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Valley of Shadows [Valle de sombras]
Himalayan Mountains, 1999. Quique, Clara and little Lucas enjoy their first holiday together in Northern India. One night, while sleeping under the stars, they are brutally attacked by assailants. Hours later, Quique is saved by a native and taken to a remote isolated village in the mountains. But if he is to find his way back home, first he must overcome his fears.
Valencia, Spain, the 90s. Three young journalists try to find their place in Spain, a country marked by progress and the Olympics. Despite their enthusiasm to be part of this new modernity, they will be enticed by different levels of corruption, putting their integrity, dignity, and ethics to test.
Three couples undergoing therapy are summoned by their female psychologist to a meeting. The psychologist won’t be attending the reunion but she will give to them instructions about what they must do. the six protagonists will gradually air their dirty laundry concerning their relationships and bring up issues until it all leads to a most unexpected and equally shocking end.
A Colombian maid works tirelessly at a luxurious mansion in the Spanish Costa Brava, where a wealthy family of art dealers spend their summer holidays. Under false promises of decent conditions after the summer, she will strive to remain obedient and quiet.
Carmen (55), a well-known screenwriter, retired a year ago to a farm in a depopulated village in Spain. She strives to increase the olive harvest, with a few good friends who admire and support her, and Damián, a handyman who is attracted to her. Her life there intertwines with the novel she starts to write, in which an old love arrives in the village to tell her he has never forgotten her.
The last romantics [Los últimos románticos] [Azken erromantikoak]
When a lump is detected in her breast, Irune plunges into an abyss that forces her to reconsider her entire existence.
The Invasion of the Barbarians [La invasió dels bàrbars]
1939. A young curator at the Museo del Prado is questioned about the disappearance of a painting that a colonel wants to keep. Eighty years later, her granddaughter searches for her remains.
The Gentleman [Ya no quedan junglas a donde regresar]
Theo is an old American, ex-military man, whose lonely and miserable existence is spent between memories of a better past with his late wife. Thursdays are the days when he sees Olga, a Ukrainian prostitute. One day Olga is brutally murdered. Four lawyers are the suspects and the Gentleman embarks on a violent quest for revenge.
The chants of Ekai [Los cantos de Ekai]
EKAI hides an unspeakable secret as a result of which he has lost his voice. He lives isolated in an institution alongside other beings with crippled bodies and minds considered abnormal. His cravings for beauty and love enable him to recover his memory, in which there is no clear distinction between reality and dreams.
Eleven stories reflect that we are all more similar than we think. No matter where we come from, who we are, or where we were born, we all feel love, fear, happiness, hope... and these feelings unite us.
Restless waters, shivering lights [Faro]
Lidia and her father, Pablo, return to the family lighthouse after her mother’s death. Pablo, aware of Lidia's fragile emotional balance, worries for a possible relapse after her suicide attempt. Lidia, annoyed by her father's lack of trust, will discover that something’s not right at the Lighthouse, and that danger awaits for them if they do not find out the truth.
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.
When Noa, a 48-year-old transgender gypsy woman, is released from prison after an eight-year sentence, she struggles to recover custody of her twin children, who are under state care, and to create the home she never had.
Norberto and Maria live a normal life in their working-class neighbourhood. They’ve been married forever, but they’re hiding a secret. At night, as a way to bulk out their pensions, Norberto dresses as a woman and carries out small-scale robberies, while Maria waits in the getaway car. But the disguise that Norberto uses to hide is, in fact, the means by which he is able to express his true self.
PABLO is in a full-blown mid-life crisis; his wife has left him and he is incapable of writing his second novel. One morning while at a loose end (like so many others), the telephone rings and ANA, the first girl he ever fell in love with fifteen years ago, presents herself before his eyes. Over the course of the day, life will show it can still surprise PABLO and offer him a second chance...
DANIEL, is a hobo that lives on the streets. AINA, a young woman, works for an NGO, is interested on him. She tries to help him, without success. Insistent, she will lead him to discover who he was, a big-shot executive who got fired and decided to vanish, leaving his wife and two children. Thanks to her, DANIEL will be able to face to his old life, discovering that life is worth living.
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.
After the death of their father, three siblings return to the family home where they grew up. They intend to sell it and follow their very different paths. But as memories surface in every corner, a fear of getting rid of the past and an impulse to reunite grows in them. As a last tribute to their father, there may still be time to make up for lost time and the house may witness new stories.
