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Synopsis: To jump in parachute, to give a concert of hip-hop, to dance with crutches or give lessons in an institute while being blind, are some of the activities that the protagonists of ALBUM OF FAMILY practise upon the surprise of the viewer. Very different persons who share the circumstance of living limited by a disability. Through the documentary the spectator accompanies the protagonists in their daily life discovering realities that undoubtedly make think about the meaning of the struggle and the personal overcoming. ALBUM OF FAMILY relies on the collaboration of the Council of Family and Social Matters at the Community of Madrid and of the CERMI Community of Madrid (Representatives' Spanish Committee of Persons with Disability) . Without the enthusiastic collaboration of these entities ALBUM OF FAMILY would not be today a reality.

Synopsis: In the border, the line as a principle of property acquires its major dimension, defining physically the sphere of the relations. Every day, those who cross it reconstruct these imaginary lines, re-defining the traditional geography and occupying the non-places, where "the others " exist on a temporary basis. "The Others ", who are not considered citizens, are phantasmagoric pieces of a flexible market. They are almost invisible beings permanently controlled by the technology. Under the pretext of a major civil safety one separates them of the public spaces reserved for the citizens with rights. The border, indispensable to justify a diffuse European identity, is supported by means of the frontier, and monitored militarization exploited by ONGs and multinationals.. (This documentary received the Prize Sos Racismo Madrid 2004).

Synopsis: In February 2005 the immigrants of Benyounes's forest, close to the fence that separates Ceuta from Morocco, decide to produce a video to visibilize the effects of the subcontracting Moroccans in the European Union, as well as the control over the Spanish-Morrocan border and the systematical violations of the human rights to the territory of a dictatorial condition. (Prize Mostra't Manresa 2007)

Synopsis: Venezuela of yesterday has resulted in Venezuela of today, a victim of political land-lords and of a social segregation that isolates a part of its population from the economic and social basic resources (employment, health, education ...). A segregation that implies that existence is linked to resistance, disguising a struggle among classes in a combat for the right to housing... " To Exist is to Resist " is the testimony of a struggle that exceeds the frame of the country where it takes place, the struggle for the housing, proposing a reflection on the property deprived in the voice of those who already took more than 160 buildings in the country of the Revolution Bolivariana. In this movie, we enter to the heart of the National Committee "Without Housing" by means of its main protagonists, dreamy soldiers, welded drawees, taking abandoned buildings to return them to the people. This people who built the roof, the walls and that was observing this closed door...