Dir: Javier Gómez Serrano
70' - 2011

A chorus story about thespians and filmmakers in one of the most impoverished nations of the world, where a young and thriving population struggles to fulfill their dreams. The film follows a number of characters: actors, directors, musicians, producers… as they work in their film industry and try to progress in their careers and their lives. By doing that we will observe the Bangladeshi society, the role of women, the hopes of a young generation and their compromise with their country to work for the future…

Dhaka, like the film industry that gives its name to, is a great permanently unfinished capital of one of the most populated countries in the world ‐with a record figure in density of population that serves as a backdrop to this story of struggling thespians, directors, designers and musicians. All our characters will be choreographed around the shooting of one Dhallywood film. Most of our characters will work in that film or will have some kind of relationship between them. The possibility of participating in this “industry film” represents for most of the characters, a break through in their careers and they have high hopes on it. Our film will witness how Animesh, the director, attempts to make a good film as he tries to break the prevalent idea that ‘all Dhallywood films are crap’. The director is convinced that he can work around the “Dhallywood format” and we will be there to capture his struggle.

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Dir: Javier Gómez Serrano
56' - 2010

Shipwreck is the story of Jahur, Lamu and Rubel, men that work at the ship yards breaking vessels in Chittagong, a coastal province of Bangladesh.

This is the story of ordinary Bengali men struggling to raise their families against a backdrop of labor uncertainty, health hazards unknown to us, and salaries that make them the most competitive labor force in the world. Jahur is a cutter, a crafted worker that slices down the ships day and night. He sits at the top of the job positions in the yard. Rubel is younger, one of the many helpers assisting the cutters. He knows that if he misses a day, another youngster will replace him immediately: they are the bottom of the job pyramid. Lamu is older but strong, he is one of those workers that lift and carry steel planks all day. The three of them represent the whole of the man power assembled in the yards. This is their story.

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Dir: Javier Gómez Serrano
48 ' - emf / Odisea - 2010

This is the story of Robert, Dilia and a few more US and European citizens, that one day saw the opportunity to save a new born baby from certain death, and how all their lives changed because of that timely decision. Accidental Home deals with the genesis of a solidarity project involving newborn babies in Uganda.  

Dir: Juan Luis de No
66'/56' - emf / Odisea / TVE - 2008

The untold story of one of the world's hot spots where thousands of workers beast of burden in a struggle to survive. One hundred meters away takes place in Melilla, the terrestrial border between Africa and Europe; a portion of Europe wedged in the African continent, where mobs gather to fight for the scraps of a booming business: smuggling, while waiting for a chance to better their lives. Meanwhile, the Global economy moves on inextricably oblivious of its influence over simple human beings.

Dir: Stéphane M. Grueso
56' - emf / Odisea - 2008

Module 8 shows what happens in Spain when someone ends up in jail, also what goes on when they leave it behind. We share the day to day existence of the prisoners at a penitentiary center in Mansilla de Las Mulas (León), where the authorities had started to apply a new system of reinsertion which is turning upside down the penitentiary world. Module 8 raises a question we often times avoid: What are jails good for?        

Dir: Koen Suidgeest
40' - emf / laSexta - 2007

The Color of a Vote portrays the growing interest of politicians in the immigrant vote through the situation of the Romanians who live in Henares. 38,000 immigrants live in this town near Madrid, half of whom are Romanians. On May 27, 2007, this group was able to participate in municipal elections for the first time.    

Dir: Stéphane M. Grueso
45' - emf / laSexta - 2007

On March 11, 2004, the worst terrorist attack in Europe to date occurred in Madrid. Three days later, general elections were held. From the first moment, there were arguments about the responsibility for the attack. Was ETA responsible or was it Islamic extremism? 11-M When the Word Took the Streets takes a look at those days between the attacks and the elections.      

Dir: Juan Luis de No
55' - emf / Odisea - 2006

A sea in between. Most European countries had to deal with uneven results with the so called “integration” of the second generation of migrant citizens. In Spain right now we could take good note of the experiences of close countries like Belgium, France or Germany, where situations of tension and even violence have been experienced throughout the years. There is a proliferation of Ghetto-like comunities and as of today, nobody dares to anticipate what future is there for these legal and the facto European itizens, that feel they don’t belong anywhere. 

Dir: Juan Luis de No
55' - emf / Odisea - 2006

Cell Gen. Cell phones ceased being a simple communication device to become an icon of our times, where apparently there are no frontiers or limits to its expansion. In the early eighties cell phones were seeing as something from a science fiction novel and within less than a decade they had grown in epidemic proportions to melt with our life style. Today it will be impossible to imagine a world without its presence: in most European countries there are more active cell phones than inhabitants.     

Dir: Juan Luis de No
55' - emf / Odisea - 2005

Looking for Hackers is a documentary that intends to open or to “hack” our preconceived ideas about what is a Hacker, and introduce us to what the new century and the new millennium has prepared for us; the new ethical and moral standpoint that this new technological revolution has to offer and that manifests itself in our daily life from different parts of our mental geography and various places of our society.

The Web conforms and welcomes this new geography of the world that upholds itself on concepts that crash with archaic power structures that still govern our lives: this new map knows little of border lines, does not stop to think about clashes of civilizations, ignoring old work ways and the power relations originated.

Behind the screen we will see new faces, different from those created by the mass media where spoiled brats play to break security codes and to create corporate-unmerciful virus. These faces introduce new life style options, new job choices beyond from the big corporation, and joined together by the fight for Free software that, like every other language, does not belong to anybody. Their philosophy brings together different new and inclusive visions, where races, genders, creeds and ages melt within this medley of information without an owner. Come to the world of Hackers of the XXI Century, you may be one of them. 

Dir: Juan Luis de No
60' - emf / Odisea - 2003

Al-Hoceima, a city located in the Central Riff in northern Morocco, is where for the last three generations, migration to Europe has become the sole prospect for the future. As a consequence, traditional culture in the Riff is dissapearing. In it's place there is no alternatives, no new plans and therefore inmigration remains as the only solution. This is the vicious circle in which Rif's society is caught. A homemaker, a taxi driver, a social worker, an entrepreneur, an artist, a feminist militant and some other characters will show us a reality, near geographically, but unknown to most European citizens. City of wait wants to confront the partial views that distract us from the very fact that, behind each immigrant there is always the life of a migrant person.