Alex is sexually assaulted during a party at a friend’s house. She doesn’t get to see her aggressor and that shakes her inside. Over the next year she will face guilt, disgust and shame. Alex tries to channel all that pain through theater, as she takes on the role of Medea. Meanwhile, her brother, faces anger for not having known how to protect his sister and the impulse to get carried away.
Alone in the night [Solos en la noche]
A group of left-wing labor lawyers hide in a house when the coup d'état takes place in Spain on February 23,1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, stay in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain's fledgling democracy.
Afternoons of solitude [Tardes de soledad]
Afternoons of Solitude intends to be the first feature-length film to approach the aesthetic side of bullfighting in all its complexity, and to do so with the expression and the artistic and conceptual sophistication of the director Albert Serra. It also intends to handle this subject from the perspective of the bullfighter, as someone that takes on the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty; partly out of respect for a tradition, but above all as an aesthetic challenge to create a form of ephemeral beauty that arises from the material and violent encounter between the calm rationality of
The Other Way Around [Volveréis]
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their recent break up. While their close ones are quite skeptical, they seem to be sure of their decision. Or are they really?
Jérémie Pastor returns to Saint-Martial for the funeral of his former employer, a baker. He spends a few days at Martine’s, his widow, who doesn’t want to see him leave. Vincent, Martine’s son, disapproves of this and the two men end up fighting. Jérémie kills Vincent. He manages to conceal that he is the murderer, with the unexpected complicity of Abbe´ Grisolles, the village priest, who provides him with an alibi in exchange for his affection.
A young police officer accepts the dangerous mission of trying to infiltrate the terrorist group ETA, an assignment that will lead her to live with two ETA members who will not hesitate to assassinate her if they find out her identity.
A House On Fire [Una casa en flames]
Montse is thrilled about the weekend she gets to spend with the whole family at her house on the Costa Brava. Her divorce was long ago, her ex has a new partner, and her children are all grown up with lives of their own. No one pays much attention to her. But the weekend will be perfect… even if she has to burn everything to the ground to make it so.
A Bathroom of One’s Own [Un Bany Propi]
Antonia, an exemplary sixty-five-year-old housewife, has a strange secret: she is obsessed with bathrooms, the only place where she can say "busy" and people leave her alone. It is there that she gives free rein to her true vocation, that of a writer, and escapes from her monotonous life, forming strange friendships that make her friendly appearance dissolve like shit in the toilet.
MILA (11) faces the last days of life before the end of the world. While she struggles to understand the complexity of death, she also tries to keep her family together by holding a party that takes place on the very last day of life on earth.
A childhood tale [Cuento para la infancia]
A neighborhood faces one of the great problems of today's Europe, the coexistence of people from different origins. The impulse to move forward, mixed with an increasingly harsh daily life, will determine the possibility of a joint future or not.
A commonplace [Un lugar común]
Pilar is an ordinary woman who has never questioned her routine. However, after her unexpected dismissal, she will live an identity crisis which will bring her to cling to the little she has left: her role as a mother of two teens who no longer need her. A Commonplace is the coming of age of a 50-year-old woman who, after a lifetime caring for others, asks herself: After all, who takes care of me?
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.
A walk along the Borne [Un paseo por el Borne]
The students taking an insignificant film course, in a small city, have the dream of one day making movies. Their teacher, somebody who once sailed and wrecked that same objective years before, doesn ́t want to get involved in their dreams and illusions so that they don ́t end up like him today: a failure.
Andrea’s Love [El amor de Andrea]
Andrea, a young, fifteen-year-old girl, is desperate to recover the love of her father, who disappeared from her life after getting divorced from her mother a few years ago. Andrea remembers her father as a loving, affectionate man and cannot understand why he doesn’t want to see his children now. Andrea will go as far as it takes to win back her father’s love. This includes confronting her mother and even taking legal action. Tomás and Fidel, her two younger brothers who barely know their father are her tireless companions on this adventure of family and disillusionment along which we will al
In a remote Galician village, a group of teenagers are celebrating carnival. During the party, a video with sexual content of Paula, one of the girls, is broadcast. Overwhelmed by the situation, she leaves the party and disappears without a trace in the middle of a heavy snowfall. While the whole town searches for her, her friends have to take their share of responsibility.
“Bald Women” delves into the life of women with alopecia who fight for the normalization and visibility of their bodies. Living in a society in which women are slaves of their own image, their viewpoint is found as a unique cry of self-development, revindication and freedom. After being hidden and forbidden during history, their existence will be an example for every woman.
