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A clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment.

Four friends walk through the final days of high school. Play table football, have a coke and tour the schoolyards, are activities that form a routine outside of academic obligations, which constitute a particular appropriation of public space.

In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.

The police plan to capture a killer by using a double that looks exactly as one of his victims.

After numerous rejections, Ema's parents finally find a safe place for their daughter who has been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. In the loving community of the new primary school in the small town on the river, Ema can silently observe and explore the world at her own pace. The film gently follows Ema's small steps that evolve into magical moments.

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Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.

Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies.

The millionaire Lucia enters a nursing school on a whim and there meets some good friends in trouble.

Heirs of a bankrupt relative decide that the only way they can avoid sacrificing their inherited property to pay debts is by opening a brothel.

There are still some unlikely spaces in the cities.There is a house in Barcelona, in the Gràcia neighborhood, which has a garden full of trees and plants and in the background sculptures surrounded by tiles. María, a 35-year-old Argentinian, recently separated from her partner, and her daughter Isabel, a six-year-old Catalan who is starting school, live there through some black hole in the rents. They are visited by Iara, sister of one and aunt of the other, and several of their friends. As we watch María and Isabel interact with their loved ones, the film sensibly explores the interior and exterior spaces that make up those relationships.

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All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.

Mexican western 1961

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

Three friends in love, are ignored because of their lack of gift to conquer. After learning of the existence of a school of seduction, are enrolled as students.

A small seductor pays homage to Mauricio Garces movies. Two years have gone by since Raul suffered a terrible love disappointment that transformed him into Sombra, a master of seduction. Raul shares his don juan secrets with Rodolfo, Luis and Waldo, three funny characters who don´t have any luck with women.

"Escuela de seducción" is an acceptable comedy which deals, for the umpteenth time, with the war of the sexes using misunderstandings and fake personalities as dramatic resources. The premise is by no means original, but this is something most films lack nowadays, and therefore the result could have been more than acceptable.

It is the reconstruction of the history of the Buenos Aires English High School and of the legendary Alumni club, made up of its students, who dominated Argentine football in the first decade of the 20th century and its president, Alejandro Watson Hutton, The first president of the Argentine Football Association, considered the father of Argentine football.

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A teacher encounters the suspicion of her students when she takes charge of an elementary school. At the same time that he tries to conquer them, he begins a romance with a professor who was a former student.

Leticia was 17 years old when she was kidnapped from school. She had arrived in Cipolletti a year earlier from the Vicente López National School in Buenos Aires. This letter was found while searching for photos and testimonies from those days.

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This is the true story of the behind the rooms that nobody sees, the true face of the members of Escuela de Nada. About everything done for making a tour of a podcast that begun in a recording room that started to sold out theatres and bars around countries they never sought to be in, all thanks to their community. This is Semper Bichos: The documentary.

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The first sketch show by Escuela de Nada. A christmas movie produced by EDN in which you'll see how they try to save christmas after having lived a truly shitty year.

A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.

Three friends in primary school try to find the truth about a local myth.

The geometry of circles and ellipses is explored using the Roman Colosseum as an example. Using the Pantheon as another practical example, this program explores the concepts of central and intercepted angles, arc segments and chords. The Etude du Cinéma de l’Ecole de Barcelona (a short-lived group that appeared in Spain in the 1960s) offers the opportunity to consider the distrust of the avant-gardes with regard to narrative. The lacunar narration whose principle the School of Barcelona adopts goes against the traditional narrative and its quest for coherence and continuity. She invites the viewer to make the disconcerting experience of unbinding and emptiness. Such an approach involves an ethical posture. The Barcelona School follows in the footsteps of a modernity that intends to move away from an alienating authoritarian discourse and claims to make the spectator a partner in creation.

An ex-combatant is admitted to a psychiatric facility due to what happened in the Falklands War. During his stay in that institution, he will find a purpose to fight against the treatments that tend to harm him.

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While waiting to get started on the production of his feature Liberxina 90 (1970), Carlos Duran shot this short (with very expressive support by several Escuela de Barcelona professors): a grimly colourful satire on modern society as such, and on its fascist Spanish variety in particular. "The intrusion into the private life of a human being, of the distinct tendencies that exist in the society we live in, until they fall into chaos." Carlos Durán

A mental patient in a psychiatric hospital is escorted into an operating room, where electrodes are attached to her scalp. The doctors dissect his brain and we enter the brain with a loud, jarring cry. In this space detached from reality, a group of actors perform elaborate interpretive dances. They jump, land on top of each other, place their hands on their bodies and form various shapes.

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School for dogs (in English Doggy Day School, and in Portuguese Escola pra Cachorro) is an animated series for children produced by producers Mixer (Brazil) and Cité-Amérique (Canada). The animation studio Lightstar Studios, located in Santos, Brazil, produced the animation for the first and second seasons, as well as directing the Brazilian director Marcelo Fernandes De Moura. The episodes show five puppies spending the day in a "nursery" for the animals, where they play, learn and make lots of friends. The program was broadcast in Brazil on Nickelodeon and also on TV Cultura.

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After a long track record in dramatic theater, Melisa Granados seeks to change the course of her career and venture into comedy. The actress, who is 37 years old and has Down syndrome, creates a character for her new facet: a clown called Mejunje, who combines acidity with a diva-like attitude in equal parts. Throughout the 82 minutes of the documentary, we see her in her intimacy, accompanied by her mother and her theater colleagues, while she prepares her first one-woman show. The stage, according to Melisa, is the only place where she is seen with different eyes and is no longer invisible.

A memory exercise, a crystalized moment in time that captures poetic and existential quotidian gestures. A journey into a world of estrangement in which nothing is what it seems, yet it gives way to the vision of a better future after the storm. A work that begins with a sequence of correspondences in the distance to gradually become an essay that reflects on the perception of time, confinement, the impact of man on nature and the very act of filmmaking.

Maribel tries to rescue a jaguar trapped in a restaurant. Although her grandfather could transform into this sacred feline, it is the first time she will see it up close. As a young mother of the indigenous Bora people, she struggles to preserve her culture and the jungle of her village while facing internal contradictions of her community that lives from tourism.

After lockdown, everything starts to return to normal. People are back on the streets. And in the parks too. Two men go there, one of them with his son. This space will be a human observatory for them, a perfect showcase for life going on. But this observation by the two friends as spectators may turn them into protagonists and place them at the center of an unexpected turn of events.