WAR MATERIAL. Capturing the enemy

The director Nacho Ruiz-Capillas undertakes the digitalisation of over 6,000 photographic negatives, inherited from his grandfather Mariano, a cameraman and graphic reporter from before the Spanish Civil War until the 1960s. While he rescues these from their inevitable chemical fate, his mother Isabel, 88, begins to show signs of dementia, mixing past and present. These two processes of decomposition (that of the celluloid and the human memory) establish an unsettling parallelism that structures the documentary.

LA ÚLTIMA LLAMADA

‘La última llamada’ offers a first-person portrait of the human side of power, revealing the ethical and emotional dilemmas, as well as the loneliness, that accompany those who have occupied the most powerful office in the country. Through intimate conversations, personal archives, and exclusive testimonies from family members and close advisors, this original Movistar Plus+ documentary series showcases the most revealing experiences of Felipe González, José María Aznar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and Mariano Rajoy —from their arrival at La Moncloa to the most critical moments of their time in office. What does it feel like to receive the call that can change everything? How do you live with the decisions that affect an entire nation?

NINGUNA GUERRA

Someone carefully rolls up a carpet inside a destroyed hotel room. On the wall, a huge hole overlooks a city in ruins. It is Baghdad, in 2003. A few weeks earlier, two thousand journalists had traveled to Iraq to cover the war that had sparked the most widespread social opposition since Vietnam, a war declared illegal by the UN and which had led to massive demonstrations around the world calling for “No to War.” Among those correspondents are reporter Jon Sistiaga and cameraman José Couso. Their friendship becomes their only real refuge from fear, censorship, and bombs. They evade the surveillance of Saddam's regime, dodge threats, and fight to tell the Spanish media the truth about the conflict through reports that break audience records. When the US invasion begins, Jon and José are among the few journalists who do not leave the country and barricade themselves in the Palestine Hotel. From their room, they narrate the fall of Baghdad with a privileged view that also makes them an unexpected target. What seemed like a peaceful invasion due to the lack of Iraqi resistance turns into tragedy when one of the American tanks aims its cannon at the hotel and fires a shell directly at the balcony where José is filming. The impact leaves a huge hole in the wall of the room, in which only a carpet, bought by Jon and José together in a Baghdad market, can be saved.

THE BASQUE COUNTRY FLYING, A VIEW FROM THE AIR

EUSKAL HERRIA HEGAN is a documentary series of 9 chapters. A spectacular journey for the senses that runs through our land from the air, showing its essence as never seen before. A visual experience, which visits the most beautiful natural places, the most spectacular buildings and merges with the history the traditions of its inhabitants and the myths and legends that inhabit every corner of Euskal Herria. Music is an essential part of the soul of Euskal Herria hegan and along with storytelling plays a central role in each chapter. An original soundtrack composed for the series will accompany us during each episode, creating a unique atmosphere and generating emotions, while visiting the most mythic and spectacular places on our earth. In addition to the more traditional and iconic landscapes, we will also take out the most modern. Those buildings and structures that have made Euskal Herria a country that cares for its traditions, but looks to the future and modernity. In each section there will be 2 performances by renowned Basque singers, along with new singers, vocal groups, dancers, etc., who will perform the most emblematic and representative songs of the Basque culture. All this with a spectacular staging and with the aim of playing the “fiber”, creating a perfect fusion between the grandeur of the landscapes, the cultural heritage and the musical richness of our country.

BERDEA. BEHIND THE BASQUE GREEN

The crisis in the Basque mountains is shaking up a century-old forestry model. Berdea travels through landscapes, plantations and industries to investigate the future of wood. In their native Basque Country, architect Oihane Ruiz and landscape designer Ane Barrutia explore the wood cycle, from forest to industry, in search of answers: what kind of forest will we leave to future generations? Who defines tomorrow's forest today? Berdea. Tras el verde vasco offers a choral portrait of the current state of Basque forestry, which is marked by the decline of radiata pine, the advance of eucalyptus, and the depletion of the land. In the face of a crisis-stricken model, leading figures in the timber sector reflect on roots, memory, and the necessity of imagining alternative ways of inhabiting the landscape. This immersive proposal features original music by Maite Ruiz de Erentxun, created from the environment.

At the San Miguel festivities of 2018, when a group of boys and girls performed together in the village square, they demonstrated that the tradition of dance was more alive than ever. In fact, that group will be the protagonist of the following documentary: the eight boys and girls who are members of the dance group of Iurreta.Every five years, every local dance group meet at the so-called Urrixena festival that takes place in Iurreta, a village from Biscay (province of the Basque Country). The debutantes will participate in this festival for the first time along with dancers of other generations. The rehearsals, the preparations and the palpable emotion in the square will be the guiding thread of the documentary. Additionally, some testimonies of dancers, researchers andothers will be collected.

THE TRUCE

Reyes and Salgado, two young men who fought on opposing sides in Spain, must now share suffering and hope in a Soviet gulag during the Second World War. Living together will force them to join forces and face the cold, hunger and horror that lurks behind the barbed wire. They will have to strip away their ideologies to discover the person hidden beneath each uniform.

Tragedium

A debt remains unresolved and three thugs are set to take charge, but what is about to happen is not going to go as planned at all.

QUEEN OF COAL

Inspired by true events, “MISS CARBÓN” is a story of resilience about passion and dreams that know no gender. Carlita became the first woman miner in a town where women were forbidden from entering the main source of the region’s livelihood: the coal mine. A superstition held that women were a threat of collapse, and mining work was reserved for men. Carlita, as a trans woman, managed to enter the mine, breaking the system from within and sparking the flame of a revolution.

LOS TIGRES

Antonio is the Tiger, an unbeatable diver who risks his life on every dive. Estrella, his sister, assists him on the boat where they work. After an accident, the future looks bleak. Everything could change when he comes across a stash of cocaine.