Colombo works at a 24-hour parking lot and tops up his measly wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher, but unfortunately for him, he is unable to drive due to a past accident. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from Valencia to a lake in the Costa Brava (Spain), where he wants to see some cranes. When they reach the lake, the lawyer tells him that the birds have changed their migratory route and are now going to nest in the Danube delta in Romania. Mario needs to get there and Colombo needs the money
Spain, 1982. Marisa decides to take her daughter to Madrid to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy. Lucia ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for pregnant teenagers. There, she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover the awful truth that her still unborn child is to be taken away from her.
Black Butterflies [Mariposas Negras]
Lobuin, Vanesa and Soma are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of the global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
Thirteen men retreat to a country house where they undergo a personal and collective transformation in search of new ways of being men. They confront their wounds and blockages through physical and emotional dynamics that will put them to the test. For three days they will live a tribal and cathartic experience, for which not all of them are prepared.
The siege of Malaga, forgotten amongst major events of Spanish Civil War, touched deeply those who passed by between July’36- Feb’37, when the city was conquered by an Italian army sent by Mussolini to help Franco. The 7-month revolution turned out as a sour experience for both locals and visitors among which writers and journalists: 8 of them recall their exploits in a sort of fake documentary.
Close to Winter [Negu hurbilak]
A young woman involved in ETA - an armed nationalist and farleft separatist organization in the Basque Country - wants to cross the border from northern Spain into France. Arriving in the last town of the valley she must wait for further indications, but they never seem to arrive. She can only wait.
Close your eyes [Cerrar los ojos]
CLOSE YOUR EYES turns on a famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, who disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program that tries to evoke the actor, offering as a scoop images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay.
After moving in with her boyfriend to their new home in the Costa Brava, Mila begins to realize her loss of sexual desire lies deep inside her. She undergoes a self-exploration journey in which she revisits experiences of her childhood and adolescence in hopes to reconcile with her own body.
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.
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.
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.
Foremost by night [Sobre todo de noche]
When Vera was young, she could not care for her son. When Cora was young, she was told that she could not have children and that only adoption would let her establish a family. Today these two women meet on the banks of the Douro River and plan to rewrite their destinies. This is a story of violence, of revenge, of escape.
The human being is a perfect symbiosis of body, mind and soul FREE is a journey into the interior of man in which we have obtained permission to enter and talk to people who rarely utter a word and places that remain closed to the world: THE MONASTERIES.
Marisol is the national rhythmic gymnastics’ coach. She is methodical, controlling, demanding, and authoritarian. The World Championship is approaching, and she is pinning all her hopes for the gold medal on Angelica, the most promising newcomer on the team. Two weeks before the final, Marisol discovers that her husband is having an affair with a much younger woman with whom he is expecting a child. Marisol does not contemplate failure, so she begins a desperate race to win him back, disregarding his motives and feelings.
Isabel is confronted with resentments she thought she had overcome when she’s forced to accompany Ramón, her ex-husband who is sick, at the request of the daughter they have in common.
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.
It’s the end of the 19th century, Cileta and her family are victims of Oleguer, a Poor-squeezer, who expropriates and takes over them and their farmhouse. When he leaves the farmhouse to marry the wealthy ex-notary’s widow, Cileta sets up her next steps; infiltrate on their house to apply what’s learned: money comes first.
Grandma & the Foreigner [L'àvia i el foraster]
Teresa is a dressmaker. She meets Samir, the greengrocer, who is actually a great tailor who had to emigrate from Pakistan. Enric, in the midst of a life crisis, returns to the village to attend the funeral of his grandma and discovers the relationship he had with Samir.
Stéphanie and Ncuti, two Rwandan actors, and Simon, a Belgian technician, meet at the former headquarters of RTLM, the propaganda radio station during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, to rehearse a program that conveys to its listeners ideas of forgiveness and pacification. But they will discover that they have a common past and they will see that reconciliation is not as easy as they believed.
Haunted Heart [Haunted Heart (Isla perdida)]
A small island in Greece. On the island only a construction. A modest restaurant, handled by Max, a mysterious, solitary American. Alex, Spaniard, arrives to join the small team of the restaurant as a waitress. Despite the bad start, Alex becomes attracted to him. The story gradually slides into a tale of terror.
