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The Deanie Experiment [Experimento Deanie]
Three teenage girls with no acting training are commissioned to play the character of Deanie Loomis in a dramatic scene from "Splendor in the Grass" by Elia Kazan, but as their debut in the context of their own High Schools class, and without announce to their classmates what is happening is a staging. In order to reach this goal, they will carry out a complex process of legitimizing vulnerability.
May your will be done [Hágase tu voluntad]
Ricardo has always been a fancy-free. Hedonistic, daydreamer and somewhat sarcastic, he sees his life fall apart when he suddenly loses his partner and suffers two strokes that leave him half paralyzed. Alone, nearly blind and deeply depressed, he sees death as his only escape. But before departing he wants to fulfill a dream: to see his two sons again.
May I speak with the enemy? [¿Es el enemigo?]
During one of Spain’s most tumultuous times, iconic comedian Miguel Gila will grow from a teenager into a man and survive scarcity, war and imprisonment by using his best weapon: humor.
The contemporary artist can do without their manual skills and give as much or even more importance to intellectual work than to the artistic object. So, what does an artist do?
The memory of the poet Vicente Aleixandre remains silent at No. 3 Velintonia Street. Home of a Nobel Prize in Literature 1977, it also recalls the joy of Lorca and other members of Generation'27, the pain of civil war and post-war, and became a meeting point for most writers in 20th century Spanish Literature, now is abandoned and for sale. This documentary recreates its story and spirit.
A House in the Countryside [Una casa en el pueblo]
In this house, you spent all the summers of your childhood. On the floor of that room your mother was born. Around that fire, your grandparents survived the misery of the postwar era and the hard wintertime in the countryside. At the end of the courtyard, behind that door, it is said that a saint was born.
Awards, beyond the limits of hairdressing
An approach to avant-garde hairdressing. A world full of creativity that sets trends in hairdressing and fashion.
"Bullying" is the exposure that a child suffers to physical and psychological harm intentionally and repeatedly by another child, or a group of them, when they go to school. Bullying is a new project in podcast format, more accessible to young people where three victims of bullying talk about their experiences.
An eighteen-year-old musician decides to design a cybernetic organ and illegally implant it into his own body, thus acquiring a new sense that allows him to perceive on Earth sounds coming from outer space.
Documentary feature film that tells the story of the successful Madrid band DOVER through its protagonists, from its beginnings in 1992 until its definitive separation in 2016 after 8 studio albums.
Equipo Crónica. Art in the Trenches [Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera]
Can art be a weapon? "The hand of the artist must hold the paintbrush and spatula as workers and labourers hold their work tools, in order to advance our society”. Equipo Crónica Manifesto
ETERNA is not only a documentary about the life of one of the most relevant voices in Spanish speaking rap in recent years, it is also a reflection on memory, time, art and the mark we leave on the world.
Eyes of the Soul - Cristina García Rodero [Cristina García Rodero – La mirada oculta]
The documentary follows one of the greatest Spanish photographers in the world, one of the few women part of the Magnum Agency. Cristina García Rodero revolutionized this world through her explorations of cultural rites. She captures how we celebrate, suffer and operate. Tirelessly, she continues to work at 73 and this everlasting passion is what brought her to the Burning Man festival in Nevada where she made the filmmaker.
Filming Flying Birds [Filmei paxaros voando]
Zeltia returns to Galicia to make her first film about the memories of her uncle Antonio. In this journey, her mother Socorro's health worses and they both manage to regenerate a bond that they thought was broken.
Gabriel Ferrater was a poet, linguist, translator, editor. He grew up devouring libraries and thus forged a free spirit. He was still a teenager when the Spanish Civil War caused a general moral collapse. The fear experienced during those years would define all his later work.
Itoiz Summer Sessions [Itoiz Udako Sesioak]
The discovery of some unpublished recordings leads Juan Carlos Pérez, leader of the iconic group ITOIZ, to ponder the dissolution of the band at the height of their success. Juan Carlos begins a cathartic journey to the essence of the band, reliving their beginnings in the 70s as a progressive rock group in Mutriku, in an attempt to reconcile with the past.
