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An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

A woman converses with another over the phone, witnesses a theft, and samples a record in a store.

Tierra negra is a global view, understanding different aspects (social, geographic, geological, human, etc.), the Laciana Mining Valley. However, accurate localization is only a reference element, to analyze and discover, in a scientific and poetic way, global mechanisms present in the life of every community. Or something so trivial and complex at once as what makes it possible that every time I push a switch the light turns on?

For the protagonist, breathing therapy and anti-stress techniques become a starting point for a life change. He enters the world of freediving, i.e. diving while breadth-holding. Risking his life, he starts practicing holding his breath for increasingly longer periods of time. Where is the boundary of his capabilities?

The sea has always been a space where many fishermen have found beauty, calm and freedom. It is different nowadays, as they seem to easily find garbage and all kinds of pollution. This piece is an homage to the marine beauty they remember, a brief journey alongside these fishermen who work and fight to bring back what they once knew.

The discovery of four bodies buried on the director’s family estate in Salamanca opens a fissure between private memory and the silenced history of the Spanish Civil War. This discovery prompts a journey to reconstruct the lives of family members and neighbors affected by repression, reflecting on the origins of armed conflicts, intolerance, and their consequences.

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.