Freely browsing through images produced for the Italian Communist Party between the 1950s and 1980s and discovering Luciana Castellina, a historic communist leader, the author wonders what remains of that experience today. The cinema of a generation resurfaces: a free, experimental and militant cinema. Zavattini would say — and he does so in the film …

Childhood friends Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba, where they both went to the film academy. As children of the 1970s, they were brought up with the communist ideals of Che Guevara, but the promised bright future failed to materialize.

As the Google Street View vehicle maps the world, it sometimes encounters animals. ‘Accidental Animals’ examines these encounters between the machine and animals such as spiders, donkeys, and dogs. Why does the algorithm blur the faces of pigs?

Alésh is the intimate portrait of Aleix Canton, a young transgender man diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Alesh has become a public figure through his Tik Tok profile, where he breaks taboos and shares his experience of living with an autism spectrum disorder and gender transition. Without filters and in a natural way, the …

The Altsasu case like we’ve never seen before. An intimate look at the human side of a perverse conflict that demands a lot of empathy: injustice feeds on anger.

If we save the seals, who will save the Eskimos? Inuit people’s voice is facing the big environmental groups to defend the base of their economy and their lifestyle, the hunt of seals. A debate between the struggle for the environment and the survival of Inuit culture and tradition.

First days of the 1936 Spanish revolution. A catholic photographer and a militiawoman anarchist cross path in the Barcelona’s Rambla. He takes a photo. She allows him to take it. The result, the most reproduced picture of the Iberian Anarchism’s history, besides one of the most iconic pictures of the Spanish Civil War. A secular …

Documentary feature film that recovers the memory and work of Antonio Machado, on the 80th anniversary of his death.

Ava slips into an airplane bathroom, adjusts her phone settings—and licks the toilet seat. Her TikTok account explodes. Within hours she’s getting interview requests from international media. As the Internet upends traditional notions of celebrity, Anything for Fame journeys into the virtual Wild West to profile an ambitious and reckless breed of content creator. Hungry …

Apple is the most valuable company in the world and has a role in our lives like no other. From smartphones to smart watches, earbuds to computers, the technology it has popularized has revolutionized the modern age and reshaped our relationships with each other and our environment. But a company that started out as the …

Arcadi is a film director. He made films before having to enlist at the front during the Civil War. He sits down and reviews the films he has made, and as he watches them, his memory takes him back to what marked his destiny: the harshness of the front line during the war and the …

The awakening of a woman inspired by the courage of the feminist movement in Egypt. A punch to the patriarchy as the camera turns into a self-defense weapon.

In Colombia, the assassination of social leaders has attempted to destroy all forms of popular organisation. However, it has strengthened the will to resist of those who still demand truth and justice today: a human avalanche that marches on without stopping, writing the history of a people who mourn and resist.

The passage of time was captured in some films kept for decades in the attics of the district of Baix a Mar, Torredembarra. A tenderly recall through the memory recorded by the Tizón family of Barcelona and safeguarded by the sisters Figuerola of Torredembarra.

Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in jail. She wants to understand, forgive and support a suffering man. Billy is schizophrenic, and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship reveals the full truth about this undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence …

The documentary, found on a VHS tape, recounts through the author’s experience the rebellion of the Mk3 service droids against the hegemony of humans. The work is an unprecedented case that shows history from the point of view of those who suffered it and restores dignity and humanity to the androids, often relegated to a …

Who hasn’t dreamt to be king, even if only for a day? Boris Skossyreff didn’t just dream about it: he achieved it. In 1934, he proclaimed himself King of Andorra with a revolutionary manifesto and without any connection to royalty. A Russian aristocrat, con man, seducer and visionary, Skossyreff was a character who became a …

After a bomb from the Spanish Civil War destroyed the head of the Casa Navàs in Reus, the former owner family has been keeping in farmhouses, for more than eight decades, some of the stones that originally crowned this modernist jewel designed by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner at the beginning of the 20th century.

A virtual journey through Palestine, only to discover that the usual navigation routes do not exist. The territory appears fragmented, with no visible roads or connections. Instead, scattered images posted by users survive: traces of life that persist and resist.

Cesária Évora had a fascinating life in which her passion for music is deeply connected with colonial Cape Verde and her commitment to the freedom of her people. In this documentary we discover the strength of a woman who became a legend by triumphing on the international music scene at the age of fifty and …

Fernando Gallego is a DJ, but not a common DJ: He is Nando Dixkontrol.
To most people he is an anonymous character, but, there was a time where he was the epicenter of a resounding earthquake, a nocturn idol.

In the year of the cultural capital, Memorimage wants to highlight the value of the audiovisual heritage by selecting 3 audiovisual pieces for the Closing Ceremony. During this ceremony, we will also be able to meet the winners of Memorimage 2017’s Awards.

A portrait of filmmaker, politician and anti-Franco activist Pere Portabella through excerpts from his own films, lectures and interviews throughout his career, complemented by statements from prominent figures such as Esteve Riambau, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Luis E. Parara. We are immersed in the creative challenges of a total artist and journey through the history of …

Tomàs Pladevall is an admired cinematographer, a master of light who seeks to put together his personal archive in order to transfer it to the Filmoteca of Catalonia, where he trusts it will be preserved. But the first of his films, Robin Hood Never Dies, is lost. Closing the last box is difficult. With meticulousness …