Between 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the property development company that is restructuring various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated various housing blocks in Barcelona?s La Ribera neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished them. Local residents named the new empty space that remained where their houses used to be the "Forat de la Vergonya" (the Hole of Shame), as a way of denouncing a situation that they considered degrading for a number of reasons: the public authorities? abandonment of an area that was already problematic, the interminable construction work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new apartments, etc.

El Perro Negro - Stories from the Spanish Civil War is a poetic collage of homemade movies, captured almost involuntary by amateur artists. Joan Salvans i Piera and Joan Ernesto Díaz Noriega are the two characters of this story: Ernesto, a middle class student in Madrid, who survives war; and Joan, a Catalan industrialist who is murdered six days after the outbreak of the conflict. Their films lead us through the Spain of the 30s and 40s.

A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.

What is daily life like in Iraq? Do you think they have more rights now than they did under the yoke of Saddam? How do they deal with the growing insecurity that has seized this Arabic country? For the first time since operation ?Enduring Freedom?, a journalist spends several weeks living with families in Baghdad, in order to report on their day to day lives. And he does it by following the steps of Mazi Hermes (Nqwa, 1961), an Iraqi living in Barcelona who returns home after spending thirteen years in Spain.

In a Colombian state, a distressed group of indigenous people under the white man pressure (army, paramilitary and guerrilla), meet together to ask the "bunachi" (white man) to live them alone.

The documentary follows the taxi-van driver Rajai who tries to live and survive in Jerusalem and Ramallah. We see the problems in the region through his eyes. Rajai is the guide in the labyrinth of war, occupation and resistance in a chaotic area. He leads us over detours and mountain dusty roads passed the roadblocks and bit by bit we get to know more about him and his thoughts. The passengers in the van, the places he gets to and the activities he explores besides driving a taxi conjure up a divers image of the situation in Palestine and of Rajai himself.

These videos deal with some of the most visible issues in contemporary societies. Racial mix, violence, marginalisation, culture clashes...as manifestations of the idea of the Border (territorial, social political, psychological). Issues that could be summed up in the profound feeling of loneliness that saturates these works. Juan Bautista Peiro.

Galoot (Exile in Hebrew) is an intimate saga that touches on the seeds of the pains and tragedies now transformed into the entrenched Palestinian/Israeli conflict. A temporary exile from his homeland allows an Israeli filmmaker to see the conflict with new and provocative eyes. Through his Palestinian and Israeli friends and through his and his wife's personal journeys, Galoot provides a reflective voyage through homes and deserted homelands in Israel, Palestine, Poland, Morocco and England.