released.