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Take My Eyes tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence, but like "Days of Wine and Roses" and "Drugstore Cowboy," it broadens (and never dilutes) its cautionary tale with humor, lyricism, and a shattered love story. (New Yorker Films)

Filmmaker Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels to Bolivia to shoot a film about the Spanish conquest of America. He and his crew arrive during the tense time of the Cochabamba water crisis. The lines between past and present, fiction and film, become increasingly blurred... (Wikipedia)

Laia, a young Catalan teacher, moves to Kathmandu in the early 90's, to volunteer in a local school. She will soon discover extreme poverty and a devastatingly bleak educational system that leaves out the most needy. She initially protests and later decides to get married out of convenience, so as to legalize her situation and take on an ambitious educational project in the slums of Kathmandu. She immediately realizes that she can't do it all by herself.

Three women will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters. (Written by La Iguana 2007 (imdb)

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain. Making stop in Madrid they search for inducement, work and independence. (Volker Boehm)

A girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree. (imdb)

The life story of Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta, from his poor childhood to ballet school, into which he is forced against his will by an ambitious father who recognizes his son's talent, and eventually to fame and success on the great stages of the world.

Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind and take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business. (imdb)

Eleven years after her husband was assassinated by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa, accepts a request to meet with one of the murderers who is in prison, as an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice. (imdb)