Life from Others

Un documental que explica, a través de la acció més que la narració, un ’savoir faire’ pioner i inspirat, creat per metges catalans.L’increïble èxit del model de trasplantaments d’Espanya, creat en hospitals de Catalunya, és ara una referència a països de tot el món. Aquest documental descobreix el secret del èxit, un secret més humà que tècnic; un coneixement fet a base d’anys de lluita i experiència que ara s’exporta al món.

 

 

The secret behind Spain’s world leadership in organ donation and transplants.

Pizarro, in DocMeeting Argentina

We just arrived from DocMeeting Argentina. We were invited  to the Pitching Forum with our 52 min. documentary proyect Pizarro, The Shadow of My Dreams, directed by Simón Hernández.

Convict the Judge

One of the world’s most famous investigating magistrates, Baltasar Garzón is about to be put on trial himself in Spain. Internationally he is most famous for having General Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 on charges of torture, a landmark case which furthered the cause of “Universal Justice”, for which Garzón is a still a leading campaigner. His troubles in Spain started when he opened an investigation into crimes against humanity allegedly committed under Spain’s Franco regime, more than half a century ago. Far right groups brought a case against him for abuse of power and were successful.

For CNN Revealed: Ferran Adria

Avant-garde Spanish chef Ferran Adria has announced he will no longer serve guests at El Bulli, the legendary shrine to gastronomy. CNN Revealed follows Adria at a turning point in his career.

Aznar´s Unfinished Business

A portrait of the most loved and hated Spanish leader since Spain’s return to democracy in 1977: the ex-president José María Aznar.

Last White Man Standing

A Plus Pictures - Day Zero Production.

A film about the murder trial that gripped Kenya for three years.

The Ref

Miguel Pérez Lasa is a football referee in Spain’s first division: one of the most stressful weekend jobs available.

Clandestine Crisis

In the boom years Europe was a magnet for immigrants from around the world. Now there are not enough jobs and the last to arrive - immigrants – with no legal papers face a double crisis.  Nowhere is this situation bleaker than amongst Bolivians in Spain.

Conexión Madrid, the book

Five years after the Madrid bombings of 11 March, 2004, this book recreates the parallel lives of the two men who led the terrorist cell that committed the worst terrorist attack of Europe’s history: Jamal Ahmidan and Sarhane ben Abdelmajid Fakhet.

La Banlieue

President Sarkozy came to power in France promising to restore order and hope in the suburbs after the outbreaks of rioting in 2005 and 2007. The violence has subsided but unemployment, has been slow in one of the most depressed urban districts in Europe.

Monkeys Like Us

Struggling to find new ways of teaching, a secondary school on the outskirts of Barcelona facing the urgent problems of integrating immigrants and teaching a broad mix of students signs up to a project to get pupils to reflect on human behaviour – including their own - by observing primates and making a short film about it.

The Madrid Connection

“The Madrid Connection” is about the two men who became the leaders of the terrorist cell that committed the Madrid bombings of 2004, Europe’s worst ever terrorist atrocity, in which 191 people died and nearly 2000 were injured. The story begins in the early 90s.

FC Barcelona Confidential

The first season of president Joan Laporta and his management team at the head of Barcelona FC.

Photographing the Exodus

Juan Medina, a photographer, has documented the arrival of African migrants to the Canary Islands for a decade.