Eva and Carlos have been unhappily married for as long as they can remember. Only Jonas, the son they once brought into the world, has kept them together. Now, Jonas has been killed in an accident overseas and this unexpected tragedy leads them to embark on a geographical and emotional journey in order to raise the funds needed to repatriate their son’s body.
Human / Animal [Animal / Humano]
Matteo, an Italian boy, dreams of becoming a bullfighter. In sunny Andalusia, Fandango, a male calf, is born. Matteo and Fandango grow up in different worlds, but their lives reflect on each other. Only at the end, they will meet.
I’m Gonna Disappear [Voy a desaparecer]
I’m Gonna Disappear is a family drama that starts with Rocío, a lonely young woman who meets her brother David again after ten years without seeing each other or having any kind of contact. He has been in prison all this time and manages to convince Rocío to run away together to the tourist resort where they used to spend the summer as a family when they were young.
I’M NEVENKA tells the true story of Nevenka Fernández, a 23-year-old girl who in 2000 faced her entire city when she decided that she was no longer going to put up with the sexual harassment to which her boss, the mayor, had subjected her.
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell [Bên Trong Vò Kén Vàng]
Thien has to carry the remains of his dead sister-in-law to the family village, accompanied by his five-year-old nephew. Inside Vietnam, the ghosts of his own youth, of his brother, who has left to rebuild his life elsewhere, and of the war also await him. It is a pilgrimage with mystical overtones, to rural areas of the country and its little known Christian minority. The film questions the persistence of faith, not only in God, but in the delicate beauty of earthly existence.
In the greenhouse where they work, Iván falls in love with Hadoum. However, his desired job promotion interferes with the relationship, forcing him to decide what kind of man he wants to be.
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.
After arriving in Spain several years ago from his native Guinea Conakry, Ibrahim settled in Madrid, where he lives with Mariama and works as a builder. One day, the police arrest Ibrahim and, not having legal residence status, he is deported back to his home country. From this moment onwards, his only goal is to make it back to Spain.
Little Loves [Los pequeños amores]
A mother and her daughter are compelled to spend a summer together because the latter had an accident. Although they love each other, they cannot stand one another, so both will have to learn to accept each other, a situation which will lead them to embark on a journey marked by acceptance and understanding.
Anabel and her mother Delia grieve for Julián, Anabel's father. An eviction notice forces them from their Barcelona home and back to the olive groves of Jaén. Together, they look for a way to rebuild their future by going back to their roots.
Mamantula is the boy everyone wants, but he is also, secretly, a giant spider cross-dressed as a human, fruit of a brief encounter in a far-off paradise. In an alternative past of brutalist saunas, never-ending subway corridors and detectives in trench coats and hats, each of Mamantula's lovers succumb to the insatiable lust of blood and semen.
Lola lives very happily with Bruno. An unexpected pregnancy revolutionizes their plans. The couple is very clear that they do not want to have children, but during the three days they have to wait for their appointment at the clinic, doubts arise.
Ramona’s life in a Galician fishing village is a constant hustle. She juggles multiple jobs to stay afloat and provide a better future for her 18 year-old daughter. But as the girl is ready to stand on her own feet, Ramona realizes that, for the first time, she can do something for herself.
Constantina and Irene have become the last guardians of a centuries-old oral tradition doomed to disappear. A musician tries to find them and undertakes a journey where life moves forward and shows the fragility of everything that surrounds us.
Leon will go into the depths of nature, now populated by tribes, to rescue his daughter and survive the dangers of the New Earth.
The enigmatic Nina decides to return to the coastal town where she grew up, anxious to take revenge on the man the town now pays homage to. This reencounter with her place of origin, her past memories and Blas, a childhood friend, will lead her to question whether revenge is the only way.
“No, no quiero” (No, I don’t’) brings us closer to the reality of forced marriages through the experience of four women. They all share having been victims of forced marriages. They were all capable of rebelling against their families, leaving everything and starting a new life alone.
Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid will set the course of the journey.
Reflections in a room [Reflejos en una habitación]
Berta, a mature woman from the upper class, has been hiring the services of Alberto, a professional escort, for some time. One day, Alberto can't make it, so he sends another escort, Hugo. Berta and Hugo embark on an emotional journey where, despite their differences, mistrust, and prejudices, they discover they have more in common than they thought.
Told in real time over the course of one night, a rider has to delivery an order that puts his life in danger while he tries to resolve various pressing personal problems in a series of phone calls.
