Xas Films

Álex is blocked. He tries to understand his place in the world, his masculinity, his role in caring, the origin of the noises in his grandfather's dreams. Lucia has been blind since birth. She guides Alex.He works as a film audio describer for visually impaired people. His grandfather is over a hundred years old and for months a noise has been disturbing his dreams. He can no longer tell the difference between dream and reality. Lucía helps Alex by showing him how she perceives, how she dreams, how she feels. Alex needs to feel.

An orchestra improvises. Its music has the power to evoke stories, to reveal ghosts from the past. The symphony recovers the tales of women who struggle against silence on an ocean without memory. Nine Fugues. Nine stories searching for an exit. The illness of forgetting in an individual and social dimension in a palindromic reality.

Emanuel Xavier transitioned himself from a street hustler and drug dealer to become one of the most significant voices to emerge from the spoken word poetry movement in New York.

Aysha is a young energetic voice emerging from the Middle East. Poetry and creativity are her weapons with which to change an expectant post-Arab-Spring society.

'Contra a Morte' is a documentary film around the figure of the poet Lois Pereiro, a documentary of testimony that visits the places and lives with the people of his life. Lois Pereiro is the constant presence of a symbol, a poet that bet on the independence of his voice, an underground figure on the times of punk and freedom.