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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.
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.
An author suffering from writer's block travels to a magical island. There he meets Bubba. An animated character that will help you overcome your fears.
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.
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.
Argumosa 11, Living in Emptiness [Argumosa 11, Habitando el Vacío]
Argumosa 11 is a Madrid building in resistance whose inhabitants are evicted by a fund investment. Reverberations of ex-neighbors survive as memories as the tense calm of those who wait is withering the building. With no other weapon to defend themselves than their own voices, the families that stay prepare to fight for their homes.
"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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A man arrives at an apartment where a woman is waiting for him. The boundaries of fiction and reality disappear between his own life and the desire to live another one.
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.
Starting from the disappearance of Erin, a child who wakes up prematurely from hibernation, Clara, her older sister, will take us on a journey of searching for answers and confronting the narratives pre-established by the society in which she lives. One that hibernates during the coldest months of the year. A reflection on the human being, contradiction and the animal condition.
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.