Seville, summer of 1984. Rita and Lolo are brother and sister, 7 and 5 years old, who live at the heart of a humble, working-class family. Rita dreams of going to the beach, but at home, what her father says goes… always. For the first time, Rita starts to question why this is. She’s also starting to realise that her home is becoming less and less safe, especially for her mother.
DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again? Robot Dreams is the first animation film by the award-winning director Pablo Berger (Blancanieves). A story about friendship, its importance, and its fragility.
In 2018 my grandfather was arrested for child abuse and attempted kidnapping. Now, he has been sentenced to twelve years and he’s waiting to enter prison. I meet him again after several years and I confront his looks, his answers and my own feelings. Meanwhile, my family gathers at the country house and deals with the emotional consequences of growing up under this father figure. It is there where the abuse of minors is the subject of conversation, and where my own father realizes that the relationship he has had with us is not that different from the one he had with my grandfather.
Saturn Return [Segundo premio]
A rock band has to record their third LP, the one that will make them either rise to stardom or fall into oblivion. Desertions of band members, sentimental breakups, rehearsals where drugs and alcohol run rampant, and the unbearable pressure of the record company are generating endless fights and arguments. Meanwhile, without knowing it, they will be composing an album that will mark a generation.
Society of the Snow [La sociedad de la nieve]
Following a plane crash in the remote heart of the Andes, survivors join forces and become each other's best hope as they navigate their way back home.
Something is about to happen [Que nadie duerma]
The day Lucia loses her job as a IT specialist is also the day her life will take a definitive turn. Lucía starts working as a taxi driver in Madrid and experiences extraordinary situations with people she should never have trusted. Disguised as Princess Turandot, who drives her taxi, Lucia will take revenge on those who have wronged her.
Sultana´s Dream [El sueño de la sultana]
Taking her inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
In a dark and violent era, a young 17-year-old woman is named Abbess and given the task of repopulating and Christianizing border territories that are at war with Islam.
Teresa patiently awaits the arrival of the Inquisitor to be judged. Her future will depend on his visit and his words: Freedom, imprisonment or to be burnt at the stake.
Day Zero of hazing begins at the Tolen residence hall. Carlos and Dani take on the 24-hour-long challenge in order to fit in. They will have to face their darkest side before it all ends tragically.
The Blue Star [La Estrella Azul]
The nineties. A Spanish rock and roll musician trying to reconnect with his vocation travels across South America, where he meets an elderly musician going through hard times. Their encounter leads to the creation of a Don Quixote-like duo with all the makings of an absolute commercial failure.
Emma wants to learn how to communicate with the spirit of a little girl who has spent centuries trapped inside a chapel and so she tries to convince Carol, a skeptical and fake medium, to help her. Contacting the spirit will help her to remain close to her sick mother once she dies. What Carol doesn’t suspect is that Emma really does have “the gift” and, if she keeps on trying to use it without her help, she will be putting her young life at risk.
Eight months pregnant, Yuri, her son Santi, and her partner Mike flee Honduras with the first migrant caravan. Determined to give birth in the United States, they escape the poverty and violence that proliferates South America along with 7,000 others. Full of hope, they face a dangerous journey of 5,000km to reach one of the most defended borders on Earth.
The Girls Are Alright [Las chicas están bien]
A group of young women gathers at a country house for a week to rehearse a play. “The girls are alright” is a summer story about princesses, horses, toads, a fire, a party, a river, lots of letters, and even a confused prince.
The Imminent Age [L’edat imminent]
Bruno’s (18) life is increasingly limited by the growing dependence of his grandmother Natividad (86), the only family he has ever known. When the opportunity to take her to a nursing home arises, he will have to deal with a decision he had not allowed himself to make before.
The Girls at the Station [Las chicas de la estación]
Inspired by real events, the film tells the story of three teenage girls in a juvenile detention centre who fall into a prostitution ring.
The last night of Sandra M. [La última noche de Sandra M.]
Sandra is an 18-year-old actress at the time of the Spanish transition to democracy: a time where being young and beautiful automatically placed you in what was known as “cine del destape” – “nude” cinema. Alone and distressed by an unwanted pregnancy, she´ll try to make decisions about her future.
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.
The Measurers delves into the mystical rituals of women in the south of Alicante. Beyond conventional curanderismo, they employ water and oil for healing. The film immerses us in their lives, showcasing inherited rituals seamlessly woven into daily existence and illustrates the integration of mysticism into the mundane, emphasizing the invaluable care these women provide to their community.
