Children & Youth

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.

The Treasure of Barracuda [El tesoro de Barracuda]

Captain Barracuda is obsessed with finding the treasure of Phineas Crane, the most valuable and highly prized of all the pirates in the Caribbean. To achieve his goal, he will need the help of Spark, a little girl who is pretending to be a boy in order to fit in with Barracuda’s savage pirate crew. The discovery of a book of memories belonging to Phineas Crane will be key to finding the much sought-after treasure, as well as Spark’ salvation, because she is the only one on the whole ship who knows how to read and so the only one who can decipher the “map of letters” that is the manuscript.

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.

Bullying

"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.

The Good Daughter [La buena hija]

Carmela is forced to see her father at a Family Meeting Point due to a sentence of gender-based violence against her mother. Being twelve years old, she will be dragged into a circle of violence from which she will try to escape.

Goat girl [La niña de la cabra]

Madrid, 1988. Elena (8) faces the recent loss of her grandmother as she is getting ready for her First Communion. Her new friendship with Serezade (8), a Romani girl who never leaves her goat, leads her to question if the world is really as she has been told it is.

The Trail Left by Time [Los restos del pasar]

Antonio remembers his childhood. He lived in a remote town in Cordoba (Andalucia), during the celebration of catholic Holy Week. A lonely and curious child watched secretly Paco, an old painter. Antonio is a doubting child, about religion and death. Paco taught Antonio not only painting but also to ask himself about everything, to observe and understand his life as a transient stay.