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Synopsis: They left in dhows and returned on a plane. But the journey back, took over 700 years. Along the way; they lost their language and the knowledge of their native land, but retained their music and their dance – the most telling clue to their history. A film on the Sufi Sidis of Gujarat.

Synopsis: " Black Catalonia " is an author's documentary and produced with total creative freedom by the director Gilbert-Ndunga Nsangata, Congolese and resident in Sabadell, Catalonia. Nsangata presented its script to the CCCB, which has assumed the production of the film together with the producer Alea Doc and Films and Catalunya's television, thanks to which it made real this project. The documentary "Black Catalonia" analyzes the conflicts of identity of the second generation of Catalans of sub-Saharan origin. The film reports four histories in first person. Those of Axel Serrat Agboton (Barcelona), Sanata Dembele (The Fulliola, Lleida), Tidiane Diedhiou (Barcelona) and Fàtima Yara (Teià). The particularity of each personal history is vital to understand the magnitude of the problem of identity that represents the struggle between the loyalty to origins and the integration in Catalonia.

Synopsis: "Linatekalam" is an Arabian expression that invites to dialogue and coexistence between countries as a way of understanding and resolution of conflicts. Linatakalam series began its first steps in 2005 during the Euromediterranean Summit in Barcelona and the first Meeting of the Alliance of Civilizations, held in Mallorca, by interviewing outstanding political and cultural leaders: from the Nobel Prize Desmond Tutu to the Iranian Khatami, including the Prime Ministers of Spain and Morocco, Rodríguez Zapatero and Driss Jettou, and the co-presidents of the Alliance of Civilizations, Federico Mayor Zaragoza and Mehmet Aydin. The series was shooted by an Spanish-Morocan-Italian team in the summer of 2006, during the tragic bombing of Beirut, the forest fires in Galicia, the cayucos crisis and the birth of Oumaima, in numerous locations of the "sea of only one shore": Istanbul, Bosphorus, Cairo, Alexandria, Palermo, Agrigento, Trapani, Tunisia, Sidi Bou Said, Carthago, Favignana, Valencia, Denia, Vinalezza, Tetouan, Tangier, Al Houceima and Saidia.

Synopsis: Life mixture - Mixtura de Vida - deals with the subtle and constant tension between nationalty and identity, in an audiovisual essay on everyday life at the Argentine-Brazilian border. A wide rivercourse flowing between both countries does not stop a long-lasting history of common experiences, in spite of official efforts towards settling national differences at the border. Here, language becomes emblematic each time a local dweller, from any side of the border, speaks Portunol, a dialectal variation of Spanish and Portugeese. Both mixtures, those of words and those of identities, daily rebuild strong, shared bond. The documentary is a part of a 4-doc series, focusing borderland life within a region of tri-national boundaries. It relates to different kinds of cultural encounters in everyday life.

Synopsis: “El otro lado... un acercamiento a Lavapiés / The other side...An approach to Lavapies” is a documentary that tries to be near the different groups of immigrants living in the Madrid quarter of Lavapies. The district is an excuse to try to see the immigrant-s groups when they are close, as regards the space, to other razes. How the space works, in this case, what is its future or to where is going. Through the personals testimonies, its observation and its activities, the documentary tries to promote more questions and doubts about the crossbreeding, about how the ghettos work, why are they formed, and discusses subjects like racism, repulse, the immigrants fights, the existing conflicts, the Law of foreigners, and the policies of the Spanish State and the European Union about immigration.