The Path of Good Fortune [Camino de la Suerte]
Life begins today, even if tomorrow is the last day.
The Permanent Picture [La imatge permanent]
In rural southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night. Fifty years later and much further north, Carmen, an introverted casting director, is looking for people to share their memories when arriving in a new city. In her search, she meets Antonia, whose impulsiveness intrudes into Carmen’s solitude. Who said time heals all wounds?
Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his whereabouts. At the same time, she tries to pretend everything is under control for the sake of her little son. Her world will change forever with the appearance of a man who seems to have all the answers, even those she's not prepared to understand.
Damián participates in a TV game show where loyalty wins. They’ve pinned a nametag on his shirt and set up a green screen in the background. When the program goes to commercial, the story begins. Something is wrong.
1971. María assists women in childbirth. After a terrible event Maria is forced to fee from the island, becoming a fugitive. In search of her freedom, she decides to cross the border via one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.
The sleeping woman [La mujer dormida]
After Ana, a nursing assistant, enters into a relationship with Agustín, the husband of a woman in a vegetative state he is caring for, she begins to be tormented by strange paranormal phenomena. Is the “sleeping woman” trying to drive her away from her husband’s arms?
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea [El maestro que prometió el mar]
In 1935, Antoni Benaiges is hired as a teacher in a small, isolated village in Burgos, Spain. There, he establishes an intense relationship with his students, a group of young boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, to whom he makes a promise: to take them to see the sea for the first time in their lives. 75 years later, the granddaughter of one of those students discovers the wonderful story hidden behind a promise that was never fulfilled.
Something is haunting Andrea, but no one can see it with the naked eye, not even herself. Twenty years ago, ten thousand kilometers away, the same presence terrorized Marie. Camila was the only person who could understand what was happening to her, but no one believed them. When they face this oppressive threat, all three hear the same thing: a wailing.
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.
Eladio (Victor Clavijo), a hunting estate keeper, takes a bribe from a veteran hunter. Weeks later, his whole life falls apart. Death, guilt and revenge will take over. What looked like the opportunity of a lifetime turns into a macabre descent to hell, where Eladio will test his boundaries.
They Shot The Piano Player [Dispararon al pianista]
A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova. They Shot The Piano Player captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.
Alvin has just come out of prison. He lives in a project with his grandmother in Staten Island. He keeps a low profile, avoiding reconnecting with the crowd who ended up with him in prison. His mother, who he has not seen for many years, unexpectedly calls asking for help.
Escaping her overwhelming life in the city, thirty-year old Natalia finds refuge in the small village. In a rustic derelict house, flanked by a wild and clumsy dog at her side, the young woman aims to rebuild anew. When confronted with the hostility of her landlord and the distrust of the local villagers, Nat finds herself giving in to an unsettling sexual proposal from her neighbuor Andreas.
Adrià is a 17-year-old boy who lives from town to town with his older brother Ramon and his brother’s girlfriend, Tona. He is mute, he cannot stand closed spaces and finds it hard to keep his attention when he is spoken to. Wherever he goes, everyone calls him names, throws stones at him. For Adrià has a secret: on full moon nights he can't sleep. And that is why the three of them go back and forth, wandering around in their van. On the run.
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.
The Undergrowth [La hojarasca]
The distribution of an inheritance acquired through a supernatural encounter, mires three sisters in a long standing conflict. Their arguments resonate through the land and seem to awaken the island's long dormant volcano.
Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.
The Major Tones [Los tonos mayores]
It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.
Memories of a burning body [Memorias de un cuerpo que arde]
A lyrical portrait that intertwines and recreates the lives of Ana (73), Patricia (69) and Mayela (71) to discover how they understand themselves as women and how they enjoy their sexuality when the rest of the world thinks it no longer exists. Does desire still exist? Does pleasure diminish? What changes?.
Every You Every Me [Alle die Du bist]
What if the person you love the most suddenly becomes a stranger in your eyes? Nadine, a dedicated factory worker, tries to revive her relationship by reconnecting with her deepest emotions. But who did she once see in him that she can no longer find? EVERY YOU EVERY ME, a romantic social drama about the painful process of falling out of love and the initial magic of falling in love.
Tú me abrasas is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s Dialoghi con Leucò, in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomart talk of suicide, death and desire. The film not only adapts this dialogue but it also imagines its potential footnotes and detours.