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.
Rehearsal for Revolt [Ensayo para una revuelta]
In a small village of Córdoba, a group of women perform an unknown popular uprising led by other women in the past: the “Bread Riot of Cordoba” of May 1652. Theirs gestures and words awaken the resonances of their own experiences of struggle and resistance: hard works, being women in rural Córdoba, their own memory war, dictatorship, and hunger, and the memory of their grandmothers.
Through the story of the construction of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, carried out for over twelve years by a small Spanish architecture studio, Estudio Herreros, we discover the astonishing transformation of the Norwegian capital.
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.
Southern brides [Las novias del sur]
Mature women speak about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality. In the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own absence of marriage, of children, and thereby, a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is extinguishing.
Awards, beyond the limits of hairdressing
An approach to avant-garde hairdressing. A world full of creativity that sets trends in hairdressing and fashion.
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.
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.
Human Being [Ser Humano] [Être Humain]
From the watchtower on a beach on the Côte d´Azur, a voyeur camera becomes a silent witness of the daily life of people during their moments of leisure and rest. However, through some esoteric texts of Trans-Himalayan Buddhism, hidden secrets about the past and future of humanity will be revealed. These teachings reveal a deep analysis that observes man from a cosmic perspective. The film explores the goal, destiny and path of human evolution, from the initial efforts to the fall on the moon, the link with other kingdoms of nature and its relationship with the Planetary Logos and the Solar Log
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
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.
Of Horses and Guitars [De caballos y guitarras]
“Of Horses and Guitars” is a musical, but also a reflection on looking, on trying to escape the anthropocentric gaze, and on the act of looking itself in cinema. It is basically a horse film, a film about a guitar concert for horses held at Bramante’s Tempietto in Rome: a true symbol of the ideas of window, perspective and reason, which established a way of looking that has become hegemonic.
Peter Perez (known as Pepi), a Viennese Sephardic Jew, associates flamenco singing with the worst moments of his childhood, when he was interned in the Rivesaltes concentration camp where Roma children sang to communicate with their parents on the other side of the barbed wire. Pepi, now a man in his 80s, undertakes a quixotic journey across Europe seeking to express himself through a fandango.
The Revolution of the Muses [La Revolución de las Musas]
“The Revolution of the Muses” is a film that aims to rescue the memory of women ignored by the History of Art, highlighting their role as muses of the great European artists and their invisibility as co-creators. This production, which blends documentary and fiction, vindicates the role that these women have had in the history of artistic creation and seeks to give them the place they deserve.
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.