Programme Alcine51

Candela and Pepa are two gardeners from the Almudena cemetery in Madrid. They are on a break, smoking and hanging out. The conversation between them revolves around Pepa's hangover from last night's party and because she ran into Santi, her ex-boyfriend.

Azzddine is an artist, an unaccompanied alien minor. Gloria, an endearing centenarian old woman who is cared for by her daughter Isabel. Three characters who meet and are saved in a corner of empty Spain.

In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.

The shellfish gatherers of a small village in southern Galicia (Spain), strive every day of the tide to sow, dig and take care of the threshold between the sea water and the sand. In symbiosis, collective consciousness and affections emerge from their bodies, their gestures, and their words.

An approach to the liturgy of an Andalusian village through a delirium of images impregnated on celluloid. In "un viento roza tu puerta", tradition mixes with the songs and voices of the past and present, speaking of a violence perhaps premonitory, perhaps forgotten.

As night falls, someone looks out over the city. Lights flicker, people go home and a tram passes by until in a frame life stops.

There's always a chance.

Mr. Xifro is desperate. He just can't remember a song and it's all he can think about this morning.

Damián, a dowser by profession, must urgently locate an underground water source if he is to put food on his family’s table. Water is underground, and so is his daughter, buried. "The Good Father" is a dance of life and death, of ghosts and presences.

The dialectic between the everyday events of bathers and a glance that opens naturally to the manifestation of the beyond. An exercise of search and claim of the images that are located in the margins.

How is it possible to want something so much and not want it at the same time? Chronicle of an abortion of a mother at her fourties.

Alone in the wilderness, a woman must find a way to survive after discovering that her head has been encased in cement.

In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide letter on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death". The Mechanics of Fluids is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital traces.

Through the gallery of a cell phone, the documentary reflects on the relationships between memory and the archive that we generate every day.

Ana records a voice message for an old friend. Doubt enters. What should be remembered? What should be forgotten? What words to use to heal old wounds?

Mr. Xifro is desperate. He just can't remember a song and it's all he can think about this morning.

An encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily

Pierre Dubois, a famous fantasy author, and his wife, Aline talk about how the power of writing, imagination and a deep connection with life made them go through the loss of their teenage daughter, Melanie, who committed suicide after a heartbreak.

Pascal lives with his parents in a city full of smog. The dense fog confuses the citizens. The smoke hides the secrets of both people and infamous... insects. The discovery of one of those secrets changes Pascal's life.

In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possession of the club: their tables.

For millennia and across cultures, flying fish have been seen as symbols of hope; freedom, discovery. As they swim & fly across oceans, their odyssey becomes understood as an observational journey through nature, but the impact of human beings and technology is transforming and altering their environment

Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. Haunted by his demise, Okai believes their brother is still out there…