Joan Miró: The Inner Fire

“If you jerk off a 100 times, you die.” This threat rings through the ears of our main character. One day he has to choose between imminent hell and the impetuousness of adolescence.

Allegations of child sexual abuse in Spain's Catholic institutions are examined in interviews with survivors, clergy, journalists and other experts.

The work of painter Joan Miró is more alive than ever 35 years after his death. Grandson Joan Punyet travels the world and paints the picture of his grandfather-seeker, for whom freedom in creation was a necessity. Miró was very attached to his homeland and this is regularly reflected in his often experimental concepts. Fellow artists talk about their collaboration with Miró and rare images show us the artist at work, right up to his last days.

The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War; survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II; clandestine communist in Spain during Franco's dictatorship; controversial socialist politician; acclaimed writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Documentary that follows the personal pursuit of Albert (a journalist born in exile in 1962) to rediscover his roots, within a double exile. His father, the Spanish politician Pauline Julien, who became a key figure during the Spanish Transition, was forced by his political exliliarse Franco in the late 50s. Now, after a life full of fascinating personal and political experiences, Jordi has launched a new internal exile, this time no return: fight against Alzheimer's. His memory is fading day by day. This documentary tries to recover the memories of lives atypical in that mix historical figures such as Santiago Carrillo, Jorge Semprun, Manuel Fraga and Jordi Pujol, with little known episodes of the struggle against Franco and the Cold War. For Albert, many of these experiences are fuzzy memories of a child. Travel from one exile to another trying to restore the memory of his family, his own memory.

A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, with a stop in Cuba. The birth of Las Vegas. The sound of the maracas. Chihuahuas everywhere. The incredible life story of Xavier Cugat (1900-90).

The rock star Pau Donés has advanced cancer, but he is confronting the disease with humour and in a positive light so as not to overdramatise it.

Sabaté lives in exile in France, but since the end of the Spanish Civil War he has never stopped making forays into Spain in an attempt to overthrow fascism in the only way he knows and considers effective: direct action. This journey, structured like a road-movie with a hint of western, highlights the fears of four characters and Sabaté, their past, their regrets and questions about their cause and the violence, uncovering the ghosts of the past of all these characters in a fast-paced adventure where both sides show that they are fine adversaries.

Documentary on Catalan expeditions to the Antarctic. On display at CosmoCaxia in Barcelona.

Sifa Suljić returns to Bosnia to try to bury the remains of her older brother, the last member of her family to identify those who died in Srebrenica.

The film is a documentary about the life of Josefina Castellví, a woman and scientist. Memories of Ice is also the story of a reunion and a farewell. The film shows how Josefina returns to her iced paradise, Antarctica, after 25 years without having been there to see it one last time. There, Josefina became the first woman to head a scientific base in Antarctica, work performed for a total of 6 years.

It was one of the most high-profile kidnappings carried out by Islamic State: Nineteen journalists and humanitarian workers were captured in 2013 in Syria at the height of the civil war. The story is told by Marc Marginedas, one of the journalists who came back alive.