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Alba Sotorra Clúa (Reus, Tarragona, May 22, 1980) is a film director, independent producer and Spanish video artist. She studied for a degree in film production at the Complutense University of Madrid, and a Master's degree in Mediterranean Cultural Studies at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona. She continues her professional video postgraduate training and has participated in several documentary workshops, including SOURCES2 through MEDIA (2008), Berlinale Talent Campus (2011), IDFA Academy (2012), Dok Leipzig NetLab (2013), Medimed Cross-media Training (2014) and Dok.Incubator (2014). As an independent producer, she develops her work with experience in filming abroad. Her works present human stories from a personal point of view and intend to open spaces for reflection. She has worked around the world, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cuba, the United States, Guatemala, England, Iran, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Turkey, Qatar, and Syria. She has organized the «Espai Líquid», a video, music and performance festival in Tarragona and actively participates in the Ixmucane NGO in Guatemala that supports Mayan girls so they can study. In 2015-2016 she worked on a transmedia project on climate engineering and also on a documentary about subversive maternities.

Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries to join ISIS. When they return, their countries don't want them back.

Zilan, a young woman, returns to her home town looking for traces of her dead brother, killed by ISIS. But her town is not what it used to be: social and political tensions have escalated into a state of war. The people have risen up to demand their political autonomy and the police and army repress them with brutal force. But the city’s resistance will go on for more than 100 days and Zilan will not remain a passive witness. Based on the diaries of those who died fighting and the testimony of survivors, who are the protagonists of the film, Çelik's first feature explores concepts such as hope, friendship, sacrifice and loss in the struggle for freedom of a group of young people.

Three college friends go on a creative retreat in the countryside to finish their dissertations. After university, Jana is planning on moving to Canada to study and Alba and Zoe want to live together. The hours spent together and the questions that emerge at the end of this chapter in their lives will mark their time in the house with nostalgia and an impending farewell.

Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.

Djalal is a young man struggling to find his place in the real world. He is obsessed with Lord_Sex, his Internet avatar. He has been building his cyber identity since his teens, recording himself recreating military operations and uploading his videos to YouTube. He has thousands of followers. He also has one of the largest private collections of weapons and military equipment. Taking his dream to the limit, he enlists in the Spanish army and volunteers to go to the Afghan front. He spends six months there with his video camera, recording in his spare time. Then he decides to leave the army. But it's not because he's afraid, it's because he's bored: war isn't like in the movies.

Four children from Kobane, after years without playing because of war, rediscover their old playground among the rubbles of the destroyed city.

Four children from Kobane, after years without playing because of war, rediscover their old playground among the rubbles of the destroyed city.

Catalan Francesca Llopis is a visual artist. She draws, paints, sews, folds, films, photographs. And she dates. One night at a wine-fuelled dinner, the vivacious – and single – grey-haired woman declares she longs to find a partner. Her friends protest, telling her she will find no better company than them. Still, she ends up downloading a dating app on her phone and starts setting up dates. Her beloved daughter has just flown the nest to explore the world and play music, so Francesca is left alone to deal with the new emptiness rumbling in her heart. She fills the gap with splashes of bright red paint as she calls her daughter and listens to her heavenly voice, which provides the beautiful soundtrack in a gloriously life-affirming tale about the art of staying young at heart.

Catalan Francesca Llopis is a visual artist. She draws, paints, sews, folds, films, photographs. And she dates. One night at a wine-fuelled dinner, the vivacious – and single – grey-haired woman declares she longs to find a partner. Her friends protest, telling her she will find no better company than them. Still, she ends up downloading a dating app on her phone and starts setting up dates. Her beloved daughter has just flown the nest to explore the world and play music, so Francesca is left alone to deal with the new emptiness rumbling in her heart. She fills the gap with splashes of bright red paint as she calls her daughter and listens to her heavenly voice, which provides the beautiful soundtrack in a gloriously life-affirming tale about the art of staying young at heart.

Catalan Francesca Llopis is a visual artist. She draws, paints, sews, folds, films, photographs. And she dates. One night at a wine-fuelled dinner, the vivacious – and single – grey-haired woman declares she longs to find a partner. Her friends protest, telling her she will find no better company than them. Still, she ends up downloading a dating app on her phone and starts setting up dates. Her beloved daughter has just flown the nest to explore the world and play music, so Francesca is left alone to deal with the new emptiness rumbling in her heart. She fills the gap with splashes of bright red paint as she calls her daughter and listens to her heavenly voice, which provides the beautiful soundtrack in a gloriously life-affirming tale about the art of staying young at heart.