A painter in search of the legendary Jean-Luc Godard travels to Rolle, Switzerland, where he lives, to gift him an artwork. Their meeting was the same day and month that JLG decided to die, but two years before. However, fate had a surprise prepared for him: Godard was reborn as a child in Buenos Aires. Now, the painter undertakes a journey through the filmmaker’s thoughts, remembering his latest “Socialist Film”, and the letter he dedicated to the director of the Cannes Festival, while he tries to meet one last time with the genius reborn in that city. This strange film letter, is a stimulati
Jokes & Cigarettes [Saben aquell]
Barcelona, late 1960s. Eugenio meets Conchita on a bus and it is love at first sight. He learns to play guitar to follow her in her musical career, and they start to play together as ‘Els dos’. When Conchita leaves Barcelona he becomes a phenomenon in the city’s underground stand-up comedy scene that would soon become an unexpected success in a depressed Spain desperate to laugh.
Jorge. A Way Through Coque Malla [Jorge. Una travesía de Coque Malla]
Coque Malla's is the story of an epic comeback. From teenage star with Los Ronaldos to having to reinvent himself as a singer-songwriter touring the most unsuspected clubs. Dani Martín, Iván Ferreiro, Leonor Watling, Leiva or Ray Loriga help to tell a story of faith, tenacity and curiosity that kept the author of "No puedo vivir sin tí".
Letters that Mark [Letras que Marcan]
A documentary about the life and work of the celebrated Argentine designer and calligrapher, Ricardo Rousselot. At the age of 86, he continues to be active and is recognized as one of the key figures in the world of design and calligraphy worldwide. His mind and hand have been behind the most iconic logos, brands, and images of design in the international projection of the Spain brand.
MARCO, The Invented Truth [Marco, la verdad inventada]
MARCO, The Invented Truth is the story of a deportee who never existed, the account of the life of a man who for years was capable of maintaining, before public opinion and his own family, a lie that is hard to imagine: that he had been a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.
The Catalan architect Enric Miralles (1955-2000) is an essential figure in contemporary Spanish and international architecture. He is also a complex character, powerful for his artistic and intellectual side, a hypnotic, polyhedral man with many contradictions. A personality that, over the course of time, has become impenetrable.
After fifteen years without setting foot in Argentina, Rodrigo travels from Madrid to Buenos Aires in order to attend his father’s funeral, a well-known painter. Experiencing mourning with his family and managing more than two thousand artworks left in an old studio triggers a reunion that leads him to reconsider his future parenthood.
Ullate. The Dance of Life [Ullate. La danza de la vida]
"The dance of life" is a documentary about the history and passion of dance, expressed through emblematic figures of this Art in Spain, such as: Joaquín de Luz, Carmen Roche, Mónica Cruz, Víctor Ullate Roche, José Manuel Garrido, Eduardo Lao, Josué Ullate, Lola de Ávila or Nacho Duato and, specially, Victor Ullate.
Uncensored Women [Mujeres sin censura]
“Mujeres sin censura” (Uncensored Women) is a portrait of the life of a group of actresses who decided to appear nude on the big screen as an act of freedom during the Transition to Democracy, one of the most tense moments in the recent history of Spain. They became a kind of mirror held up to a completely closed society.
While you're still you [Mientras seas tú]
After 50 years in theatre, film and television, Carme Elias is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Together with Claudia Pinto, a director and friend, they decide to record her last conscious voyage. The characters played by Carme accompany this difficult period, while the borders between fiction and reality disappear.
With you, with you and without me [Contigo, contigo y sin mí]
Amaya delves into the love stories she had between the ages of 18 and 38 and confronts how her illusions and failures collided explosively. Seemingly personal, her turn and evolution can also be read from a political or anthropological point of view, reflecting the changing role of women in relationships. A poignant and intimate statement, masterfully crafted with a diversity of techniques using animation and personal videos.